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Mexico FLOODED with Canadians! It's verifiable fact, because some people I know told me that some people told them about some Canadians in Mexico!
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zeroprime posted:"many doctors aren't taking ACA" Pages and pages ago someone posted a sign from some crazy plastic surgeon who claimed he wasn't taking "Obamacare."
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May 4, 2014 06:51
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Unless you're paying the tax penalty for having a noncompliant plan, your insurance plan is Obamacare.
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May 4, 2014 07:03
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Unless you're paying the tax penalty for having a noncompliant plan, your insurance plan is Obamacare. Mine isn't. My governor's a shithead regarding Medicaid, and the PPACA website never managed to verify my identity. Signed up before the end of October and my case was put into limbo, I'm thinking it's due to Experian since that company also failed to do my credit score, but don't care enough to sort it out right now. I'm coasting on a temporarily-renewed 2013 plan which will probably be 2.5 times as pricey in 2015, according to a BCBSNC notice before the federal exemption. I get that it's still "Obamacare" for tax purposes, but it's definitely missing a thing or two with regard to comprehensiveness and total lack of subsidy.
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sweart gliwere posted:Mine isn't. My governor's a shithead regarding Medicaid, and the PPACA website never managed to verify my identity. Signed up before the end of October and my case was put into limbo, I'm thinking it's due to Experian since that company also failed to do my credit score, but don't care enough to sort it out right now. I'm coasting on a temporarily-renewed 2013 plan which will probably be 2.5 times as pricey in 2015, according to a BCBSNC notice before the federal exemption. I was having trouble in NC as well. The website got fixed and I was able to use it to cover my wife... about a week before the deadline.
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May 4, 2014 12:03
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May 4, 2014 16:24
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That picture isn't even Ambassador Stevens. The official report (but good luck expecting these people to believe it) is that he showed up at the hospital alive, with no external injuries, he was killed by smoke inhalation. That does not look like someone with no external injuries.
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May 4, 2014 16:31
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May 4, 2014 16:38
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Al Harrington posted:Woke up to this loving gem http://rogerhollander.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/bagram-a-living-hell/ Here's a website from 2009 sourcing it to Bagram. I can't tell if it's actually from there, but it's certainly older than the Benghazi attacks. Fun fact: It was a bit of a pain in the rear end to properly image search because it has a watermark that seems to only show up in fake Benghazi versions of it. edit: Hell, here it is on a 2010 Prison Planet forum post. Either people have magic time cameras or it's bullshit. 2nd edit: 2005 article that says it's from Argentina? Oldest reference I can find. TGLT fucked around with this message at 16:56 on May 4, 2014 |
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May 4, 2014 16:41
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The best part about it all is the photo that goes around actually from Benghazi of scary Muslims attacking Stevens is in fact the scary Muslims trying to drag him to the loving hospital.
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May 4, 2014 17:04
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Discendo Vox posted:Guys, a thing about the legal system is that individual low level outcomes like this one don't create large scale categorical precedent, and you shouldn't treat them like they do- it's the equivalent of the Republican push to stop "voter fraud". Wealthy people are not a protected class, and if the facts are indeed as the freaking DAILY MAIL says they are, there's a good chance it's a violation of the terms of probation and the kid is going to jail. Yes, the legal system in no way blatantly favors the wealthy.
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May 4, 2014 17:55
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This is the best because even if he were correct that Sterling expressed a private opinion and is being wronged here...this guy tweets his own opinion, giving his boss free rein to fire him for his own, very public, speech 
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May 4, 2014 18:02
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Badera posted:Yes, the legal system in no way blatantly favors the wealthy. I responded that way because "protected category" or "class" is a pair of words with significant, fairly specific legal meaning in the US. To the extent that the wealthy have an advantage in the US legal system, it's due to a complex set of factors, not because of the 1988 Supreme Court case Richguy v. Thompson in which wealthy people gained special status under the CRA. Reducing the inequities of the US legal system into broad, categorical statements prevents us from understanding the actual ways by which unequal access and outcomes occur- plus the post that made this assertion was using a really bad source to make that claim. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 19:14 on May 4, 2014 |
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May 4, 2014 18:08
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zeroprime posted:"many doctors aren't taking ACA" Well, yes and no. It's true there's no plan called "Obamacare," but some new plans have come into being since the ACA and not everyone accepts them. We had this problem- we signed up for a new plan and went to a doctor with it, and they wouldn't take it. The receptionist even said "we don't take that Obamacare insurance." Eventually, we retroactively got it paid for, but a lot of hospitals around here still are fighting to refuse it.
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VitalSigns posted:This is the best because even if he were correct that Sterling expressed a private opinion and is being wronged here...this guy tweets his own opinion, giving his boss free rein to fire him for his own, very public, speech Nobody seems to grasp that the protection is limited to actions by the government.
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May 4, 2014 19:29
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Has there ever been a poll asking people "does the first amendment protect people from being fired for expressing their opinion?"
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SedanChair posted:Has there ever been a poll asking people "does the first amendment protect people from being fired for expressing their opinion?" Probably dozens, but it doesn't matter. Polls are only accurate when they say what you already believe. Otherwise, they are biased, or the people who answered are idiots.
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May 4, 2014 22:45
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I propose the 28th Amendment: Freedom from consequences of free speech.
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May 4, 2014 22:56
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Phone posted:I propose the 28th Amendment: Freedom from consequences of free speech. Clearly this would only reveal that liberals are actually the only racists there are (also black people) since they would be free to show their true colors. Thus it will never be passed. 
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May 5, 2014 01:06
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"You have a right to freedom of speech, but as a corollary I have a right to criticize you for your free speech. And if you sign a contract that has a clause that says that if you cause harm to the NBA and your speech in facts causes harm tot he NBA, then guess what, you violated a contract you signed!" The folks crowing about how Sterling and Bundy are having their rights violated also probably think that the professor at FAU who had in some exercise his students stomp on the name 'Jesus' should be fired, actually.
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My feed is usually devoid of goofballs, but today, this happened: Who has the hate-on for psychiatric drugs, again? I barely know the first guy and I don't know the guy that replied, but I feel like I should troll this Barry Cade guy somehow.
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May 5, 2014 07:49
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S-U-P-E-R posted:My feed is usually devoid of goofballs, but today, this happened: So apparently Mark Key in favor of a massive federally-ran (you know, since local municipalities are just jumping at the chance to expand their liability) military presence in American schools, and Barry Cade's answer to stop this is to remove badly needed medication from everyone that relies on it because of the instances of these things happening. Forget that these same medications are definately helping a lot more people than they are causing to commit these acts. You know what would be a far better use of a huge military occupational presence and "removal" of a private thing? Using that presence to remove the weapons from people so this doesn't happen in the first place, but you know 2A so can't have that ever.
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I actually think it might be a really good idea to have guaranteed jobs for returning veterans with a focus on transitioning away from a combat mentality. Working with kids might not be for everyone, but along with jobs taking care of animals, working with senior citizens or anything else that puts them in a nurturing environment would be a great idea.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I actually think it might be a really good idea to have guaranteed jobs for returning veterans with a focus on transitioning away from a combat mentality. Working with kids might not be for everyone, but along with jobs taking care of animals, working with senior citizens or anything else that puts them in a nurturing environment would be a great idea. I'm going to point out here that the job is literally "Here is a rifle, shoot at bad guys." I do agree that having guaranteed jobs would be great, but as someone that has done this transition myself, the problem isn't so much that the veterans are unqualified, it's more that the private sector, in general, does not like to hire veterans. Solve that and you have taken care of a lot of major issues.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I actually think it might be a really good idea to have guaranteed jobs for returning veterans with a focus on transitioning away from a combat mentality. Working with kids might not be for everyone, but along with jobs taking care of animals, working with senior citizens or anything else that puts them in a nurturing environment would be a great idea. So you think it's a good idea for veterans, possibly suffering from PTSD and having flashbacks to having to fight against people whom use children sometimes would be best suited to being given a gun and sitting in a school somewhere?
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I actually think it might be a really good idea to have guaranteed jobs for returning veterans with a focus on transitioning away from a combat mentality. What returning veterans need is education and a job, not pulling guard duty at the preschool.
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E-Tank posted:So you think it's a good idea for veterans, possibly suffering from PTSD and having flashbacks to having to fight against people whom use children sometimes would be best suited to being given a gun and sitting in a school somewhere? For god's sake, no, don't give them a gun. Have them help preschoolers do papercrafts or something.
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S-U-P-E-R posted:Who has the hate-on for psychiatric drugs, again? I barely know the first guy and I don't know the guy that replied, but I feel like I should troll this Barry Cade guy somehow. It's frightening to consider having mental illness--the mind is more personal than the physical body. Perhaps more significantly, it's a major challenge to the worldview of people with a strong attachment to the ideas of free will or personal responsibility: if a person with depression can't control their mood or thoughts, a person with schizophrenia can't control their senses, a person with ADHD can't control their attention, then maybe none of us are quite so in control as we pretend. But since mental illness is largely subjective and self-reported, and our understanding of it has undergone huge revolutions in the last century or two, it's easy for people to simply pretend it doesn't exist or that your own common-sense cure is just as valid as psychiatry. It's like alternative medicine: you've got your anti-science right-wingers who think everyone can just choose to be cured, your hippies who want an excuse to smoke weed, Scientologists recruiting for their cult, and who knows who else.
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S-U-P-E-R posted:My feed is usually devoid of goofballs, but today, this happened: This would be a government jobs program, which would never work
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gradenko_2000 posted:This would be a government jobs program, which would never work Since I'm a huge nerd, I ran some numbers... There's 132,000 K-12 schools in the US, about 99,000 of those are public schools. We'll take the average school year to be 180 days, and the average school day to be 7 hours. At the federal minimum wage of $7.25 each veteran would earn $9135 per year. That's below the poverty level (good thing they would have summers off to work a second job, right?) Putting 3 veterans in each school at that wage would cost $3.6 billion per year for all schools, or $2.7 billion for just public schools.
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borkencode posted:Since I'm a huge nerd, I ran some numbers... A goon ran the numbers a while back and found that it would be cheaper (like by half) to supply all school age children with healthcare than it would be to have an armed guard at every single school. I'll try to see if I can find the numbers.
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The only serious danger I remember from highschool was a dumb student who arrived drunk and started a fight with our school's only cop. He went for the cop's gun, and was fortunately wrestled into submission. Put four vets in every school with combat rifles? One's gonna take a fire extinguisher to the back of the head in order to jump-start the next shooting. Mark Key sure is on the ball with regard to soldiers fondly recalling "the possibility of killing children" as their favorite part of service, of course they want to risk doing it again when they come home.
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quote:Okay... you know what my precocious little smurf?Time and again we go over this. Socialized medicine has been proven, again time and again, to be inferior. YES, our medicine has problems, I don't deny it. But letting government stick their fat thumb in another pie just leads to one thing: them taking the whole damned bakery.
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Because the USSR collapsed, therefore Communism Lost. Another lefty loon talking point swatted down with a folksy pie-based metaphor!
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My Crazy Grandpa posted:Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. quote:People like me are completely politically irrelevant I agree with this imaginary ARE TROOPS. A Good Email. Edit: Some googling brought up http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-american-dream-time-for-its.html as a possible source. Hooooly poo poo this thing is a gold mine. thuly fucked around with this message at 17:44 on May 5, 2014 |
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May 5, 2014 17:40
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Crazy Grandpa posted:[bigoted talking points] You really ought to show Grandpa a bit more of Norman Rockwell's America
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quote:Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. I like how it opens with a Buddhist parable. 
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thuly posted:I agree with this imaginary ARE TROOPS. A Good Email. I love that they specify a proud government employee wrote it and then lists "government employees" among those ruining America. Why do people have such a massive selective military hard-on for just another part of the government?
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My dad's cousin, who usually posts lots of cutesy inspirational messages and silly cartoons about people getting old, just went ahead and posted this: 
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