December 02, 2013

Politico Magazine: It's Your Fault Obamacare Doesn't Work
Yahoo/Daily Ticker: It's Your Fault The Economy Sucks
— Ace

Students of leftist excuse-making know that whenever things begin going downhill for the progressive cause, their advocates in the media offer the same two or three excuses:

1. My, this country is just ungovernable!

2. No single man could run a government this large! (Oh, and by the way: Let's make it larger still!)

And, of course:

3. The American Public is just too stupid to understand what's good for them and/or the American Public is just too stupid for this president or policy.

Politico Magazine trots out that decades-old line once more:

Are Our Brains Just Not Wired for Obamacare?

Since the launch of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges on Oct. 1, frequent glitches and long waits have dominated the news coverage. But these reports—while frustrating the Obama administration and delighting its opponents—distract from a far more important question: Are consumers doomed to make poor choices about health plans? Maybe our brains just aren’t wired to use a site like HealthCare.gov, whether it works or not.

"Whether it works or not." In other words: What does it matter if it works or not? We're too dumb to use it anyway.

Does a monkey care if a space shuttle is in good working order? All the monkey is going to do is crap on the console.


The exchanges are based on a laudable idea: that competition, transparency and consumer choice will lead to higher-quality, more affordable products. The decisions consumers make will thus have significant implications for their own personal and financial health, as well as the overall sustainability of the exchanges. But despite the good intentions behind the website, behavioral science research suggests that many consumers may be ill equipped to make good decisions in the insurance marketplaces.

After some sort of obvious stuff about too many choices leading to difficulty choosing, and people's incorrect estimates of the odds of low-probability events happening, he comes to his conclusion:


...

Americans are now making decisions about health coverage on an unprecedented scale. The insurance marketplaces may well make good on their promise of affordable, quality health coverage. But this will require setting aside our political biases, and addressing our psychological ones.

Got that, dummies? Put aside your political biases and your psychological hang-ups, Winger.

You'll also be happy to know the economy is in the tank because of your "fears" and "complaints," you fearful complainers.

How Complainers Wreck the Economy

omethingÂ’s wrong with the U.S. economy. We all know that. But maybe the real problem is us.

Anybody who follows economic polls is numb by now to the fact that Americans think everything is wrong.... Gloomy is the new normal.

...


It’s easy to disregard what’s going right and highlight nothing but the challenges we face—which seems to be a lot of people’s preference. But gloom itself may now be a bigger economic problem than any of the traditional ones. There’s no bellyacher index I’m aware of, but if you read between the lines, there does seem to be growing evidence that we believe things are worse than they are—and maybe even want to believe that.

In case you don't know who he's talking about: He means you conservative ideologues who believe, for some crazy reason, that unemployment is forbiddingly high, wages are not just stagnant but falling, and the labor participation rate is lower that it has been since the Great Depression.


HereÂ’s one example: Obamacare is obviously a hugely divisive issue that contributes to that wrong-track feeling a lot of people have. Consider this, though: Only 19% of American say the law has harmed them in any way...

Ah, the good side: Obama's only harming one fifth of the population.

"The goal has been met," then, I guess.

Let's skip to his conclusion.


There are plenty of Americans, needless to say, who havenÂ’t let a weak economy or a few disappointments slow them down. TheyÂ’re starting companies, doing deals, trying new things and in some cases making a lot of money. But are there enough of them to drag everybody else along? My guess is no. At some point, you either stop complaining and pick yourself up, or people stop hearing your complaints.

Notice that it's only under failing Democratic presidents that people have the onus of picking themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Under Republican presidents, every layoff is the president's fault, and the people have the right to expect -- nay, demand -- he rescue them from their every plight.

Posted by: Ace at 09:20 AM | Comments (286)
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1 Ssssssssssssssssss...

Posted by: The Fuse on the Employer Mandate Bomb at December 02, 2013 09:23 AM (8ZskC)

2

We should have  let him be clear.

Posted by: garrett at December 02, 2013 09:24 AM (8vRuS)

3 Your "fear" and "complaints" are to blame for what I did in your mouth.

Posted by: wooga at December 02, 2013 09:24 AM (yZyH0)

4 Lie about the Need, Lie about the solutions, Lie about the Outcomes, Lie about the Cost and then excuse excuse excuse. It's the communist way

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 02, 2013 09:25 AM (t3UFN)

5 80%  of the time the Country is ungovernable.

Posted by: garrett at December 02, 2013 09:27 AM (8vRuS)

6 Lord help us.  We're just too dumb for obama.



We don't deserve him.







Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 09:27 AM (GQ8sn)

7

"At some point, you either stop complaining and pick yourself up, or people stop hearing your complaints."

 

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Remember how receptive this author was to suggestions along these lines regarding welfare and unemployment "insurance" programs?

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 02, 2013 09:27 AM (3LaGb)

8 Brain not wired for Obamacare? Identify which of 7 genders you belong to, and maybe we can help! http://tinyurl.com/la987o5

Posted by: USA at December 02, 2013 09:28 AM (VIaw0)

9

So, in 1994, Republicans ran on a platform that people on Welfare need to "pick themselves up" and somehow, some, way, the left wasn't too hip on that idea.

 

Shocking.

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 02, 2013 09:28 AM (3LaGb)

10

Lefty media still carrying water for Obama.

 

In other words, Monday.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 02, 2013 09:28 AM (TOk1P)

11 Obamacide is only harming 1/5th of the population... so far.  Wait until next year when it gets another 50% when the employer plans go into effect.


Look out politicians who voted for this shit because the lamp posts in DC need some new decoration and it will not be for Christmas.

Posted by: Vic at December 02, 2013 09:29 AM (YowqD)

12 I blame it on PSV Private Sector Velocity

Posted by: USA at December 02, 2013 09:29 AM (VIaw0)

13

there does seem to be growing evidence that we believe things are worse than they are

 

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I love how it never occurs to this dipshit that some of us remember that just 6 years ago, gas was $1.80 a gallon and the national unemployment rate was 4.6%

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 02, 2013 09:30 AM (3LaGb)

14 >>At some point, you either stop complaining and pick yourself up, or people stop hearing your complaints. And that's why we never complain about the blog software any more.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 02, 2013 09:30 AM (SUKHu)

15 Look out politicians who voted for this shit because the lamp posts in DC need some new decoration and it will not be for Christmas. --- Cut, jib, newsletter. Is there anywhere that I can send donations of rope?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 09:30 AM (/Crba)

16 As is well known, it's the kulaks and wreckers who are doing this. Time for some revolutionary justice to be applied to them, obviously.

Posted by: Random Lefty Columnist (Just Choose One) at December 02, 2013 09:30 AM (RD7QR)

17 Look out politicians who voted for this shit because the lamp posts in DC need some new decoration and it will not be for Christmas.
=================

You have more faith in the American people than I do.

Posted by: physics geek at December 02, 2013 09:31 AM (MT22W)

18 Once again, we have failed Him.

Posted by: toby928© Day three of mourning at December 02, 2013 09:31 AM (QupBk)

19 I like the photo on Drudge with the JEF with his ass to us while kissing the ring of some Al Qaeda guy.

Posted by: keena at December 02, 2013 09:32 AM (RiTnx)

20

Is there anywhere that I can send donations of rope?

 

 

I believe piano wire is the preferred method.

Posted by: Zombie Mussolini at December 02, 2013 09:32 AM (8vRuS)

21 ACA and Springtime for Hitler. Two shows designed to fail.

Posted by: USA at December 02, 2013 09:32 AM (VIaw0)

22 Look the communist have always felt that the "people" were to stupid and brain washed to make decisions for themselves. So there is some surprise here?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 02, 2013 09:32 AM (t3UFN)

23 The exchanges are based on a laudable idea: that competition, transparency and consumer choice will lead to higher-quality, more affordable products.

This is Baghdad Bob-level denial of reality.  The "idea" behind the exchanges is to funnel the feckless proles into a legislatively-dictated group of limited "choices" that are designed to force them to overpay for something that was previously widely available on the open market in great diversity.

The problem with the open market wasn't a lack of "transparency."  The problem (at least according to Our Betters In Government) is that the choices available on the open market (1) were purely voluntary -- you didn't have to buy at all if you chose not to; (2) didn't include a hidden subsidy that forced you to pay for your neighbors' health insurance too; and (3) did not place the government in control of your healthcare coverage and personal records.

404care provides "transparency and consumer choice"? What utter bullshit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 02, 2013 09:32 AM (8ZskC)

24 The exchanges are based on a laudable idea: that competition, transparency and consumer choice will lead to higher-quality, more affordable products.

Again, the left resorts to redefining words in order to cram them into the cultural psyche.

No, government mandated insurance is not competitive, transparent or based on choice.

behavioral science research suggests that many consumers may be ill equipped to make good decisions in the insurance marketplaces.

Ah, this calls for mandatory psych evaluations to rid us off that undesired resistance!

Hey Lefties, if you don't want to be called fascists, you may want to stop acting like them.

Or not.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 02, 2013 09:32 AM (uCNam)

25 So, is it too early to drink some egg nog and whiskey? I mean, too early in the day, not in the year.

Posted by: logprof Complainy Pants at December 02, 2013 09:32 AM (fETNt)

26 Ah, the old....It's not me, it's you.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at December 02, 2013 09:32 AM (bCEmE)

27 Well, if the people are incapable of choosing then obviously the choice must be made for them. Somebody like, say, Kathleen Sibelius.

Posted by: joncelli at December 02, 2013 09:33 AM (RD7QR)

28 You proles are too stupid to just let me be clear.

Posted by: President Barack Obama at December 02, 2013 09:33 AM (7ObY1)

29 Michele and I aren't mad at you, we're just... disappointed.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at December 02, 2013 09:33 AM (8vRuS)

30 Are consumers doomed to make poor choices about health plans?

My understanding is that the only choices available on the website are poor.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at December 02, 2013 09:33 AM (/kI1Q)

31 ACA and Springtime for Hitler. Two shows designed to fail. Posted by: USA at December 02, 2013 01:32 PM (VIaw0) Bad comparison. See Spring time for Hitler opened well for Hitler, ACA not so much for obama

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 02, 2013 09:34 AM (t3UFN)

32

....It's not me, it's you.

 

You're goddamn right it is!

Posted by: George Costanza at December 02, 2013 09:34 AM (NF2Bf)

33 My understanding is that the only choices available on the website are poor. Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at December 02, 2013 01:33 PM (/kI1Q) Actually I thought the choices were : bad or worse?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 02, 2013 09:35 AM (t3UFN)

34 The exchanges are based on a laudable idea: that competition, transparency and consumer choice will lead to higher-quality, more affordable products. That there is some hilarious shit.

Posted by: RWC at December 02, 2013 09:35 AM (fWAjv)

35 Oh, they're starting with the "ungovernable" meme again, huh?

Instapundit tracks this and it always happens when there's a democrat in the Oval Office and he's f@#ked up.

Couldn't be that the occupant isn't up to the job. Nahhhh, he's just too darn intelligent to be bothered with the day to day requirements of doing his job.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2013 09:35 AM (JRmiD)

36 I used to refer to Politico as the NYT of the internet.  I withdraw that.  They are much worse than the NYT.

Posted by: Vic at December 02, 2013 09:35 AM (YowqD)

37 27 So, is it too early to drink some egg nog and whiskey? I mean, too early in the day, not in the year.

Posted by: logprof Complainy Pants at December 02, 2013 01:32 PM (fETNt)


It gets dark so early this time of year that you might as well start as soon as you get up.

Posted by: joncelli at December 02, 2013 09:35 AM (RD7QR)

38 I have ordered the beating to continue until morale improves and my policies start working.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 02, 2013 09:35 AM (WGm5T)

39

Even Politico knows the game is over and all that is left is the postmortem, and yes, as always, there is plenty of blame to go around.

 

 

There is always plenty of blame to go around in Washington D.C. and it will be applied quite liberally.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 02, 2013 09:36 AM (hLRSq)

40 The exchanges are based on a laudable idea: that competition, transparency and consumer choice will lead to higher-quality, more affordable products. That there is some hilarious shit. Posted by: RWC at December 02, 2013 01:35 PM (fWAjv) Actually exchanges based on real competition and consumer choice might work, but these are not by choice at all but by Gov. mandate.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 02, 2013 09:36 AM (t3UFN)

41 So, is it too early to drink some egg nog and whiskey? I mean, too early in the day, not in the year. --- I could be home right now, drinking this *monster* eggnog my brother makes with lighter fluid.

Posted by: Charles De Mar at December 02, 2013 09:37 AM (/Crba)

42 Funny, our brains seem to have adapted to online shopping in other arenas, including car insurance. Bet Jeff Bezos never said that we just weren't wired to handle moving all of our business from bricks and mortar stores to Amazon.


Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2013 09:37 AM (JRmiD)

43 Republican screws up: All their fault.

Democrat screws up: Plenty of blame to go around.

Posted by: joncelli at December 02, 2013 09:37 AM (RD7QR)

44 My brain isn't wired for Zerocare. Or any other idiotic socialist bullshit idea.

Posted by: maddogg at December 02, 2013 09:37 AM (xWW96)

45 Actually exchanges based on real competition and consumer choice might work, but these are not by choice at all but by Gov. mandate. Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 02, 2013 01:36 PM (t3UFN) Yeah, that is what I find hilarious. Their description is the total opposite of the ACA.

Posted by: RWC at December 02, 2013 09:38 AM (fWAjv)

46 The one guy I know personally who got shafted by Obamacare lives in California, got his updated terms a couple weeks ago. To keep a plan similar to his own would cost twelve grand more than he's paying now. The lowest priced plan has a deductible of 5 grand, and provides zero doctor retention, hospital choice, etc. He was hoping for a reprieve, but it got nixed.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 02, 2013 09:38 AM (ZshNr)

47

I do so have clothes......... Ummmmmmmmm, fecking pissants

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at December 02, 2013 09:38 AM (32Ze2)

48 >>>>>Are consumers doomed to make poor choices about health plans? the FSA did elect obama twice, so that portion of consumers are, yes. it's part of the package when you're stupid.

Posted by: X at December 02, 2013 09:39 AM (KHo8t)

49 We don't deserve him.







Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 01:27 PM (GQ8sn)

 

 

I agree.  He should find himself a more appreciative population and rule over them.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 02, 2013 09:39 AM (hLRSq)

50 It's my fault, I'm racist

Posted by: Jean at December 02, 2013 09:39 AM (CMlD4)

51 It's Mitt Romney and the GOP's fault for not being better at bringing up the complexities of Government health care and the economy.  Gosh you guys!  No one could have predicted the public would be so obtuse!
( All hail out dear and benevolent leader, aaaannnnnmmmuuuummm  Obama )

Posted by: MSM at December 02, 2013 09:39 AM (/jHWN)

52 For those of you not in the know, "Kulaks" were "wealthy" Russian/Ukrainian, etc. peasants -- wealthy in the sense that they owned their farm.  They also tended to be fairly religious.  (Peasants in the sense that just because you own a farm doesn't mean you'll rise above peasant status, esp. in the 1930s Eastern Europe.)  Kulaks today are upper lower and lower middle class working people who managed to buy a decent house in a flyover city or town somewhere, and who describe themselves as religious (which is not coterminous with social conservative).  Modern Kulaks overlap with "bitter clingers".

Wreckers were people who supposedly, while working in a factory or conducting a train, sabotaged it.  They actually didn't, but when Soviet central planning and incompetence-promoting resulted in F-ups, someone had to get the blame.  Those someones would be a worker-bee who just wanted to get through his shift, go home, and have some libations.  He didn't care much about meta-politics until they really hit home, like when his insurance premiums went up and his benefits went down.  Modern wreckers are the vast majority of non-managerial employees since any of them can be blamed for a F-up at any time.

Pravda!

Posted by: SFGoth at December 02, 2013 09:39 AM (VxV3H)

53 So we can say Depression now?

Posted by: cajun caret at December 02, 2013 09:40 AM (UZQM8)

54 33...Bad comparison. See Spring time for Hitler opened well for Hitler, ACA not so much for obama Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 02, 2013 01:34 PM (t3UFN) Actually, Springtime for Hitler opened for Max Bialystock.

Posted by: USA at December 02, 2013 09:40 AM (VIaw0)

55 When the President said that using his website to buy health insurance would be just like shopping on Amazon, the public WASN'T "too stupid" to use it.

But now that the website is a complete unusable mess, well. . .we've become too stupid to use it.


Posted by: looking closely at December 02, 2013 09:40 AM (PwGfd)

56 I would laugh but the complainers and sabotagers comments are chilling when you know a tiny bit of history.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 02, 2013 09:41 AM (VtjlW)

57

> 1. My, this country is just ungovernable!

> 2. No single man could run a government this large!


And totally lost on them is that WE say basically the same things.  We think the government is so bloated that the country is basically ungovernable by anyone anymore.  We only differ on the solution.  We, as stupid racist hillbillies devoid of logic and reason, take the simplistic solution of making the government small enough to govern while they, with their enormous brains want to double down and push through the barrier and make it so big it can be managed by them... somehow.

Posted by: John Morris at December 02, 2013 09:41 AM (sCRhB)

58 There is always plenty of blame to go around in Washington D.C. and it will be applied quite liberally. Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 02, 2013 01:36 PM (hLRSq) Bring out the red shirts!

Posted by: James T. Kirk at December 02, 2013 09:41 AM (UZQM8)

59 My fear keeps me warm. No, wait. It's my hate that keeps me warm. My fear fuels my hate. I think that's it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 02, 2013 09:41 AM (oFCZn)

60 Okay, you got me, Obama and fellow travelers. 

I'm just too damned stupid to let a retarded goat-felching, dog-eating, dumb-ass communist run every last detail of my not-that-complicated life.  I admit it.

So, now that the blame for this failure is firmly on my shoulders, "GET YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY, AND MY FUCKING LAWN, BEFORE I SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE WITH ROCK-SALT!!!!!!!"

Ahh, leadership by Zippy the Retarded Commie Pinhead.

Posted by: FYNQ at December 02, 2013 09:41 AM (TM1p8)

61

Maybe it's just me, but telling a family struggling from paycheck to paycheck that the reason the economy is in the shitter is because they're not spending enough and are ungrateful whiners doesn't seem to be a winning strategy.

 

Oh, if only there were an opposition party. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 02, 2013 09:41 AM (zF6Iw)

62 I wish the government would make all these hard decisions for me.

Posted by: LIV at December 02, 2013 09:42 AM (QW+AD)

63 despite the good intentions behind the website
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There were good intentions?  Why didn't someone tell me?

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 02, 2013 09:42 AM (Hx5uv)

64 It's Your Fault The Economy Sucks That? Yep. Totes my fault. Who knew Going Galt could do so much?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 09:42 AM (xZxMD)

65 I didn't realize buying insurance was so complicated a few weeks ago but Valerie has brought me completely up to speed.  Now I'm more of an expert on insurance than the insurance industry.

Posted by: Barky O'Genius at December 02, 2013 09:42 AM (8ZskC)

66 ]But this will require setting aside our political biases, and addressing our psychological ones. --------------- Saving Obama A Play in One Act Character 1: Let's pool our resources and share! Character 2: OK! Here's my contribution. (Spends two minutes dragging large pile of stuff onto stage.) Character 1: And here's my contribution. (Spends a few seconds rooting around in his pockets and tossing a few pennies and after-dinner mints onto the pile.) Now let's divide the pile equally and share! We're a community! Character 2: Hey, wait a minute. My contribution is large, and yours is small. That's not fair! You're just taking stuff from me! Character 1: GET OVER YOUR POLITICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BIASES, FASCIST!!!!

Posted by: zombie at December 02, 2013 09:42 AM (+cx5n)

67 It's Ted Cruz's fault. Now look at the view screen and voice your anger at him. I'm not hearing those party slogans shouted loudly enough, people.

Posted by: Your MSM at December 02, 2013 09:42 AM (NaTky)

68 59 I would laugh but the complainers and sabotagers comments are chilling when you know a tiny bit of history. --- Bah. I pretend to work, they pretend to pay me.

Posted by: Russian mailman at December 02, 2013 09:42 AM (/Crba)

69 Gotta love writers who make 6 or 7 figures and owe their success to who they know tell the rest of us how we're just a bunch of Debbie Downers

"See how wonderful things are in the Capitol City? It's because we're all happy!"

Posted by: kbdabear at December 02, 2013 09:43 AM (aTXUx)

70 Is there anywhere that I can send donations of rope?

 

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 01:30 PM (/Crba)

 

Rope's too quick.  Piano wire.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 02, 2013 09:43 AM (zF6Iw)

71 If you believe economic performance is based on good vibrations and unicorns you have bigger problems.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 02, 2013 09:43 AM (WdbF7)

72 Rope's too quick. Piano wire.


That's a waste of a perfectly good piano.



Paracord.


Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 09:43 AM (GQ8sn)

73 "At some point, you either stop complaining and pick yourself up, or people stop hearing your complaints."

 

Notice that it's only under failing Democratic presidents that people have the onus of picking themselves up by their own bootstraps.

 

 

Not    just any people,  ace;  people who    complain about   the economy being bad.   If you're a good   little drone and just go on the dole then you're fine.    If you demand more money from the gubmint for food stamps or WIC or    welfare or Section 8, you're fine.   But if you dare complain the gubmint is hindering your ability to be self-sufficient, then by God, YOU are the problem. 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at December 02, 2013 09:43 AM (4df7R)

74 We need to increase the median IQ of the nation. 20 million illegals should do it.

Posted by: RWC at December 02, 2013 09:44 AM (fWAjv)

75 The one guy I know personally who got shafted by Obamacare lives in a van, down by the river. Or will, shortly.....

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 09:44 AM (xZxMD)

76 Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Posted by: The MSM at December 02, 2013 09:44 AM (aTXUx)

77 Grasping  the concept of Cause and Effect for Liberals is like a Cro-magnon   grasping calculus. 

Posted by: polynikes at December 02, 2013 09:44 AM (m2CN7)

78 My brain isn't wired for sandra fluke. I must have Kate Upton!

Posted by: The Commenting Software at December 02, 2013 09:44 AM (kkbgQ)

79 Don't worry, the choad gang is on it like flies on stink!

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 02, 2013 09:44 AM (vHRtU)

80 Liberals, "All you Earth people are stupid!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 09:45 AM (B9up3)

81 79 The one guy I know personally who got shafted by Obamacare lives in a van, down by the river. Or will, shortly..... --- We'll have plenty of time for livin' in a van down by the river when we're... LIVIN in a VAN down by the RIVER!

Posted by: Zombie Matt Foley at December 02, 2013 09:45 AM (/Crba)

82 I'm the reason Obamacare isn't working and the reason the Obamacare website stinks? I never knew that I had such power. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 02, 2013 09:45 AM (BC6cY)

83 Too much choice? Really? Guess we need that single payer then. Funny that.

Posted by: Bigby's Thumb at December 02, 2013 09:45 AM (1gyVd)

84 competition, transparency and consumer choice will lead to higher-quality, more affordable products

That's almost Capitalist, oh wait you can't get on to the exchange without all of these invisible mandates raising costs and limiting options.

Posted by: Jean at December 02, 2013 09:46 AM (CMlD4)

85 So we've harmed one-fifth of the population in order to take over one-sixth of the economy. Yes, I am in the 19% and a whiny whiner who whines.

Posted by: Mindy is part of the problem at December 02, 2013 09:46 AM (lCBX+)

86 Rope's too quick. Piano wire.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 02, 2013 01:43 PM (zF6Iw)

________________________

Ummmmmmm,.....I love music...... Iiiiiiiiiii..... soooo in looove with you..... whatever you want me to

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at December 02, 2013 09:47 AM (32Ze2)

87 It's YOU goddamn fault that I hit you and it's YOUR goddamn fault that I drink!

Now get in the fuckin' kitchen and make me a sandwich, and you'd better be fuckin' SMILING when you bring it, BITCH!!!

Posted by: The MSM at December 02, 2013 09:47 AM (aTXUx)

88 sso if they are only harming 1/5 of the population and that's not so bad, How many were actually needing an assist w originally with health care  and how many if we followed our immigration laws??

and wouldn't dealing with both both have actually helped financially  the health care system?

Posted by: willow at December 02, 2013 09:47 AM (nqBYe)

89 There was a satiric poem in Germany after the war that would fit in well here but I can't quite recall it.  It was entitled The Man Who Lost the War. Hint: It wasn't the guys running the war.

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 02, 2013 09:47 AM (Hx5uv)

90 Let Wally manage 404Care
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-11-29/

Or that might be the clog in the back-end: Wally.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 09:47 AM (B9up3)

91 Is there anywhere that I can send donations of rope? Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 01:30 PM (/Crba) Rope's too quick. Piano wire. Piano wire is quicker. When dropped from 50 ft with only 40 ft of wire.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 09:47 AM (xZxMD)

92 I'd be enjoying the hell out of all this chaos, and the desperation of the Left to paint it as either joyous recovery or self-inflicted and well-deserved annihilation (depending on the day of the week and the writer) if it wasn't inflicting grievous harm on so many folks who did not vote for this shit.
Torn between rage and grim delight. To be human is to feel two ways about everything, I suppose. -_-

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at December 02, 2013 09:47 AM (aG1g8)

93 I'm a better excuse maker than all my excuse makers.

Posted by: Barak Owahwah at December 02, 2013 09:47 AM (bUmSq)

94 91 It's YOU goddamn fault that I hit you and it's YOUR goddamn fault that I drink! Now get in the fuckin' kitchen and make me a sandwich, and you'd better be fuckin' SMILING when you bring it, BITCH!!! --- What do you say to the woman with two black eyes? Nothing you haven't said at least twice before! Thank you, I'm here all week! Try the veal!

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 02, 2013 09:49 AM (/Crba)

95 I never knew that I had such power. ;^) Not bad for a buncha bitter clingers, huh? Not only will we not let him be clear, but we control the economy too. BWAHAHAHA!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at December 02, 2013 09:49 AM (7ObY1)

96 200lbs falling 40ft with a sudden deceleration using piano wire, I would estimate about an 85% chance of decapitation.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 09:49 AM (B9up3)

97 I have saved or created over 10 million insurance policies.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 02, 2013 09:49 AM (WGm5T)

98 Our brains also aren't wired to a website that automatically signs one up for Medicaid if they qualify, making it the only "choice" that isn't a choice at all. The lovely 1-800-F1uckyou operators can't even get you off Medicaid once the site his signed you up.
 
Explain to me how that can be sold as "consumer choice" and "competition."

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2013 09:49 AM (JRmiD)

99 Suck  it,  serfs!   Daddy  is  king   -  and  queen!

Posted by: Sasha in DC at December 02, 2013 09:49 AM (/1ATA)

100 Dear MSM,

As of today, we have 1,144 days left in Ear Leader's term of office until he boards Marine One and fucks off into history.

How are those college transcripts coming along?  Now would be a great time to regale all of us morons with the sheer awesome brainpower of this little shit stain.  It would be fitting since we're all too ignorant to appreciate how fast his molecules vibrate or some other silly comic book shit so as to explain why he has continually fucked up everything he's touched and appears to have the IQ of a sheet metal screw.

It'd be nice to see those before the radiation fallout gets here from the Middle East.

Sincerely, eat shit and die.

America


Posted by: B at December 02, 2013 09:49 AM (Pson9)

101 96 I'd be enjoying the hell out of all this chaos, and the desperation of the Left to paint it as either joyous recovery or self-inflicted and well-deserved annihilation (depending on the day of the week and the writer) if it wasn't inflicting grievous harm on so many folks who did not vote for this shit. Torn between rage and grim delight. To be human is to feel two ways about everything, I suppose. -_- Posted by: Kinley Ardal ------------ To make an omelet, you need to break a few eggs. In this case, the omelet is "Discrediting liberalism for a generation and disproving the viability of Big Government" and the eggs are "A few million good people have to go without health insurance for a year or so." Eggs, start crackin'!

Posted by: zombie at December 02, 2013 09:49 AM (+cx5n)

102 We ever get a final body count for Black Friday?

Posted by: garrett at December 02, 2013 09:50 AM (8vRuS)

103 200lbs falling 40ft with a sudden deceleration using piano wire, I would estimate about an 85% chance of decapitation. Pssssst. Use smaller gauge wire.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 09:50 AM (xZxMD)

104 Daddy left us because YOU cry too much.

Posted by: MFM at December 02, 2013 09:50 AM (32Ze2)

105 OT

Have you seen this????  Greg Mankiw schools the Pope on economics!

http://tinyurl.com/le3ns4n



How many Hail Mary's and novenas does Mankiw owe for that?





Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 09:50 AM (GQ8sn)

106 GOLDSTEIN !!!!

Posted by: Ron at December 02, 2013 09:51 AM (A6yyZ)

107 39 27 So, is it too early to drink some egg nog and whiskey? I mean, too early in the day, not in the year. Posted by: logprof Complainy Pants at December 02, 2013 01:32 PM (fETNt) It gets dark so early this time of year that you might as well start as soon as you get up. Posted by: joncelli at December 02, 2013 01:35 PM (RD7QR) --Good point. I will not hold your enabling against you. Hell, I actively seek it!

Posted by: logprof Complainy Pants at December 02, 2013 09:51 AM (fETNt)

108 The policies are all perfect, but the people are too stupid to follow them.

Posted by: SCOAMF the Magnificent at December 02, 2013 09:51 AM (QW+AD)

109

If my lack of participation in the market has no bearing on the economy (it's "booming" afterall), then why do they care if I bellyache?

Posted by: Brian_AL at December 02, 2013 09:51 AM (x2bTX)

110 Hogwash! I dare say I will certainly do more than poo on the console.  I shall fling the poo around the capsule and play with myself also.  The nerve of these people.

Posted by: A. Monkey at December 02, 2013 09:51 AM (fA3u5)

111 We ever get a final body count for Black Friday? 14 shot. 2 dead in Chicagoland.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 09:51 AM (xZxMD)

112 Politico: Making up really dumb shit so you don't have to.

They are the Jackass of the internet...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 02, 2013 09:52 AM (wtvvX)

113 OLD: Bush's Fault! NEW: YOUR Fault!!!

Posted by: --- at December 02, 2013 09:52 AM (MMC8r)

114 Remember, Obama  learned only a month ago that buying insurance is complicated.

Posted by: Marmo at December 02, 2013 09:52 AM (QW+AD)

115 "At some point, you either stop complaining and pick yourself up, or people stop hearing your complaints."

Except if you have to pay $9 for your birth control pill. In that case, you should whine, bitch and moan that "access" to "affordable healthcare" is a "right" and demand that others pick up the cost.

Posted by: Warden at December 02, 2013 09:52 AM (HzhBE)

116 You know what would fix all this? Some common sense gun confiscation.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 02, 2013 09:52 AM (WGm5T)

117 "If you don't enjoy,/cannot afford /bankrupt your marked up to the high sky premiums you're lack of choices in healthcare or keeping your doctor OR getting cancer treatement on time to possibly save your ass..  you're just a crazy right mentally ill winger"

Posted by: willow at December 02, 2013 09:52 AM (nqBYe)

118 behavioral science research suggests that many consumers may be ill equipped to make good decisions in the insurance marketplaces. I'll bet. What's your source on that Mr. Writer? Some aging Communist who shoehorned Marx into some p > 0.05 study?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 02, 2013 09:52 AM (sByIH)

119 So, is it too early to drink some egg nog and whiskey? I mean, too early in the day, not in the year. Posted by: logprof Complainy Pants at December 02, 2013 01:32 PM (fETNt) It gets dark so early this time of year that you might as well start as soon as you get up. Save time. Keep it bedside!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 09:53 AM (xZxMD)

120
Saving Obama
A Play in One Act

-

As the Grateful Dead said:

We can share the women, we can share the wine
We can share what we got of yours, 'cause we done shared all of mine

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 02, 2013 09:53 AM (Hx5uv)

121 and Shut up about trying to survive on 29 hours you crazy greedy dopes!

Posted by: willow at December 02, 2013 09:53 AM (nqBYe)

122 Continue for two minutes. Repeat when necessary.

GOLDSTEIN !!!!
 

Posted by: Ron at December 02, 2013 09:54 AM (A6yyZ)

123 101 200lbs falling 40ft with a sudden deceleration using piano wire, I would estimate about an 85% chance of decapitation. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 01:49 PM (B9up3) Second look at concertina wire to increase the chances. We can pilfer it from the camps.

Posted by: RWC at December 02, 2013 09:54 AM (fWAjv)

124 You know who was living in a van near the river? That little girl in TWD. Look what happened to her. Seriously, no one completely rots in that program -- ever.

Posted by: The Commenting Software at December 02, 2013 09:54 AM (kkbgQ)

125 your not you're

sigh

Posted by: willow at December 02, 2013 09:54 AM (nqBYe)

126 Who holds the meetings of senior management of MSM companies that go like this ...

"Our viewership is down, our subscriber numbers are down, what do we do about it?"

"It's because our customers are so fucking retarded that they don't realize that they'd keep stabbing themselves in the face with their forks if it weren't for our educated and compassionate guidance. We need to tell them "LISTEN UP, STUPID!!"

Posted by: kbdabear at December 02, 2013 09:54 AM (aTXUx)

127 O/T How about this - the president's day is likely already over:

10:00 am || Receives the President Daily Briefing
1:20 pm || Delivers remarks at World AIDS Day event; White House

Yes, we're our ungovernable country has the poor b@st@rd working from 10:00am to 2:00'ish pm. It will be the death of him!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2013 09:54 AM (JRmiD)

128 They already played the stupid card when they called our existing plans crappy and substandard.

Posted by: John the Libertarian at December 02, 2013 09:54 AM (6RwsK)

129 The number of times we have failed the god-king are piling up fast. Re the last thread, in a country where people are REALLY pissed: Massive protests hammer Ukraine's financial markets, increasing risk of currency crisis - @Reuters The vulture Soros is surely on his way....

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 09:54 AM (1Y+hH)

130 To make an omelet, you need to break a few eggs. In this case, the omelet is "Discrediting liberalism for a generation and disproving the viability of Big Government" and the eggs are "A few million good people have to go without health insurance for a year or so."


Discrediting liberalism has a shelf life of about a decade at best. Witness NYC's selection of DeBlasio as mayor after the disasters of Beame and Dinkins.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 02, 2013 09:54 AM (8ZskC)

131

behavioral science research suggests that many consumers may be ill equipped to make good decisions in the insurance marketplaces.

 

Tell me, my dear preening   leftwing douche, what counts as a "good"   decision?   Is it buying the cheapest policy possible,because if you buy the  more expensive one you wont' be able to afford electricity?   Or is it buying the most expensive policy availabe so that you can feel the warm glow of helping the less fortunate    even as you freeze to death during the first major snowstorm of the year?         Or is it buying the middle-priced plan (if ther'es one available),   so that you can pay the premium    and you electric bill in alternating months?     Or    is it     not buying insurance at all and simply paying the fine,   because   you've never bought insurance before and you've    been just fine without it, and buying it now will put you seriously in the financial hole    without any   reasonable expectation of a return on your investment?

 

Do tell me, my darling  regressive dick nugget:  what is     "good?"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at December 02, 2013 09:55 AM (4df7R)

132 Of course there is plenty of competition on my wonderfully fixed website. You can choose between Blue Cross and Blue Shield. See this insurance thingy is easy for a big brain like me.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 02, 2013 09:55 AM (WGm5T)

133 Standard propaganda is not working. Soon the MSM will look to the Nork model; i.e., The first golf game Obama ever played he got eighteen holes in one.

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 02, 2013 09:56 AM (Hx5uv)

134 200lbs falling 40ft with a sudden deceleration using piano wire, I would estimate about an 85% chance of decapitation. You might want to consult the "Official Table of Drops". A 112lb person only gets dropped 8ft with rope. A 200lb person gets dropped about 5'4" with rope. 40ft with piano wire? 100% chance of decap.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 02, 2013 09:56 AM (sByIH)

135 So it REALLY is 1984 complete with "thought crimes" http://tinyurl.com/3hn2el

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 02, 2013 09:56 AM (0FSuD)

136 The solution to a Government failure, is of course, more Government...

Posted by: The Political Class at December 02, 2013 09:56 AM (lZBBB)

137 Who holds the meetings of senior management of MSM companies that go like this ...

"Our viewership is down, our subscriber numbers are down, what do we do about it?"

"It's because our customers are so fucking retarded that they don't realize that they'd keep stabbing themselves in the face with their forks if it weren't for our educated and compassionate guidance. We need to tell them "LISTEN UP, STUPID!!"

Posted by: kbdabear at December 02, 2013 01:54 PM (aTXUx)



Any indie film studio.



Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 09:56 AM (GQ8sn)

138 Discrediting liberalism has a shelf life of about a decade at best. Witness NYC's selection of DeBlasio as mayor after the disasters of Beame and Dinkins. --- Think of that as a function of turnover in the New York City population. A lot of the "makers" in New York pulled up stumps and moved elsewhere, such as Texas or Florida, years ago and got replaced by a bunch of "takers' instead.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 09:57 AM (/Crba)

139 Malaise speech, part deux

Posted by: Thunderb at December 02, 2013 09:57 AM (zOTsN)

140 But are there enough of them to drag everybody else along? Mask slip...

Posted by: cajun caret at December 02, 2013 09:57 AM (UZQM8)

141 Someone who has a compulsive need for accuracy should wade through the four or five insurance 'plans' available on healthcare.gov and check, but are you sure there are four (or five) different 'plans' or is there one plan and four or five different prices? (According to your ability to pay, according to your need.)

One schedule of coverage, and different deductible and different 'premiums'?

One plan to bind them five prices to confuse them, one president to rule them?

Posted by: Well of Care Depleted at December 02, 2013 09:57 AM (Vo2ov)

142 138 Standard propaganda is not working. Soon the MSM will look to the Nork model; i.e., The first golf game Obama ever played he got eighteen holes in one. --- With him, it's far more likely he got 18 of something in one hole.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 09:57 AM (/Crba)

143 Yes, I am in the 19% and a whiny whiner who whines.

Posted by: Mindy is part of the problem at December 02, 2013 01:46 PM (lCBX+)

 

Not a whiner:   a legitimately aggrieved party.

 

The whiners are those    who   bitch about how they    really liked Obamacare, but never thought THEY'D have to pay for it.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at December 02, 2013 09:57 AM (4df7R)

144 Do tell me, my darling regressive dick nugget: what is "good?"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at December 02, 2013 01:55 PM (4df7R)

------------------

That's easy. Doing what I tell you to do is good.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 02, 2013 09:58 AM (WGm5T)

145 1:20 pm || Delivers remarks at World AIDS Day event; White House
-
For or against?

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 02, 2013 09:58 AM (Hx5uv)

146 Does a monkey care if a space shuttle is in good working order? All the monkey is going to do is crap on the console. You never left us, Ace. My, how you wash us over with grins.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 02, 2013 09:58 AM (IXrOn)

147 Do tell me, my darling regressive dick nugget...

Oh, MWR. You have a way with words....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 02, 2013 09:58 AM (wtvvX)

148 150 1:20 pm || Delivers remarks at World AIDS Day event; White House - For or against? --- Depends on the JEF's next test. If it comes back not just sure, but HIV+, then there will be mandated quilting in his memory.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 09:58 AM (/Crba)

149 1:20 pm || Delivers remarks at World AIDS Day event; White House
-
For or against?

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 02, 2013 01:58 PM (Hx5uv)



Oh man, I wish he would break out into that "Everyone has AIDS!" song from Team America.



Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 09:58 AM (GQ8sn)

150 your not you're I saw Your Not You're open for Was Not Was, Cobo Hall, Detroit, 1985.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at December 02, 2013 09:59 AM (7ObY1)

151 The SOU is right around the corner too... oh man it'll be a whopper.

Posted by: cajun caret at December 02, 2013 09:59 AM (UZQM8)

152

and Shut up about trying to survive on 29 hours you crazy greedy dopes!


 

Posted by: willow at December 02, 2013 01:53 PM (nqBYe)

 

 

Unless you work at a fast food chain   and want $15/hour minimum, in which case, bitch away, my lovelies!  Bitch away!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at December 02, 2013 09:59 AM (4df7R)

153 You might want to consult the "Official Table of Drops". A 112lb person only gets dropped 8ft with rope. A 200lb person gets dropped about 5'4" with rope. 40ft with piano wire? 100% chance of decap. Success!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 09:59 AM (xZxMD)

154 I'm always so happy to see media jump in unision  to the same answers  (not to our actual questions but answers they want shoved on us) after a trip to the WH.

warms my soul.

Posted by: willow at December 02, 2013 09:59 AM (nqBYe)

155 155 your not you're I saw Your Not You're open for Was Not Was, Cobo Hall, Detroit, 1985. --- HELLO DAD, I'M IN JAIL! JAIL! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD, I'M IN JAIL! I LIKE IT HERE!

Posted by: Was Not Was at December 02, 2013 10:00 AM (/Crba)

156

Does a monkey care if a space shuttle is in good working order? All the monkey is going to do is crap on the console.

 

Well, if Soothie is in the shuttle...

Posted by: garrett at December 02, 2013 10:00 AM (8vRuS)

157 Funny...millions of fearful and stupid people manage to use Amazon every day and are happy with it.

Posted by: PJ at December 02, 2013 10:00 AM (ZWaLo)

158 Let's hope that self-fulfilling prophecy gives us the real change this time.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 02, 2013 10:00 AM (IXrOn)

159 156 The SOU is right around the corner too... oh man it'll be a whopper.

Posted by: cajun caret at December 02, 2013 01:59 PM (UZQM


Maybe he'll insult the Joint Chiefs this time as a gesture to tradition.

Posted by: joncelli at December 02, 2013 10:00 AM (RD7QR)

160
Ummm.... I call dibs on taking responsibility for the Failure of Comet ISON.

Also I call shotgun on WWI.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 02, 2013 10:00 AM (caCiW)

161 A  large  number of people made a lot of money during the Great Depression also.    The people in  those  bread  lines  at that  time were a bunch of whiners!! 

Posted by: polynikes at December 02, 2013 10:00 AM (m2CN7)

162 That's easy. Doing what I tell you to do is good. Cathleen Falsani to Obama, "What is sin?" Obama to Cathleen Falsani, "Being out of alignment with my values."

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 02, 2013 10:01 AM (sByIH)

163 >>1:20 pm || Delivers remarks at World AIDS Day event; White House
-
For or against?
**********
Bush's fault.

(Just make sure Bono and Bob Geldoff don't hear him say that.)

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2013 10:01 AM (JRmiD)

164 Let me be clear. No, really! Then your inbred racial hatred wouldn't be fucking everything up.

Posted by: Barry McPhuckstick at December 02, 2013 10:01 AM (bUmSq)

165 Behavioral science research suggests that 75 year old women don't want to pay for maternity coverage.

Posted by: Warden at December 02, 2013 10:01 AM (HzhBE)

166 How many Hail Mary's and novenas does Mankiw owe for that?

Posted by: EC

Mankiw is still a supporter of Pigou taxes (aka carbon taxes )

His insight is highly compartmentalized.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 02, 2013 10:01 AM (uCNam)

167 When the Burning starts... these people will be closest to the fire.

http://youtu.be/wRRwZDSmTVI

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at December 02, 2013 10:01 AM (QXlbZ)

168 HELLO DAD, I'M IN JAIL! JAIL! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD, I'M IN JAIL! I LIKE IT HERE!

Hahahaha! Hadn't thought of that in years....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 02, 2013 10:01 AM (wtvvX)

169 WTF? Some guy in NH just got sentenced to 39 years for injecting people with his own Hepatitis C infected blood in his role as a hospital employee.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 02, 2013 10:02 AM (ZshNr)

170 Mankiw is still a supporter of Pigou taxes (aka carbon taxes )

His insight is highly compartmentalized.


Yup.



Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 10:02 AM (GQ8sn)

171 Sigh. Everything (especially me) sucks right now. I'm just going to watch Auburn run back that field goal another 20,000 times or so. That should help.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 02, 2013 10:02 AM (VtjlW)

172 "At some point, you either stop complaining and pick yourself up, or people stop hearing your complaints."

Someone forward this message to King Barky.

Posted by: Mallfly at December 02, 2013 10:02 AM (bJm7W)

173 Malaise speech, part deux Chris Matthew does a much better job at writing that kind of speech, believe me.

Posted by: Humble Peanut Farmer From Plains, GA [/i] at December 02, 2013 10:02 AM (OPROh)

174

This site has to have the best combination of laugh out loud posts and comments in the blogosphere.  Of course, senses of humor on the liberal sites are sadly lacking and apparently a genetic predisposition, but still that's one small blog standing out in a very big "n".  Thanks to you folks and the morons for finding humor in the demise of Western Civilization.  I couldn't take it otherwise.

Posted by: Mazzuchelli at December 02, 2013 10:03 AM (gvekq)

175 I saw Your Not You're open for Was Not Was, Cobo Hall, Detroit, 1985.


Posted by: BlueStateRebel at December 02, 2013 01:59 PM (7ObY1)

 

 

That was part of The The's comeback tour, right?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at December 02, 2013 10:03 AM (4df7R)

176

The American people just don't have the intelligence to appreciate the beauty of Obamacare.  The government simply needs to educate them...or reeducate you could say. 

 

Of course some folks  might  claim to be too busy to  receive this vital info, so perhaps - for their own good - we should make this education mandatory.

 

...and some folks don't have transportation, so perhaps the police  or some other government agency  (maybe we create one just for this purpose) could go pick folks up and get them to the training locations (camps?).

Posted by: Icedog at December 02, 2013 10:03 AM (G0ITZ)

177 I have thought long and hard, much like second grade for me, on this and "It's the white people's fault I'm turning everything I touch into shit."

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 02, 2013 10:03 AM (WGm5T)

178 176 Sigh. Everything (especially me) sucks right now. I'm just going to watch Auburn run back that field goal another 20,000 times or so. That should help. --- While that one is delightful because of how it makes Saban look like a stupid douche, try looking up the one of these that LSU did earlier this year. Odell Beckham Jr. went 109 yards to the house against a team during one of the few games I got to attend this year.

Posted by: Was Not Was at December 02, 2013 10:03 AM (/Crba)

179 174 WTF? Some guy in NH just got sentenced to 39 years for injecting people with his own Hepatitis C infected blood in his role as a hospital employee.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 02, 2013 02:02 PM (ZshNr)


What, the state's too broke to get a strong guy and a length of piano wire?

Posted by: joncelli, taking up the theme at December 02, 2013 10:03 AM (RD7QR)

180 Three more years.  And that doesn't mean more won't come.   Many of us know that, behind the scenes, tucked away in untmost secrecy, there are leftists planning and conniving to upset the two-term limit of the presidency.  I think it's why Dear Leader is always fundraising.  They're going to need lots of cash for their bribes.

Posted by: Soona at December 02, 2013 10:03 AM (FtgP2)

181 Wreckers, hoarders and sabateurs are derailing the socialist paradise we've so carefully and painstakingly planned for you!  It's time to decide which side you're on, tovarisch!

Posted by: Lazar Kaganovich at December 02, 2013 10:04 AM (eNZFc)

182 dem party running their constituents  (and the rest of us) you people are stupid, too stupid, so we help you  (us) and all we hear is a  whine.

what do you mean it hurts you?( fk you be grateful we tried to help, (us) )also man oh man those lobbying dollars  are sure sweet aren't they? .

Posted by: willow at December 02, 2013 10:04 AM (nqBYe)

183 The Choad Gang and the National Socialist Media are ON IT!

TOP. MEN.

Posted by: President Choad Load at December 02, 2013 10:04 AM (vHRtU)

184 We've been very bad citizens.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at December 02, 2013 10:05 AM (4/o9U)

185 Also OT,



Drudge says the country's nuclear launch code was 00000000.  Eight zeros.


Which genius came up with that?  Someone leaning on a keyboard could have started WW3.


Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 10:05 AM (GQ8sn)

186 ' "Whether it works or not." In other words: What does it matter if it works or not? We're too dumb to use it anyway. Does a monkey care if a space shuttle is in good working order? All the monkey is going to do is crap on the console.' Okay now, be fair, these are people who deal with the democratic party base. You can hardly blame them for thinking that people are too dumb to pick out a healthcare plan, even with the use of simplified charts that pick out the pertinent information, because let's face it, their voters really are that dumb. Sadly, their voters wouldn't be that dumb if the liberals hadn't spent the decades since LBJ infantilizing them.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 02, 2013 10:05 AM (6da/j)

187 Someone forward this message to King Barky. That only applies to "you people"*. *"You people" are defined as people out of alignment with Barack's values.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 02, 2013 10:05 AM (sByIH)

188 Ace, Politico link goes to the Yahoo complaining article.

Posted by: RWC at December 02, 2013 10:05 AM (fWAjv)

189 17 Look out politicians who voted for this shit because the lamp posts in DC need some new decoration and it will not be for Christmas. --- Cut, jib, newsletter. Is there anywhere that I can send donations of rope? Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 01:30 PM (/Crba) Make sure it's hemp. Adds to the discomfort.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 02, 2013 10:05 AM (UAMVq)

190 It will be interesting to see what happens when the "81%" not impacted by "Obamcare" see their parents/grandparents get denied treatment and die.

/but then again, many of those are  liberals. Death is OK with them, as long as they get themselves some sweet inheritance bux.

Posted by: shibumi at December 02, 2013 10:06 AM (25HWz)

191 ...and some folks don't have transportation, so perhaps the police or some other government agency (maybe we create one just for this purpose) could go pick folks up and get them to the training locations (camps?). Bullet trains!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 10:06 AM (xZxMD)

192 193 Someone forward this message to King Barky. That only applies to "you people"*. *"You people" are defined as people out of alignment with Barack's values. Posted by: bonhomme at December 02, 2013 02:05 PM (sByIH) I guess that makes us sinners in the eyes of Obama. I for one refuse to repent.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 02, 2013 10:06 AM (UAMVq)

193 Why can't we let him be great

Posted by: Thunderb at December 02, 2013 10:06 AM (zOTsN)

194 When the Burning starts... these people will be closest to the fire. http://youtu.be/wRRwZDSmTVI Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at December 02, 2013 02:01 PM (QXlbZ)
...I cannot words to communicate how utterly thrown I am by such... brazen shamelessness. God help us all.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at December 02, 2013 10:06 AM (aG1g8)

195

Drudge says the country's nuclear launch code was 00000000. Eight zeros.

 

 

 

Change the combination on my luggage.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at December 02, 2013 10:06 AM (8vRuS)

196 196 It will be interesting to see what happens when the "81%" not impacted by "Obamcare" see their parents/grandparents get denied treatment and die. /but then again, many of those are liberals. Death is OK with them, as long as they get themselves some sweet inheritance bux. Posted by: shibumi at December 02, 2013 02:06 PM (25HWz) *cough*

Posted by: Estate Tax at December 02, 2013 10:07 AM (UAMVq)

197 Affordable, quality health coverage Or Quality, affordable  health care. You can't get both.

Posted by: Bad Stuff and Banjos at December 02, 2013 10:07 AM (rCS6C)

198 Just arrest a few of those complainers! That's what I did to those counter-revolutionaries who stood in line waiting for their crust of bread with scowls on their faces. And here I was, giving them food!

Send them to a work camp. That will teach them gratitude!

Posted by: Ghost of Ceaucescu at December 02, 2013 10:07 AM (ZWaLo)

199 Think of that as a function of turnover in the New York City population. A lot of the "makers" in New York pulled up stumps and moved elsewhere, such as Texas or Florida, years ago and got replaced by a bunch of "takers' instead. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 01:57 PM (/Crba) Decay of the inner cities. What happened to Detroit will happen to NYC in time. All in good time my pretty

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 02, 2013 10:07 AM (t3UFN)

200 The media can't understand how the unicorn of obamacare isn't shitting skittles. Therefore in their state of delusion it's everyone else's fault.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 02, 2013 10:07 AM (2hhvi)

201 Drudge says the country's nuclear launch code was 00000000. Eight zeros. Which genius came up with that? Someone leaning on a keyboard could have started WW3. Damn! I have that combination on my luggage!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 10:07 AM (xZxMD)

202 MATT DAMON!

Posted by: Matt Damon, wrecking healthcare with stupid at December 02, 2013 10:08 AM (bUmSq)

203 "Consider this, though: Only 19% of American say the law has harmed them in any way"

Neatly eliding the reality that we still do not have 100% of Americans directly experiencing full force, full speed Obamacare, thanks to the various delays and waivers.

If everyone had already been dunked in the shitpot at this point, that "19%" figure would be probably around fifty percent, instead.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 02, 2013 10:08 AM (gqT4g)

204

Can we get a post on the Supreme Court refusing to hear  Liberty College's challenge to Obamafail  ? 

 

I want some good old fashion  Roberts bashing. 

Posted by: polynikes at December 02, 2013 10:08 AM (m2CN7)

205 Never fear, the updated code includes at least 2 emoticons and is rated "Fair" by Yahoo Mail.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 02, 2013 10:08 AM (ZshNr)

206 Also OT,



Drudge says the country's nuclear launch code was 00000000. Eight zeros.


Which genius came up with that? Someone leaning on a keyboard could have started WW3.


Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 02:05 PM (GQ8sn)

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I would have mixed in some 1's but it looks too much like what's called "computer code"..... and I think that wouldn't be good.

Posted by: I'm In Charge of the Launch Code..... Bitches at December 02, 2013 10:08 AM (32Ze2)

207 We are all wreckers now.

Posted by: troyriser at December 02, 2013 10:08 AM (2jF2B)

208 One of the things that pisses me off about O-Care is that people act like there has never been a website where you could buy insurance before. NEWSFLASH: there have been several such websites for years. They do what healthcare.gov is supposed to do. But get this....they actually work. You can compare prices, see coverage options and buy insurance. WOW!! What a fucking concept.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 02, 2013 10:09 AM (0LHZx)

209 Therefore in their state of delusion it's everyone else's fault.
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Yes.

Posted by: De Nile, not just a river in Egypt at December 02, 2013 10:09 AM (25HWz)

210 Executions will continue until morale improves

Posted by: Thunderb at December 02, 2013 10:09 AM (zOTsN)

211 This was chosen by Strategic Air Command in an effort to make the weapons as quick and as easy to launch as possible, as reported by Today I Found Out. Could have thrown at least one different digit in there champ.

Posted by: RWC at December 02, 2013 10:09 AM (fWAjv)

212 Drudge says the country's nuclear launch code was 00000000. Eight zeros. Maybe that's why they called it the "red button". The zero was the red button.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at December 02, 2013 10:09 AM (4/o9U)

213 WTF? Some guy in NH just got sentenced to 39 years for injecting people with his own Hepatitis C infected blood in his role as a hospital employee.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 02, 2013 02:02 PM (ZshNr)

 

 

GOOD.   The guy's an asshole.    He took people's painkillers and replaced the syringes with     saline-filled     ones that he'd already used,   so they were tainted with his blood.  

 

The   other crime, IMO, is that he was fired from    the same job (medical tech)     in four different states   in seven years because of accusations of    drug use and theft,  but that never seemed to stop him from getting   work.    If they hadn't figured out he was the one who caused the HepC outbreak he'd probably STILL be doing it, and even more innocent people would be hurt.

 

Bastard.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at December 02, 2013 10:09 AM (4df7R)

214 The exchanges are based on a laudable idea: that competition, transparency and consumer choice will lead to higher-quality, more affordable products. And there it is...the initial battle space preparation for the coming dump of millions onto the exchanges from employer plans.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at December 02, 2013 10:09 AM (659DL)

215

"Consider this, though: Only 19% of American say the law has harmed them in any way"

And make no mistake,  19% was used as opposed to 20 or more %   for the same reason  products are priced  $9.99 .

Posted by: polynikes at December 02, 2013 10:10 AM (m2CN7)

216

Could have thrown at least one different digit in there champ.

 

 

Always good to have at least one 'niner' in there. 

Posted by: garrett at December 02, 2013 10:10 AM (8vRuS)

217 NEWSFLASH: there have been several such websites for years. They do what healthcare.gov is supposed to do. But get this....they actually work. You can compare prices, see coverage options and buy insurance. WOW!! What a fucking concept. --- Just 15 minutes could save you hundreds on your insurance...

Posted by: GEICO at December 02, 2013 10:10 AM (/Crba)

218 "Consider this, though: Only 19% of American say the law has harmed them in any way" Neatly eliding the reality that we still do not have 100% of Americans directly experiencing full force, full speed Obamacare, thanks to the various delays and waivers. And are the other 81% "happy" with their coverage under Obamafail? Because that's the bar to meet considering 80%+ were happy with their insurance before Obamafail.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 02, 2013 10:10 AM (sByIH)

219 So if someone was using some sort of gizmo to rattle off all possible eight-digit combos, wouldn't eight zeroes be their starting point? Genius.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 02, 2013 10:10 AM (ZshNr)

220 @200 KLBJ Perfect!

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 02, 2013 10:10 AM (0FSuD)

221 223 Could have thrown at least one different digit in there champ. Always good to have at least one 'niner' in there. --- Did I hear a "niner" in there? Did you call in from a walkie-talkie?

Posted by: Richard Hayden at December 02, 2013 10:11 AM (/Crba)

222

Things suck and are getting suckier.  Obamacide and the Obamaconomy are chewing through what's left of the middle class at a furious pace. 

 

But it's our fault for noticing that it's Obama and his buddies who have been in the drivers' seat since the dems took the house & senate in 2006?

 

All this crap the unions are now pulling, all these "show" strikes at fast food restaurants and big box stores that don't employ unions anyway, that's supposed to distract us from the fact that it's Obama's intention that the full time work week should be under 30 hours, and there are fewer people working right now than when Obama took office, etc. etc.

 

 

Posted by: whyme at December 02, 2013 10:11 AM (l9mF2)

223
I'm just amazed something posted at Yahoo! can get over 22k comments.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 02, 2013 10:11 AM (kdS6q)

224 208 Drudge says the country's nuclear launch code was 00000000. Eight zeros. Someone's Columbia University GPA?

Posted by: USA at December 02, 2013 10:11 AM (VIaw0)

225 And there it is...the initial battle space preparation for the coming dump of millions onto the exchanges from employer plans.
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I will be more than happy to share the pain with all the O voters who think that they're immune from this cr@p sandwich, like they think they are. Let them dumped into the shitpile with the rest of us, and see what their Democrat God is doing to them.

Posted by: shibumi at December 02, 2013 10:11 AM (25HWz)

226

Man of the Year:

 

NOT YOU!

Posted by: Time at December 02, 2013 10:12 AM (NF2Bf)

227 Someone's Columbia University GPA? --- Somehow I doubt the JEF failed Communist Indoctrination 101.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 10:12 AM (/Crba)

228 ust 15 minutes could save you hundreds on your insurance... So easy a caveman could do it. And a duck, lizard, Flo......

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 10:12 AM (xZxMD)

229 There are plenty of Americans, needless to say, who havenÂ’t let a weak economy or a few disappointments slow them down. TheyÂ’re starting companies, doing deals, trying new things and in some cases making a lot of money. But are there enough of them to drag everybody else along? My guess is no. At some point, you either stop complaining and pick yourself up, or people stop hearing your complaints.


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hahah those companies like lightsquared and solyndra?  with the helping hand of Obama made millions and headed for the hills shortly after?
yeah the american obama way. sure let's all be crooks and liars.

Posted by: willow at December 02, 2013 10:12 AM (nqBYe)

230

All pointless and repetitious, but that line about it being "laudable" to, ya know, have a website where you could shop for insurance is head-exploding orwellian nonsense.

 

eHealthInsurance.com

 

Been using it for years.  Takes about 10 minutes the times I have had to shop/change plans.  Then the paperwork comes, you fill it out/send it in.  Done.

 

So a "marketplace" for health insurance is an innovation, and of course finally we are being liberated from our "sub-standard" policies.

 

Except that there have been websites to do this for years and years, and our old policies were twice as good at 1/3 the cost of the new ones.  This may be a new low/high in orwellian delusion and degradation of our society.  That such nonsense can even be uttered without hilarity and ridicule may be the final indicator needed to know it is, in effect, over.  We live surrounded by people too functionally stupid to tolerate any longer.

 

I saw that Yahoo Finance headline last week and, for the first time in a while, my jaw actually dropped (it's been a while because the Surprise and Disgust Meters have both been broken for a few years).  Just as with the creepy idiotic socialist-realism campaign posters for Bambi in 2008, we are dealing with people too young and/or too ignorant to even understand what they're saying, how they are mimicking crude propaganda terms and techniques from the most vile blood-drenched evil regimes in human history.  "Wreckers".  Not one in 1,000 airheaded Yahoo employee types would even guess why that term was an offensive one to use for their (absurd, but that's a separate question) thesis about the economy.

 

Posted by: non-purist at December 02, 2013 10:12 AM (afQnV)

231 They can shift blame all they want,when the employer mandate kicks in and companies can no longer afford to provide insurance for employees , the SHTF will start.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 02, 2013 10:13 AM (pCFIK)

232

What can I say to this load of crapola from Politico--except "Bite me".

 

Or, if I spoke Austrian, I could say "Leck mich am arsch."

Posted by: Comanche Voter at December 02, 2013 10:13 AM (dtuXM)

233 News flash Hospitals would rather quietly fire someone and give them a good recommendation rather than go through criminal prosecutions, state license revocation boards, and lawsuits Even for drug addicts. Even for patient molesters

Posted by: Thunderb at December 02, 2013 10:13 AM (zOTsN)

234 Did I hear a "niner" in there? Did you call in from a walkie-talkie? CB, good buddy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 10:13 AM (xZxMD)

235 Obamacare is the awesome! Who cares that it only covers daily rectal exams. You'd think Obama could do something to solve my chronic acid reflux, tho.

Posted by: Mitch Cumstein at December 02, 2013 10:13 AM (bUmSq)

236 Only 19% of American say the law has harmed them in any way 19% of 315 million is just shy of ITALY. So, no big deal.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at December 02, 2013 10:13 AM (659DL)

237 " behavioral science research suggests that many consumers may be ill equipped to make good decisions in the insurance marketplaces." And I guess we should thank the public schools for that. The site, if you can manage to get through, which you probably can't, spells out in simple language all of the basics of each plan, along with the costs. Yearly deductible, co-pays, prescription costs, monthly premium costs. If people have such minimal math and reading skills that they can't understand this, whose fault is it?

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 02, 2013 10:14 AM (6da/j)

238 I keep seeing that scrunt Flo, over at Progressive bragging about a website that sounds just like obamacare.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 02, 2013 10:14 AM (e/rH4)

239 launch codes are fixed now.
12345678plus a 1800-fuck-you  , See if the bad guys can figure it out now.

Posted by: willow at December 02, 2013 10:14 AM (nqBYe)

240
I also take responsibility for the Titanic being just double-hulled instead of triple.  My fault.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 02, 2013 10:14 AM (caCiW)

241

Sigh. Everything (especially me) sucks right now.

 

*cuddles!*   What is wrong,    oh dear benevolentish dictatoress?  You are wondiferous as always, so I find your self-recimination extra disturbing.

 

http://bit.ly/1chD2e2

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at December 02, 2013 10:14 AM (4df7R)

242 "But gloom itself may now be a bigger economic problem than any of the traditional ones." Cue the zombie FDR speech on how we have nothing to fear but gloom itself.

Posted by: steevy at December 02, 2013 10:14 AM (zqvg6)

243 that 19% only represents those actually able to sign on to obamcare.

Posted by: willow at December 02, 2013 10:15 AM (nqBYe)

244 No... no don't bother trying eight zeros, Natasha. Zee Americans would never be stupeed enough to do zat one.

Posted by: Boris at December 02, 2013 10:15 AM (4/o9U)

245 What can I say to this load of crapola from Politico--except "Bite me". Or, if I spoke Austrian, I could say "Leck mich am arsch." --- *thumbs up*

Posted by: Zombie Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at December 02, 2013 10:15 AM (/Crba)

246 So if someone was using some sort of gizmo to rattle off all possible eight-digit combos, wouldn't eight zeroes be their starting point? Genius. They were counting on any hacker starting with eight 9's. 100,000,000 possible combinations. A computer can run that number of combos in a second.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 02, 2013 10:15 AM (sByIH)

247

Even for patient molesters

 

 

You never want to rush a good diddling.

Posted by: Harry Reid at December 02, 2013 10:15 AM (8vRuS)

248 Funny, never in my life would I have ever dreamed of wanting...much less wearing...a pair of Ugg boots. Then I found out how they're made thanks to liberal fucknuts on Facebook...I MUST HAVE.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 02, 2013 10:15 AM (xKYlY)

249 Willow ROFLMAO

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 02, 2013 10:15 AM (pCFIK)

250 I need to get that civilian security force up and running for your protection.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 02, 2013 10:15 AM (WGm5T)

251 Funny hairy

Posted by: Thunderb at December 02, 2013 10:16 AM (zOTsN)

252 255 Funny, never in my life would I have ever dreamed of wanting...much less wearing...a pair of Ugg boots. Then I found out how they're made thanks to liberal fucknuts on Facebook...I MUST HAVE. --- How are they made? From the wool of baby lambs?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 10:16 AM (/Crba)

253 launch codes are fixed now. 12345678plus a 1800-fuck-you , See if the bad guys can figure it out now. Crap. Brb. Changing luggage combo. Again.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 10:16 AM (xZxMD)

254 Dick Nugget? Of the Herenford Dick Nuggets?

Posted by: JQP at December 02, 2013 10:16 AM (U4GjV)

255 132 O/T How about this - the president's day is likely already over:

10:00 am || Receives the President Daily Briefing
1:20 pm || Delivers remarks at World AIDS Day event; White House

Yes, we're our ungovernable country has the poor b@st@rd working from 10:00am to 2:00'ish pm. It will be the death of him!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2013 01:54 PM (JRmiD)

 

I'm reading W's "Decision Points" right now and although not agreeing with many of his decisions as President, he constantly talks about his day beginning ~0600 with the daily briefing and going late into the afternoon or evening.

 

It's sad, disappointing, and rage-inducing that our current "leader" barely puts in half what us regular working folk call a day at the office (or where ever).

Posted by: Timmay! at December 02, 2013 10:17 AM (ipirO)

256 I saw Dick Nugget open for pearl jam

Posted by: Thunderb at December 02, 2013 10:17 AM (zOTsN)

257 People are too stupid to choose things that are affordable and have value. Of course.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at December 02, 2013 10:18 AM (4/o9U)

258 Funny, never in my life would I have ever dreamed of wanting...much less wearing...a pair of Ugg boots. Then I found out how they're made thanks to liberal fucknuts on Facebook...I MUST HAVE. Clubbed baby seals???

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 10:18 AM (xZxMD)

259 From every movie I've  seen I believe they have a gadget they just need to attach to  the  keypad that will decode  the  code in exactly 15 seconds before the alarm  sounds.  

Posted by: polynikes at December 02, 2013 10:18 AM (m2CN7)

260 He is prolly working more than that He just doesn't want us to know who he is talking to and meeting with

Posted by: Thunderb at December 02, 2013 10:19 AM (zOTsN)

261

Not only did I shop Amazon, choose the item, decide where to ship it, how to ship it, confirm my payment method in less then two minutes, it took them a split second to auto-confirm my order:

 

And you know what else you could do?  Comparison shop.   You could look at different brands of a particular product and pick the one you preferred, or you could look at the same    brand      and choose from different sellers.   You could choose to buy direct from Amazon, or from an Amazon affiliate, or from a third party seller in the Amazon marketplace.   And you could do all of that on ONE screen, if you so chose, and in less than ten minutes.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at December 02, 2013 10:19 AM (4df7R)

262 Why don't they just go to the original script?

 The failure is due to the sabotage cause by the false consciousness of the class traitors. Once all traitors have been reeducated all will proceed successfully as laid out in the glorious five year plan.

Posted by: Ron at December 02, 2013 10:19 AM (A6yyZ)

263 Nood. Grab willow!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 10:19 AM (xZxMD)

264 I've got to watch some "24" reruns to get up to speed.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 02, 2013 10:19 AM (ZshNr)

265 Not a whiner: a legitimately aggrieved party. The whiners are those who bitch about how they really liked Obamacare, but never thought THEY'D have to pay for it. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at December 02, 2013 01:57 PM (4df7R) MWR, good point. Thanks! Well, it's true I knew better than to expect that ObamaCare was going to be good for me, but I do have a sis-in-law who's so excited about how this is going to help us.

Posted by: Mindy is part of the problem at December 02, 2013 10:19 AM (lCBX+)

266

I  had  no  idea  deflationary  debt  depressions  are  caused  by  "gloom".  I  always  thought  they  were  caused  by  the  collapse  of   excessive  debt. 

 

 

 

 

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at December 02, 2013 10:20 AM (rXcBX)

267 I knew I should have done the coding myself. I'm pretty good at it.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 02, 2013 10:20 AM (WGm5T)

268 BTW, I love UGG boots. You can wear them in the winter without socks. Amazingly warm.

/so, some animals have to die, so what? If we didn't make them into warm and fluffy shoes, they'd starve in the forests. STARVE!

Posted by: shibumi at December 02, 2013 10:20 AM (25HWz)

269 200lbs falling 40ft with a sudden deceleration using piano wire, I would estimate about an 85% chance of decapitation.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 01:49 PM (B9up3)


That, and a very loud "gadoing!!!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 02, 2013 10:21 AM (8Fl6F)

270 Well, they are sheepskin. And that lining...yeah. It's real. The fact that the lambs are bred for their meat, and the skin that then makes those wonderful boots is thus an industrial by-product is lost on your average leftist, of course, who now must boycott since animals > humans > conservatives, etc...

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 02, 2013 10:21 AM (xKYlY)

271 I invented Ugg boots back at Occidental. Just ask anybody about it.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 02, 2013 10:21 AM (WGm5T)

272 211. Roberts should be one of those "holiday" ornaments hanging from the lampposts.

Posted by: gracepmc at December 02, 2013 10:23 AM (rznx3)

273 Drudge says the country's nuclear launch code was 00000000. Eight zeros.

Someone's Columbia University GPA? Posted by: USA

Its an old story,.  Basically, the politicians said - we don't trust you guys in the silo's, because of some movie ... install these security things.  Military follows orders, installs security things - then quietly says fuck you and sets the code to all zeros.

I would have loved to have been in the Kremlin when that story broke years later.  They had always assumed they could win a nuclear exchange by co-opting or scaring some politician in Washington into some sort of limited exchange and then talks where they would have the advantage.  What they didn't know was that 500 Colonels hand selected for promotion by Curtis LeMay were going to to say Fuck You and bounce the rubble across the Soviet Union before Washington could interfere.

Posted by: Jean at December 02, 2013 10:23 AM (CMlD4)

274 "when the employer mandate kicks in and companies can no longer afford to provide insurance for employees , the SHTF will start."

It will start, yes.

But the true, unfiltered, undiluted SHTF will come when public retirement managers trying to deal with the horrible reality of having ten cents in assets for every dollar of liabilities start to take the Detroit option.

Which is to dump the public sector retirees off of their cushy existing private health plans and into the Obamacare exchanges.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 02, 2013 10:31 AM (gqT4g)

275 I remember how frequently the professional cheerleaders for the Left predicted economic doom under Bush, assuring us that Ragnarok was just around the corner. They were orgasmic when it finally hit in 2007. The coin flips.

Posted by: sulla at December 02, 2013 10:38 AM (GgY4z)

276 "If they hadn't figured out he was the one who caused the HepC outbreak he'd probably STILL be doing it, and even more innocent people would be hurt.

Bastard. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at December 02, 2013 02:09 PM"

And yet our little douchecanoe of a governor wants to make it harder to do background checks on potential employees.  What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 02, 2013 10:43 AM (knoK7)

277

If you dig into the poll you find that 69% are "unaffected" by the ACA.  Why could that be?  Well if the majority of people get their insurance through their employer and the employer mandate has been put off for a year....

 

So let's just look at the people who are "helped" or "hurt" by the law.  19% have been hurt by the law, while a whopping NINE PERCENT have been helped.  So 28% of people have been affected by the ACA, and of those people 67.9% HAVE HAD A NEGATIVE OUTCOME.

 

Project that out to when the employer mandate kicks in and those "unaffected" folks end up being affected.  That's the story, but no no it's those damn people and their complaints.

Posted by: ch3cooh at December 02, 2013 10:48 AM (IG5KL)

278 I wondered when they'd get around to blaming the "animal spirits" for the economy. It's in the second half of the Keynesian playbook.

Posted by: Ken at December 02, 2013 10:50 AM (HgRIw)

279 The great prince issues commands, Founds states, vests families with fiefs. Inferior people should not be employed. The war has ended successfully, victory is won, and the king divided estates and fiefs among his faithful vassals. But it is important that inferior people should not come into power. If they have helped, let them be paid off with money, but they should not be awarded lands or the privileges of rulers, lest power be abused.

Posted by: Yojimbo at December 02, 2013 10:58 AM (OuJA1)

280 I blame myself for the country's woes.

Posted by: OxyCOn at December 02, 2013 11:11 AM (2rpss)

281 These people need to start being very afraid of the consequences for their complicity with evil.  Collaborators rarely fare well ...

Posted by: acethepug at December 02, 2013 11:20 AM (qRmVX)

282 Yeah, I hated when they blamed the Chiefs not making the playoffs the year after Refrigerator Perry wasn't on the team on the team or the coaches. We all know it's the cheerleaders who decide a win or loss; the team, coaches, performance, and skill are pointless; game scores are controlled solely by cheering on jeering, nothing real controls anything. If you believe that, you're part of the problem, and no cheering will fix what's wrong with your head. Not even if we close our eyes and believe and clap our hands will we fix the level of stupid to believe that success is predicated solely or primarily on cheering and not effort and hard work.

Posted by: gekkobear at December 02, 2013 11:35 AM (vz2pj)

283 If you like the bullshit you have, you can keep the bullshit you get.

Posted by: BuddyPC at December 02, 2013 12:21 PM (jfUIE)

284 ...clinging to their guns and religion and subpar insurance policies.




Posted by: PJ at December 02, 2013 02:04 PM (ZWaLo)

285 The utter elitist mentality of the Obama-ites to feel privileged to reign with contempt over those whom they rule over, ALREADY.  Obama already stated, When things get ugly (and how did he KNOW THEY WOULD?)  HIS LOYALTIES WILL BE WITH THE MUSLIMS.
If people don't comprehend who Obama is by now they are morons stuck on stupic and very likely can't be reached in any manner, short of near death.  A cancer of the mind and spirit by the proud elitist degenerate/depraved who rejected God and rejoice over oppressive rule by intolerant cults like Islam and socialism.

Posted by: ron n. at December 02, 2013 08:17 PM (c7HxG)

286

Stalin's five year plans for Soviet economy and industry never worked on account of "wreckers". They were usually old school Russian engineers who attempted to use logic and intelligence.

After they were all arrested and shot or sent to gulag everything ran so smoothly that Stalin claimed "dizziness with success".

Perhaps the administration needs to learn from "Uncle Joe".

Posted by: deepred at December 03, 2013 05:09 AM (RHYM4)

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