Kanine posted:

https://news.vice.com/article/polygamist-mormon-sect-accused-of-using-local-police-to-bully-non-members

this is pretty hosed up

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"I had purchased an individual policy and Blue Cross Blue Shield canceled all their individual policies in the state of Texas effective December 31st," Cruz explained. "So our health care got canceled. We got a notice in the mail. Blue Cross Blue Shield was leaving the market."

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Keep the plan we pick for you. We will be moving our Blue Choice PPO members to our new Blue Advantage Plus plan, an HMO plan with added out-of-network benefits.

Joementum posted:

You can watch the snowfall from Paul Ryan's balcony while listening to extremely questionable music choices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6aECjnpLTw

Luigi Thirty posted:

Another day, another movie theater shooting. Drunk guy open carrying in a movie theater in Renton, WA whips out his gun and starts playing with it, shoots woman sitting in front of him when it goes off.

Electric Bugaloo posted:

Bernie's got three decades of Senate experience to back up his 'unthreatening to our American ways' credentials if he wants to keep making it a tentpole of his brand.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

You forgot to mention the movie they were watching.

Go on, guess which one!

Condiv posted:

and you'll have to explain to me why i can't possibly support bernie and support local candidates at the same time. is my vote for local democrats going to count less cause i voted for bernie?

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Counterpoint: Quebec.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Minor quibble: Bernie was elected to the Senate in 2006. He served in the House between 1991 and then.


Bayghazi? It was Bayghazi, wasn't it.

Luigi Thirty posted:

Another day, another movie theater shooting. Drunk guy open carrying in a movie theater in Renton, WA whips out his gun and starts playing with it, shoots woman sitting in front of him when it goes off.

Reik posted:

Lol look at this Ted Cruz guy lie through his teeth.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/politics/ted-cruz-health-insurance-obamacare/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Yeah, that's completely false. BCBSTX cancelled all of their PPO individual products, but they are still selling HMO products in the individual market. Ted Cruz would have been automatically re-enrolled in to an HMO product effective Jan 1, 2016 unless he specifically opted out of automatic re-enrollment.


http://www.bcbstx.com/company-info/news/news?lid=iggh3603#new-plan

Doctor Butts posted:

Good guy with a gun.

On Terra Firma posted:

from the chat

Doctor Butts posted:

Good guy with a gun.

BetterToRuleInHell posted:

This is true, as I had the same thing happen to me, but being smarter than Cruz I got a new plan through UHC rather than keep the BCBSTX HMO. Now what I have to figure out is why Obamacare never voided out my first plan because surprise! I'm now billed two months for BCBSTX on top of my new UHC coverage, even though I went through Obamacare to get UHC and did everything they said to get new coverage.

Boon posted:

Ah yes, Canadian Texas.

Joementum posted:

You can watch the snowfall from Paul Ryan's balcony while listening to extremely questionable music choices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6aECjnpLTw

Reik posted:

Lol look at this Ted Cruz guy lie through his teeth.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/politics/ted-cruz-health-insurance-obamacare/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Yeah, that's completely false. BCBSTX cancelled all of their PPO individual products, but they are still selling HMO products in the individual market. Ted Cruz would have been automatically re-enrolled in to an HMO product effective Jan 1, 2016 unless he specifically opted out of automatic re-enrollment.


http://www.bcbstx.com/company-info/news/news?lid=iggh3603#new-plan

Reik posted:

Was it automatic withdrawal for the BCBSTX plan or do you have bills outstanding? There's no penalty for not paying your premiums for BCBSTX, you'll just lapse coverage (lol).

Captain_Maclaine posted:

I thought Alberta was Canadian Texas.

Boon posted:

Ah yes, Canadian Texas.

BetterToRuleInHell posted:

It was not automatic, no (thankfully). Going to contact Obamacare rep (again) to figure out what's going on.

Evil Fluffy posted:

Are we lucky enough for BCBSTX to publicly refute his claims? A Presidential Candidate claiming your company up and bailed on one of the largest states in the country seems like something you'd want to set the record straight on.

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A Senate committee chairman imposed a dress code on Kansans testifying on elections or ethics bills that explicitly prohibits women from wearing skimpy skirts or blouses with plunging necklines while establishing no wardrobe restrictions exclusively for men.

In a series of interviews Thursday, a bipartisan group of women senators responded to the rules with varying degrees of dismay.

Sen. Mitch Holmes, a St. John Republican and chairman of the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee, said Rule No. 2 of his 11-point code of conduct was intended to make certain each participant was dressed in a respectful manner. The instructions implemented solely at his discretion say each conferee must present themselves in “professional attire.”

He offered more detailed guidance to women conferees because he had observed provocatively clad females at the Capitol. Revealing too much of the body during testimony to the Senate committee is a distraction, he said.

“For ladies,” the rule says, “low-cut necklines and mini-skirts are inappropriate.”

His written set of guidelines didn’t denote a minimum skirt length nor did it set a maximum depth of cut for blouses.

“It's one of those things that’s hard to define,” Holmes said. “Put it out there and let people know we’re really looking for you to be addressing the issue rather than trying to distract or bring eyes to yourself.”

Holmes said he considered stipulating men had to wear suit and tie when addressing his Senate committee, but decided males didn’t need supplemental instruction on how to look professional. He expects lobbyists to be attuned to the rules when interacting with his committee, but acknowledged infrequent visitors to the Statehouse might not be aware of each fashion mandate.

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Darth Walrus posted:

"I have made a terrible mistake. Possibly several."

Noam Chomsky posted:

Aerox posted:

Trabisnikof posted:

More from the sexist Republicans desk:



Broads in the office amirite

Reik posted:

Insurance companies are swamped all over the US right now because a very large number of individuals and small groups waited until the last few days to sign up for January effective coverage. Maybe this is a result of that? I say this in no way as a representative of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas.


Gods I hope so. I'm an actuary at BCBSTX and there's been so much false information thrown around by politicians and bureaucrats it would be amazing to see one caught in a very blatant lie get called out.

Aerox posted:

Darth Walrus posted:

"I have made a terrible mistake. Possibly several."

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Sydin posted:

Meanwhile, while the rest of the US government is frothing over how to destroy encryption to secure are freedumbs, NSA Chief Mike Rogers of all people points out that trying to legislate against encryption is loving stupid.

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Hacking allows law enforcement to plant malicious code on someone’s computer in order to gain access to the photos, messages, and text before they were ever encrypted in the first place, and after they’ve been decrypted.

Sydin posted:

Meanwhile, while the rest of the US government is frothing over how to destroy encryption to secure are freedumbs, NSA Chief Mike Rogers of all people points out that trying to legislate against encryption is loving stupid.

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Meanwhile, Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., are reportedly planning their own proposed legislation to require law enforcement access.

Aerox posted:

RuanGacho posted:

This is the final Straw CA, you're all as officially culpable for your Senate representation as Texas is for Cruz.