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Sephiroth_IRA posted:The ACA or the exchanges? "Since it took full effect". I'm not sure what that means since I wouldn't have considered "full effect" until the mandate deadline arrived, but I'll assume they include Medicaid expansion and the exchanges. The range cited in the article refers to a drop in uninsured since September 2013, which is well after the 26-y.o. exemption went in.
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Fried Chicken posted:At this point, my theory is that so long as you don't resign, there isn't a scandal that will take a politician down. Make some apologetic noises and the news cycle will wash it away. Mark Sanford "borrowed" a government vehicle to sneak to the airport to fly to south america to sleep with his mistress, and is sitting in Congress right now. Issa and Scott are both felons. Bob Kerrey is a child murderer. Gingrich and his mistresses. Clinton is a well respected elder statesman. Naked bribery all over the place (do you really think Sheldon Anderson is worried about kids being exposed to gambling instead of competition, or Thomas forgot that 750k?). Clinton is the exception because unlike the others he wasn't a member of the Moral Crusaders for Morality (or whatever the hell the various "family values" groups have called themselves throughout the decades) for his entire political career. What he did was lovely, yes, if you're Hillary Clinton, but the Republican witch hunt that resulted was completely uncalled for on every level. And you may end up being proven wrong if the Chris Christie thing continues to unravel on him. Anyone hear about the shitfit he threw when Joy Behar roasted him? Fritz Coldcockin fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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How many major donors get off on the idea that a congressman is boning their wife? All these scum have open relationships, then they have to act shocked. Cue "rehab."
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SedanChair posted:How many major donors get off on the idea that a congressman is boning their wife? All these scum have open relationships, then they have to act shocked. Cue "rehab." NY Post: Major Donor with Major Bonor
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:The ACA or the exchanges? I figured that number would be higher due to people <= 26 being able to get on their parents plan. If that's the same study I saw things about yesterday, it's a combination of new employer-based enrollment, the exchanges, and Medicaid enrollments. It's actually a really interesting figure, because their numbers on the exchanges and Medicaid are well below what's been reported elsewhere, and the biggest part of their number is from people who were previously uninsured who were offered employer-based coverage and took it.
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I know Joe posted a link yesterday about Holder losing his patience with the 'honorable gentleman from Texas', Louie Gohmert. The video that circulated about the exchange apparently did not contain Holder's final remark. Holder Plays Asparagus Card Against GOP Antagonist quote:After a testy exchange Tuesday with Rep. Louis Gohmert, a Texas Republican who had clearly gotten on his last nerve, Holder delivered a dose of ridicule. 
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Haha, that's brilliant. Gohmert might actually be the dumbest person to ever hold a Congressional seat.
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Crain posted:What's the story behind the asparagus thing? Malapropism from Gohmert. "You will not cast aspersions on my asparagus" or something.
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Crain posted:What's the story behind the asparagus thing? The linked article posted:After Holder vigorously defended himself and his agency at that earlier hearing from Gohmert's accusation that the Justice Department failed to prevent the Boston Marathon bombing, a flustered Gohmert said: "The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus."
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zoux posted:Malapropism from Gohmert. "You will not cast aspersions on my asparagus" or something. I've seen it described as a malapropism in several articles, but what the hell was Gohmert aiming for? I've been looking for words that are kind of similar, but I'm drawing a blank...
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richardfun posted:I've seen it described as a malapropism in several articles, but what the hell was Gohmert aiming for? I've been looking for words that are kind of similar, but I'm drawing a blank... Aspirations, maybe? Only thing I can think of.
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richardfun posted:I've seen it described as a malapropism in several articles, but what the hell was Gohmert aiming for? I've been looking for words that are kind of similar, but I'm drawing a blank... My guess is he didn't have an object in mind for "aspersions," and just circled back to the same word, i.e., he got to "don't cast aspersions on my ____", mentally filled in "don't cast aspersions on my . . . aspersions . . ., realized that was wrong, and short-circuited.
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richardfun posted:I've seen it described as a malapropism in several articles, but what the hell was Gohmert aiming for? I've been looking for words that are kind of similar, but I'm drawing a blank... Hieronymous Alloy posted:My guess is he didn't have an object in mind for "aspersions," and just circled back to the same word, i.e., he got to "don't cast aspersions on my ____", mentally filled in "don't cast aspersions on my . . . aspersions . . ., realized that was wrong, and short-circuited.
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richardfun posted:I've seen it described as a malapropism in several articles, but what the hell was Gohmert aiming for? I've been looking for words that are kind of similar, but I'm drawing a blank... It's important to keep in mind that Gohmert is a loving retard.
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"Aspersions on my asparagus" is the new "Keep loving that chicken".
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zoux posted:It's important to keep in mind that Gohmert is a loving retard. I think you mean permanent idiot king. In somewhat subtle trolling news: 
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9mm? That sissy little europellet? Looks like another RINO! A True American Patriot would only provide .45 ACP.
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comes along bort posted:I think you mean permanent idiot king. I have no idea how much a weapon rental / ammunition from a firing range usually costs -- are those really outlandish prices for those plus food/drink? I probably would have guessed about fifty bucks for the pistol one, but I've never held a loaded gun in my life.
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loquacius posted:I have no idea how much a weapon rental / ammunition from a firing range usually costs -- are those really outlandish prices for those plus food/drink? I probably would have guessed about fifty bucks for the pistol one, but I've never held a loaded gun in my life. The $100 level looks like a legit good deal if you wanted to go shoot some pistols and SMGs with catered food.
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amanasleep posted:Don't call me pal, Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Don't call me whatever that was, me old china.
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loquacius posted:I have no idea how much a weapon rental / ammunition from a firing range usually costs -- are those really outlandish prices for those plus food/drink? I probably would have guessed about fifty bucks for the pistol one, but I've never held a loaded gun in my life. $15/hr is normal if you're bringing your own gun, so add in another  for the food and beverages and I'm assuming he got a bulk discount for renting out the entire place.
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Seriously, gently caress Ben Stein: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/09/ben-stein-poor-people-are-jealous-lazy-drunks-who-dont-appreciate-indoor-plumbing/ Warcabbit posted:Don't call me whatever that was, me old china. Don't call me old china, confidant and compatriot
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comes along bort posted:I think you mean permanent idiot king. I'm going to start a countergroup called "For a Well Regulated Militia".
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hangedman1984 posted:Seriously, gently caress Ben Stein: So does that count as "class warfare" since apparently saying mean things about the rich does.
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Alter Ego posted:Aspirations, maybe? Only thing I can think of. His aspirations to do...what, exactly? Run Holder out of town, tarred and feathered?
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He was trying to say "aspersions on my character". Just before the asparagus line he said, "I cannot have a witness challenge my character."
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I suppose if you squint, "character" and "asparagus" sort of look the same. Kinda. Louie Gohmert's still a moron though.
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He probably heard it from whoever beats him in the head with a hammer every day, thought it was a funny turn of phrase, and decided to blurt it at the attorney general. Problem is that his hammer-wielding gimp master was fielding a bit of gastronomic criticism from the wife regarding his failure at properly cooking the otherwise delightful vegetable in question. She'd yelled down into the basement about how the asparagus was a lovely, lemony-peppery mush and the gimp, taking offense, insisted she not cast aspersions on his asparagus. Gohmert, as he had not yet received the first of his nightly concussions, was lucid enough to overhear. It was literally aspersions being cast upon a man's asparagus, but Gohmert took it as a euphemism (that bastard burns my grits/grinds my gears/throws shade) because he's a loving idiot. Alternatively he believes he is literally a plate of asparagus and refers to himself in the self-possessive second vegetable. When he said "my asparagus" he meant himself.
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Alter Ego posted:I suppose if you squint, "character" and "asparagus" sort of look the same. Kinda. You know how when you are thinking about something else, that can creep into what you are talking about. I think Gohmert was thinking about how impressed he was with himself about using the word "aspersions" correctly in a sentence and accidentally said it twice.
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zoux posted:You know how when you are thinking about something else, that can creep into what you are talking about. I think Gohmert was thinking about how impressed he was with himself about using the word "aspersions" correctly in a sentence and accidentally said it twice. I am gonna go on record and say that Gohmert was attempting an homage to the Three Stooges.
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comes along bort posted:I think you mean permanent idiot king. This is a fart's distance away from my place. I could go there and check it out, but last time I went there it was asses to elbows and had a 2 hour wait or some poo poo, so...
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Senate Intelligence Committee released a cropped (480 pages out of 6600, the executive summary + 20 conclusions and lessons learned) report on the CIA's torture program. Lots of new details on the black sites and the methods. Not lunchtime reading. Not anytime reading really. But this poo poo needs to be exposed. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/9/senate-cia-torture.html Excerpt getting buzz: Interrogator: "We've gotten everything we can out of the guy" CIA office: "Water board him some more"
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Fried Chicken posted:Senate Intelligence Committee released a cropped (480 pages out of 6600, the executive summary + 20 conclusions and lessons learned) report on the CIA's torture program. Lots of new details on the black sites and the methods. Jesus Christ quote:According to Al Jazeera’s sources, Zain Abidin Mohammed Husain Abu Zubaydah was the only captive subjected to all 10 torture techniques identified in an August 2002 Justice Department memo. But the U.S. officials said the Senate report concludes that the methods applied to Abu Zubaydah went above and beyond the guidelines outlined in that memo and were used before the memo establishing their legality was written. The latest date I see in the article is 2006, how many years does this report cover?
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Alter Ego posted:I suppose if you squint, "character" and "asparagus" sort of look the same. Kinda. Let's split the difference: Aspergsions.
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Looks like there was a school stabbing incident this morning in Pennsylvania. I wonder how long it will take the Right to start claiming we should ban knives now herp derp.
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I'm an advocate for open carry knives. *he unsheathed his Hanzo steel* E: 
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Unzip and Attack posted:Looks like there was a school stabbing incident this morning in Pennsylvania. I wonder how long it will take the Right to start claiming we should ban knives now herp derp. quote:All are expected to survive. That's the difference.
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Boy, "The Civil War Was About States Rights, Not Slavery" is getting long in the tooth. How can we being new life to Southern righteousness, denigrate "big government", and bring religion into it? http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jim-demint-asserts-federal-government-played-no-role-freeing-slaves Jim Demint posted:Well the reason that the slaves were eventually freed was the Constitution, it was like the conscience of the American people. Unfortunately there were some court decisions like Dred Scott and others that defined some people as property, but the Constitution kept calling us back to ‘all men are created equal and we have inalienable rights’ in the minds of God. But a lot of the move to free the slaves came from the people, it did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith, that this was wrong. People like Wilberforce who persisted for years because of his faith and because of his love for people. So no liberal is going to win a debate that big government freed the slaves. In fact, it was Abraham Lincoln, the very first Republican, who took this on as a cause and a lot of it was based on a love in his heart that comes from God.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Winning Florida while still losing Virgina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, among others, does not make it a race. Jeb might win Florida thanks to Florida being America's Taint, but if Romney couldn't win a bunch of battleground states the only way Jeb will is through some next level voter fraud. Not only that, since Crist is an actual Democrat now, there won't be a bunch of attempts to cut early voting hours, voter ID crap, bullshit "voter purges" right before the election, super long voting lines on election day, or any of the other crap Republicans love to do to suppress the vote. What I'm trying to say is welcome to the Democratic party Mr. Crist, we're happy to have you.
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