January 11, 2013
— Gabriel Malor Happy Friday.
Folks that don't like the platinum coin trick because it's silly, though not illegal or unconstitutional, have proposed a new idea that, though it is less obviously silly, is definitely illegal. An IOU is just another form of debt, something Treasury is not allowed to take on beyond the debt limit. Not to mention, IOUs are not a solution to the problem, just another way to delay it and, unlike the platinum coin trick, not even delay it that long.
Sex-selective abortions are already occurring in the UK.
Politico finally figure out something that we've been saying for three years: if you make health insurance more expensive, which is what Obamacare did, health insurance will cost more. OTOH, the writer clearly doesn't realize that placing a new tax health on insurers isn't going to mitigate their additional costs of mandatory new benefits. She seems to think a tax on a business doesn't cost the business anything.
The 8.5 billion foreclosure settlement with banks is just a way to paper over yet another Obama Administration blunder in its failed mortgage reform efforts.
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So here we go
reveille; reveille (bangs trashcan with baton)
reveille; reveille (bangs trashcan with baton some more)
Heave out and trice up... Smoking lamp is lighted in all authorized smoking areas.
Rise and shine, morning glories... Up and at' em.
Drop your cocks and grab your socks... Move it ladies. AOS is being served...
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 02:53 AM (53z96)
http://is.gd/yjTuz4
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 02:53 AM (53z96)
This was in a stupidly vane effort to defend ObamaÂ’s lack of women in his court jesters. Just think what she would have said about Bush.
I have some news for you you stupid scrunt, he doesn’t “represent” anyone, he’s a Supreme Court Judge.
http://is.gd/rYSA3Y
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 02:54 AM (53z96)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 02:54 AM (LRFds)
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Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 02:54 AM (53z96)
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Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 02:56 AM (53z96)
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Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 02:57 AM (53z96)
http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 02:57 AM (53z96)
People involved in mergers talk about how companies sometimes set up poison pills to prevent a hostile takeover. This guy from Bloomberg wants the Republicans it seems to drink the hemlock of removing the debt ceiling so Obama gives up even thinking of issuing a platinum coin. How is this a win for the Republic? Its not.
http://tinyurl.com/bkpqpqe
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 02:57 AM (KnIgz)
ObamaÂ’s nominee for Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is a revolving-door lobbyist who worked at Citigroup in 2008, and then got a $944,518 check from the failed bank on January 15, 2009, according to his financial disclosure statement. That was just weeks after Congress passed the Wall Street bailout, funneling $45 billion in taxpayer money to the bank.
Also, in the 1990s, Lew worked at K Street lobbying firm Van Ness Feldman.
This certainly undercuts ObamaÂ’s talk about closing the revolving door, keeping out lobbyists, and standing up to Wall Street.
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Posted by: Miss Marple at January 11, 2013 02:59 AM (GoIUi)
As I have said all along, the Platinum Coin dodge is illegal too. Court have taken a dim view in the past to using a loophole in one law to completely subvert another law.
Just because you have deposits in a bank doesn't mean you can go in with a gun and make withdrawals.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 02:59 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 03:00 AM (KnIgz)
Anytime a CO runs his vessel into another vessel or aground it is almost an automatic relief. Even if he doesn't have the conn at the time.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:04 AM (53z96)
The magic word there is "Bloomberg".
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:05 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 03:05 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: NCKate at January 11, 2013 03:07 AM (IYde+)
http://tinyurl.com/agj5lqz
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 03:08 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 03:09 AM (KnIgz)
He managed to blame it on the engineering watch who did not have the proper "mud watch" set. Said all the condensers silted up and cause a loss of all propulsion and the ship "drifted" on the sand bar.
Amazing that the "drifting" caused there to be scooped in mud and sand by the ton in the condensers and it took half a dozen harbor tugs to get it off.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:09 AM (53z96)
b/c the CO is responsible for EVERYTHING that happens on the boat....
but the PotUS is not responsible for shit evidently and not responsible for anything.
Fuck the American voter. and journalist.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 03:09 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 03:11 AM (9Bj8R)
It was for THE Children...the CHILDREN!
You know the 26 year old ones that are allowed to be on EVERY insurance but ours in the military community.
Liberal assholes.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 03:12 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 03:13 AM (9Bj8R)
http://tinyurl.com/aw3bqej
Meanwhile Joe Biden is still Vice President
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 03:13 AM (KnIgz)
And, as I wrote yesterday, it's not illegal. It's not even a "loophole." It's straight-up, unambiguously the law.
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at January 11, 2013 03:14 AM (jZUEZ)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 03:14 AM (9Bj8R)
I'm pretty sure I just heard the next Andrew Breitbart. Beck had him on in the morning, and Levin had him on last night for nearly the last half hour. Jason Shapiro, author of "Bullies," and staffer at Breitbart, is phenomenal.
He's a fighter and is urging the GOP/conservatives/TEA Party to take the gloves off and fight like the left does. Ex.: When George Snuffaluffagus is the moderator of a Sunday show or moderator of a debate, flat out ask, "What kind of journalism credentials do you have? You're a former member of the Clinton admin turned TV personality. How could you have any objectivitiy where the Republican party is concerned?"
He entered college at age 16. Breitbart emailed him out of the blue when Shapiro was 17. He's now 27.
You can hear the interview at www.MarkLevinShow.com and click on the archives from yesterday. He came on at 8:35, so head for the end of the broadcast.
Posted by: RushBabe at January 11, 2013 03:15 AM (tQHzJ)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 11, 2013 03:16 AM (d0Dmj)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2013 03:17 AM (XkWWK)
the law is rather clear that they can't even charge the 250 in civillian plans guy.
That somehow works on "zero point energy" but we pay 250....
because somehow when they cut the check it costs money.
Obamacare has me ready to spit teeth again a friend of mine got laid off and is truly mystified that the employer cosiders Ocare onerous....
I am so lost.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 03:17 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at January 11, 2013 07:14 AM (jZUEZ)
Once again we disagree.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:18 AM (53z96)
Good morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes. And thanks for the morning briefing, Gabe and Vic. Have we got a trillion-dollar wonder coin yet? Has Preezy Barky O’Genius told math, “Don’t call my bluff” yet?
What an age we live in. Anyway, here are two quick apocryphal stories. The first concerns two bitchy actresses; for our purposes, we’ll say its Crawford and Davis. The two found themselves together one night at another actress’ 50th birthday party. Crawford, knowing Davis’ 60th birthday was coming up, sighed, “Oh, I dread to think about turning 50.”
“Why?” Davis snapped. “What happened then?”
Another story is about the great theatrical impresario David Belasco. It seems that for several months, a young writer had been pestering Belasco with the script of his sure-fire hit play. Each time Belasco turned it down, the author would come back, saying heÂ’d rewritten it, making it even better than before. Finally, Belasco had enough, and when the writer cornered him at the premiere of a new show, he told the writer that he was sick of seeing the script and wanted nothing to do with it.
“But Mr. Belasco,” the writer wheedled, “isn’t there any way you could put this on the stage?”
Belasco thought for a moment. “All right,” he said, taking the script and handing it to an assistant. “Cut this up and use it for the snowfall scene tonight.”
And thatÂ’s it for me. If I can pull my notes (and thoughts together), Monday IÂ’ll tell you the story of an unlucky actress named Peg Entwistle, whose ghost is said to haunt a certain Hollywood landmark.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
And by the way, if you like my stories, why not buy my book, The DirectorÂ’s Cut: A Theda Bara Mystery, available on Kindle and from Amazon and Barnes and Noble? Help a fellow Moron out, wonÂ’t you?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 11, 2013 03:18 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2013 03:19 AM (XkWWK)
http://tinyurl.com/aw3bqej
Meanwhile Joe Biden is still Vice President
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I'm not sure if Anna really wrote this....
Posted by: American Dawg at January 11, 2013 03:20 AM (trA4n)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2013 07:19 AM (XkWWK)
Ah JJ, I used that one yesterday on Ace's thread about the words we didn't have in English.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:20 AM (53z96)
So with me so far? Well they are suing to get their pitiful winnings because they are in the addiction program the casinos have refused to give them their winnings. My head hurts, one guy has lost since entering the program $399k and is suing to win $35,000.
http://tinyurl.com/b9x7ky3
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 03:23 AM (KnIgz)
well the law has been reduced in many ways to a lottery ticket....why not turn it into a game of Keno....?
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 03:25 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 03:25 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny 2013 return tour?) at January 11, 2013 03:26 AM (7wVg1)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 03:26 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 03:28 AM (l86i3)
J.J. -- Wouldn't it be just like God to have such an ironic sense of humor that He had Moses lead the oppressed out of Egype and he could have another member of the tribe lead the oppressed out of the evil Barky regime!
Out for a while. BBL.
Posted by: RushBabe at January 11, 2013 03:29 AM (tQHzJ)
Vegas and Reno manage to do OK. I used to hit Reno quite often. I would take $20 for gambling and play blackjack all weekend off of that $20. More times than not I came back ahead.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:29 AM (53z96)
Vic, at some point you're going to have to admit that simply disliking an idea does not make it illegal.
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at January 11, 2013 03:29 AM (jZUEZ)
hey look it's Shreveport and Columbus Ohio....
cocksuckers.
http://youtu.be/Jvb-VSP0jNM
Al and Wu work out a language
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 03:29 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:29 AM (53z96)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2013 03:30 AM (XkWWK)
The ones around here are just holes for throwing away your Social Security check.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at January 11, 2013 03:30 AM (hO8IJ)
Congress, in its infinite wisdom, thought that giving Treasury a broad grant of authority to mint and issue platinum coins was a good idea. That was stupid of Congress, but just because it's a stupid law does not mean it's illegal when Treasury exercises that authority.
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at January 11, 2013 03:32 AM (jZUEZ)
I recommend you go make a withdrawal from a bank with a pistol and claim that law allows you to withdraw money because you have an account there.
You can not use one law of obvious intent to thwart another law.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:32 AM (53z96)
I've not been to the casino, but there's all kinds of industry in the valley these days. And the Harley-Davidson museum is a few blocks away.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at January 11, 2013 03:33 AM (hO8IJ)
http://tinyurl.com/aejzajp
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 03:33 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Captain Hate
A few years ago, I went to a casino in Indiana. First time I ever went to a casino, but it was mainly to see a friends son perform. I tried gambling at a slot machine. Boring as hell, and I lost about 10 bucks in 2 minutes. Wheeee! I don't understand the rest of the games, so I went to the bar. After the show, we were walking out, and I noticed...Most of the people here that are gambling, look like they don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. They were standing in line to play the machines.
I do not have any desire to go back.
Posted by: Bruce at January 11, 2013 03:35 AM (v4HdX)
Posted by: small town girl at January 11, 2013 03:35 AM (1zmtP)
Well, isn't buying our own bonds actually the same thing as an IOU? I know the bank certainly won't let me write checks to me and then give me credit for the deposit without also making the withdrawal.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. We're not worthy. at January 11, 2013 03:35 AM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Captain Hate
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I would have to disagree ! In one case I'm intimately familiar with is Council Bluffs , Iowa which is across the river from Omaha, Ne....We installed Casinos in this town in the mid 90's and it's been very beneficial for this town...Dramatic Improvements for an old worn out Rail Road town and the Nebraskans cross the river to drop their money at the casinos ...
Posted by: American Dawg at January 11, 2013 03:36 AM (trA4n)
Posted by: JDTAY at January 11, 2013 03:37 AM (a0nis)
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:39 AM (53z96)
Posted by: small town girl at January 11, 2013 07:35 AM (1zmtP)
If you are talking about the gun control story I put that up days ago.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:41 AM (53z96)
Regarding the Platinum Coin kerfuffle.
At this time, in this country, do the words legal/illegal, constitutional/unconstitutional, even mean anything anymore?
Those words have become a joke, with no meaning. We are a nation ruled by men, not by laws.
Posted by: jj at January 11, 2013 03:41 AM (gWO5X)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 03:41 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 06:56 AM (53z96)
Face it Vic, all politicians (even though with degrees from Harvard and Yale, and especially those with law degrees) are essentially stupid, and it's not like they spent their money on pursuing a toothless law.
Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at January 11, 2013 03:43 AM (Cnqmv)
I'm pretty skeptical that there wasn't an ultimately more productive way for the economy to grow.
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny 2013 return tour?) at January 11, 2013 03:45 AM (7wVg1)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 11, 2013 03:46 AM (JDIKC)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 03:46 AM (l86i3)
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:47 AM (53z96)
Posted by: CT Moron 2.1 at January 11, 2013 03:48 AM (Xf6HL)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 03:49 AM (l86i3)
Posted by: Disco Stu at January 11, 2013 03:49 AM (9ScGj)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon.
http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 07:49 AM (l86i3)
I don't have a DVR, it cost $10 extra month.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:50 AM (53z96)
Surprisingly, that often doesn't turn out well.
Posted by: Gollum at January 11, 2013 03:50 AM (YXmuI)
Posted by: Disco Stu at January 11, 2013 07:49 AM (9ScGj)
Yes he did, and despite all the derision he was right. I is likely that rabbit was rabid.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 03:51 AM (53z96)
Congress has the power of the purse and can raise or lower the debt ceiling and fund things generally or explicitly.
The President does not have the authority to circumvent this ability.
The US mint cannot conjure into existence a 1 Trillion dollar coin and put it into the pocket of the President to spend on whatever he pleases.
It is simply illegal!
Period!
No matter what "clever" lawyers think!
Posted by: General Woundwort at January 11, 2013 03:52 AM (RrD4h)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 03:53 AM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: zsasz at January 11, 2013 03:54 AM (erdCz)
I'm pretty skeptical that there wasn't an ultimately more productive way for the economy to grow.
Posted by: Captain Hate
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When Business wanted to locate in the area they always picked Omaha , they had the funds to offer lucrative tax deals to lure business...NOW we are able to compete with Omaha ...
We have managed to win several large businesses to this town...To name a Few are Tyson Foods, Google (server farm) Bass Pro Shops, Hobby Lobby , Walmart , Sams club....Retail and Food outlets are exploding in this town...
We are also located at the crossroads of two major interstates, I- 80 (east-west ) I-29 ( north - south )...
Posted by: American Dawg at January 11, 2013 03:55 AM (trA4n)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 11, 2013 03:56 AM (30cSW)
Congrefs may have the "power of the purse", but right and proper power unexercised is not power at all, rather it is submission!
Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at January 11, 2013 03:56 AM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: zsasz
Maybe they'll figure out a way to do a sex change in the womb.
Then abort them.
Posted by: Bruce at January 11, 2013 03:56 AM (v4HdX)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 11, 2013 03:56 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 03:56 AM (l86i3)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 03:57 AM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: Guy who tells people random shit at January 11, 2013 03:57 AM (9ScGj)
Moving closer to Vic doesn't worry you?
Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at January 11, 2013 03:58 AM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 03:58 AM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 03:59 AM (l86i3)
@8 Vic-
http://is.gd/7dLKJl
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 06:55 AM (53z96)
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Hickenlooper evoked the 1999 Columbine High School shooting as evidence that lawmakers can act when a tragedy requires them to do so. After that shooting, Colorado closed the so-called “gun show loophole” which allowed purchases at gun shows without background checks.
Question for the governor. If more restrictive gun laws are so effective, why did the Aurora shooting happen after the post-Columbine legislation? So lawmakers can act, but can they accomplish anything?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 11, 2013 03:59 AM (1OZSU)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 03:59 AM (l86i3)
Maybe Hagel supports that 2A militia thing where all the citizens are armed to the teeth and can repel invaders?
Nah--he is just another hack prog politician that supports anything that diminishes the US of A.
Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at January 11, 2013 04:00 AM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 04:00 AM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at January 11, 2013 07:58 AM (Cnqmv)
Actually he is closer to me where he is at now than Greenville.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 04:01 AM (53z96)
I hope.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 11, 2013 04:01 AM (aH+zP)
Posted by: Guy who tells people random shit at January 11, 2013 04:02 AM (9ScGj)
Lawmakers and politicians are almost always acting, but very rarely accomplish anything productive.
The most productive and substantive thing ever done by American lawmakers was writing the Constitution, and almost all subsequent politicians/lawmakers have been acting so as to diminish that document and its principles ever since.
Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at January 11, 2013 04:03 AM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 04:04 AM (9Bj8R)
Abortion kills 750,000 women in America every year.
Sex selective abortions almost universally mean that a female will get the scissors or the vaccumm.
Progressives are monsters, finding out they are full of shit is not surprising at all.
Posted by: General Woundwort at January 11, 2013 04:05 AM (RrD4h)
One wonders if he would agree to a law that outlaws Democrats? After all, voters can act when politicians outlaw the Constitution.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 04:05 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Guy who tells people random shit at January 11, 2013 04:05 AM (9ScGj)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2013 04:06 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 04:06 AM (9Bj8R)
I think a pair of Browning Hi-Powers would rock....
Old School
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 04:07 AM (LRFds)
If it's a mis-hit, or has the wrong mint mark or something, it would suddenly become a collectable coin, and maybe worth something.
Posted by: K-Bob at January 11, 2013 04:07 AM (crzhE)
Posted by: Nash Rambler at January 11, 2013 04:07 AM (yW4lI)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 11, 2013 04:07 AM (piMMO)
The law NEVER intended for private party transactions to be required to to do back ground checks because they have no way of doing so.
A loophole is an unintended consequence, this is an intended function.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 04:07 AM (53z96)
The progressives wet dream is the Matrix, where everybody is reduced to a battery that energizes the superstate controlled by masterminds.
Posted by: General Woundwort at January 11, 2013 04:08 AM (RrD4h)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 11, 2013 04:11 AM (30cSW)
I have been screaming about that for months. And this is not a recent phenomena either. Reported inflation has been much lower than actual for decades.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 04:11 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Case at January 11, 2013 04:12 AM (gyQY/)
*opens envelope* A realistic Godzilla movie.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=95619
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:13 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Not Bill Clinton at January 11, 2013 04:13 AM (9ScGj)
I went with .40 S&W. Sort of splits the diff. Availability has been good, so far.
Posted by: K-Bob at January 11, 2013 04:14 AM (crzhE)
The progressives wet dream is the Matrix, where everybody is reduced to a battery that energizes the superstate controlled by masterminds.
..................................
On that note my daughter's boss gave her the book Agenda 21 to read. Of course she hasn't so I picked it up last night and read it in one sitting. A bit far fetched and disturbing UNTIL you read the last few pages and find out Agenda 21 is actually a real thing. Not a huge Beck fan but he does uncover some interesting stuff.
Posted by: Molly k. at January 11, 2013 04:14 AM (n/mm9)
Posted by: JDTAY at January 11, 2013 04:15 AM (a0nis)
@131 I have been screaming about that for months.
I know. I thought you might appreciate the corroboration.
Posted by: Nash Rambler at January 11, 2013 04:15 AM (yW4lI)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 11, 2013 04:17 AM (1OZSU)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 11, 2013 04:17 AM (da5Wo)
So I look up the domain name. It was registered last October for just one year. Registrant is an Inc in Norwalk, CT.
I think I will pass.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:18 AM (KnIgz)
Well congratulations; it's obviously worked out well for Council Bluffs. Here in northeast Ohio I don't think it's done a damn thing for the local economy except stopping the outflow of people going elsewhere to gamble. So in essence it's slicing a stagnant pie thinner. Making Ohio a right to work state would go a lot further toward growing the state economy.
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny 2013 return tour?) at January 11, 2013 04:18 AM (7wVg1)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 11, 2013 04:18 AM (5DR1j)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 04:18 AM (l86i3)
How can they enforce this. They would half to know who owns what. Ain't no way.
Posted by: Farmer at January 11, 2013 04:19 AM (Pngxg)
"To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof,"
vs.
"A well regulated Militia, "
Clearly the Founders didn't explicitly state the Money needed "well" regulation.
Posted by: DaveA at January 11, 2013 04:19 AM (I3vTd)
Posted by: votermom at January 11, 2013 04:19 AM (S8IQW)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:19 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Dick Nixon at January 11, 2013 04:20 AM (VrVBw)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 11, 2013 04:20 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 11, 2013 04:20 AM (GVxQo)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:21 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 04:21 AM (VtjlW)
Sven,
If you go with some form of .45acp like an XD or a 1911, you can get a M1917 S&W and share ammo with your wheel gun.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 11, 2013 04:21 AM (KAWvv)
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 11, 2013 04:22 AM (KAWvv)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:22 AM (KnIgz)
Right. Germany annexes Poland. Oh, so silly! Silly, silly Germans.
Posted by: I Thimk, therefore I om at January 11, 2013 04:23 AM (vzUSW)
Oh and I think you got down to three! *confettis*
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 08:21 AM (VtjlW)
"And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 11, 2013 04:23 AM (da5Wo)
yeah and it is a logical round to have given what a potential opfor ould be using....
I dunno maybe a beretta 96 pair in .40 smith....
decisions decisions...
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 04:23 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Icedog at January 11, 2013 04:24 AM (9ScGj)
From recent experience, in NC, to privately sell a handgun the seller needs to make sure the buyer has either a concealed carry permit, and keep a copy of it FOREVER, or the buyer must give the seller a valid pistol permit from the sheriff's department and the seller must keep that FOREVER. Failure to do so is a Class 1 misdemeanor - $2,500 fine and/or 6 months guest of state.
Posted by: jj at January 11, 2013 04:25 AM (gWO5X)
Posted by: Helen Thomas on a hot and humid day at January 11, 2013 04:26 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Guy who tells people random shit at January 11, 2013 08:02 AM (9ScGj)
A Calvin Coolidge story:
Cal and Mrs. Cal are visiting a chicken farm. While the Prez is wandering off somewhere else, the farmer points out a rooster to Mrs. Cal and notes that he's enthusiastic enough to mate all day long. "Tell that to Mr. Coolidge," she chuckles.
Silent Cal walks by, and the farmer repeats his story and Mrs. Cal's comment. "Does he mate with the same hen each time?" Cal asks.
"No, sir."
"Tell that to Mrs. Cooldige."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 11, 2013 04:26 AM (zF6Iw)
Maybe I need the Rhino inasmuch as one "needs" any pistol.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 04:27 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 11, 2013 04:29 AM (GFM2b)
he's been well behaved of late and asked.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 04:29 AM (LRFds)
Good morning, morons:
Updated: Jan 08, 2012 5:21 PM EST
In Henderson, North Carolina, a 14-year-old boy defended his home with a shotgun.
The boy's sister, who was hiding in a closet, called 911 first. Then, the boy also called 911, after he fired two shots.
Deputies found 19-year old Michael Henderson dead on the front lawn.
The 14-year-old isn't expected to be charged, due to North Carolina law regarding intruders.
Another man is facing multiple charges in the case, including breaking and entering.
Posted by: Jay at January 11, 2013 04:29 AM (3LaGb)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 11, 2013 04:30 AM (zF6Iw)
Congress has the power of the purse and can raise or lower the debt ceiling and fund things generally or explicitly.
The President does not have the authority to circumvent this ability.
The US mint cannot conjure into existence a 1 Trillion dollar coin and put it into the pocket of the President to spend on whatever he pleases.
THE EXECUTIVE SIMPLY DOES NOT HAVE THAT POWER IN THE CONSTITUTION! OR IN LAW! OR STATUTE!
It is simply illegal!
Period!
No matter what "clever" lawyers think!
Now whether congress asserts it's authority is another matter.
Posted by: General Woundwort at January 11, 2013 04:32 AM (RrD4h)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 04:32 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 11, 2013 04:33 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Jay at January 11, 2013 04:34 AM (3LaGb)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 04:34 AM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 04:34 AM (l86i3)
Silly BCochran.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:35 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Case at January 11, 2013 04:35 AM (gyQY/)
...
Actually probably a very good idea.
Because people in actual extreme pain should suffer to drive junkies back to the heroin market where they'll die?
Oh, wait it's NY suffering, never mind.
Posted by: DaveA at January 11, 2013 04:35 AM (I3vTd)
Posted by: MrsMittens at January 11, 2013 04:36 AM (a8VoG)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at January 11, 2013 04:36 AM (FsUAO)
All shall love me and despair!"
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 11, 2013 08:23 AM (da5Wo)
Exactly! Have a cookie.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 08:32 AM (VtjlW)
As I always say - AtC: demurely coy, divinely cold.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 11, 2013 04:36 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: USA at January 11, 2013 04:37 AM (RIg+t)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:37 AM (KnIgz)
More:
After a mom shoots an intruder in Georgia, police have found that the man likely had more crimes in mind.
Paul Ali Slater tried to break into a home on Friday afternoon but ran into an angry mom, who shot him five times, police in Walton County say. But now police have found that before the mom shoots the intruder, he was looking into other homes in the neighborhood to break into.
....
But instead of hiding, the mom pulls out a .38 and shoots the intruder.
“The guy’s face down, crying,” the sheriff said. The woman told him to stay down or she’d shoot again.
Posted by: Jay at January 11, 2013 04:38 AM (3LaGb)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 11, 2013 04:38 AM (piMMO)
Thanks, Mrs. Mittens! A nice review at Amazon or BandN won't hurt, either.
Seriously, to all you 'rons and 'ronettes: I'm glad you enjoy my stories. If you do buy the book, I hope you like it as well. If you don't like it, be honest and let me know, too. It all helps with the next one.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 11, 2013 04:38 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 04:38 AM (9Bj8R)
182 BCochran's fit of romantic lyricism has prompted me to once again read Spenser and his homage to Gloriana whilst telling of the adventure of Redcrosse.
Silly BCochran.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 08:35 AM (KnIgz)
Oh, I don't have that kinda skill. That was a word for word ripoff of Galadriel.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 11, 2013 04:39 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2013 04:39 AM (pmDdf)
So if I get that, I can practice with cheaper stuff, and of course have an alternative if the 40 becomes scarce.
Posted by: K-Bob at January 11, 2013 04:39 AM (crzhE)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 04:39 AM (l86i3)
A coin is also simply a debt instrument. At least that's what they've been since copper pennies stopped being copper; silver dollars stopped being silver, etc., etc.
Posted by: Shakin' Like a Man on a Fuzzy Tree at January 11, 2013 04:39 AM (eMtQ2)
Meanwhile new FDA regulations give them far more sweeping power over the tobacco industry.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:40 AM (KnIgz)
Another:
The teenage son of a Harris County Precinct 1 deputy shot a home intruder Tuesday afternoon in the 2600 block of Royal Place in northwest Harris County, deputies said.
The 15-year-old boy and his 12-year-old sister had been home alone in the Mount Royal Village subdivision when around 2:30 p.m. a pair of burglars tried the front and back doors, then broke a back window.
The teenager grabbed his fatherÂ’s assault rifle and knew what to do with it.
“We don’t try to hide things from our children in law enforcement,” Lt. Jeffrey Stauber said. “That young boy was protecting his sister. He was in fear for his life and her life.”
The home invaders fled, leaving a trail of blood.
Posted by: Jay at January 11, 2013 04:40 AM (3LaGb)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 04:40 AM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: MrsMittens at January 11, 2013 04:40 AM (a8VoG)
No, you are wrong. A trillion-dollar coin is simply a silly sitcom plot device. Silly, silly comedy writers. Silly, silly coins.
Americans only need to scrunch their cute widdle faces up and utter "Whachoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?!" Then the audience will laugh, and it will all turn out o.k.
It's not like Obama is also planning to subvert the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution or anything, or sold weapons to hostile foreign mercenaries.
Posted by: I Thimk, therefore I om at January 11, 2013 04:41 AM (vzUSW)
Posted by: Justamom at January 11, 2013 04:41 AM (Sptt8)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 04:41 AM (VtjlW)
yeah but that skipper needs nailed he ran into something on a ship.
SMOD come cleanse us
Posted by: sven10077 at January 11, 2013 04:42 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 04:43 AM (l86i3)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 11, 2013 04:43 AM (JDIKC)
The lot of them, 230 or so, were sold to Cabela's recently for near a quarter million.
Posted by: RoyalOil at January 11, 2013 04:44 AM (imtbm)
Posted by: RWC at January 11, 2013 04:44 AM (fWAjv)
TO
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EMPERESSE
RENOWNED FOR PIETIE, VERTVE, AND ALL GRATIOVS GOVERNMENT
ELIZABETH
BY THE GRACE OF GOD
Queen of England, Fraunce and Ireland, and of Virginia,
Defender of the Faith etc.
HER MOST HUMBLE SERVAUNT
EDMVND SPENSER
DOTH IN ALL HUMILITIE
DEDICATE, PRESENT, AND CONSECRATE THESE HIS LABOVRS
TO LIVE WITH THE ETERNITIE OF HER FAME.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:45 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. We're not worthy. at January 11, 2013 07:35 AM (Gk3SS)
That's the old game of check kiting in a nutshell. For you young whippersnappers, back in the olden days, it took a week or so for a check to clear the bank. A quick way to prevent a check from bouncing was to have a second account which also had little money in it. Kiters would write a check against the second account and deposit is in the first account. When the check to the first account reached the bank, the deposited funds from the second account would be there to cover it. The race was then on to get funds into the second account to cover the bogus check making it's way back through the system to that account. The game amounted to shuffling funds between the two accounts to cover whatever paper was moving between the two. The hope was that there would eventually be enough real money in the accounts to cover all outstanding checks and stop the cycle. It rarely worked out that way.
The platinum coin trick is just that. At some point, there has to be enough money available to return the coin to the mint without taking that much money out of circulation.
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at January 11, 2013 04:46 AM (Gkhxf)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 11, 2013 04:46 AM (GVxQo)
Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2013 04:46 AM (ytax8)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 11, 2013 04:46 AM (5DR1j)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at January 11, 2013 04:46 AM (Jcd0S)
Yes that's my point. Most of the people there were not real emergencies. They use the ER as of it were a General Practice Dr's Office and they are there for free stuff. And real emergencies like you had get shunted aside or have to wait. The system is broken and obamacare does NOTHING to address that. Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 04:48 AM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:49 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:50 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Shakin' Like a Man on a Fuzzy Tree at January 11, 2013 08:39 AM (eMtQ2)
No I don't think this is correct. Money is a medium of exchange. When you get paid for doing work, you aren't accumulating more debt; you're accumulating value in the form of what money represents, not its intrinsic value.
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny 2013 return tour?) at January 11, 2013 04:51 AM (7wVg1)
SIL works at the local hospital. When the weather gets cold, the drunks and the druggies first OD and then show up to "detox" thanks to the good people at EMTALA. Beds are hard to get and the hospital can be overcrowded for days, or until it warms up again.
Posted by: Bruce at January 11, 2013 04:51 AM (v4HdX)
And I can almost guarantee, from knowing the guy, that the federal government had no idea he had so many guns.
That's one guy in a very small town in West Texas.
There are thousands more like him . . . .
Posted by: RoyalOil at January 11, 2013 04:52 AM (imtbm)
Posted by: Bigby's Racking Hand at January 11, 2013 04:52 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 04:52 AM (l86i3)
Posted by: Al at January 11, 2013 04:52 AM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2013 04:53 AM (ytax8)
Vicodin ain't strong enough for severe pain.
3 days is too short of a supply and will increase the severe pain - relief cycling that leads to addiction and requires more medication.
Junkies will just go back to the street and spread disease.
Won't work, hurts people, arbitrary application of Govt. power - sounds like a Democrat plan to me. Oh wait, Bloomberg.
Posted by: DaveA at January 11, 2013 04:54 AM (I3vTd)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:54 AM (KnIgz)
Biden seeks video game industry input on guns
Now were getting down to the REAL cause of the problem.
Posted by: Bruce at January 11, 2013 04:55 AM (v4HdX)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 04:55 AM (KnIgz)
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/214784.php
Posted by: K-Bob at January 11, 2013 04:55 AM (crzhE)
Posted by: Vizzini [/i] at January 11, 2013 04:55 AM (O7Q1u)
Thank you Congress.
See, once upon a time, ERs were free to triage you, say, "This isn't an emergency. Go to your doctor or come back during clinic hours." But then congress got involved. You see, it wasn't "fair" that people were being "turned away" from receiving "emergency care" for their bunions. So a law was passed that said, in essence, "If the patient thinks its an emergency, then it is."
Now, obviously none of them have ever worked help-desk support with a ticketing system, or they would know this obvious truth- when everything is rated as an "emergency," nothing is treated that way.
Money is a medium of exchange.
Sorry, pedantic and all that- Money is no such thing. Money is an abstract concept meant to convey the combination of work and time. Currency is a medium of exchange.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 11, 2013 04:57 AM (5DR1j)
Posted by: Vizzini
Quite a bit, but not enough.
According the JEF
Posted by: Bruce at January 11, 2013 04:57 AM (v4HdX)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 04:57 AM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny 2013 return tour?) at January 11, 2013 04:57 AM (7wVg1)
Posted by: votermom at January 11, 2013 04:57 AM (S8IQW)
I see this every day. People can't seem to understand that getting a server back up is a little more important than fixing their e-mail.
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at January 11, 2013 04:59 AM (Gkhxf)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 04:59 AM (l86i3)
That man has such a way with words.
228 I think BCochran lifted that from "The Fellowship of the Ring" . Kate Blanchette' lines.
Posted by: Al at January 11, 2013 08:52 AM (V70Uh)
I don't know who this Kate Blanchette person is, but those were the words of Galadriel, the Lady of Lórien.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 11, 2013 04:59 AM (da5Wo)
>>Miss anything interesting?
BC, the comments on the words not in English thread were even funnier than average.
>>>No ron on ron violence or anything.
>>>>>We're slipping.
Only you RINOs are slipping!!!1!
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 11, 2013 04:59 AM (SUKHu)
The unemployment rate in Lubbock is 4.9.
Texas is 6.8.
You know, Insty keeps talking about some "higher education bubble?"
Hmm.
Might be the heads full of mush are realizing that a job--any job--in the Obama Economy is better than another piece of paper?
Posted by: RoyalOil at January 11, 2013 05:00 AM (imtbm)
Yeah. As long as you're not a specialty case (they wouldn't see my wife at all when she was pregnant, because she was a high-risk pregnancy), or have trauma (open wounds or whatever), those urgent care clinics are awesome.
It would be nice if more people would use them, instead of the ER, so that when someone has a real emergency, they could go to the hospital and get timely care.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 11, 2013 05:00 AM (5DR1j)
After that happens, you can bet the Leftie obsession with abortion will start to die down.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at January 11, 2013 06:53 AM (U+vgB)
Lefties are already Darwin selecting themselves for extinction. Women with a normal maternal instinct won't get an abortion.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 11, 2013 05:01 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 11, 2013 05:01 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 05:02 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 05:02 AM (l86i3)
They do as ALL COMPANIES DO they account for it as a cost of doing business or debit on their books and raise their prices for whatever they sell to the CUSTOMER. Which is the consumer otherwise known as US.
That liberals/progressives (and many Unionists) never seem to get this fact of basic economics never ceases to amaze me.
It's like companies are magic boxes where greedy owners rape the earth and exploit their workers and skim the wealth off the top.
It's because the majority of those who preach socialism, have never had to produce or been an employer they've either been subsidized by someone all their life or been a government worker.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger (aka 3 tooth) at January 11, 2013 05:02 AM (3E2th)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 05:03 AM (l86i3)
The secretary mints this coin emblazoned with 1 trillion on it and does what with it?
Hands it to the President and says spend it well my friend?
There is absolutely no authority for this anywhere dick face!
Posted by: General Woundwort at January 11, 2013 05:03 AM (RrD4h)
- Crown of Empire by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Baen Books.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 05:03 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: RWC at January 11, 2013 05:04 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 11, 2013 05:05 AM (piMMO)
I worked at a Health Care claims clearinghouse as a customer support type. They way our support worked, though, was that clients would log tickets online, and rate their urgency from 1 ("Wishlist") to 5 ("Emergency").
Every day, it seemed, I had to explain to the same clients that if they listed every problem as an emergency, then the only way I could work them was chronologically. If they wanted their support triaged, they'd have to rank them more reasonably, so I could really get to the most important things first.
That claim that didn't go through today, unless it was some 5 figure claim amount, is probably less important than that whole set of claims that didn't go to a payer yesterday, for instance.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 11, 2013 05:05 AM (5DR1j)
Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2013 05:05 AM (u5ozF)
I don't think you'll hear much outrage from feminists over sex selective abortions, because I think that unlike the rest of the world, you'll see them used in the US mostly against male children.
As for homosexuality, I don't think there will/or can be a definitive genetic marker, since many homosexuals are such by environment. Not all, mind you, but at least a quarter to a third if not more are not born that way but instead are the product of various factors after birth.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 11, 2013 05:05 AM (o1kXv)
http://tinyurl.com/aejzajp
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 07:33 AM (KnIgz)
It's like I always say, women kill as much as men. They just use poison and tend to get away with it. The first ME report was he died of natural causes. It was the lottery thing that made them look closer and discover the cyanide.
Posted by: Invictus at January 11, 2013 05:05 AM (OQpzc)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 11, 2013 05:06 AM (GVxQo)
Dear Leader, it's been a long time. Here, you deserve it....
*hands over bottle of tequila*
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 11, 2013 05:06 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: cardinal fang at January 11, 2013 05:06 AM (Jsiw/)
Yes that's my point. Most of the people there were not real emergencies. They use the ER as of it were a General Practice Dr's Office and they are there for free stuff. And real emergencies like you had get shunted aside or have to wait. The system is broken and obamacare does NOTHING to address that.
The two biggest reforms that would fix the medical system are to reform the emergency room debacle and to end the deliberate shortage of medical schools imposed by the state.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 11, 2013 05:07 AM (o1kXv)
Posted by: RushBabe at January 11, 2013 07:15 AM (tQHzJ)
And THAT is how it's done people. We should have been attacking these so-called "journalists" for decades. We should always point out their very personal connections to the Democrat Party and Democrat Office Holders. (Cokie Roberts Father was a Democrat Senator.)
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 11, 2013 05:08 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: votermom at January 11, 2013 05:09 AM (S8IQW)
Actually, the problems with HIPAA are much more around enforcement (some of the law is intentionally very vague, but that makes it hard to enforce) and the fact that few medical office personnel have the reading comprehension skills of your average 6 year old.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 11, 2013 05:09 AM (5DR1j)
Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2013 05:09 AM (u5ozF)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 05:09 AM (VtjlW)
He should have vetoed the law but did not.
However, an ER does not have to accept patients who come in for routine non-emergency conditions. This is where it gets complicated. Determining "non-emergency" is a judgement call by the doctors. It is subject to second guessing by ambulance chasing lawyers.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 05:10 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 07:39 AM (53z96)
Ah, Vic, once again using the clear meaning of a word, in this case "bullion", to attempt to subvert the sophisticated arguments of legality by his superiors, the lawyers. But that won't work, because the lawyers can argue what the definition of "is" is.
Posted by: Minuteman at January 11, 2013 05:10 AM (YOWAW)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 05:11 AM (l86i3)
As a practical matter (see also "ambulance chasers"), it is not. As a practical matter (and actually encoded into law in most States, I think), if someone thinks they're having an emergency, the ER has to see and treat them.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 11, 2013 05:12 AM (5DR1j)
Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2013 05:12 AM (u5ozF)
"Luftmentsh" - an airhead, someone with is head in the clouds, a dreamer. Person who has no business, trade, calling, nor income.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2013 07:19 AM (XkWWK)
Had a Jewish friend tell me that Yiddish is mostly German. Seems about right as far as I can tell.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 11, 2013 05:12 AM (bb5+k)
Concerning the legality of the trillion dollar coin, if the administration wants it to be legal, for all intents and purposes it is legal.
The law is basically whatever the people charged with enforcing the law deem it to be.
Posted by: jwest at January 11, 2013 05:14 AM (ZDsRL)
Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2013 05:14 AM (u5ozF)
make health insurance a personal deductible and you have a trifecta
I'm actually a supporter of states imposing mandatory insurance requirements for emergency care. Require everyone to have insurance covering emergency room care up to ,say, $10,000 and say that while ERs must treat you even if you aren't insured, if they do you can be charged by the state. Most policies would come out to a few bucks a month at most, which is within reach even for poor families. Those that can't afford it could apply for coverage through a state program but it would come with restrictions.
Add to that a removal of the state restriction on medical schools and you'd eliminate much of the problem with health care in one swoop.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 11, 2013 05:15 AM (o1kXv)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 05:16 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 11, 2013 05:16 AM (JPrdt)
I am going to make an Amazon order soon, which would include OP's book, MP's book, and yours, if that is the title.
Posted by: Miss Marple at January 11, 2013 05:16 AM (GoIUi)
Congress, in its infinite wisdom, thought that giving Treasury a broad grant of authority to mint and issue platinum coins was a good idea. That was stupid of Congress, but just because it's a stupid law does not mean it's illegal when Treasury exercises that authority.
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at January 11, 2013 07:32 AM (jZUEZ)j
I would argue that it is not a real coin, and is never intended to be used in the manner of a coin, and therefore does not fall under the purvue of this section of the US Constitution. It is a gimmick designed to legally resemble a coin.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 11, 2013 05:17 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Caustic at January 11, 2013 05:18 AM (/b8+5)
Silly. You're trying to actually solve a real problem. That wasn't/isn't the point of Obamacare.
Posted by: Vizzini [/i] at January 11, 2013 05:18 AM (O7Q1u)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 05:18 AM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 09:16 AM (VtjlW)
Wasn't there a post here yesterday about narcissism? People don't actually think their "thing" is more important than other people's, they think that THEY'RE more important than everyone else.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 11, 2013 05:18 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 11, 2013 05:18 AM (GVxQo)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 11, 2013 05:18 AM (x59Gv)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at January 11, 2013 05:19 AM (ajk+Y)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at January 11, 2013 05:19 AM (Jcd0S)
Company they go with requests medical records.
Offer to insure quickly withdawn; and now no company will insure her.
She only disclosed one minor illness to broker, but the Mayo Clinic knows something, not even the kids know what.
But, mom knew and used HIPPA to try and pull one over. In the old days, the broker could have called her hospital/doctor and learned all this up front before spending time on it.
Posted by: RoyalOil at January 11, 2013 05:19 AM (imtbm)
Posted by: Jean at January 11, 2013 05:20 AM (u5ozF)
I still need to finish up my rewrite. Then decide if I want to just Amazon e-book it. Or follow OSP's Amazon path to actually print the book, still need to research the costs of that.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 05:20 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 11, 2013 05:20 AM (x59Gv)
S'cuse while I scoop 'em out of the bowl. I'm rich!
Posted by: Hester Mofet at January 11, 2013 05:20 AM (vzUSW)
Posted by: cajun carrot at January 11, 2013 05:21 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 05:21 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 11, 2013 09:17 AM (bb5+k)
As someone mentioned here yesterday, it doesn't matter what you think or even what Congress thinks the law means. When the law is unambiguous, outside context is immaterial. The law, while stupid, is simple and straightforward. What anyone intended for the law to say is irrelevant.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 11, 2013 05:21 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at January 11, 2013 05:21 AM (MSrqi)
Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB or SMOD (for the Children) at January 11, 2013 08:03 AM (Cnqmv)
I have long thought that after the first ten amendments, the subsequent amendments showed a distinct lack of brilliance both in intent and in the quality of the writing.
(Except of course for the 27th amendment, which was both sensible and well written. It was created by the founders, of course.)
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 11, 2013 05:22 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 11, 2013 05:22 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 05:22 AM (KnIgz)
I've been following "the coin" discussion, and it seems to me Vic is pretty persuasive. The law touches on bullion coins, which are minted as investment vehicles and not "money" per se. Such things are purchased as an easy way for people to buy a guaranteed amount of bullion, not as a way to spend the face value of the coin in a novel way.
For instance, look at the Platinum Eagle program. These have a legal tender amount fixed to them, but it is far less than the actual value of the 1 oz of platinum that makes up the coin. This is, to me, distinct from the pennies, nickels, etc made by the mint where the face value far exceeds the material value of the coin.
Trying to say the Mint has the legal power to create a bullion coin with a face value in excess of the bullion value seems to me to turn the law on its head.
Posted by: JohnTant at January 11, 2013 05:23 AM (eytER)
Posted by: Caustic at January 11, 2013 05:24 AM (/b8+5)
No, it's not.
Or, rather, it must not be if we want "the law" and "justice" to mean anything.
That's actually why having laws about anything that isn't fairly cut and dried is morally perilous. If there is an substantial possibility that the law will be given subjective, and not objective, judgement, then the law is unjust.
When the administration in charge can elect (without consequence) which laws to enforce, and how, we're asking for problems.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 11, 2013 05:24 AM (5DR1j)
Posted by: jwest at January 11, 2013 09:14 AM (ZDsRL)
And this is the truth.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 11, 2013 05:24 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 11, 2013 05:25 AM (x59Gv)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 11, 2013 05:25 AM (JPrdt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 05:25 AM (KnIgz)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2013 05:26 AM (9Bj8R)
Remember that talk of the trillion dollar coin being made of platinum is irrelevant. It could be made of anything.
What value would you put on the coin if it was stamped out of weapons grade plutonium?
Posted by: jwest at January 11, 2013 05:26 AM (ZDsRL)
(Reuters) - Credit card company American Express Co said it would cut about 5,400 jobs, or 8.5 percent of its workforce, as it restructures its business and pay legal bills.
The steps will cost the company about $600 million in charges in the fourth quarter after taxes, which will halve its net income.
Just remember comrades the job market is improving
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 11, 2013 05:26 AM (1Jaio)
The flag in anger they have stamped,
Here once, embattled farmers stood,
Forgotten now in occupies camp
Posted by: Department of Accuracy at January 11, 2013 05:26 AM (+I8Mq)
Posted by: gigg at January 11, 2013 05:27 AM (41VCE)
This is why the RNC should stage their own debates, with their own questioners. They can do live stream and allow C-SPAN to air it. No questions from the MSM. None.
When the pressies start howling, we can trot out our bajillion examples of their destructive behavior and use their own tweets as supporting evidence.
And all of these politicians who make these disparaging comments about our side, even from the well of the Senate and the House Floor, should be nuked with their own connections and backgrounds. Why does Nancy Pelosi get to act like she is Mother Theresa? She is a self-excommunicated Catholic who should not be receiving the sacraments due to her support of abortion and her misleading ignorant Catholics with her false interpretation of Church law. She has a fortune built on the backs of illegal alien labor, non-union labor, and underhanded real estate deals by her husband. Enough.
Posted by: Miss Marple at January 11, 2013 05:27 AM (GoIUi)
It's even larger than just the perversion of the law it's creating executive power out of the ether.
The mint cannot mint a coin imbue it with a "monetary value" and hand it to the President to spend at his discretion!
There is simply no authority for this action - NONE!
Posted by: General Woundwort at January 11, 2013 05:28 AM (RrD4h)
Well, Horde, I give up on this week. Let's put it this way, this week has not been the most efficient work week I've ever had.
Here you are, Empress - tea and cookies.
And if Your Serene Highness will look just slightly to the right, the First Imperial Raptor Hussars are about to lead the charge against Piers Morgan. We gave him an assault rifle to make it more. . .sporting.
Or it would be sporting, had we also provided the ammunition. Enjoy, Imperial One.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 11, 2013 05:28 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 11, 2013 05:28 AM (l86i3)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 11, 2013 09:15 AM (o1kXv)
The Medical supply is artificially restricted by the state. This, among other things is responsible for the high demand and high prices charged for such services.
I disagree with you about insurance. I regard Insurance as one of the major CAUSES of high medical costs. With someone else paying the bill, there is no incentive to be thrifty by those seeking or supplying medical service. In Engineering, this would be known as a broken negative feedback loop.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 11, 2013 05:30 AM (bb5+k)
Coins made of fissile material would certainly curb pickpockets while adding lead pockets to purses and slacks. And such coins would not rest long in those lead pockets for fear of collecting so many coins the pile goes critical.
And no I did not think that up on the spur of the moment. IIRC Larry Niven literally coined all that reasoning decades ago.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 11, 2013 05:30 AM (KnIgz)
The 14th amendment has zero to do with the ability to "borrow" in excess of the legal limit.
And you will NEVER get SCOTUS to accept a case on this. They will simply say congress has an option and refuse to grant standing.
Of course the option is impeachment. Something the Democrats will not vote for if they had proff that Obama was a pedophile who killed his victims after sex and then ate them.
Posted by: Vic at January 11, 2013 05:30 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 11, 2013 09:07 AM (o1kXv)
Two words: Nurses. Unions
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 11, 2013 05:30 AM (Usuai)
Kind of enjoying the mental image of all the gangstas going to prison after getting shot and unfortunately saved by surgeons....which is why your common-sense plan will never work politically: RAYCISS.
And now, a rant if I may:
Program manager walking around with his kid's Girl Scout Cookie form. I thought the whole point was that the child learns some social skillz (like manipulating men into giving them money, heh), not that Daddy can use his position to get them cool prizes. Feh.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 11, 2013 05:31 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at January 11, 2013 05:31 AM (MSrqi)
Schools close in Northern Vietnam due to cold...
http://tinyurl.com/axkssja
(Never thought I'd a see a picture of people huddled around a fire in Hanoi...)
Record cold causes massive inflation of veggie prices in China...
http://tinyurl.com/9warwne
And, snowfall blankets Athens...
http://tinyurl.com/au5943m
From what I've read at WUWT... this may only be the beginning.
Lets see how the war on cheap energy works out...
Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 11, 2013 05:31 AM (1GunI)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at January 11, 2013 09:19 AM (Jcd0S)
I was misinformed. Thank you for correcting me.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 11, 2013 05:34 AM (bb5+k)
Who has standing to bring that argument? That's a serious question. Who do you think would be able to file suit to stop this when this utterly idiotic idea takes place? Who?
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 11, 2013 09:21 AM (VtjlW)
Something I learned from the Eligibility issue is that no one has standing to accuse THIS group of people of anything. So it might be legally correct, but defacto irrelevant.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 11, 2013 05:37 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Lt. York at January 11, 2013 05:41 AM (39Xyc)
Posted by: Wm T Sherman at January 11, 2013 05:48 AM (8hBZi)
I particularly love this comment:
"Malor has never even been a “conservative in quotation marks.”
And he is easily the most foolish voice the “right” has on fake money, its causes, uses, and end results. Undoubtedly it didn’t matter what the Framers intended* once Y2K Ponzi America rolled around and everybody got owned."
"clever" lawyer he!
Posted by: General Woundwort at January 11, 2013 05:49 AM (RrD4h)
*holds envelope to forehead* It will be a big flop.
*opens envelope* A realistic Godzilla movie.
Wasn't that pretty much the point of Cloverfield?
Posted by: Armando at January 11, 2013 06:07 AM (5iuEW)
You could add Mangalores to that list. They were the bad aliens from "The Fifth Element."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 11, 2013 06:32 AM (xjpRj)
Morning 'rons, yet more work. Will be at the Columbus Beer Festival tomorrow evening, any other OH morons planning on attending? I can be reached at conservativecrank at gmail dot com if anyone wants to meet up.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 11, 2013 06:35 AM (FqcJu)
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After that happens, you can bet the Leftie obsession with abortion will start to die down.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at January 11, 2013 02:53 AM (U+vgB)