November 26, 2013

Up To 80 Million Could Lose Their Health Insurance Plans
— Open Blogger

Had this in the link dump, but it is worth another look.

Almost 80 million people with employer health plans could find their coverage canceled because they are not compliant with ObamaCare, several experts predicted.

Their losses would be in addition to the millions who found their individual coverage cancelled for the same reason.

Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute said that in addition to the individual cancellations, “at least half the people on employer plans would by 2014 start losing plans as well.” There are approximately 157 million employer health care policy holders.

Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute added, “the administration estimated that approximately 78 million Americans with employer sponsored insurance would lose their existing coverage due to the Affordable Care Act.”

Remember that part in bold. Next fall you'll hear the White House and Democrats claim they didn't know. The White House is claiming only five percent of Americans are affected by the Individual Mandate. That may be true today, but wait until next year when employers begin rescinding their health insurance coverage and dumping employees on the exchange.

It's already happening with small businesses. (autoplay video).

Be sure to bring this up at your Thanksgiving meal.
Update:

One of the reasons your plan is getting cancelled? It doesn't cover acupuncture. Yeah. Acupuncture.

The reason behind the losses is that current plans don't meet the requirements of ObamaCare, which dictate that each plan must cover a list of essential benefits, whether people want them or not.

"Things like maternity care or acupuncture or extensive drug coverage," said Veuger. "And so now the law is going to force them to buy policies that they could have gotten in the past if they wanted to but they chose not to."

Thanks to Comrade Arthur for pointing that out.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:14 AM | Comments (276)
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1

Here's my question:   Are these 80 million estimated to lose their coverage merely the policy holders?   Because what about dependents and other family members on those same policies?   Are they included in that number?   If not, you can double it.   Triple it to be safe.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 26, 2013 07:16 AM (4df7R)

2 Yeah, I've been wondering what they're going to say when this hits. I don't think "when we said it affects only 5% of the population, we weren't talking about the effect of the employer mandate and the media didn't ask us about that." They knew and they lied.

Posted by: lawdvd at November 26, 2013 07:16 AM (d3clc)

3 This is what was planned all along.  Destroy the private health insurance market, and push everybody into government-dictated plans as a step toward single payor. 

Posted by: Insomniac at November 26, 2013 07:17 AM (DrWcr)

4 But....Mit Romney strapped his dog to the roof of his car...War on women!.....Plain and simple, this country deserves Barky.

Posted by: resist we much at November 26, 2013 07:18 AM (u0wJh)

5 I still say 254 million since that is the number of workers who will lose employer coverage and the 50 million private plans lost.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at November 26, 2013 07:18 AM (YowqD)

6 Next fall you'll hear the White House and Democrats claim they didn't know.

My gal pal Nancy told you wingnuts to read what's in it. Not our fault.

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at November 26, 2013 07:18 AM (Dwehj)

7 Oh, and Obama is a SCOAMF and a liar.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 26, 2013 07:18 AM (DrWcr)

8 Just a sliver, just a slice, not a #VastMajority.

Posted by: jeannebodine at November 26, 2013 07:19 AM (2LJqa)

9 I could eff up a wet dream. Seriously, you guys.

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at November 26, 2013 07:19 AM (Dwehj)

10 repost from the other thread:

Interesting thing about "cadillac" plans. It's a fringe benefit. But it only has value if you need medical care. If you are healthy it doesn't really help you. So, under Obamacare, if you are healthy, you are going to be taxed for a benefit that gives you nothing.

Perhaps they should tax the real benefits of the sickly? Oh yeah, that would be popular. You need chemo and radiation therapy to fight the cancer and the IRS wants a cut from that benefit.

Posted by: Jimbo at November 26, 2013 07:19 AM (V70Uh)

11 I had the same question, MWR.
My family's health insurance is through my work because it's a great plan. I bet I'm getting the so-called "cadillac" coverage that will be taxed into oblivion.
Crap.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 26, 2013 07:19 AM (JRmiD)

12 But....Mit Romney strapped his dog to the roof of his car...War on women!.....Plain and simple, this country deserves Barky.

Posted by: resist we much at November 26, 2013 11:18 AM (u0wJh)

 

Barky brings us binders full of women who will lose their health insurance...

Posted by: Insomniac at November 26, 2013 07:19 AM (DrWcr)

13 >>> Be sure to bring this up at your Thanksgiving meal. Heh.

Posted by: fluffy at November 26, 2013 07:20 AM (Ua6T/)

14 My fortune 50 company switched from a co-pay per visit model to a deductible model.  First $1,000 is all on me before insurance pays a dime.  Compared to most others, this is still not a bad deal.  But I dont think it stays this way for long.... soon they will give me a few bucks and tell me to buy whatever I want on 4040Care 

Posted by: McCool at November 26, 2013 07:20 AM (nCSwS)

15 Perhaps they
should tax the real benefits of the sickly? Oh yeah, that would be
popular. You need chemo and radiation therapy to fight the cancer and
the IRS wants a cut from that benefit.

Posted by: Jimbo at November 26, 2013 11:19 AM (V70Uh)

 

A tax?  I'm OK with that.

Posted by: Justice John Roberts at November 26, 2013 07:20 AM (DrWcr)

16 I am become Barackma, the Destroyer of Health Plans...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 26, 2013 07:20 AM (wtvvX)

17 Thanksgiving talking points:

1. Obama lied to you.

2. You're a douchebag and you need to get a job now.

3. Damn right I want more turkey, and get your hands off that white meat.

Posted by: joncelli at November 26, 2013 07:21 AM (RD7QR)

18 Someone from HR gave a presentation on the insurance options available during open enrollment.  My question, before she even started with the Death-By-Powerpoint was, "What's going to happen under 404Care next year?  Are we even going to have company-supported health insurance?"  She stammered for a minute, then sheepishly replied, "We just don't know yet."  About half the room got up and left at that point.

Posted by: Country Singer at November 26, 2013 07:21 AM (L8r/r)

19 But....Mit Romney strapped his dog to the roof of his car...War on women!

Binders!!11!!

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at November 26, 2013 07:21 AM (Dwehj)

20 In before the Spanish Inquisition!

Posted by: toby928© knows your ways at November 26, 2013 07:21 AM (QupBk)

21 I figure if hubbymayhem loses the employer based insurance that we have, our income will likely get us dumped into Medicaid. None of our doctors or the hospitals we prefer accept Medicaid.  We are would definitely be screwed.  This fact does not stop me from being wildly amused by the oblabocare clusterf*uck.  I always said that oblabo would be the death of the democrat party and it looks like I may just be right. 

Posted by: madamemayhem at November 26, 2013 07:21 AM (S2RnE)

22

Yeah, I've been wondering what they're going to say when this hits.

 

It's Romney's fault.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 26, 2013 07:22 AM (zF6Iw)

23

Be sure to bring this up at your Thanksgiving meal.

 

 

It probably will get brought up.  Lucky for me, my family is about as conservative as they come, and they despise Barky and what he's doing to the country. 

Posted by: Insomniac at November 26, 2013 07:22 AM (DrWcr)

24 Here are the issues as I see them:

The coverage plans currently being offered by an employer do not meet the minimum requirements of the ACA. Therefore they'll need to be replaced. It is fair to assume that the replacement plans, like those on the individual market are learning, are much, much more expensive than their old plans.

That being the case, most businesses will have a small list of choices to make:
1. Cancel their plans and let their employees buy insurance on the exchange.
2. Cancel their plans and let their employees buy insurance on the exchange and give them some small subsidy to help cover the costs
3. Simply eat the costs of the new and more expensive plans.
4. Take the new plans, but increase the contribution amount for the employee.

As someone who works in business, I can all but guarnatee that most small and medium sized businesses will choose option 1 and 2.  The new plans will simply be too expensive for companies too cover.  I'm not sure what the big businesses will do.

Keep in mind, this was the plan all along. The government wants as many people on the individual exchange as they can get.

Posted by: Ben at November 26, 2013 07:22 AM (5WPtk)

25 If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance in a van, down by the river.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 26, 2013 07:22 AM (wtvvX)

26 Binders!!11!! *** swoon ***

Posted by: Candy C. at November 26, 2013 07:22 AM (Ua6T/)

27 Welcome to Hell, losers.  Prepare your pineapple receptacles.

Posted by: the Prince of the Power of Airtime at November 26, 2013 07:22 AM (8GKDa)

28 So, what's the bigger turkey? The bird on your table or Obama care. For all those that voted for the boy king, you ordered this shitburger, you're gonna eat it like everybody else. Yes, I'm looking at you, union pukes. Ya want fries wid dat?

Posted by: Fat Freddy's Cat at November 26, 2013 07:23 AM (OsheA)

29

get your hands off that white meat.

 

That's what I said to Barry about Larry Sinclair.

Posted by: Reggie Love at November 26, 2013 07:23 AM (DrWcr)

30 It probably will get brought up. Lucky for me, my family is about as conservative as they come, and they despise Barky and what he's doing to the country. --- It may get brought up at my in-laws house, most of whom are pretty conservative. I doubt it gets brought up at my family's house, as the only liberal there will be my uncle who is currently going through his second bout with cancer. Ideology does not trump self-preservation.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 26, 2013 07:23 AM (/Crba)

31 Barkocare requires Cinderella insurance. Not too good, not too bad, but just right.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 26, 2013 07:23 AM (SpeAp)

32 Be sure to bring this up at your Thanksgiving meal. Easier to just gut & stuff an obamabot relative......

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 07:24 AM (cUARf)

33 KEEP CALM and BLAME BUSH

Posted by: toby928© knows your ways at November 26, 2013 07:24 AM (QupBk)

34 I'm    ready    to    be    the    first    black     POTUS    w/    a   black    mom  and   white   dad. 

Posted by: Lenny Kravitz at November 26, 2013 07:24 AM (/1ATA)

35 It probably will get brought up. Lucky for me, my family is about as conservative as they come, and they despise Barky and what he's doing to the country.

Same here. God help the witless liberal who may stumble upon my family at Thanksgiving; he would likely wind up in the Emergency Room missing his wishbone...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 26, 2013 07:24 AM (wtvvX)

36 Posted by: WalrusRex at November 26, 2013 11:23 AM (SpeAp)

I thought that was Goldilocks.

Posted by: Country Singer at November 26, 2013 07:25 AM (L8r/r)

37 in b4 the AoS official De-moralizer! (the guy who socks McCain and tells us we have nothing to fear from obama)

Posted by: soothsayer is connectin the dots at November 26, 2013 07:25 AM (Jy7CL)

38 The real story in this country is the systematic fleecing of our cherished gay community. Stiffed tips and racist pricks are robbing homosexuals of their ability to survive!! 

Posted by: dananjcon at November 26, 2013 07:25 AM (wmU4G)

39

Had a conversation with a guy recently, a sensible, smart, conservative guy.  An attorney, but don't hold that against him.  Anyway, his insurance premium is going  to almost double, and he doesn't yet know what his benefits will be.  He's rejoicing, because he's "keeping  his plan" for another year.  

 

When I try to explain that if he hasn't checked, how does he know his deductibles aren't doubling, his out-of-pocket costs going through the roof, he's rather dismissive about all that.

 

I don't know why.  I think it's denial.  We're not going to convince people based on these projections.  You can keep saying millions of Americans  are going to lose coverage, or significantly reduced benefits, I swear people can't really wrap their heads around it.  They won't see it until it's already happening.  To them. 

 

I guess it's just human nature, and the Dems were banking on that. 

Posted by: BurtTC at November 26, 2013 07:25 AM (TOk1P)

40 A little Presidential tip: Don't throw away the giblets this Thanksgiving. Freeze 'em, cuz you're gonna be needing 'em soon. Heh.

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at November 26, 2013 07:25 AM (Dwehj)

41 This is exactly why it must be repealed NOW. By the time this takes place a lot of the components will be entrenched, such as the website, the Obamacare hub, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 26, 2013 07:25 AM (JRmiD)

42 the only liberal there will be my uncle who is currently going through his second bout with cancer. Ideology does not trump self-preservation.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 26, 2013 11:23 AM (/Crba)

 

Sorry about your uncle's cancer.  And his liberalism, but mostly the cancer.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 26, 2013 07:25 AM (DrWcr)

43 Who would have thought the Cloward-Piven strategy to overwhelm the system would be implemented by the very people running the system.

Posted by: Mainah at November 26, 2013 07:26 AM (659DL)

44 Barkocare requires Cinderella insurance. Not too good, not too bad, but just right.

 

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 26, 2013 11:23 AM (SpeAp)

 

That would be Goldilocks care.

 

Cinderella insurance is a Cadillac plan that turns into a GMC Pacer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 26, 2013 07:26 AM (zF6Iw)

45 Who would have thought the Cloward-Piven strategy to overwhelm the system would be implemented by the very people running the system. *cough*

Posted by: Bill Ayers at November 26, 2013 07:26 AM (QupBk)

46

Barkocare requires Cinderella insurance.

 

Tinkerbell insurance.  Clap your hands, and belieeeeeeve!!!!

Posted by: Insomniac at November 26, 2013 07:26 AM (DrWcr)

47 (the guy who socks McCain and tells us we have nothing to fear from obama)

Posted by: soothsayer is connectin the dots at November 26, 2013 11:25 AM (Jy7CL)

**


I hate that guy and McCain.


But I liked the guy who always said EnFeugo!!






Posted by: dananjcon at November 26, 2013 07:27 AM (wmU4G)

48 Liberalism is cancer.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 26, 2013 07:27 AM (wtvvX)

49 Barkocare requires Cinderella insurance. Not too good, not too bad, but just right.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 26, 2013 11:23 AM (SpeAp)

 

 

Sounds like Goldilocks insurance to me.   Cindrella insurance would be a glittering success hidden in a lump of shit.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 26, 2013 07:27 AM (4df7R)

50 Until LIVs revolt, this is going nowhere.

Posted by: dogfish at November 26, 2013 07:27 AM (nsOJa)

51 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 26, 2013 11:26 AM (zF6Iw)

I thought that was AMC.

Posted by: Country Singer at November 26, 2013 07:27 AM (L8r/r)

52 This is exactly why it must be repealed NOW. By the time this takes place a lot of the components will be entrenched, such as the website, the Obamacare hub, etc. ------------ The longer it is there, the worse the infection.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 26, 2013 07:28 AM (aDwsi)

53 If the Dems decided to try to save themselves tomorrow and congress passed a repeal bill and then overwrote a presidential veto  Obamacare would still be a crippling mess for years.  Just one aspect: -- folks with preexisting conditions who had maintained coverage until this clustercufk canceled their policies and they couldn't buy a new one.   

Posted by: PaleRider at November 26, 2013 07:28 AM (m+nIW)

54 42 the only liberal there will be my uncle who is currently going through his second bout with cancer. Ideology does not trump self-preservation. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 26, 2013 11:23 AM (/Crba) Sorry about your uncle's cancer. And his liberalism, but mostly the cancer. --- Pretty sure he'll be fine. He weathered a bout with colon cancer with no problems. He's had more problems with his liver cancer, but that was a case of the first type of chemo they gave him kicking his ass.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 26, 2013 07:28 AM (/Crba)

55 I thought that was Goldilocks. It was one of those leftist whores. The one that slept with thrre bears or the one that did midget pr0n.....

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 07:28 AM (cUARf)

56 Until LIVs revolt, this is going nowhere.

Only when the free shit dries up, baby.

Posted by: Low Information Voter at November 26, 2013 07:28 AM (Dwehj)

57 Be sure to bring this up at your Thanksgiving meal. Heh heh.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 26, 2013 07:28 AM (7ObY1)

58 The longer it is there, the worse the infection.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 26, 2013 11:28 AM (aDwsi)

 

It needs to be amputated like a gangrenous limb.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 26, 2013 07:28 AM (DrWcr)

59 Unfortunately, even if the Republicans win the Senate in 2014, this shitburger won't get repealed until 2015 (unless more Democrats are forced into re-election panic).

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 26, 2013 07:29 AM (wtvvX)

60 I'm union and we've been working on an expired contract for the past two years. The growing suspicion is that the union is going to strike a deal where we'll get 4-5% annual increases in exchange for being dumped onto the Obamacare exchanges. Of course, we'd be far, far better off just continuing to work off the old contract and keep the rather good insurance plan, but I know the Obama fellatiating union will try to convince us to fuck ourselves.


Even the very few Dems we've got in my unit are worried that this is the union end game. Hell, one of them just the other day after having this discussion wanted me to understand that while he may be a Dem, he's a conservative Dem and doesn't support any of this Obamacare shit. Lol, I told him I appreciate he's finally coming around, but it may be too late.

Posted by: mugiwara at November 26, 2013 07:29 AM (W7ffl)

61 I wish the Navy would call me in for Thanksgiving so I don't have to go and suffer in silence

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 26, 2013 07:29 AM (t3UFN)

62 This is exactly why it must be repealed NOW. By the time this takes place a lot of the components will be entrenched, such as the website, the Obamacare hub, etc.
------------
The longer it is there, the worse the infection. Posted by: Mike Hammer


+eleventy

Posted by: dogfish at November 26, 2013 07:29 AM (nsOJa)

63 FDA is banning 23andme home DNA tests. NSA scoops up all your private data. FDA won't even let you see your own genetic code. Fuckers.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 26, 2013 07:29 AM (ZPrif)

64

The one that slept with thrre bears

 

Just call me Goldiwocks!

Posted by: Bawney Fwank at November 26, 2013 07:29 AM (DrWcr)

65

I hope you all were really, really naughty this year, because you're going to need    the coal Santa'll     put in your stocking.    Unless you want to freeze to death, that is,   which hey, saves my Death Panels the trouble!

 

Speaking of Santa and coal, remind me to get in touch with the EPA.  That fat man in the red suit    owes us a few centuries in    unpaid fines   and environmental impact statements....

Posted by: The Mocha Messiah, Preezy Obama at November 26, 2013 07:30 AM (4df7R)

66 51 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 26, 2013 11:26 AM (zF6Iw)

I thought that was AMC.

Posted by: Country Singer at November 26, 2013 11:27 AM (L8r/r)


Indeed it was, the signature car of the '70s, for a damn good reason.

Posted by: joncelli at November 26, 2013 07:30 AM (RD7QR)

67 I just want a car elevator.

Posted by: Dang at November 26, 2013 07:30 AM (YWXTN)

68 Yesterday on Rush a caller brought up a great point His wife had Alzheimer's. Needed Medicare. They signed up. She died in 3 years. Now the state, MO, wants his house Prepare for the largest land and estate grab by government in US history. TANSTAAFL

Posted by: thunderb at November 26, 2013 07:31 AM (zgfjs)

69 Pacer was AMC. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Fat Freddy's Cat at November 26, 2013 07:31 AM (OsheA)

70 36 Posted by: WalrusRex at November 26, 2013 11:23 AM (SpeAp) I thought that was Goldilocks. - Ok ok. It's Cinderella insurance because you have to guess his real name.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 26, 2013 07:31 AM (SpeAp)

71 "Sleeping with three bears" = The Teton Trifecta

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 26, 2013 07:31 AM (wtvvX)

72 23andme still lists their kits for sale. No idea how much longer. Hopefully they fight FDA's order in court and can keep selling the kits. FDA wants to regulate this as a medical device. It's a spit test. You spit some saliva into the kit, mail it back to 23andme and get your genetic data back. It doesn't *do* anything to your body. It just accurately reads your DNA. But the FDA says you're too stupid to be trusted with knowledge of your own genetic code.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 26, 2013 07:31 AM (ZPrif)

73

Tinkerbell insurance. Clap your hands, and belieeeeeeve!!!!

 

Maleficent insurance.  You fight all the powers of hell.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 26, 2013 07:31 AM (zF6Iw)

74

The longer it is there, the worse the infection.

Posted by: Mike Hammer

 

This   x   1000000^infinity

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 26, 2013 07:31 AM (4df7R)

75 So has the IRS and LSM destroyed the California heckler yet?

Which AMC?  The Fishbowl or the Gremlin?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 07:32 AM (787tI)

76 80 million?! Outstanding! We only dreamed of 25 million, so this is an unprecedented bonus!

Posted by: Bill Ayers, neighborhood Weatherman at November 26, 2013 07:32 AM (FcR7P)

77 It's Cinderella insurance because you have to guess his real name. Way to spin straw into gold there, Pinocchio.

Posted by: Bill Ayers, burrowed like a maggot into the public education system at November 26, 2013 07:32 AM (QupBk)

78 As the HR dude, I was upfront with my guys: it would make economic sense for the company to drop health care plans in 2014. My GM wanted to strangle me, but I want to be honest with employees. At least the permanent ones. I still have to lie to the temps.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 26, 2013 07:32 AM (oUfru)

79 33 KEEP CALM and BLAME BUSH On this morning's Morning Shmoe, Scarborough asked Mark "Known Liar" Halperin if any POTUS has had such low approval ratings...and recovered. But before Scarborough could get out the "and recovered" part, Halperin was panting to shout out "BOOOOOSH!" I mean, he was acting like Arnold Horschack when he knew an answer. When Scarborough finished the question, you could see the disappointment all over Halperin's face. He muttered "oh, and recovered?" It's like they have to get in the daily Bush-bashing just to keep their jourOlistic cred.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 26, 2013 07:33 AM (7ObY1)

80

69 Pacer was AMC. Just sayin'.

 

Looking back, can you remember any car that AMC made that was attractive?

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at November 26, 2013 07:33 AM (oDCMR)

81 Sorry, 2015.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 26, 2013 07:34 AM (oUfru)

82 And it's the way of the HQ that you can wait all day to unlease your Ayers, burrowed sock and comes right after someone else goes B.A. FMC

Posted by: Bill Ayers, burrowed like a maggot into the public education system at November 26, 2013 07:34 AM (QupBk)

83 @80: The Javelin

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 26, 2013 07:34 AM (wtvvX)

84 Looking back, can you remember any car that AMC made that was attractive? The Eagle wasn't too awful, for what it was.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 26, 2013 07:35 AM (7ObY1)

85 Binders!!11!!

Full of insurance cancellation slips!!!

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at November 26, 2013 07:35 AM (KQp38)

86 Medicaid, not medicare

Posted by: thunderb at November 26, 2013 07:35 AM (zgfjs)

87 Count me in. We're changing our small business' health insurance thanks to Obamacare next year.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at November 26, 2013 07:35 AM (09o/X)

88 Pacer - At least it had a decent straight six, and rwd. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/AMC_pacer_082009_D42119.jpg

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 26, 2013 07:35 AM (aDwsi)

89 #8- AMX

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at November 26, 2013 07:36 AM (KQp38)

90 I miss the straight 6. Great engine to work on by yourself.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 26, 2013 07:36 AM (7ObY1)

91

It's a feature, not a bug. Can't wait to hear Debbie Dumbass-Schlitzkrieg spin how awesome it is that everyone can now have government run health care.

 

If society doesn't up and literally drag Democrats out of their DC offices and hang them from trees once all hell breaks loose next fall, I'll be surprised.

Posted by: sans_sheriff at November 26, 2013 07:36 AM (Lljg2)

92 They will blame it on the evil corporations cancelling their employee plans.  Obamanation404 will have nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Havedash at November 26, 2013 07:36 AM (BMEZ0)

93 love Obamacare? Here's your Bronze Plate of Tofurkey.

Posted by: X at November 26, 2013 07:36 AM (KHo8t)

94 So has the IRS and LSM destroyed the California heckler yet? Destroyed? He was a stooge. The fix was in. Yeah like a the Secret Service would allow a "real" heckler to stay behind the President?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 26, 2013 07:37 AM (t3UFN)

95

Assholes, the lot of them.

Posted by: @JohnTant at November 26, 2013 07:37 AM (eytER)

96 I still have to lie to the temps. Posted by: Big Fat Meanie Why? It's not like they'll be around long enough.....

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 07:37 AM (cUARf)

97 My family had a Pontiac Ventura with a straight 6. No power ANYTHING.

You had so much empty room under that hood, you could put in a spare engine...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 26, 2013 07:37 AM (wtvvX)

98 >>Prepare for the largest land and estate grab by government in US history. TANSTAAFL

This is a state-level Medicaid Estate Recovery, where states can recoup their expenses for Medicaid users age 55 and older. It's been in place since 1993, however, it is Obamacare that is *forcing* so many people into Medicaid via the website.

Notice how people who have low current income are automatically enrolled regardless of their assets - they are not given the option to purchase through the site? The states will get their hands on those assets.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/estaterec.htm

Posted by: Lizzy at November 26, 2013 07:38 AM (JRmiD)

99 I'm not an AMCboi, but I thought the Javelin was decently styled http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/1974_AMC_Javelin_AMX_black_front.JPG

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 26, 2013 07:38 AM (aDwsi)

100 Pacer - At least it had a decent straight six, and rwd. And a wookie ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 07:38 AM (cUARf)

101 I had a friend who drove an AMC Pacer. It was back in the 80's and the car was a 70something. That car was hideous but damn, you could not kill it. It was some crazy energizer bunny kind of unstoppable.  The interior was trashed, the "sound system" was dead as a hammer, the shocks? yeh what shocks? But the stupid thing would not die.

Posted by: madamemayhem at November 26, 2013 07:38 AM (S2RnE)

102 Prepare for the largest land and estate grab by government in US history.

Incorporate and own nothing personally is probably the way to go.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at November 26, 2013 07:38 AM (Xlbr8)

103 78 million policies cancelled - how many dependents are on each policy? Average of 1.5x, 2x, 3x -- did HHS calculate it that way.

Posted by: Jean at November 26, 2013 07:39 AM (CMlD4)

104 It needs to be amputated like a gangrenous limb.

 

Posted by: Insomniac at November 26, 2013 11:28 AM (DrWcr)

 

 

I think of it like appendicitis.      If left untreated it gets more and more painful.   If you wait too long it will burst    and kill the patient.     If it bursts on its own the patient may feel a temporary relief as the pressure is reduced, but if they aren't treated quickly all those toxins floating around in their body will kill them.

 

404Care is an inflamed appendix.  It's causing great pain to many, many people in this country, and will cause greater pain to even more people the longer it's allowed to remain.   Sure,    we can    let nature take its course and    wait until we have some kind of veto proof majority    in both houses   (whenever that may be); but    that will be too late.   By that  time all a repeal will do is release the pressure, like a burst appendix.  All the worst parts of the law will still be floating around out there like an infection.   We'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 26, 2013 07:39 AM (4df7R)

105 Family down the street from us growing up had a Javelin.

Damned thing would whistle when it drove by...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 26, 2013 07:39 AM (wtvvX)

106 Very uptight about all this.  I have serious health issues.  Two-time cancer survivor, plus other issues.  Retired from small county police department.  We have excellent coverage, but I am worried things will change.  I have seen the cost of some of the procedures, and the actual cost of the medications I take.  Right now I have good prescription coverage.  If I loose it, I guess I will have to die.  There is no way I could afford these cost.

Posted by: RUReadingthis at November 26, 2013 07:39 AM (1xtIS)

107 Pacer, Pinto and Gremlin - Detroit's answer to high gas cost was the cut the ass off a full sized car and call it an economy model.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at November 26, 2013 07:39 AM (oDCMR)

108 Looking back, can you remember any car that AMC made that was attractive? Rambler wasn't too awful.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 07:40 AM (cUARf)

109 Faux News is reporting this. (insert 'Lies' GIF here) -LIV

Posted by: RWC at November 26, 2013 07:41 AM (fWAjv)

110

106 -

 

Why aren't you on Medicare?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 26, 2013 07:41 AM (TOk1P)

111 And I hope that that GIF is put to use in the future. It's perfect.

Posted by: RWC at November 26, 2013 07:41 AM (fWAjv)

112 @108: Did they still make the Rambler after Nash became AMC?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 26, 2013 07:41 AM (wtvvX)

113

AMC Javelin?

Maverick?

Eagle?

Posted by: garrett at November 26, 2013 07:42 AM (cSy82)

114 My Uncle (the drunkin, perverted right wing whacko) had one of the first luxury crossovers....


The AMC AWD Eagle.




http://www.carlustblog.com/2008/03/car-lust--amc-e.html



It was beautiful man.


Posted by: dananjcon at November 26, 2013 07:43 AM (wmU4G)

115

108 Looking back, can you remember any car that AMC made that was attractive?


Rambler wasn't too awful.

 

I can't help but look at Toyotas today and not think Rambler. The most uninspired designs. BTW, I owned a Rambler, and it was okay. Pretty much says it all - okay.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at November 26, 2013 07:43 AM (oDCMR)

116 Want to get rid of the annoying Obamatards at Thanksgiving? I recommend taping a .38 behind the toilet. I'll see you in hell, McCluskey.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 26, 2013 07:43 AM (oUfru)

117 Remember when people changed their facebook profile picture to an equals sign (=) to show their support of gay marriage? Someone should create a graphic:

EIGHTY
MILLION

That people opposed to Obamcare can use as their facebook profile picture, to get the word out. I'd do it myself, but I'm not on facebook.

Posted by: Dave G at November 26, 2013 07:43 AM (n7xol)

118 The Gremlin enjoyed a good deal of success in SCCA/IMSA racing. That big-ish 6 got the job done.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 26, 2013 07:44 AM (aDwsi)

119 @108: Did they still make the Rambler after Nash became AMC? Up until '74, iirc. Uncle had one back in the late '60's that was AMC. That's how I remember it.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 07:44 AM (cUARf)

120 Pay no attention to that large intrusion into your squeak hole. Like these silly bastards thing the public isn't going to notice this or something. Once we take the Senate, we need to make being a member of the Democrat party illegal or something. We need a De-Nazification process in this country.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 26, 2013 07:44 AM (bb5+k)

121 HAHAHA....as I get old I get to sit on my ass and watch as the young, dumb and full of cum generation pay thru the nose for their love of the entitlement state. Obammy.....change of diaper you can believe in...HAHAHA America, land of the freebies and home is a trailer park.

Posted by: IrishEd at November 26, 2013 07:44 AM (D0NZx)

122 Good mor(o)ning everyone!  Now to the unpleasant task of getting the kitteh off my lap so I can get cuppa #2.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 26, 2013 07:45 AM (6h2wp)

123 And tonight's Mega Millions is worth $110 million cash or $205 million annuity.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 07:45 AM (787tI)

124 53 If the Dems decided to try to save themselves tomorrow and congress passed a repeal bill and then overwrote a presidential veto Obamacare would still be a crippling mess for years. Just one aspect: -- folks with preexisting conditions who had maintained coverage until this clustercufk canceled their policies and they couldn't buy a new one.
Posted by: PaleRider

I've been thinking about this, because I've concluded that there is no way the Dems can leave this law on the books.  How exactly do you win an election after screwing most of the country by tossing them off their health insurance and offering them a more expensive, inferior product?  No, OCare as it is now constituted will be an ex-parrot within 2 years.  However.

They've clearly moved the proverbial Overton window.  I think it is now assumed that the government will expand Medicaid to include preexisting conditions.  I'd also guess that they'll pass a law (with GOP help) that nobody will have to spend more than X percent of their income on medical bills.  IOW, partially socialized medicine.  It's still bad policy, but it'll be better than the CF Barry has engineered. 

Posted by: pep at November 26, 2013 07:46 AM (6TB1Z)

125

This is why I think all the Republicans should be hammering that people with employer coverage will lose it just like individuals have.  Just keep saying it, and whenever challenged there is a simple response, "You were wrong about individuals not losing their coverage why should we believe your claims about employer provided insurance?"

Posted by: buzzion at November 26, 2013 07:47 AM (LI48c)

126 Apologies if this has been brought up before but have any Senators or Congress critters of either party actually read the 404Care bill?  Because every time I hear about these "shocked" reactions to the bad news I have to figure it was already baked into that giant shitpile of paper making up the passed bill.  These people all have lots of people working for them, no?  And by "working for them" I mean doing cocksucking fundraising every fucking minute of every day.  Maybe some of them should have been temporarily assigned to sift through the giant pile and pick out the kernels of corn embedded within.  And yes, this applies at least as much to the "opposition party" drones as to the donks.

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 26, 2013 07:47 AM (YU0Se)

127 Once we take the Senate, we need to make being a member of the Democrat party illegal or something. We need a De-Nazification process in this country. Nurhemberg Trials.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 07:47 AM (cUARf)

128 Posted by: SFGoth at November 26, 2013 11:45 AM (6h2wp)

Morning sex is lovely!

Oh...wait....THAT kind of pussy.

Never mind.

Posted by: Typical piggish Moron at November 26, 2013 07:47 AM (oJ5Fd)

129 121 - Ed - It will not be Obamacare that they will blame, It will be *YOU*. *YOU* will be the problem that must be eliminated.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 26, 2013 07:47 AM (aDwsi)

130 Thunderb, had to go on medicaid two years ago at age 61for a few months until medicare kicked in. On my lawyer's advice, my wife and daughter own everything. Gov. Wouldn't even get my underwear.

Posted by: Fat Freddy's Cat at November 26, 2013 07:48 AM (OsheA)

131 Easy. You'll be fine as long as you're only screwing over the people who would never vote for you anyway.

Posted by: soothsayer is connectin the dots at November 26, 2013 07:48 AM (Jy7CL)

132 Keep in mind, this was the plan all along. The government wants as many people on the individual exchange as they can get. Posted by: Ben at November 26, 2013 11:22 AM (5WPtk) You shouldn't use the word "Plan" when it comes to these silly bastards. Yeah, that may be what they were thinking, but they didn't reckon with reality. (Communists never do.) Their Wishful thinking was that it might work out like this. The Reality is that they have hurt a whole lot of people financially, and if we are lucky, the silly communist bastards won't be able to escape with their lives. Nor do they deserve to.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 26, 2013 07:48 AM (bb5+k)

133 > His wife had Alzheimer's. Needed Medicare. They signed up. She died in 3 years. Now the state, MO, wants his house

Does Molon Labe apply to my house?

Posted by: Lemmenkainen, Freelance Warlord at November 26, 2013 07:48 AM (ZWvOb)

134 Huh, Fucking actupuncture? My wife wants to try that, but frankly I think it's very nearly hokum. And even if it's not, I can get a groupon for a $39 treatment, so there's no reason for insurance to cover it.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at November 26, 2013 07:48 AM (GaqMa)

135 126 Apologies if this has been brought up before but have any Senators or Congress critters of either party actually read the 404Care bill? Because every time I hear about these "shocked" reactions to the bad news I have to figure it was already baked into that giant shitpile of paper making up the passed bill. These people all have lots of people working for them, no? And by "working for them" I mean doing cocksucking fundraising every fucking minute of every day. Maybe some of them should have been temporarily assigned to sift through the giant pile and pick out the kernels of corn embedded within. And yes, this applies at least as much to the "opposition party" drones as to the donks. --- I don't think any of them ever bothered to read the bill, they have staffers for that. If they voted for this piece of shit after Nazi Pelosi told them "You have to vote on it to see what's in it", they deserve to be hung from the nearest lamppost.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 26, 2013 07:49 AM (/Crba)

136 I'd also guess that they'll pass a law (with GOP help) that nobody will have to spend more than X percent of their income on medical bills.

BarterTown here we come

Posted by: Jean at November 26, 2013 07:49 AM (CMlD4)

137

124 -

"...nobody will have to spend more than X percent of their income on medical bills."

 

 

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

 

 

What income?

 

Posted by: 91 million not in the labor force at November 26, 2013 07:49 AM (TOk1P)

138  
    AMC=shit on steroids, says the tech who grudgingly repaired those maggot gaggers.

Posted by: irongrampa at November 26, 2013 07:49 AM (SAMxH)

139 More details at PJ Media (h/t Neo Neocon) regarding how Obamacare amped up Medicaid:

"The Affordable Care Act eliminates Medicaid’s asset test, and creates the roach motel of government welfare programs. Medicaid is no longer an “entitlement” you can choose to access. Instead, as Nicole Hopkins’ mother found out earlier this month, if you qualify under its new, lenient rules, HealthCare.gov forces your enrollment...

There are no other options. This — not President Barack Obama’s “if you like your plan-doctor-provider, you can keep your plan-doctor-provider” — is how HealthCare.gov has been designed to work...

If you really think this is entirely the result of government incompetence, and that this manÂ’s family can enjoy Uncle SamÂ’s largesse without financial worry, you havenÂ’t heard of MedicaidÂ’s Estate Recovery Act, a measure which requires states to claw back money spent by Medicaid from available assets in deceased beneficiariesÂ’ estates.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/q3ykaf9

Posted by: Lizzy at November 26, 2013 07:50 AM (JRmiD)

140 Or Mike.

It's never the law's fault.  Its the implementation that is at fault.  So see ya Kathleen, hope you like the taste of eco-friendly rubber as you get tossed under the bus..

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 07:50 AM (787tI)

141 108 Looking back, can you remember any car that AMC made that was attractive? Rambler wasn't too awful. Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 11:40 AM (cUARf) One or two years of the Javelin were decent.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 26, 2013 07:50 AM (bb5+k)

142 110 - not old enough yet, still 57.

Posted by: RUReadingthis at November 26, 2013 07:51 AM (1xtIS)

143 134 Huh,

Fucking actupuncture?

My wife wants to try that, but frankly I think it's very nearly hokum. And even if it's not, I can get a groupon for a $39 treatment, so there's no reason for insurance to cover it.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at November 26, 2013 11:48 AM (GaqMa)


It might work on the placebo effect plus releasing pain endorphins. Some pretty funky treatments will work if you believe in their efficacy.

Posted by: joncelli at November 26, 2013 07:51 AM (RD7QR)

144 130 Thunderb, had to go on medicaid two years ago at age 61for a few months until medicare kicked in. On my lawyer's advice, my wife and daughter own everything. Gov. Wouldn't even get my underwear. Posted by: Fat Freddy's Cat at November 26, 2013 11:48 AM (OsheA) _____________ That's my plan for college for my kids. By the time they 're in high school, on paper I will own nothing and earn nothing. And they will both qualify for every govt benefit for "poor" students.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 26, 2013 07:51 AM (0LHZx)

145

Like these silly bastards thing the public isn't going to notice this or something.

 

Oh, they'll notice - the question is, who will they blame?  The marxist bastards who jammed this abomination through on party line votes, or on "BIG  INSURANCE!!ELEVENTY!!REICH-WING NUTS!!"  As much as it would warm my heart to see Nasty Pelousi on CNN running for her life from a baying mob out for blood, it won't happen.  The Dems will figure out some way of shifting blame and the LIV's will blindly follow.


Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 26, 2013 07:51 AM (zF6Iw)

146 Lib talking points seem to be falling apart the more this nonsense gets read.  You know, one could make a principled case for *not* reading it before voting on it -- that given the participants, you knew this was a rotten deal by definition.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 26, 2013 07:52 AM (6h2wp)

147 At this point the MFM could sink this marxist cocksucker like the fucking Bismarck if they had an ounce of "collective" integrity. It's now out in the open that Jugears has fatally wounded the health insurance market while holding the economy hostage for more than 3 years. He is actively sabotaging the health and careers of millions of Americans while having lied about it nonstop before and since. The MFM needs to be broken financially for the truth to get enough oxygen.

Posted by: ontherocks at November 26, 2013 07:52 AM (Pz5DF)

148 80 million?

That's damn near 1/4 of the entire country...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 26, 2013 07:52 AM (fwARV)

149 If you really think this is entirely the result of government incompetence, and that this manÂ’s family can enjoy Uncle SamÂ’s largesse without financial worry, you havenÂ’t heard of MedicaidÂ’s Estate Recovery Act, a measure which requires states to claw back money spent by Medicaid from available assets in deceased beneficiariesÂ’ estates. --- Torches, pitchforks, rope, lamppost, some assembly required.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 26, 2013 07:52 AM (/Crba)

150 Wow, what's with the WIDENESS?? Can someone fix the long link? I can't hardly read the content. Someone smack Pixy.

Posted by: Scott at November 26, 2013 07:52 AM (vW8Mk)

151 f you really think this is entirely the result of government incompetence, and that this manÂ’s family can enjoy Uncle Sam's largesse without financial worry, you haven't heard of Medicaid's Estate Recovery Act, a measure which requires states to claw back money spent by Medicaid from available assets in deceased beneficiaries Reverse mortgages hardest hit......

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 07:53 AM (cUARf)

152 Take your hand off my cold stinking soaking rain!

Posted by: NC Weatherman at November 26, 2013 07:53 AM (0FSuD)

153 It's still bad policy, but it'll be better than the CF Barry has engineered. Posted by: pep at November 26, 2013 11:46 AM (6TB1Z) And the Liberal ratchet effect continues. People, if we don't move it in the other direction, we are still on a path to destruction.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 26, 2013 07:53 AM (bb5+k)

154 Subaru   Brat    ruled,    rules     and    will     continue    to    rule.

Posted by: Brat Is Where It's At at November 26, 2013 07:53 AM (/1ATA)

155

142 -

 

Age is only a factor if you are employable.  If you are not employable, you would qualify for SSD - which is different from SSI.  SSD means you are 100%  and permanently disabled, and thus are  eligible for any and all services that are available to those who   have reached retirement age. 

Posted by: BurtTC at November 26, 2013 07:53 AM (TOk1P)

156 I don't think any of them ever bothered to read the bill, they have staffers for that.


Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 26, 2013 11:49 AM (/Crba)



Sorry if I didn't make it clear but I was referring to the staffers.  Assuming they read through it and understood what they read, none of these outcomes should be surprising.  So when I hear these shocked reactions I have no fucking sympathy for these turds because they're either lazy or stupid, with an additional "both" possibility>

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 26, 2013 07:54 AM (YU0Se)

157 Friends, friends. This is a 'appy occasion. Let's not bicker and argue 'bout 'oo killed 'oo.

Posted by: Barack Obama, Lord of Swamp Castle at November 26, 2013 07:54 AM (QupBk)

158 108 Looking back, can you remember any car that AMC made that was attractive?

The AMC Harley XLCR "cafe racer" was attractive. IMHO...

Posted by: Ktnxbye, now in Ptown at November 26, 2013 07:54 AM (RPDkq)

159 >>Apologies if this has been brought up before but have any Senators or Congress critters of either party actually read the 404Care bill? You didn't need to read the bill the entire bill to know this was going to happen. It was obvious. Once it was revealed that the head of HHS, in this case Obama/Sebelius/Pelosi/Reid, had the power to define exactly what had to be covered in a health insurance plan the game was over. Basic math skillz are important, too. There was no way in the world 30 (really more like 45) million people could be added to the free shit roles without substantial raises to everyone else's policy along with forcing youngins to buy insurance. What's funny to me is that liberal senators and reps are completely boned. They either have to admit they were too stupid to understand how insurance works or they just didn't give a damn. Pick one of those to run on. Should work out just fine.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2013 07:54 AM (g1DWB)

160 80 million? That's damn near 1/4 of the entire countryÂ… One man out of work is a tragedy. 80 million out of work is a statistic

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Channeling Josef Stalin[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 26, 2013 07:55 AM (F3G1y)

161

"SUPREMES TO TAKE ANOTHER CRACK AT OBAMACARE"

Anybody know what Drudge is wearing out his caps-lock on?

Posted by: Warthog at November 26, 2013 07:56 AM (WDySP)

162

Completely OT:

 

"As a mortician, I always tie the shoelaces together of the dead. That way when the zombie apocalypse comes, it will be hilarious."  Quote I just found on my facebook page.

 

That first sentence seems to be awkwardly written.

Posted by: madamemayhem at November 26, 2013 07:56 AM (S2RnE)

163 EnFeugo!!

Posted by: Someone who wants to be liked for saying something someone else said at November 26, 2013 07:56 AM (YEelc)

164 Oh, they'll notice - the question is, who will they blame? The marxist bastards who jammed this abomination through on party line votes, or on "BIG INSURANCE!!ELEVENTY!!REICH-WING NUTS!!" Gonna be hard when there is no longer any big insurance left.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 07:56 AM (cUARf)

165 For fucks sake, make medical school compulsory. The libs want college for everyone regardless. LIV heal thyself!

Posted by: See the forest for money trees at November 26, 2013 07:56 AM (R6JT1)

166 149 If you really think this is entirely the result of government
incompetence, and that this manÂ’s family can enjoy Uncle SamÂ’s largesse
without financial worry, you havenÂ’t heard of MedicaidÂ’s Estate Recovery
Act, a measure which requires states to claw back money spent by
Medicaid from available assets in deceased beneficiariesÂ’ estates.

---

Torches, pitchforks, rope, lamppost, some assembly required. Posted by

So what's the problem?  You thought this care was free?  If they had sold the estate to pay for treatment, they wouldn't have this problem now.  Instead, my estate should be taxed, right?

Posted by: SFGoth at November 26, 2013 07:56 AM (6h2wp)

167 Subaru Brat ruled, rules and will continue to rule. Posted by: Brat Is Where It's At --------------------- Almost too painful to contemplate.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 26, 2013 07:57 AM (aDwsi)

168 We're going to need more lampposts.

Posted by: Fat Freddy's Cat at November 26, 2013 07:57 AM (OsheA)

169 Oh FFS. If you're not hearing OCare talking points you may have to put up with some anti-2A bullshit. http://tinyurl.com/nr87w7c We've put together a printable placemat with a simple quiz about guns in America that you can share with your friends and family this holiday season. Click here to get a printable PDF of the placemat, and get copies for your friends and family today. Or you can just go fuck yourself.

Posted by: RWC at November 26, 2013 07:57 AM (fWAjv)

170 That's my plan for college for my kids. By the time they 're in high school, on paper I will own nothing and earn nothing.

My plan is to learn Spanish and get a job mowing the lawn at the closest University so my kids can get half tuition, although getting a civi divorce and dumping all assets into a trust are possibilities.

Posted by: Jean at November 26, 2013 07:57 AM (CMlD4)

171 Nurhemberg Trials. Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 11:47 AM (cUARf) Again, you and I seem to be sympatico. I was thinking that the number one *DUTY* of the next administration will be to hunt down and prosecute *EVERY* person who had anything to do with the Obama Administration. If we can put enough of his underlings in prison, then I think we would eventually be able to get him too. In any case, the US Government needs to be used as a weapon to prosecute these people to suicide. We need to *HURT* these people, and I mean blood and death hurt them. This is a war, and we need to start fighting Democrats like we are in a war with them.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 26, 2013 07:57 AM (bb5+k)

172 That's damn near 1/4 of the entire countryÂ…

One man out of work is a tragedy.

80 million out of work is a statistic

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Channeling Josef Stalin at November 26, 2013 11:55 AM (F3G1y)

Indeed, Comrade. 

Why the FUCK isn't every single politician from city council to Speaker of the House with an (R) after their name fucking screeching this from the rooftops?

"According to the Administration's own estimates, nearly one quarter of the population will be kicked off of their insurance next year."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 26, 2013 07:57 AM (fwARV)

173 "SUPREMES TO TAKE ANOTHER CRACK AT OBAMACARE" --- Obama... STOP! In the name of love... before you break my heart!

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at November 26, 2013 07:58 AM (/Crba)

174 Carolla  podcast has  Deaf Frat Guy on, today.   Laughing too hard to read comments, right now.

Posted by: garrett at November 26, 2013 07:58 AM (cSy82)

175 One thing I wonder about is this: The new plans require everyone to have certain benefits, like maternity care and pediatric dental care. As a single, childless male, I need neither. When pricing private plans, I had to check a box to indicate whether or not I had pediatric dental coverage. I priced both with and without, and the price was identical, so the insurance company is pricing the premium for that unneeded benefit at $0. I wonder if they are doing the same for male maternity coverage?

Posted by: whoever at November 26, 2013 07:58 AM (yUY1h)

176 I've been getting accupuncture once a month for the past 6 years, just to stay healthy. But I've been paying out of pocket. I usually feel "high" after my treatments. Very chill and content.

Posted by: Serious Cat at November 26, 2013 07:58 AM (UyYYt)

177 Tax the rich Feed the poor 'Til there are no rich no more

Posted by: Ten Years After at November 26, 2013 07:58 AM (aDwsi)

178 Easy. You'll be fine as long as you're only screwing over the people who would never vote for you anyway. Posted by: soothsayer is connectin the dots at November 26, 2013 11:48 AM (Jy7CL) Something the Democrats have always done. We need to do the same thing so that we can teach them why they ought not to do this. Payback is a bitch.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 26, 2013 07:59 AM (bb5+k)

179 Posted by: Sean Bannion, Channeling Josef Stalin at November 26, 2013 11:55 AM (F3G1y)


So Bannion......did "it" happen last night?






Posted by: EC at November 26, 2013 07:59 AM (GQ8sn)

180 What's funny to me is that liberal senators and reps are completely boned. They either have to admit they were too stupid to understand how insurance works or they just didn't give a damn.

In our world, that would be a dilemma.  In theirs, it means nothing.  These are the people who vote for Al Franken and Hank Johnson.

Posted by: pep at November 26, 2013 07:59 AM (6TB1Z)

181

Sorry if I didn't make it clear but I was referring to the staffers.

 

That's another thing that needs to be changed - no more staffers.  You work for us, Congressman Nickelfucker, so for what we pay you, you can answer your own damn phone, write your own damn mail and read your own damn bills!  If these tax-fatted lardasses had to do their own work, they wouldn't have time to pass shit laws like Obamacide.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 26, 2013 07:59 AM (zF6Iw)

182 173 "SUPREMES TO TAKE ANOTHER CRACK AT OBAMACARE"

---

Obama...

STOP! In the name of love... before you break my heart!

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at November 26, 2013 11:58 AM (/Crba)


Or maybe Roberts' chance to redeem himself...

Posted by: joncelli at November 26, 2013 08:00 AM (RD7QR)

183 So Bannion......did "it" happen last night? You know who you're talking to, right? Wink is the same as a nudge to a blind man!

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 26, 2013 08:00 AM (F3G1y)

184 @  154

  "Subaru Brat ruled....."

  Yeah, if you can stay ahead of the rust and the head gaskets.

Posted by: irongrampa at November 26, 2013 08:01 AM (SAMxH)

185  
    But the TRUE gem was the FF1.

Posted by: irongrampa at November 26, 2013 08:01 AM (SAMxH)

186 182 173 "SUPREMES TO TAKE ANOTHER CRACK AT OBAMACARE" --- Obama... STOP! In the name of love... before you break my heart! Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at November 26, 2013 11:58 AM (/Crba) Or maybe Roberts' chance to redeem himself... --- He may end up killing this POS bill, but he's already had his bite at the apple with regards to his legacy.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 26, 2013 08:02 AM (/Crba)

187
We've put together a printable placemat with a simple quiz about guns in America that you can share with your friends and family this holiday season. Click here to get a printable PDF of the placemat, and get copies for your friends and family today.

Or you can just go fuck yourself. Posted by: RWC

I expect to see this full of holes (Manchin Style?) on youtube

Posted by: Jean at November 26, 2013 08:02 AM (CMlD4)

188 You know who you're talking to, right?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 26, 2013 12:00 PM (F3G1y)




I have to think about that....




Posted by: EC at November 26, 2013 08:02 AM (GQ8sn)

189 @161 It's the Hobby Store suit. Really not going to affect ObamaCare, simply will give religious private companies a pass on the bill.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 26, 2013 08:02 AM (0FSuD)

190 Joncelli, accupuncture is mostly painless. Pin pricks. The exception being the bottom of feet. Lucky for me, my "CF" doesn't have meridians that run through feet.

Posted by: Serious Cat at November 26, 2013 08:03 AM (F85AX)

191 As much as it would warm my heart to see Nasty Pelousi on CNN running for her life from a baying mob out for blood, it won't happen. The Dems will figure out some way of shifting blame and the LIV's will blindly follow. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 26, 2013 11:51 AM (zF6Iw) I think that is a tough sell. Everyone on the planet knows they are losing their insurance due to this Obamacare rollout. People have a natural tendency to believe "Post hoc ergo propter hoc. " In this case, instinct happens to be absolutely right.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 26, 2013 08:03 AM (bb5+k)

192 I have actually seen a couple of guys riding in the 'back seats' of a clapped-out Brat. Had the look of a death-wish about it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 26, 2013 08:03 AM (aDwsi)

193 Why the F*** isn't every single politician from city council to Speaker of the House with an (R) after their name f*****g screeching this from the rooftops?

"According to the Administration's own estimates, nearly one quarter of the population will be kicked off of their insurance next year." Posted by: Washington Nearsider

My guess is it's just a matter of timing.  They're going to use this big-time as the midterms approach.  They're politicians.  They know the value of the cards they're holding.

Posted by: pep at November 26, 2013 08:03 AM (6TB1Z)

194 Speaking of someone who needs the lamppost treatment, posted this on the ONT this morning after I got back from watching Dr. Who : Day of the Doctor at the cinema in 3D.

Speaking of scum -
http://tinyurl.com/m8qz4br

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 08:03 AM (787tI)

195 >>In our world, that would be a dilemma. In theirs, it means nothing. These are the people who vote for Al Franken and Hank Johnson. Oh I wouldn't be so sure of that. Check out this article at Politico. http://tinyurl.com/kexk84z That's a double digit swing against Dems in a month among registered voters. And it seems tied almost entirely to Obmacare. And the real pain hasn't even hit yet. Not every liberal is in the FSA. A whole shit pile of them are in the feel good party and always vote on emotion, until they realize emotion is picking their pockets.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2013 08:03 AM (g1DWB)

196 On Medicaid grabbing your house, if you put your property into a trust FIVE years before you apply for Medicaid, they can't touch it.  Of course, this requires guesswork and luck.  As well as trusting the trustee.  But I'm sure the government is busy working on ways to undo this.


Posted by: Trotsky with an ice-pick in his head at November 26, 2013 08:03 AM (MAlP4)

197 Hahahah, the Brat. It's like an El Camino's tiny cousin.

Posted by: Mainah at November 26, 2013 08:04 AM (659DL)

198 I saw Rust and the Head Gaskets open for George Thorogood in '98.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 26, 2013 08:04 AM (zF6Iw)

199 All of the focus will be on 'Making it work', i.e., funding.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 26, 2013 08:04 AM (aDwsi)

200 Oh FFS. If you're not hearing OCare talking points you may have to put up with some anti-2A bullshit. Placing your concealed carry piece on the dining table next to you tends to shut down the anti 2nd bs.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2013 08:04 AM (cUARf)

201 That's another thing that needs to be changed - no more staffers. You work for us, Congressman Nickelfucker, so for what we pay you, you can answer your own damn phone, write your own damn mail and read your own damn bills! If these tax-fatted lardasses had to do their own work, they wouldn't have time to pass shit laws like Obamacide.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 26, 2013 11:59 AM (zF6Iw)



You left out what those turds use staffers for most:  fundraising.

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 26, 2013 08:04 AM (YU0Se)

202 What  are  we?  Chopped   liver?  Where's   the  love?   Oy!

Posted by: VW Thing and Oldsmobile Aztec at November 26, 2013 08:05 AM (/1ATA)

203 147 At this point the MFM could sink this marxist cocksucker like the fucking Bismarck if they had an ounce of "collective" integrity. It's now out in the open that Jugears has fatally wounded the health insurance market while holding the economy hostage for more than 3 years. He is actively sabotaging the health and careers of millions of Americans while having lied about it nonstop before and since. The MFM needs to be broken financially for the truth to get enough oxygen. Posted by: ontherocks at November 26, 2013 11:52 AM (Pz5DF) And creating the conditions for a Million + Dead in a middle east war. I predict that in the future, people will spit on the name "Obama." And it will be well earned.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 26, 2013 08:05 AM (bb5+k)

204 The longer it is there, the worse the infection. Posted by: Mike Hammer That's the plan.

Posted by: jwpaine @PirateBallerina at November 26, 2013 08:05 AM (9hVHZ)

205 And, as expected, she's gorgeous.

Union Leader: http://tiny.cc/si156w



The pointy-ness falls upon my eyes!!!


Posted by: EC at November 26, 2013 08:05 AM (GQ8sn)

206 Speaking of someone who needs the lamppost treatment, posted this on the ONT this morning after I got back from watching Dr. Who : Day of the Doctor at the cinema in 3D.

Speaking of scum -
http://tinyurl.com/m8qz4br

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 12:03 PM (787tI)

 

 

Ah, the British habit of squatters moving in to a temporarily empty home and setting up residency there has finally made it to American shores.

 

Wonderful.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 26, 2013 08:05 AM (4df7R)

207 When I was a kid I divided the world of things into Catholic and Protestant.  Ramblers were Protestant.

Posted by: Trotsky with an ice-pick in his head at November 26, 2013 08:06 AM (MAlP4)

208 It's the Hobby Store suit. Really not going to affect ObamaCare, simply will give religious private companies a pass on the bill. Posted by: Nip Sip

My church abjures worship of the devil and all his works.  Looks like OCare is SOL.

Posted by: pep at November 26, 2013 08:06 AM (6TB1Z)

209 I have actually seen a couple of guys riding in the 'back seats' of a clapped-out Brat. Had the look of a death-wish about it. Don't tell meÂ…. Super Dave Osborne was driving. Right?

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 26, 2013 08:06 AM (F3G1y)

210 I priced both with and without, and the price was identical, so the insurance company is pricing the premium for that unneeded benefit at $0. I wonder if they are doing the same for male maternity coverage? Posted by: whoever

You know when something is really expensive - its free, sort of like the menu with no prices the waiter gives your mother-in-law.

Posted by: Jean at November 26, 2013 08:06 AM (CMlD4)

211 Now now, the Type 181 Safari was basically a VW Beetle with some off-road modifications.

Whereas the Aztec is the shipping crate used to import parts from Mexico.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 08:06 AM (787tI)

212 It's a fraud. All of it. Everything emanating from Duh!1 is based on outright lies.

Posted by: backhoe at November 26, 2013 08:07 AM (ULH4o)

213
Barry: What's 80 million people compared to the goals of progressive/socialism? Just like Uncle Joe, I'll have to step over a few dead bodies to get there

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 26, 2013 08:07 AM (1Jaio)

214 Not every liberal is in the FSA. A whole shit pile of them are in the feel good party and always vote on emotion, until they realize emotion is picking their pockets. Posted by: JackStraw

Yeah, I agree.  I was really referring to the hardcore 30% or so who simply won't see reason even if their lives depend on.  Race, tribalism and social class are their rocks. 

Posted by: pep at November 26, 2013 08:08 AM (6TB1Z)

215 31 Barkocare requires Cinderella insurance. Not too good, not too bad, but just right. Cinderella, Goldilocks, whatevs.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at November 26, 2013 08:08 AM (1hM1d)

216 Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at November 26, 2013 11:48 AM (GaqMa)

When she wants to try homeopathic remedies. make sure she doesn't overdose......

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 26, 2013 08:08 AM (oJ5Fd)

217 The measure of how poorly Ocare is going over with Obama voters is the # who aren't still blaming Republicans.  Not sure what that is, but it's an integer greater than 0.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 26, 2013 08:08 AM (6h2wp)

218 You left out what those turds use staffers for most: fundraising. --- Not only that, but also sexual gratification and/or outright abuse, depending upon the member of Congress. Didn't Sheila Jackson-Lee have a staff member that she nicknamed "dumbfuck" or something else along those lines?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 26, 2013 08:08 AM (/Crba)

219 186 182 173
"SUPREMES TO TAKE ANOTHER CRACK AT OBAMACARE"



---



Obama...



STOP! In the name of love... before you break my heart!

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at November 26, 2013 11:58 AM (/Crba)

Or maybe Roberts' chance to redeem himself...

---


He may end up killing this POS bill, but he's already had his bite at the apple with regards to his legacy.
      Yep for him to take another crack at it could end up being good.  Of course it would basically require him to admit what a fucked up stupid retard he was with his original decision.

Posted by: buzzion at November 26, 2013 08:08 AM (LI48c)

220 It's the Hobby Store suit. Really not going to affect ObamaCare, simply will give religious private companies a pass on the bill.

Posted by: Nip Sip

That means *any* company then. There's no official status for a corp as a 'religious company.'

Of course the O-min could require ins co's to price plans w/ birth control and those w/o the same making it a moot victory.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at November 26, 2013 08:08 AM (nq+/u)

221 161 "SUPREMES TO TAKE ANOTHER CRACK AT OBAMACARE" Anybody know what Drudge is wearing out his caps-lock on? Posted by: Warthog at November 26, 2013 11:56 AM (WDySP) HobbyLobby contraceptives. Won't help the rest of us stuck with this crap.

Posted by: François Villon at November 26, 2013 08:09 AM (kkbgQ)

222 And, as expected, she's gorgeous. Dayum, we got some good lookin' womenfolk on our side. I think I'm in love.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 26, 2013 08:09 AM (7ObY1)

223 http://tiny.cc/si156w

Dayum.

Posted by: pep at November 26, 2013 08:09 AM (6TB1Z)

224 What's funny to me is that liberal senators and reps are completely boned. They either have to admit they were too stupid to understand how insurance works or they just didn't give a damn. Pick one of those to run on. Should work out just fine. Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2013 11:54 AM (g1DWB) They are completely boned until the media rescues them with lies. If the media were objective, Democrats would have never been able to advocate their current positions. Media destruction/replacement is our number one task people!

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 26, 2013 08:10 AM (bb5+k)

225
I think they underestimated the cancellations by about 240 million.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 26, 2013 08:10 AM (iGPSR)

226

203 What are we? Chopped liver? Where's the love? Oy!

Posted by: VW Thing and Oldsmobile Aztec

 

The Thing was cool - a German Army Jeep. The Aztec was an abomination. Dittos the Avalanche. But the Aztec was really bad - from every angle.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at November 26, 2013 08:10 AM (oDCMR)

227 >>So what's the problem? You thought this care was free? If they had sold the estate to pay for treatment, they wouldn't have this problem now. Instead, my estate should be taxed, right?

SFGoth - The Obamacare site is *forcing* people onto Medicaid if they qualify (based on current salary, regardless of net worth). That's what's so treacherous: these people *don't want* the handout, they're not looking for a free lunch, they're just trying to purchase a plan through the site. And then if they use Medicaid their assets are fair game for any expenses they incur from age 55+.

It's evil, it's a trap sprung upon people who want to remain independent and pay their own way.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 26, 2013 08:11 AM (JRmiD)

228 "SUPREMES TO TAKE ANOTHER CRACK AT OBAMACARE"
Anybody know what Drudge is wearing out his caps-lock on?

Posted by: Warthog at November 26, 2013 11:56 AM (WDySP)

*


The left always wanted legislation form the bench. Here go!


Posted by: dananjcon at November 26, 2013 08:11 AM (wmU4G)

229 MWR, yup the British system of squatters.  The article does not mention how they gained entry so I have to conclude the thieves forced the door.

Another argument for having a security system.  Go away for vacation and someone breaks in to squat and seize.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 08:11 AM (787tI)

230 Dayum, we got some good lookin' womenfolk on our side.

I think I'm in love.


She's half-Italian from her mother's side. 





Next question:  I wonder what her mom looks like.



Posted by: EC at November 26, 2013 08:11 AM (GQ8sn)

231 On potential WW3 news -- US sent two B-52s into the airspace that China said last week that nobody is allowed to fly in without permission of the Chicoms. So we called their bluff. Good. Now we'll see what they do about that.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 26, 2013 08:11 AM (ZPrif)

232 Tricare doesn't cover acupuncture.

Posted by: Mama AJ at November 26, 2013 08:12 AM (SUKHu)

233 I am so afraid that this will all be the new normal by election time.

Posted by: petunia at November 26, 2013 08:12 AM (DAcBA)

234 My dad had a mid 60 Rambler which was very dependable. After that he got a 73 Matador which had a huge trunk for vacation packing. Bit of an oil leaker though.

Posted by: bill sometimes bill from canada at November 26, 2013 08:13 AM (jl6cC)

235 "So we called their bluff. Good"

Calling their Bluff with a Buff, style points PACAF

Posted by: Jean at November 26, 2013 08:13 AM (CMlD4)

236 So what's the problem? You thought this care was free? If they had sold the estate to pay for treatment, they wouldn't have this problem now. Instead, my estate should be taxed, right? Posted by: SFGoth at November 26, 2013 11:56 AM (6h2wp) I object to this assessment. Medical care is unreasonably excessive in cost. It has long since ceased to be a free market system, and has long been modified by immoral distortions, not the least of which are the perverse incentives created by people NOT PAYING THEIR OWN DAMN BILLS. There is no reformatory pressure applied to the Medical care costs. When Medical care costs as much as a house, there is something damn wrong with the system anyway.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 26, 2013 08:13 AM (bb5+k)

237 So to give 30 Million people health insurance that didn't have/want it, 80 Million (like me) get screwed.

Or as Komrade Spock/Obama says: "The needs of the many are outweighed by those of the few."

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at November 26, 2013 08:13 AM (pgQxn)

238 Posted by: joncelli at November 26, 2013 11:51 AM (RD7QR) Yeah but there are cheaper ways to get to the placebo effect that don't involve needles and you know the potential for a staph infection therein.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at November 26, 2013 08:13 AM (GaqMa)

239 MWR,


You know what you must do!  Get some up close shots of Miss Garcia. 


And take Rafterman with you!

Posted by: EC at November 26, 2013 08:13 AM (GQ8sn)

240 So who gets to decide whether a company is "religious" or not? Will the IRS check to see how often you go to church? Christmas and Easter Catholics won't count, but once-a-monthers will?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 26, 2013 08:13 AM (ZPrif)

241 http://tiny.cc/si156w

Dayum.

Posted by: pep at November 26, 2013 12:09 PM (6TB1Z)

**



Our politics chicks are ALWAYS hotter than theirs. Proven fact.


Posted by: dananjcon at November 26, 2013 08:14 AM (wmU4G)

242

Posted by: VW Thing and Oldsmobile Aztec at November 26, 2013 12:05 PM (/1ATA)

______________________

Oldsmobile had an Aztek too?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 26, 2013 08:14 AM (32Ze2)

243 She's half-Italian from her mother's side.





Next question: I wonder what her mom looks like.



Posted by: EC at November 26, 2013 12:11 PM (GQ8sn)

 

 

And hispanic from her father's side.   Quite some fiery blood there.

 

The other way you know the Twitter troll is a douche?    He's got   Jarles Chonson of Little Puce Pigskins on his side.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 26, 2013 08:14 AM (4df7R)

244 Here in NJ we still have the private market, so going to the exchanges isn't the only option for either individuals or employers. Blue NJ already forced insurance companies to cover many of the things Obamacare now mandates, so the increases aren't as drastic as I'm hearing from other states. Blue Cross has a choice of a bronze plan at $650/month, two silvers at $750/month, and a gold at $850/month, all with their usual networks (as far as I know). My current plan would cost $809/month to renew, so I may just say fuck it and buy the gold plan with better coverage. Going without isn't an option for me. I'm envious of those people complaining that insurance is now going to cost them $300/month. Even going back 20 years, I've never seen a plan that low.

Posted by: whoever at November 26, 2013 08:15 AM (yUY1h)

245 EC has a new girlfriend MWR. 

And now he wants you to get some stereoscopic overheads of her assets....

Geez EC

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 08:15 AM (787tI)

246

EC has a new girlfriend MWR.



And now he wants you to get some stereoscopic overheads of her assets....



Geez EC


 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 12:15 PM (787tI)

 

 

I know, right?    Sheesh!  

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 26, 2013 08:16 AM (4df7R)

247
Of course the O-min could require ins co's to price plans w/ birth control and those w/o the same making it a moot victory.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Doesn't the Pittsburgh Arch-Diocese case cover that - the part about "facilitating scandal".

Posted by: Jean at November 26, 2013 08:16 AM (CMlD4)

248 EC has a new girlfriend MWR.

And now he wants you to get some stereoscopic overheads of her assets....

Geez EC

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 12:15 PM (787tI)




"Are you still here???"



Posted by: EC at November 26, 2013 08:16 AM (GQ8sn)

249 EnFeugo!!

Posted by: Someone who wants to be liked for saying something someone else said at November 26, 2013 11:56 AM (YEelc)

**



Yeah! That's what I'm talkin about!!


Posted by: dananjcon at November 26, 2013 08:16 AM (wmU4G)

250 >>They are completely boned until the media rescues them with lies. Yea, no. If they coulda, they woulda already. There is nobody in the world that doesn't know this plan is called Obamacare for a reason. It was supposed to be his crowning achievement and the msm spent literally years building him up over this glorious debacle. They can print whatever spin they want but nobody but the most deluded liberal is gonna buy it and they would never vote for us anyway. Nope. Been saying this for months and it is rolling out just the way I though. The plan is an unmitigated disaster and it is not only threatening the liberals in the mid-terms but the whole concept of big government liberalism is now in danger.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2013 08:18 AM (g1DWB)

251 New one RE: Hobby Lobby.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 26, 2013 08:19 AM (4df7R)

252 On potential WW3 news -- US sent two B-52s into the airspace that China said last week that nobody is allowed to fly in without permission of the Chicoms.

So we called their bluff. Good.

We're gonna need more F-22s.  And ... how's the F-35 operational deployment program going?  (spit).

Posted by: mrp at November 26, 2013 08:20 AM (HjPtV)

253 What's that EC?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 08:20 AM (787tI)

254 Remember, ACA has no severability clause.  If anything is unconstitutional, they 'may' strike the entire act.

Posted by: phreshone at November 26, 2013 08:20 AM (Pr6hk)

255 . Been saying this for months and it is rolling out just the way I though. The plan is an unmitigated disaster and it is not only threatening the liberals in the mid-terms but the whole concept of big government liberalism is now in danger.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2013 12:18 PM (g1DWB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-------

 

 

 

 

 

YAY!!!!!! 

I've been saying the same thing. Hope we're right. 

Posted by: madamemayhem at November 26, 2013 08:22 AM (S2RnE)

256 #253 Last line was a response to a Flatbush Joe post above. (#232)

Posted by: mrp at November 26, 2013 08:22 AM (HjPtV)

257 What's that EC?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 26, 2013 12:20 PM (787tI)



"Sir, does this mean that Ann Margaret is NOT coming?"



Posted by: EC at November 26, 2013 08:22 AM (GQ8sn)

258

And, as expected, she's gorgeous.


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

 

Big whoop.  She's 30 years old, was first elected to the state legislature at 23, and lists Kelly Ayotte as a role model.

 

Not a big fan of someone who spent her entire adult life in government and looks up to some McCain flack.

Posted by: @JohnTant at November 26, 2013 08:23 AM (eytER)

259

A:     March Madness

 

Q:    Name something that Obama  has done more research on then  he has the  ACA? 

Posted by: polykarnac at November 26, 2013 08:23 AM (m2CN7)

260 Posted by: bill sometimes bill from canada at November 26, 2013 12:13 PM

http://tinyurl.com/myu3ag2

AMC and Penske caused a bit of a stir in NASCAR and USAC with the Matadors driven by Allison and Donahue.


Posted by: LC LaWedgie at November 26, 2013 08:25 AM (KQp38)

261 Obamacare is currently morphing into ObamaSCARE, and once JournOlisted MFM divines on which side their bread will be buttered in the near and intermediate term, we''l either see a screeming rush to the exits, or squirrels on parade 24/7/365.

Posted by: ontherocks at November 26, 2013 08:26 AM (Pz5DF)

262 Not a big fan of someone who spent her entire adult life in government and looks up to some McCain flack.

Posted by: @JohnTant at November 26, 2013 12:23 PM (eytER)

 


This is NH and Ayotte is our lone Republican national representative,   who was AG of the state before heading to the Senate.  Of course she's going to list her as a role model.   It would be foolish political suicide to do otherwise.   And like I said, I know nothing about Ms. Garcia's actual politics, so I don't know if she's conservative, RINO, or whatnot.   

 

I just find it funny that, without   fail,   when the lefties decide to lash out at a Republican and/or conservative woman, the woman is invariably gorgeous   and the troll invariably fugly as hell.    It's like clockwork.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 26, 2013 08:26 AM (4df7R)

263 255 Remember, ACA has no severability clause. If anything is unconstitutional, they 'may' strike the entire act.

Posted by: phreshone at November 26, 2013 12:20 PM (Pr6hk)

 

Of course a lot of people think that's the reason the traitor idiot Roberts upheld the individual mandate.  Because he didn't want to nullify the entire law.

Posted by: buzzion at November 26, 2013 08:29 AM (LI48c)

264 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCIbhLUUA0

AMC aero package

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at November 26, 2013 08:30 AM (DL2i+)

265 >>I just find it funny that, without fail, when the lefties decide to lash out at a Republican and/or conservative woman, the woman is invariably gorgeous and the troll invariably fugly as hell. It's like clockwork. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 26, 2013 12:26 PM (4df7R) Where the hell has she been hiding? All I seem to see up here are cigarette smoking' buffarillos with bad toofs.

Posted by: ontherocks at November 26, 2013 08:30 AM (Pz5DF)

266 Nanny state hits GM sales

http://tinyurl.com/myy7feo

GM has announced that it is suspending orders for both the Camaro ZL1 and 1LE, from now until February 11th due to the high-performance tires both cars wear.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at November 26, 2013 08:30 AM (KQp38)

267 OT: What is this, Bass-Ackwards world? Power Rangers billionaire and staunch Israel supporter Haim Saban tonight offered strong support to President Obama for his efforts to wind down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and his recent initiative in negotiations with Iran. “We’re out of Iraq, we’re out of Afghanistan and the military and intelligence cooperation with Israel — our staunchest ally in the Middle East, arguably in the world, has never been deeper and the president’s commitment to Israel’s security has never been stronger,” Saban said

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 26, 2013 08:31 AM (SpeAp)

268 Health insurance without acupuncture is a crappy plan ... it's pointless.

Posted by: Illini Bill at November 26, 2013 08:40 AM (ix/Qh)

269 Hate it when I type a Kewl nic into the wrong box on this Android.

Posted by: jwpaine @PirateBallerina at November 26, 2013 08:52 AM (9hVHZ)

270 I hope someone in the background is hacking the fuck out of every attempt to straighten out the ACA site and can stretch it out to 2014. A little taste of their own medicine for a change.

Posted by: dumbartist at November 26, 2013 08:52 AM (ahBY0)

271 "It probably will get brought up. Lucky for me, my family is about as conservative as they come, and they despise Barky and what he's doing to the country."

Alas, not so for me: most my brothers and sisters have drunk the Kool-Aide to the dregs. Fortunately, they are also civilized people who, for the most part, observe the social proprieties - unlike many liberals. So, I have every hope of a pleasant day of eating pork (not a big fan of turkey), and drinking good beer and wine, and talking about baseball and computers and the movies.

Posted by: Brown Line at November 26, 2013 09:03 AM (VrNoa)

272

@72     23andme still lists their kits for sale. No idea how much longer. Hopefully they fight FDA's order in court and can keep selling the kits.

FDA wants to regulate this as a medical device.
It's a spit test. You spit some saliva into the kit, mail it back to 23andme and get your genetic data back.

It doesn't *do* anything to your body. It just accurately reads your DNA.

But the FDA says you're too stupid to be trusted with knowledge of your own genetic code.

Lots of things that don't "do" anything to the body are classified as medical devices.   In particular, diagnostic products such as pregnancy tests are regulated as medical devices.   There are lots of intricacies to the device classification process.  My guess is that 23andme is claiming that their kit is not a device since it doesn't diagnose any specific medical condition.   

Posted by: JPS at November 26, 2013 09:09 AM (aY76I)

273 "Almost 80 million people with employer health plans could find their coverage canceled because they are not compliant with ObamaCare, several experts predicted. " Okay, this has been laid out. Now, should this actually come to pass, how many of those 80 million will still be caught by surprise?

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at November 26, 2013 09:13 AM (VVsZ2)

274 "So who gets to decide whether a company is "religious" or not?"

The NLRB assumed that role in 2011 when it ruled that Saint Xavier University in Chicago was "not Catholic enough" to be permitted a religious exemption to unionization activities. (This was Obama's kangaroo NLRB; I don't know if its ruling has stood up.) Expect to see a *lot* more of this: government agencies taking upon themselves to determine just who is religious and who isn't.


Posted by: Brown Line at November 26, 2013 09:22 AM (VrNoa)

275 , “at least half the people on employer plans would by 2014 start losing plans as well.” It's happening now. Those 80 million are people like me who have employer provided insurance that had reasonable co-pays, prescription drug coverage and low deductibles. Starting in 2014, I will have an Obamacare compliant plan even though the employer mandate was put off for a year. I get to pay $9750 in additional premiums, $6000 annual deductible and no co-pays or drug plan. It will pay 80% after $6000 so I better have something catestrophic happen just for this to make any kind of financial sense. Otherwise, my wallet takes a $15,000 annual hit for absolutely no benefit.

Posted by: Big Daddy - sometime commentor at November 26, 2013 10:18 AM (Pfr2x)

276 And the cries of "where's my free stuff!?1!" echo across the land.

Posted by: evergreen at November 26, 2013 12:45 PM (5Oqsx)

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