Wednesday Morning News Dump (4/13/16) [Misanthropic Humanitarian]

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1 Huuge dump

Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 08:08 AM (4dbPD)

2 Gina McCarthy's incredibly ugly face which makes me puke affects me every time I see it.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 08:08 AM (vvmPQ)

3 Troubling disability claims??? How about the link I posted over a year ago that said 50% of SSDI was fraud and abuse.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 08:10 AM (vvmPQ)

4 I'm still not running. 24 hours a day.

Posted by: Paul Ryan, Refusing the Nomination at April 13, 2016 08:11 AM (eHpnh)

5 Morning, Horde.

I'm going on vacation next week, so of course, this is going to be the longest 3 days of the year.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 13, 2016 08:11 AM (KUaJL)

6 Cubbies aren't eliminated yet
Wow

Posted by: Navycopjoe at April 13, 2016 08:12 AM (3f8gu)

7 Re: Public Defender article

The law is clear. The US Supreme Court, in their 1963 case Gideon v Wainwright,
ruled that everyone who is accused of a crime has a Constitutional
right a lawyer at the state's expense if they cannot afford one.

Not exactly true, only for significant felonies.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 08:12 AM (vvmPQ)

8 SSI is a better deal than working for wages in Obama's America. And easier to get than welfare, which often has a work requirement.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 13, 2016 08:13 AM (EZebt)

9 If Mama ain't happy, then nobody is happy.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,,,,,

Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at April 13, 2016 08:13 AM (dFi94)

10 Instead of not running 24 hours a day, I think I'll help OJ find the real killer!

Posted by: Paul Ryan, Refusing the Nomination at April 13, 2016 08:14 AM (eHpnh)

11 Is it true that the Income Tax filing is extended to the 18th this year?

Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at April 13, 2016 08:15 AM (dFi94)

12 So is time for 50,000 or so pissed off citizens to show up at the IRS building in DC to inform the bureau-brats recess is over?

Posted by: Barky chokes on Dix at April 13, 2016 08:17 AM (nghdl)

13 154

Magic number for Cubs Divisional Championship.

Going all the way this year.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Let's play two! at April 13, 2016 08:20 AM (WVsWD)

14 @11. Yes the 18th. I read it on the internet.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at April 13, 2016 08:20 AM (j2xmV)

15 I could go for some Cheetos and Mountain Dew right now. No, I'm not a stoner.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 08:21 AM (0mRoj)

16
Hmmmmm,, I wonder if I can get a tax filing extension on medical grounds and maybe some of that disability too....

Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 13, 2016 08:21 AM (HSmrB)

17 Because this is the kind of mood I'm in this morning:

"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koO-rnus45M

Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at April 13, 2016 08:21 AM (dFi94)

18 I have a 40 year old relative who is getting SSDI. Not much of a work record to speak of, but she claimed emotional distress, and a smart TV lawyer helped her get it..

Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 08:21 AM (6IZ5e)

19 18 I have a 40 year old relative who is getting SSDI. Not much of a work record to speak of, but she claimed emotional distress, and a smart TV lawyer helped her get it..
Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 08:21 AM (6IZ5e)

Maybe I should apply. Hell, I've paid for it, might as well get some of my money back.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 08:22 AM (0mRoj)

20 Dewillowed :

G'mornin, Horde !

Thanks, Vic.

Always been a big fan of dollar coins and $2 bills from the bank, too.

True dat, Insomniac.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 13, 2016 08:25 AM (gUoN4)

21 Grammie, that's what the CPA told us a few days ago. 18th.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 13, 2016 08:25 AM (gUoN4)

22 11
Is it true that the Income Tax filing is extended to the 18th this year?

Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at April 13, 2016 08:15 AM (dFi94)

The first filing both for last year's 1040 and this year's quarterly estimates is on April 18. The rest are all due on the 15th just like always.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 08:26 AM (vvmPQ)

23 I've got a box full of Susan B Anthony coins, and the Indian coin, someday, they may be worth something??

Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 08:27 AM (6IZ5e)

24 23 I've got a box full of Susan B Anthony coins, and the Indian coin, someday, they may be worth something??
Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 08:27 AM (6IZ5e)

Slingshot ammo.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 08:29 AM (0mRoj)

25 Well, it's mid-April and that means two thing: I have to get a pedicure to get rid of my winter feet, and I need to start looking for a bathing suit. Both require shaving my legs, which I guess is three things. Ugh, The days of hiding behind winter pants will soon be over. What must be done, must be done. I'll have to go in the garage and find my sickle.

Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at April 13, 2016 08:29 AM (dFi94)

26 (Peabody) The world's largest privately owned coal producer, filed for U.S.
bankruptcy protection on Wednesday in the wake of a sharp fall in coal
prices that left it unable to service a recent debt-fueled expansion
into Australia.

Hey, the government wants you to shut down anyway, so whats the problem....

Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 08:31 AM (6IZ5e)

27 You ever get a song stuck in your head? Yeah, Cleveland Rocks! has been in there for a couple days...

Posted by: Paul Ryan at April 13, 2016 08:34 AM (J3phO)

28 So HHS is declaring "Victory" because the average premium increase was only 8% last year.

So much for bending the cost curve downward. I have never seen the Federal Government move the goal posts so far and so fast in my lifetime.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 13, 2016 08:36 AM (iONHu)

29 The first filing both for last year's 1040 and this year's quarterly estimates is on April 18. The rest are all due on the 15th just like always.

That sounds like the 18th to me. What is 'the rest'?

Posted by: t-bird at April 13, 2016 08:37 AM (yddCj)

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24 23 I've got a box full of Susan B Anthony coins, and the Indian coin, someday, they may be worth something??
Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 08:27 AM (6IZ5e)

Slingshot ammo.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 08:29 AM (0mRoj)

"I gotcher 'social justice' right... * fires at and hits SJW * ...here!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 08:37 AM (BK3ZS)

31 You ever get a song stuck in your head? Yeah, Cleveland Rocks! has been in there for a couple days...

♪ It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a small, small world...♪

Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 08:37 AM (4dbPD)

32
HHS is declaring "Victory" because the average premium increase was only 8% last year.
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Up 8 is the new down!

Posted by: iforgot at April 13, 2016 08:39 AM (pC96u)

33 29 That sounds like the 18th to me. What is 'the rest'?

Posted by: t-bird at April 13, 2016 08:37 AM (yddCj)

The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarter estimate payments if you do not do withholding or have income outside of your withholding.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 08:40 AM (vvmPQ)

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10 Instead of not running 24 hours a day, I think I'll help OJ find the real killer!
Posted by: Paul Ryan, Refusing the Nomination at April 13, 2016 08:14 AM (eHpnh)

Join Sir Golfsalot's foursome. He's been caught aiding in OJ's search over 280 times during the past seven-plus years.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 08:42 AM (BK3ZS)

35 HHS is declaring "Victory" because the average premium increase was only 8% last year.
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Up 8 is the new down!

Posted by: iforgot at April 13, 2016 08:39 AM (pC96u)

Annual premium increase is down to 8% from the 5% increase of last year?

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 08:42 AM (wYnyS)

36 April 16th is a D.C. holiday. Since it falls on Saturday they will take the holiday on the 15th. So, taxes will be due the following Monday the 18th.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at April 13, 2016 08:42 AM (j2xmV)

37 Today's polling:

Note that there are slight daily fluctuations due to the IBD/TIPP daily tracking poll.

Clinton continues to dominate Trump with an average lead of 10.4%. After some questionable assertions by Trump supporters yesterday I looked again at state polling and Trump does not put the Northeast in play. He loses to Clinton badly in New York and New England.

Note that Cruz is also behind Clinton but by a much smaller number. They are effectively tied except for the Bloomberg poll that puts Clinton up by 9.

The Senate and House remain the same with the Democrats gaining at least 3 in the Senate and 12 in the House.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 13, 2016 08:43 AM (lyZWB)

38 Maybe I should apply. Hell, I've paid for it, might as well get some of my money back.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 08:22 AM (0mRoj)

I hate it when I start to think like that!

Doc: Where does it hurt?

Me: Ow my balls!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 08:45 AM (wYnyS)

39
And what, pray tell, is the April 15th holiday in DC? National Sheep-Shearing Day?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 08:45 AM (BK3ZS)

40 It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a small, small world...
Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 08:37 AM (4dbPD)

I hate you.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 08:46 AM (0mRoj)

41 That HHS article re: Obamacare premiums is just so chock full of errors in both fact and logic that I don't know where to begin. I think I'll just sit here and shake my head instead.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 08:46 AM (NeFrd)

42
Annual premium increase is down to 8% from the 5% increase of last year?

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 08:42 AM (wYnyS)
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Verily, comrade. Also, ignorance is knowledge.

Posted by: iforgot at April 13, 2016 08:47 AM (pC96u)

43 So much for bending the cost curve downward. I have never seen the Federal Government move the goal posts so far and so fast in my lifetime.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 13, 2016 08:36 AM (iONHu)

Comrade citizen, I don't think bending downward means what you think it means! It's really more like bending over...

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 08:47 AM (wYnyS)

44 Mark Steyn on SCOAMF's ridiculous theory of resolving the Middle East conflicts (willowed from last thread):

We cannot fix failed states by inviting millions of their people to move in with us. All that ensures is more failed states, more failure, and eventually 'one by one' the nations of the west will join them. And then you'll really be yearning to breathe free and there will be nowhere to do it.

Posted by: MTF at April 13, 2016 08:47 AM (/m8T6)

45 I understand to apply for SSDI, the back is the favored ailment to claim...as its hard to show back injury's are fake...

Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 08:48 AM (6IZ5e)

46
Doc: Where does it hurt?
Me: Ow, my balls!

epididymitis

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 08:48 AM (BK3ZS)

47 Oh joy.

Hillary and Bernie have started running ads here.

Damn you early states - you should have wrapped everything up by now!

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 08:49 AM (nbrY/)

48
And what, pray tell, is the April 15th holiday in DC? National Sheep-Shearing Day?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 08:45 AM (BK3ZS)
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National Unnecessary Surgery Day

Posted by: iforgot at April 13, 2016 08:49 AM (pC96u)

49 Annual premium increase is down to 8% from the 5% increase of last year?

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 08:42 AM (wYnyS)
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Verily, comrade. Also, ignorance is knowledge.
Posted by: iforgot

WTF?

Posted by: Winston Smith at April 13, 2016 08:49 AM (326rv)

50 And what, pray tell, is the April 15th holiday in DC?

I think they bathe in the truckloads of cash being shipped in from the provinces.

Posted by: t-bird at April 13, 2016 08:49 AM (Z58Xa)

51 Posted by: MTF at April 13, 2016 08:47 AM (/m8T6)

I really despair when a Canadian has a better vocabulary and grasp of our problems than any of our homegrown gravitas laden members of the DC ruling class!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 08:50 AM (wYnyS)

52 We cannot fix failed states by inviting millions of their people to move in with us. All that ensures is more failed states

But it has worked so well with Mexico and Puerto Rico!

Posted by: t-bird at April 13, 2016 08:50 AM (Z58Xa)

53 The Metamucil is strong with MH this morning.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 08:51 AM (/D5Lf)

54 Oh, if we ignore the portion of your premium that is paid for by somebody else's money , why your cost for Obamacare hardly went up at all.

[spit]

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 08:51 AM (NeFrd)

55 We cannot fix failed states by inviting millions of their people to move in with us.

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Nobody ever stops to think that perhaps these people moving are the problem. If your neighbors were trashing their house and fighting each other, would you try to solve the problem by inviting them to your house?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 13, 2016 08:51 AM (Qvgg/)

56 I understand to apply for SSDI, the back is the favored ailment to claim...as its hard to show back injury's are fake...

Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 08:48 AM (6IZ5e)

Doc: Where does it hurt?
Me: Ow, my balls!
...
Me: I mean 'Ow, my back!'

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 08:52 AM (wYnyS)

57 That HHS article re: Obamacare premiums is just so
chock full of errors in both fact and logic that I don't know where to
begin. I think I'll just sit here and shake my head instead.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 08:46 AM (NeFrd)

And I think I'll just stay here and drink.

Posted by: Zombie Merle Haggard, just inside the Pearly Gates at April 13, 2016 08:54 AM (JO9+V)

58
Nobody ever stops to think that perhaps these people moving are the problem. If your neighbors were trashing their house and fighting each other, would you try to solve the problem by inviting them to your house?

And the winds blowing through Detroit answer, "No"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 08:54 AM (BK3ZS)

59 39

And what, pray tell, is the April 15th holiday in DC? National Sheep-Shearing Day?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 08:45 AM (BK3ZS)

Emancipation day.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 08:54 AM (vvmPQ)

60 Genius award
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Kinda puts Michelle Fields take down in perspective

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 08:55 AM (/D5Lf)

61 Ow, my balls!

I could see the Hillary's Dancing Cow administration offering lifetime payments in return for voluntary castration.

Posted by: t-bird at April 13, 2016 08:55 AM (Z58Xa)

62 45 I understand to apply for SSDI, the back is the favored ailment to claim...as its hard to show back injury's are fake...
Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 08:48 AM (6IZ5e)

I actually have a medical condition that could legitimately qualify as a disability too, but idiot that I am I have a moral problem with taking other people's money that I didn't earn or that isn't a gift freely given.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 08:55 AM (0mRoj)

63 If your neighbors were trashing their house and fighting each other, would you try to solve the problem by inviting them to your house?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 13, 2016 08:51 AM (Qvgg/)

Ah yes, but you should invite them into your nice clean tidy house, comrade, because all their fussing and fighting is due to their being OPPRESSED by the 'man' since 622!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 08:56 AM (wYnyS)

64 HHS report rephrased for accuracy:

"Last year, premiums went up 8% so you can totally ignore any evil predictions that suggest the increases might reach double digits this year, 'cause 10 is so much freakin' more than 8 as to be entirely out of the question...

...unless something unexpected happens."

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 08:56 AM (NeFrd)

65
60 Genius award
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Kinda puts Michelle Fields take down in perspective
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 08:55 AM (/D5Lf)

Yeah, there was no tentativeness in the action of that car owner, was there?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 08:57 AM (BK3ZS)

66 People that actually WANT to work for a living are the biggest suckers now. It really makes me sick.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 08:57 AM (0mRoj)

67 35 HHS is declaring "Victory" because the average premium increase was only 8% last year.
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Up 8 is the new down!

Posted by: iforgot at April 13, 2016 08:39 AM (pC96u)

Annual premium increase is down to 8% from the 5% increase of last year?
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 08:42 AM (wYnyS)

They continue to neglect telling people the following
1. Health exchanges are closing
2.. Health insurance carriers are walking away and/or are shutting down.
3. If you are not a recipient you have to spend nearly $20,000 on premiums and then another $5-10K on deductible before your health plan pays a dime.

Sounds affordable to me

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 08:57 AM (voOPb)

68 See how I tweeted IRS story
https://twitter.com/votermom/status/720234966601318401

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 08:57 AM (nbrY/)

69 16th - 18th in DC is when all the productive members of society come together and something something something.

Democracy Uprising

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 08:57 AM (/D5Lf)

70 I've fallen and I can't get up !

Posted by: HHS at April 13, 2016 08:58 AM (gs8be)

71 Get ready to beat the computer screen;

>>Why Obama is forgiving the student loans of nearly 400,000 people
<<

>>Hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers will now have an easier
path to getting their loans discharged, the Obama administration
announced Tuesday.<<

http://tinyurl.com/zz5jpeq

Posted by: Marcus T, Outraged at April 13, 2016 08:58 AM (O0lVq)

72 Sorry.

Democracy Awakening.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 08:58 AM (/D5Lf)

73 >>>>> I understand to apply for SSDI, the back is the favored ailment to claim...as its hard to show back injury's are fake...

Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 08:48 AM (6IZ5e)

I actually have a medical condition that could legitimately qualify
as a disability too, but idiot that I am I have a moral problem with
taking other people's money that I didn't earn or that isn't a gift
freely given.
.
.
.
.I am in the same boat. I had an accident last year that destroyed some discs and stuff permanently in my back but I haven't filled out the papers for SSDI. We can get by without the money, but I am seriously thinking about applying soon.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 13, 2016 08:58 AM (iONHu)

74 Yeah, there was no tentativeness in the action of that car owner, was there?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 08:57 AM (BK3ZS)

No matter the titties and ass, sometimes traffic will do that to a person.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 08:59 AM (/D5Lf)

75 "...or get help from a tax credit so that they don't necessarily have to pay that increase."

*****

Prices aren't going to go up, but when they do you won't have to pay for the increase, the taxpayers of this country will.

Arrrrrggh!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:00 AM (NeFrd)

76 I'm not one for celebrity news but this one is an exception. Tom Jones' very patient wife of 59 years died of cancer on Monday. I've always been amazed by Tom Jones ability to still sing and gyrate (at his age), and by his lifelong effort to sleep with every woman that he ever met. Yet he and his wife were apparently very close and during her illness he was at her side.

Posted by: MTF at April 13, 2016 09:00 AM (/m8T6)

77
Democracy Uprising
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 08:57 AM (/D5Lf)

In a sane world, DC would then celebrate White Ash Shampoo Day

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 09:01 AM (BK3ZS)

78 Sidebar at the Genius Award link...

Meet teenage 'werewolf' revered as god by villagers because of thick hair covering entire body

I thought ace was older?

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 09:01 AM (/D5Lf)

79 No matter the titties and ass, sometimes traffic will do that to a person.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 08:59 AM (/D5Lf)

Especially DC traffic.

Posted by: Mainah at April 13, 2016 09:03 AM (659DL)

80 Meet teenage 'werewolf' revered as god by villagers because of thick hair covering entire body

I thought ace was older?

Ace is Italian?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 09:03 AM (4dbPD)

81 The largest coal producer in the US, Peabody, just filed for Chapter 11. *,300 jobs at stake.

The Obama Economy goose steps on.

Posted by: Marcus T, Outraged at April 13, 2016 09:04 AM (O0lVq)

82 Gossip - so apparently an old college classmate is on disability due to psych issues after her divorce. Schizophrenia.
I always knew she was kind of cuckoo.
/catty

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:04 AM (nbrY/)

83 Why I personally can't stand Trump:

Note that if I have to vote for him instead of Clinton, I will.

Trump has two traits that I despise in people. He is a braggart and a whiner.

He talks about how great he is, but objective measurement of his performance shows he is pretty mediocre. He hires the "best" people, but really he hires cronies and yes men that aren't able to deal with the slightest amount of adversity.

And then the whining. It is so annoying. When things go wrong it is always "unfair". He is a special snowflake that should be in a modern University to shelter him from any adversity. The bitching about Colorado is especially annoying. I'm not a professional and I knew what was needed to win delegates in that state. How did it escape his big brain?

After South Carolina he could have won the nomination and the Presidency. All he had to do was act mature and presidential. Instead he kept acting like a 13 year old and turned people off who were open to rally behind him.

If he loses the nomination it will be his own fault for being lazy and entitled. I won't shed a tear. But we will hear non stop about how he was cheated. It won't be true.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 13, 2016 09:04 AM (lyZWB)

84 *8,300 jobs at stake...

Posted by: Marcus T, Outraged at April 13, 2016 09:04 AM (O0lVq)

85
Tom Jones ability to still sing and gyrate (at his age), and by his lifelong effort to sleep with every woman that he ever met. Yet he and his wife were apparently very close
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sorry, but fuck that.

Posted by: iforgot at April 13, 2016 09:05 AM (pC96u)

86 Tom Jones' very patient wife of 59 years died of cancer on Monday. I've always been amazed by Tom Jones ability to still sing and gyrate (at his age), and by his lifelong effort to sleep with every woman that he ever met. Yet he and his wife were apparently very close and during her illness he was at her side.
Posted by: MTF

She was 59, or they were married 59 years?

And he supposedly banged everything that moved, and they were "close"?

Posted by: Winston Smith at April 13, 2016 09:05 AM (326rv)

87 Ace is Italian?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 09:03 AM (4dbPD)

Italican

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:05 AM (nbrY/)

88 I actually have a medical condition that could legitimately qualify as a disability too, but idiot that I am I have a moral problem with taking other people's money that I didn't earn or that isn't a gift freely given. Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 08:55 AM (0mRoj)Then more fool you.And I include myself as a fellow fool. I could be a lot happier knowing that the reason I'm up at 5 in the morning is to make breakfast and sit down with the Horde than go to my rotten job.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 13, 2016 09:05 AM (X6fMO)

89 It's only 9am and I already need a bourbon.

Posted by: Marcus T, Outraged at April 13, 2016 09:06 AM (O0lVq)

90 Being an old timer, I remember in the late 60's the push for a "guaranteed annual income" I have read that Sanders has considered this as a possible part of his free stuff. Work would be more or less optional, depending how you want to live.

Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 09:07 AM (6IZ5e)

91
If he loses the nomination it will be his own fault for being lazy and entitled. I won't shed a tear. But we will hear non stop about how he was cheated. It won't be true.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 13, 2016

More than anything else, someone in his campaign should have yanked the smart phone away from him and / or deactivated his Twitter account. He's his own worst enemy.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 09:07 AM (BK3ZS)

92 I am all for a guaranteed annual income.

Of zero dollars.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 13, 2016 09:08 AM (Qvgg/)

93 Sorry- they were married for 59 years.

Posted by: MTF at April 13, 2016 09:08 AM (/m8T6)

94 By the by that story on Fredocare premiums is total Fubar and bullshit. No one in their right mind signs up for Fredocare unless they have NO other option or they are young with NO health problems. The Fredocare networks are so narrow, your lucky if your local Vet is on one. So most people who do not have work supplied health care ( and that number is shrinking every day) get plans outside of Fredocare and because of Fredocare those premiums are skyrocketing.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:09 AM (Ozsfq)

95 Injury's? Injury's?!

There is nothing here that belongs to Mr. Injury, Colin. Except your ear.

[grabs your ear and twists]

Now tell us of the proper use of the apostrophe.

Posted by: Irascible English Schoolmaster at April 13, 2016 09:09 AM (CUk0C)

96 Even more IRS mendacity: Remember during their reign of terror on tea party orgs they were harassing applicants by demanding all kinds of sensetive details, such as a complete list of all donors, a list of personal info on all org members *and that of their relatives*, all communication ions, etc.?

Yeah, well, IRS is saying they will make all of this part of the public record, and to those who think that's a privacy concern? Get this - they're blaming the applicants for complying with what they now admit was an illegal intrusion.
Grrrrr!

http://preview.tinyurl.com/z686a58

Posted by: Lizzy at April 13, 2016 09:10 AM (NOIQH)

97 94 By the by that story on Fredocare premiums is total Fubar and bullshit. No one in their right mind signs up for Fredocare unless they have NO other option or they are young with NO health problems. The Fredocare networks are so narrow, your lucky if your local Vet is on one. So most people who do not have work supplied health care ( and that number is shrinking every day) get plans outside of Fredocare and because of Fredocare those premiums are skyrocketing.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:09 AM (Ozsfq)

Exactly right. People are getting Fredocare plans with the same insurance company they always had and finding out after the fact that the doctors and hospitals that participated in the plan they had are now out of network, and are now financially fucked with medical bills.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 09:11 AM (0mRoj)

98 Then more fool you.And I include myself as a fellow fool. I could be a lot happier knowing that the reason I'm up at 5 in the morning is to make breakfast and sit down with the Horde than go to my rotten job.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 13, 2016 09:05 AM (X6fMO)

Yep.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 09:11 AM (0mRoj)

99 Naked girl dancing on car?

Tut tut.

Naked girl Street Light Pole Dancing?

Thumb's up!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 13, 2016 09:11 AM (2rmvw)

100 Guaranteed income is pretty close to what the Fair Tax people are pushing. Which is why I think Fair Tax is a scam.

Should there be a safety net? Yes.
Should the safety net involve money changing hands. No.

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:11 AM (nbrY/)

101 2 Gina McCarthy's incredibly ugly face which makes me puke affects me every time I see it.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 08:08 AM (vvmPQ)

==========
The other night, with all the talk about Roger Ebert, I looked up a guy I knew in college's sister. She dated Ebert in high school. She had got a degree in architecture, moved to Australia, returned to the Bay area decades later, got a law degree. That was the last I heard of her. I googled her and she was back in Aus/NZ teaching in some interdisciplinary bullshite study of AGW. What a scam! Anyway, she looks exactly like her brother in drag and with white hair so I knew it was the same person. A lot like old Gina. Must be a popular look for AGW scamsters.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 13, 2016 09:11 AM (iQIUe)

102 I can neither confirm or deny that the IMF had anything to do with the cratering of the Global Economy, even though we've shelled out tons of $$$ to every tyrant and two-bit communist on the planet.

Posted by: Ethan Hunt, IMF Agent at April 13, 2016 09:11 AM (knDqF)

103 If he loses the nomination it will be his own fault for being lazy and entitled. I won't shed a tear. But we will hear non stop about how he was cheated. It won't be true.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

he at times did things that were stupid, counter productive and mystifying.

At times, the party officially fought him. But that will be ignored by the people that hate trump, just as trump supporters chant their litany of we wuz robbed.

Rather depressing really.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 13, 2016 09:12 AM (326rv)

104 72 hours to go and IPspouse-to-be had her first (minor) meltdown over a dropped coffee cup. Got her calmed down, some fresh coffee, and cleaned up the spill. More importantly, I took a few min to just let her fall to pieces.

Posted by: IP at April 13, 2016 09:12 AM (aQQbl)

105 The U.S. Navy on Tuesday became the first branch of the U.S. military the worlds single-largest user of fossil fuels to say it will start requiring big vendors to report their output of climate-changing greenhouse gases and work to lower it.

Because of shit like this in the US Military and scumbags at the Pentagon who go along with this crap, NOBODY get's the required and necessary training they need. Fuck all Liberals

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:12 AM (Ozsfq)

106
Now tell us of the proper use of the apostrophe.
Posted by: Irascible English Schoolmaster at April 13, 2016 09:09 AM (CUk0C)

Calling the ill-tempered, greasy green shitting machines "Canadian Geese" does it for me.

"Oh, so you've seen their passports?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 09:12 AM (BK3ZS)

107 Now tell us of the proper use of the apostrophe.

Posted by: Irascible English Schoolmaster at April 13, 2016 09:09 AM (CUk0C)

Oh well, I just use that little program that looks at what I write, and adds what it thinks I met....

Posted by: Colin at April 13, 2016 09:12 AM (6IZ5e)

108 If you work for a living, pay income tax and pay for you own health insurance (either on your own or as part of an employee benefits package), you are subsidizing Medicare, Medicaid and the Obamacare premium subsidies in multiple direct and indirect ways. I've come up with several, just off the top of my head...

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:13 AM (NeFrd)

109 Irascible English Schoolmaster

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Been taught by many irascible teachers in my day, back in the Stone Age. You always remembered their lessons though.

Posted by: flmomof4 at April 13, 2016 09:13 AM (bEXWJ)

110 1. State income tax goes into the general revenue pot which funds the state portion of Medicaid.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:13 AM (NeFrd)

111 2. Federal income tax goes into the general revenue pot which funds the federal portion of Medicaid and Obamacare exchange subsidies.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:13 AM (NeFrd)

112 3. The ever increasing deductibles create a financial disincentive to utilize your insurance, making putting off certain medical care more attractive than paying the deductible. Medicaid patients do not have any co-pay or deductible and therefore don't share this financial disincentive.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:14 AM (NeFrd)

113 4. Medicaid reimbursement rates are so low that hospitals and providers attempt to make up their losses by increasing the rates they charge to insured and private pay customers. E.g. a procedure that should cost, say $500, gets reimbursed by Medicaid at $300, so the list price gets marked up to $750. Since you haven't met your deductible you pay that $250 mark-up out of pocket.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:14 AM (NeFrd)

114 I think April 16th is when they celebrate another year of avoiding the lamp post.

Posted by: x at April 13, 2016 09:14 AM (nFwvY)

115 Especially DC traffic.

Posted by: Mainah at April 13, 2016 09:03 AM (659DL)

Thank G*d for slugging.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 09:15 AM (/D5Lf)

116 I never thought I'd say this but Muldoon, don't you have some puns you want to.share?
The facts you share are enlightening but depressing. (Sigh)

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:15 AM (nbrY/)

117 Medicaid patients do not have any co-pay or deductible and therefore don't share this financial disincentive.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:14 AM (NeFrd)

I don't think that's entirely correct. There are Medicaid copays for certain services at least in FL, but they're usually de minimis.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 09:16 AM (0mRoj)

118 113 4. Medicaid reimbursement rates are so low that hospitals and providers attempt to make up their losses by increasing the rates they charge to insured and private pay customers. E.g. a procedure that should cost, say $500, gets reimbursed by Medicaid at $300, so the list price gets marked up to $750. Since you haven't met your deductible you pay that $250 mark-up out of pocket.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:14 AM (NeFrd)

I've always thought this practice is fraud.

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:16 AM (nbrY/)

119 I'm sure there are other hidden costs. Yet according to The Hill, it is the Government that is easing the burden of the premium increases, not the frickin' taxpayers.

"...tax credits help lower the burden further by shifting more of the premium cost onto the government."

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:16 AM (NeFrd)

120 I never thought I'd say this but Muldoon, don't you have some puns you want to.share?

The facts you share are enlightening but depressing. (Sigh)

Illuminatingly dark.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 09:17 AM (4dbPD)

121 Should be fraud

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:17 AM (nbrY/)

122 David Gest, Michael Jackson producer and low budget reality tv sensation has died. Thank you for that information.

Posted by: jacke at April 13, 2016 09:17 AM (CMthJ)

123 #90

George McGovern was a fan of this but it was probably way down on the list of reasons he was beaten so badly in '72.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 13, 2016 09:18 AM (IdCqF)

124 105 The U.S. Navy on Tuesday became the first branch of the U.S. military the worlds single-largest user of fossil fuels to say it will start requiring big vendors to report their output of climate-changing greenhouse gases and work to lower it.

Because of shit like this in the US Military and scumbags at the Pentagon who go along with this crap, NOBODY get's the required and necessary training they need. Fuck all Liberals

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:12 AM (Ozsfq)

It's not like there are any dangers out there. Just JV teams and some little country taking over the South China Sea.

But yes, Fuck all liberals sideways with a pineapple (grenade)

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 09:18 AM (/D5Lf)

125 Yeah, there was no tentativeness in the action of that car owner, was there?
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ProTip: That kind of ankle grabbing will usually get you quickly tossed out of the establishment by a large Russian bouncer.

Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at April 13, 2016 09:18 AM (kXzR8)

126 Good morning. Falcon is still sitting on the dock, but today they'll probably retract or remove the legs and get it ready to be transported back to the hangar.

http://portcanaveralwebcam.com/

Posted by: rickl at April 13, 2016 09:18 AM (zoehZ)

127 118 113 4. Medicaid reimbursement rates are so low that hospitals and providers attempt to make up their losses by increasing the rates they charge to insured and private pay customers. E.g. a procedure that should cost, say $500, gets reimbursed by Medicaid at $300, so the list price gets marked up to $750. Since you haven't met your deductible you pay that $250 mark-up out of pocket.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:14 AM (NeFrd)

I've always thought this practice is fraud.

$12 per Tylenol tablet. When you can buy a whole 200 count bottle at Wal Mart for $6 or $7 bucks.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 09:19 AM (4dbPD)

128 EVERY Gov give away to illegals and the "Poor" is payed for by us who work and slave every day. And anyone who does not understand that is a fuckin asshole liberal fuck who does not deserve to breath

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:19 AM (Ozsfq)

129 IP

Dublin will be waiting for you with a big party to celebrate; The 100th anniversary of the Easter Uprising, should be plenty of drunk Irish to party with. BTW you did good with fiance, no wonder she's marrying you.

Posted by: flmomof4 at April 13, 2016 09:19 AM (bEXWJ)

130
122 David Gest, Michael Jackson producer and low budget reality tv sensation has died. Thank you for that information.
Posted by: jacke at April 13, 2016 09:17 AM (CMthJ)

Wasn't he the hubby to whom Drunken Liza (TM) would administer a good thumping from time to time?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 13, 2016 09:19 AM (BK3ZS)

131 "...tax credits help lower the burden further by shifting more of the premium cost onto the government."

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:16 AM (NeFrd)

Oh goody!

Waaaaaait. How does the government get so much money???

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 09:19 AM (/D5Lf)

132 128 EVERY Gov give away to illegals and the "Poor" is payed for by us who work and slave every day. And anyone who does not understand that is a fuckin asshole liberal fuck who does not deserve to breath
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:19 AM (Ozsfq

Ha. I love you NGU there's no reading between the lines with you

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 09:20 AM (voOPb)

133 Maybe this was discussed up thread, but who the heck is Gina McCarthy to think she has any insight into what does and does not affect my happiness?

She is not the Health and Serenity Czar, so she needs to stop with the scope creep.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 13, 2016 09:20 AM (NOIQH)

134 And if I seem surly this morning, it's because my idiot dog was up every two hours last night with diarrhea. I didn't get enough sleep. Missus Muldoon asked what time it was the third time I was up. I said, "It 'surly!"

We did avoid a mess in the house, though, so I suppose I should count my blessings.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:21 AM (NeFrd)

135 I just thought this was interesting: How the great baseball player, Sandy Koufax, embraced his Jewish faith:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zlecpgj

( a two minute radio piece from "Holy Land" Moments)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 13, 2016 09:22 AM (w4NZ8)

136 Also fraud - the way hospitals and insurance companies don't tell you up front what the bill will be.
All this being done to people who are sick, in danger of dying, probably medicated - such an.absolutely scummy way to run hospitals.

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:22 AM (nbrY/)

137 Ha. I love you NGU there's no reading between the lines with you
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 09:20 AM (voOPb)

I've long since given up trying to be tactful. My give a shit meter is running on empty

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:22 AM (Ozsfq)

138 E.g. a procedure that should cost, say $500, gets reimbursed by
Medicaid at $300, so the list price gets marked up to $750. Since you
haven't met your deductible you pay that $250 mark-up out of pocket.

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This is a problem with any insurance scheme. The problems begin when a third party pays for a transaction between parties one and two.

When people begin to directly pay a list or negotiated price for each procedure they receive, prices will stop rising faster than inflation.

Elective surgery is not covered by insurance - and amazingly, adjusted for inflation, prices have decreased every year for at least the past 20 years.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 13, 2016 09:22 AM (Qvgg/)

139 Heh. The administrator at NASASpaceflight.com said, "There's 200,000 views for a thread about a barge and a crane."

Posted by: rickl at April 13, 2016 09:23 AM (zoehZ)

140 Waaaaaait. How does the government get so much money???
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 09:19 AM (/D5Lf)

I vote we invade a random.country and take their stuff.
Hey, it works for ISIS!

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:23 AM (nbrY/)

141 112
3. The ever increasing deductibles create a financial disincentive to
utilize your insurance, making putting off certain medical care more
attractive than paying the deductible. Medicaid patients do not have
any co-pay or deductible and therefore don't share this financial
disincentive.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:14 AM (NeFrd)

Income tax deduction for healthcare have basically become do exclusionary they no longer exist for anyone. And Obama is even now eliminating the HSAs so that even that deduction will disappear. All of this is so his homies can get free healthcare and you will pay for it while doing without.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 09:25 AM (vvmPQ)

142 Oops- forgot this

5. Medicare payroll taxes.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:26 AM (NeFrd)

143 So...I see Barry's doing his legacy-building thing, again:

Washington Post reports a new surge in 'Syrian' refugees to the U.S. - about 360 a week.

Honestly, I'd rather he just called up SAC and nuked CONUS - it would be faster, less costly, and would demonstrate an honesty not hitherto expected of him:

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 13, 2016 09:27 AM (lutOX)

144 Also fraud - the way hospitals and insurance companies don't tell you up front what the bill will be.

--

I'll have you know that the AMA and various medical lobbying groups pay very good money to members of congress to ensure that medical services are exempt from laws regarding pricing.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 13, 2016 09:27 AM (Qvgg/)

145 Elective surgery is not covered by insurance - and amazingly, adjusted for inflation, prices have decreased every year for at least the past 20 years.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada

It also has the benefit of being elective.

By definition, people can live without it, and shop. And the people who can do it have the disposable income.

We are seeing something close in the rise of care facilities which now handle many of the minor stuff we all experience that usually involved sitting for hours or days in an ER.

There, it was realized that here was a win/win; minor care could be delivered without subsidizing the high costs of an ER. So insurance often does cover such care.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 13, 2016 09:28 AM (326rv)

146 Seamus, hope Buckley is ok. Taking him to vet?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 09:28 AM (voOPb)

147 3. The ever increasing deductibles create a financial disincentive to
utilize your insurance, making putting off certain medical care more
attractive than paying the deductible. Medicaid patients do not have
any co-pay or deductible and therefore don't share this financial
disincentive.

--

Yeah. Last year doc wanted me to get full GI scoping, just to rule stuff out.
I checked with insurance how much it would cost out of pocket and said naaah, not worth it.

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:28 AM (nbrY/)

148 83 Dave- true dat.

I was open to Trump, but he wrong-footed me with that POW crap. If he stuck to the issue of arguing immigration with McCain, I was on his side. But he called POWs a disgrace which was both dishonorable and demagoguery.

its not about policy anymore, though--he's a con-man and a head case, completely unfit to have power.

Ted Instead!

Posted by: The Wolf Who Cried Boy at April 13, 2016 09:29 AM (Ndje9)

149 Meh, screw it. I'm going back to puns.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:29 AM (NeFrd)

150 Washington Post reports a new surge in 'Syrian' refugees to the U.S. - about 360 a week.

And they are ramming these "refugees" down our throats by cutting down the "vetting" process from 3-6 months to an hour interview. People should be executed for treason for doing this or going along with it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:29 AM (Ozsfq)

151 The criminal courts in New Orleans has always been a catch and release outfit. They've not got a legitimate excuse which the low lifes will use to its fullest.

By the way, who can afford an attorney besides the very wealthy?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 13, 2016 09:29 AM (5IbVn)

152 >>>>
This is a problem with any insurance scheme. The problems begin when
a third party pays for a transaction between parties one and two.

When
people begin to directly pay a list or negotiated price for each
procedure they receive, prices will stop rising faster than inflation.

Elective
surgery is not covered by insurance - and amazingly, adjusted for
inflation, prices have decreased every year for at least the past 20
years.
.
.
.
.Yep, Lasik is the perfect example. Costs have actually decreased by over 75% in the last decade.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 13, 2016 09:30 AM (iONHu)

153
Spain: police arrest man who allegedly supplied weapons for Paris Kosher store attack

http://f24.my/YTliveEN

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 13, 2016 09:30 AM (iQIUe)

154 149 Meh, screw it. I'm going back to puns.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:29 AM (NeFrd)

Yay!

*does cheer with backflip*
*cracks spine*
Ow.

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:30 AM (nbrY/)

155 151 The criminal courts in New Orleans has always been a catch and release outfit. They've not got a legitimate excuse which the low lifes will use to its fullest.

By the way, who can afford an attorney besides the very wealthy?
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 13, 2016 09:29 AM (5IbVn)

Depends on the type of legal matter you're talking about.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 09:30 AM (0mRoj)

156 The only real difference between where NGU is and where I am is I'm a little more paranoid about what I say or post in public. (I have a buddy that works for interesting people. It conditions the reflexes a touch.)

Mornin' Horde. I can smell the hell from the next county over, so can we at least make the squabbles a bit more fresh today? L'affaire Trump is getting old...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 09:31 AM (9krrF)

157 Seamus, hope Buckley is ok. Taking him to vet?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

******

Not yet. We'll see how it shakes out (heh) today. He probably just got into some of the neighbor's cat's poop.

Gee, hope he doesn't fly into a murderous rage.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:31 AM (NeFrd)

158 150 They are one of Obama's parting gifts for us.He will give some even better ones before he goes.

Posted by: steevy at April 13, 2016 09:31 AM (B48dK)

159 150 And they are ramming these "refugees" down our throats by cutting down the "vetting" process from 3-6 months to an hour interview. People should be executed for treason for doing this or going along with it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:29 AM (Ozsfq)

Regardless of how much time they say they are using there is no vetting. The FBI, who seem to be ignoring Obama, has already said it is impossible to vett any of these muzzies.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 09:31 AM (vvmPQ)

160 I vote we invade a random.country and take their stuff.
Hey, it works for ISIS!

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:23 AM (nbrY/)

Not with our ROE and 'break it you bought it' policy.

If only we were the imperialists people thought we were.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 09:32 AM (/D5Lf)

161 The only real difference between where NGU is and where I am is I'm a little more paranoid about what I say or post in public. (I have a buddy that works for interesting people. It conditions the reflexes a touch.)

I work for some "sensitive" people also, so what I post here is different than what I post on my FB page or say at work.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:32 AM (Ozsfq)

162 Regardless of how much time they say they are using there is no vetting. The FBI, who seem to be ignoring Obama, has already said it is impossible to vett any of these muzzies.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 09:31 AM (vvmPQ)

Yup 100% accurate

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:33 AM (Ozsfq)

163 They will be a gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: steevy at April 13, 2016 09:33 AM (B48dK)

164 I vote we invade a random.country and take their stuff.

Well yeah, but who has anything worth taking anymore?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 09:34 AM (9krrF)

165 I always wondered if there would be any profit as an employer to fraudulently apply for a couple of ITINs, make up fake SSNs to match, "hire" them, make withholdings on a fake W4 that declares the maximum dependents, file tax returns on them for two years, and then have them "quit" when you start "garnishing" the wages for back taxes by demand from the IRS.

I figured that the employer would get the write-off for the "employee's" wages and only had to pay the minimum withholding, and when the garnishment notices come, the "employee" would get the blame when he "disappears"
With the payroll software available the computation would be easy, and apparently there is nothing the IRS is doing to research this sort of stuff.

And if someone with an ITIN suddenly leaves and is never seen again, well, It's supposed he went home.

I asked a tax preparer about this once. She declined to answer.

Posted by: Kindlot at April 13, 2016 09:35 AM (1Bhkn)

166 Is this thread dead or just mostly dead?

Posted by: steevy at April 13, 2016 09:38 AM (B48dK)

167 Google 'whittingdale'

The Brits just have much better scandals than we do.

To note here - the scandal is not that he was fscking a 'sex worker' (fine, he's single and all that) it's whether some papers wouldn't report it due to fear of retaliation.

Posted by: JEM at April 13, 2016 09:39 AM (IfzXb)

168 164 I vote we invade a random.country and take their stuff.

Well yeah, but who has anything worth taking anymore?
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 09:34 AM (9krrF)

There are some diamond mines in South Africa.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 09:39 AM (0mRoj)

169 I've always thought this practice is fraud.

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:16 AM (nbrY/)

In other businesses it is a prosecutable offense.

The wallet X-Ray is the most important, and first, part of the office visit!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 09:39 AM (wYnyS)

170 And just think - these new arrivals, combined with the new arrivals from south of the Rio Grande, combined with our own 'native' underclass, will certainly help create just the sort of chaos that these bastards live for.

At some point, the American people, or whatever is left of them, will be faced with a nasty choice: capitulation, an authoritarian state to try to deal with the crisis, or outright and open rebellion. I'll go ahead and point out that the first gives the Left what it wants, as does the second, while the third is doomed and provides pretext for the second.

It'll be like what the oldtimers from the FSU said life was like - humiliation with every breath.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 13, 2016 09:40 AM (lutOX)

171 >>The ever increasing deductibles create a financial disincentive to utilize your insurance, making putting off certain medical care more attractive than paying the deductible. Medicaid patients do not have any co-pay or deductible and therefore don't share this financial disincentive.

And I guarantee that if you do use insurance you will find it beyond confusing to the point of giving up trying to understand what is covered, what isn't, what is being fully reimbursed, how your co-pay is being applied, etc., etc. It's a nightmare.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 13, 2016 09:40 AM (/tuJf)

172 Also, you know how Obamacare makes some stuff free - like everyone should be able to get a free colonoscopy screening at age 50?
So a lot of insurance companies have it so that it's free if it's a screening, but not if it's a diagnostic test or anything else.
So if you have no symptoms and get the colonoscopy and they find nothing, congrats, it's free.
But if they find polyps and treat, it's treatment, so you pay.
If you have symptoms before the test then it's diagnostic, you pay.

This is what happens when lawyers in congress try to practice medicine.

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:40 AM (nbrY/)

173
U. of Missouri to close 2 dorms due to lack of students

http://goo.gl/W2KjJZ

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They lost money due to less donations and then lack of students. They really should be angry at the students. However, I'm sure the little turds feel "empowered" by this. They will cut their own noses to spite their faces. I would withhold financial packages from the trouble makers tho if I remember correctly, one big mouth blm has a father worth miliions. I would hope any blm trouble maker who transfers out will be denied admission to other universities. Unfortunately, I bet a lot of staff/faculty supports the trashing of the university and are tenured.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 13, 2016 09:41 AM (iQIUe)

174 150
And they are ramming these "refugees" down our throats by cutting down the "vetting" process from 3-6 months to an hour interview. People should be executed for treason for doing this or going along with it
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:29 AM (Ozsfq)

Yep, I agree completely. There's no other word for it.

Posted by: rickl at April 13, 2016 09:41 AM (zoehZ)

175 166 Is this thread dead or just mostly dead?
Posted by: steevy at April 13, 2016 09:38 AM (B48dK)

*searches thread's pockets for loose change*

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 09:42 AM (0mRoj)

176 THEREFORE, WE THE UNDERSIGNED DEMAND THAT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE ADOPT AND ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING POLICIES DURING ITS NATIONAL CONVENTION:

1. There shall be no armed security allowed at the Wells Fargo Center, for the duration of the Democratic National Convention. No police or sheriff's deputies, state troopers, federal law enforcement in or out of uniform will be allowed.

2. In the event of protests within the immediate vicinity of the Wells Fargo Center, police should not be asked or expected to respond.

No group, organization or political party that makes erosion of a constitutionally delineated fundamental civil right part of its agenda should benefit in any way from the existence of that right.

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Won't go anywhere of course.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 09:42 AM (/D5Lf)

177 Just curious - why isn't masquerading as a black person "cultural appropriation"? Apparently black women are much aggrieved by Whitey touching their hair and asking if it's "real." Ms. Dolezal's isn't, as we've seen from her old blond school photos.

Posted by: Miley's Tongue dba Ylva of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy at April 13, 2016 09:43 AM (bIGOo)

178 "Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced the move at a Silicon Valley conference on tech, government and climate change, noting that the Navy is facing rising ocean levels and a surge of interest as ice melts in the Arctic."

****

Ummmm. Don't they have boats?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:43 AM (NeFrd)

179 And I worry. As an American Jew, where can I go?

My grandfather stopped my mother, twice, when she wanted to emigrate to Israel.

"We didn't give up everything to go to Israel. The Japanese didn't kill my brother, and I didn't fight on two fronts, for nothing. We're americans - we earned it." How can you argue with that? And yet, look what's happened.

There's no place left to go.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 13, 2016 09:44 AM (lutOX)

180 >>Medicaid patients do not have any co-pay or deductible and therefore don't share this financial disincentive.

Thought I had read that Medicaid have a very limited set of drugs and treatments available to them - that's how they attempt to curb abuse. So Obama set it up so he can claim he's gotten all these people health coverage but technically what treatment they are eligible for is very little.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 13, 2016 09:44 AM (NOIQH)

181 So coal.

I personally called all the big coal unions before Obama's 'p
08 election when he made his anti coal "necessarily skyrocket" comment. They didn't care at all. Still endorsed the fucker.

Posted by: Lauren at April 13, 2016 09:45 AM (av10d)

182 There's no place left to go.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 13, 2016 09:44 AM (lute)

To the Barricades with your sidearm

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:45 AM (Ozsfq)

183 And if I seem surly this morning, it's because my idiot dog was up every two hours last night with diarrhea. I didn't get enough sleep. Missus Muldoon asked what time it was the third time I was up. I said, "It 'surly!"

We did avoid a mess in the house, though, so I suppose I should count my blessings.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:21 AM (NeFrd)

So...

You were literally a-

Running Dog Lackey of the Bourgeoisie.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 13, 2016 09:45 AM (2rmvw)

184 Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:33 AM (Ozsfq)

I have a contact in the actual vetting business, doing checks on ME types that cooperated with US Forces here and there. He has to apply rigorous scrutiny to each case, even with glowing recommendations from US military personnel. Because of his position, he knows that the "refugihadis" are unvettable in any meaningful sense of the word, and further there really is no serious attempt to vet them. He was shocked, shocked, I tell you, to hear the upper levels of government lie about this!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 09:45 AM (wYnyS)

185 OK, getting a LOL on Jalopnik this morning. Article was about some asshole motorcyclists who acted like fucktards in traffic, got violent with a driver when called out, then got drawn on by the driver's passenger.

Commenter called the motorcyclists thugs. Predictably for something in the Gawkerplex, someone whiiiiined about "thug" being a racially insensitive term.

Cue forty-odd responses laying an almighty smackdown on idiot commenter.

I love the smell of bullshit in the morning. Smells like...butthurt...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 09:45 AM (9krrF)

186 The only real difference between where NGU is and where I am is I'm a little more paranoid about what I say or post in public. (I have a buddy that works for interesting people. It conditions the reflexes a touch.)

I work for some "sensitive" people also, so what I post here is different than what I post on my FB page or say at work.
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Biggest reason why I post from my phone using MY data plan and not pirated wifi.

Same reason I don't take sponsorships in paintball. You pull some hinkey shit and I'll call you on it.

I've seen too many people, that I've lost all respect for, keep their mouths shut due to "arraignments".

Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 09:46 AM (4dbPD)

187 Thought I had read that Medicaid have a very limited set of drugs and treatments available to them - that's how they attempt to curb abuse. So Obama set it up so he can claim he's gotten all these people health coverage but technically what treatment they are eligible for is very little.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 13, 2016 09:44 AM (NOIQH)

Give granny a ~~pain~~ sugar pill.

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:46 AM (nbrY/)

188 178
"Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced the move at a Silicon Valley conference on tech, government and climate change, noting that the Navy is facing rising ocean levels and a surge of interest as ice melts in the Arctic."

****

Ummmm. Don't they have boats?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:43 AM (NeFrd)

It is all a lie. The reliable evidence continues to show that sea levels are not rising and actual measurement show such little change up or down that it is within the error frame of the measuring methods.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 13, 2016 09:47 AM (vvmPQ)

189 182 There's no place left to go.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 13, 2016 09:44 AM (lute)

To the Barricades with your sidearm
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 09:45 AM (Ozsfq)
***
More and more, I've come to the conclusion that will prove to be the only honorable choice. I pray I have the character to take my place.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 13, 2016 09:47 AM (lutOX)

190 Yep, I agree completely. There's no other word for it.

Posted by: rickl at April 13, 2016 09:41 AM (zoehZ)

We seem to have lost the concept of a "lawful" order!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 09:47 AM (wYnyS)

191 AGW is an apocalyptic cult.

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:47 AM (nbrY/)

192 U. of Missouri to close 2 dorms due to lack of students

http://goo.gl/W2KjJZ

========
They lost money due to less donations and then lack of students.

They really should be angry at the students.

Why? U of M enabled that shit. They only have themselves to blame. Not the students.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 09:48 AM (4dbPD)

193 Why? U of M enabled that shit. They only have themselves to blame. Not the students.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 09:48 AM (4dbPD)

Be nice if they closed a few departments in the Ultra-Liberal Arts College, but sadly they are the ones that will still have students.

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 13, 2016 09:50 AM (wYnyS)

194 Maet mentioned how few US airports investigate their workers backgrounds (three!) before hiring them and how many people on the terror watchlist have airport jobs here. The Judicial Watch report on these issues is short and well worth reading.

Why does anyone, ever think the Federal government can mange anything at all? It blows my mind.

http://tinyurl.com/gpme6es

Posted by: MTF at April 13, 2016 09:51 AM (/m8T6)

195 It is all a lie. The reliable evidence continues to show that sea levels are not rising and actual measurement show such little change up or down that it is within the error frame of the measuring methods.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party

****

Whew! Thank goodness for that. I was afraid we would have to move higher into the mountains.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:51 AM (NeFrd)

196 BTW you did good with fiance, no wonder she's marrying you.
Posted by: flmomof4 at April 13, 2016 09:19 AM (bEXWJ)
_________________________________________

Awww thanks, she's pretty independent and hates showing any sign of weakness but I could tell it's been coming for a few days. She's a great girl, just set in her ways, and stubborn as the day is long.
When I left she was back to our list of tasks to get done today. I'll have my chores texted to me any minute now.

As for Dublin, I can't wait.. I imagine it's going to be a bit rowdy in places. the timing just kinda happened, when I booked the trip I didn't notice it was the same weekend. Then my Irish best man spoke up, and right there and it was done.

Posted by: IP at April 13, 2016 09:51 AM (aQQbl)

197 IP give her a massage.

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:52 AM (nbrY/)

198 > Well yeah, but who has anything worth taking anymore?

Canada - water

Interesting that the SJW cabal that refuse to
allow icky oil from the tar sands has no problem drinking the icky fresh water.

Posted by: cind at April 13, 2016 09:53 AM (nRbbW)

199 >>U. of Missouri to close 2 dorms due to lack of students

What they *should* do is cut back on the budgets for student organizations. Hey, that's extra - they're there to get an education, right? Why do they need $$$ to pay for speeches (who are likely all Lefties) and whatnot?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 13, 2016 09:53 AM (NOIQH)

200 Silver lining and all that.

http://tinyurl.com/nabhaly

NEWTOWN, Conn. - The total economic impact of the firearms and ammunition industry in the United States increased from $19.1 billion in 2008 to $49.3 billion in 2015, a 158 percent increase, while the total number of full-time equivalent jobs rose from approximately 166,000 to almost 288,000, a 73 percent increase in that period, according to a report released today by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the NSSF_Logoindustry's trade association.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 09:53 AM (/D5Lf)

201 You really shouldn't be using RT as a source for a story about the Poland plane crash that Russia is suspected for being behind.

Posted by: omaniphil at April 13, 2016 09:53 AM (DJoDY)

202 There are some diamond mines in South Africa.

Posted by: Insomniac

Can we just take the mines and leave the rest? I'm not in the mood to add several hyper-Detroits to the list of places we're responsible for.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 09:54 AM (9krrF)

203 If I can't go to the ladies' room, well, I just won't travel there...

Posted by: Guest Lecturer Barack Obama at April 13, 2016 09:55 AM (3U4+k)

204 201 You really shouldn't be using RT as a source for a story about the Poland plane crash that Russia is suspected for being behind.
Posted by: omaniphil at April 13, 2016 09:53 AM (DJoDY)

Excellent point. RT is basically the Putin network.

Posted by: joncelli, Bridge Troll and Crossbow Afficianado at April 13, 2016 09:55 AM (v9gSJ)

205 Ooh, you're going to have a fun weekend, IP! Hope everything goes as planned, and for those things that don't, that it works out better than expected.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 13, 2016 09:55 AM (NOIQH)

206 We talk about barricades but when the time comes, people will be like, yeah but not THOSE barricades, they're really too declasse. I have an embarrassment threshold, after all!

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:55 AM (nbrY/)

207 #145

Many surgeries are life saving but non-emergency and can be planned for aka shopped, if the market were designed to allow that.

This is why medical tourism is a growth sector.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 13, 2016 09:55 AM (IdCqF)

208 As for sea levels, do those artificial islands the Chinese have built up for airstrips look like the work of a government that believes in such silliness?

It's almost like they know it's bullshit...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 09:56 AM (9krrF)

209 "Navy Secretary Ray Mabus"

(Nostradamus) Antichrist: Code Named Mabus

Posted by: crazy times at April 13, 2016 09:56 AM (I0sxh)

210 Government agencies bought a lot of ammunition. Who wants to bet that ammunition is already stolen or lost?

Posted by: crazy times at April 13, 2016 09:58 AM (I0sxh)

211 We talk about barricades but when the time comes, people will be like, yeah but not THOSE barricades, they're really too declasse. I have an embarrassment threshold, after all!

We're already seeing it in other forms. We don't like the allies we're getting and can't get the allies we want so we let ourselves get pounded again and again.

I understand some of the reasons, but past a certain point, it verges on being a suicide pact.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 09:58 AM (9krrF)

212 209 "Navy Secretary Ray Mabus"

(Nostradamus) Antichrist: Code Named Mabus
Posted by: crazy times at April 13, 2016 09:56 AM (I0sxh)
***
That's Herr Professor Doktor Mabuse, der Spieler, peasant.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 13, 2016 09:58 AM (lutOX)

213 209 "Navy Secretary Ray Mabus"

(Nostradamus) Antichrist: Code Named Mabus
Posted by: crazy times at April 13, 2016 09:56 AM (I0sxh)

In the building like a pentagram

The master of the sea resides.

Social justice, stupid policies, satanic hoo-hah

Shall overtake the sailors in steel.

Chicks, trannies, confused squids reign.

Posted by: Nostracelli at April 13, 2016 09:59 AM (v9gSJ)

214 Many surgeries are life saving but non-emergency and can be planned for aka shopped, if the market were designed to allow that.

This is why medical tourism is a growth sector.
Posted by: Epobirs

True, but that still automatically excludes people too ill to travel, and is geared more for people that have the means to par in cash.

For most people (middle class) that means an option that a third party will work with, within a days' driving distance.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 13, 2016 09:59 AM (326rv)

215 Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 09:58 AM (9krrF)

Exactly.

Which is why I'm planning to steal Tim's cattle prod.
*zzzt*

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:59 AM (nbrY/)

216 We talk about barricades but when the time comes, people will be like, yeah but not THOSE barricades, they're really too declasse. I have an embarrassment threshold, after all!

We're already seeing it in other forms. We don't like the allies we're getting and can't get the allies we want so we let ourselves get pounded again and again.

I understand some of the reasons, but past a certain point, it verges on being ~~a suicide pact~~ S & M.

FIFY

Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 09:59 AM (4dbPD)

217 Mizzou let in students who shouldn't be there to programs that shouldn't exist, and they're chasing away the students who should be there.

Posted by: JEM at April 13, 2016 10:00 AM (IfzXb)

218 >>>Navy Secretary Ray Mabus

Mabus? oh shit, that doesn't sound good. I need to check some Nostradamus

Posted by: x at April 13, 2016 10:00 AM (nFwvY)

219 Shit.

*hides checkbook from myself

Launch of GunTV, the First-of-its-Kind Firearms TV Shopping Channel

Social Responsibility Network LLC and GTV Live Shopping LLC, are launching GunTV, a television shopping network for firearms and related consumer goods, on April 1, 2016. The network will air across the country on a variety of cable networks and television stations. The new GunTV website, www.guntv.tv, will be launched simultaneously.

http://tinyurl.com/zbav44f

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 10:02 AM (/D5Lf)

220 Re Navy - yet further support for my suggestion that the next President can everyone two star and up who didn't resign under the current filth.

Posted by: JEM at April 13, 2016 10:03 AM (IfzXb)

221 We're already seeing it in other forms. We don't like the allies we're getting and can't get the allies we want so we let ourselves get pounded again and again.

I understand some of the reasons, but past a certain point, it verges on being a suicide pact.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 09:58 AM (9krrF)
***
I'm telling ya - just like Iron Curtain days.... push comes to shove, the individual knows he can't prevail, and has too much - friends, family - to lose should he revolt. Just for their sake - hostages to fortune, as it were - a man can and will endure almost anything.

That's my fear - that people will be tough enough to take it and keep on taking it.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 13, 2016 10:03 AM (lutOX)

222 I have no problem with people making as much money as they can but when we talk about extraordinary health costs it can aggravate a person who has to drive by mansions everyday on the way to work occupied by people in the healthcare industry.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 13, 2016 10:05 AM (5IbVn)

223 IP give her a massage.
Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 09:52 AM (nbrY/)
______________________________________________

Great minds VM! Scheduled for tomorrow morning!

Thanks Lizzy, I normally plan some sort of trip itinerary, but it's just a rough outline this time. Weather (and activity in the Pubs) will dictate the direction we take.

Posted by: IP at April 13, 2016 10:07 AM (aQQbl)

224 Dammit, I can't read H2 without crying right now. And I didn't even know Rosetta.

This century sucks.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 10:08 AM (9krrF)

225 Great minds VM! Scheduled for tomorrow morning!

--

IP tell fiance she found a keeper!

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 10:09 AM (nbrY/)

226 That's my fear - that people will be tough enough to take it and keep on taking it.

My hope is the Romanian model.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 10:09 AM (9krrF)

227 Launch of GunTV, the First-of-its-Kind Firearms TV Shopping Channel

Social Responsibility Network LLC and GTV Live Shopping LLC, are
launching GunTV, a television shopping network for firearms and related
consumer goods, on April 1, 2016. The network will air across the
country on a variety of cable networks and television stations. The new
GunTV website, www.guntv.tv, will be launched simultaneously.

http://tinyurl.com/zbav44f

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 10:02 AM

Nice channel youse guys got dere....

Posted by: Two Guys Named Vinnie at the FCC at April 13, 2016 10:11 AM (bzd8I)

228 Re: sidebar on NBA--

I'd like to note at this time, you cannot spell "tyranny" without "tranny".

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 10:12 AM (9krrF)

229 The Office of Personnel Management is preparing for a pilot program to automatically track public social media postings of people applying for security clearances.

OPM is conducting market research to find companies that can perform automated social media tracking and other types of Web crawling as part of the background investigation process, according to an April 8 request for information posted online. Responses from interested companies are due by April 15.

OPM is looking for companies that can automatically browse publicly available electronic information, which includes information posted to news and media sites; Facebook, Twitter and other social media postings; blog postings; online court records, updates to photo and video-sharing sites; and information gleaned from online e-commerce sites, such as Amazon and eBay.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 10:12 AM (Ozsfq)

230 >>>>>The Office of Personnel Management is preparing for a pilot program to
automatically track public social media postings of people applying for
security clearances.

OPM is conducting market research to find companies that can perform
automated social media tracking and other types of Web crawling as part
of the background investigation process, according to an April 8
request for information posted online. Responses from interested
companies are due by April 15.

OPM is looking for companies that can automatically browse publicly
available electronic information, which includes information posted to
news and media sites; Facebook, Twitter and other social media postings;
blog postings; online court records, updates to photo and video-sharing
sites; and information gleaned from online e-commerce sites, such as
Amazon and eBay.
.
.
.
.I don't see any issues with that. It's not like they got hacked or anything......

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 13, 2016 10:13 AM (iONHu)

231 229 great idea for screening out jihadis
Of course in practice it will be aimed at teahadis and gun-owners

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 10:14 AM (nbrY/)

232 229 The Office of Personnel Management is preparing for a pilot program to automatically track public social media postings of people applying for security clearances.

OPM is conducting market research to find companies that can perform automated social media tracking and other types of Web crawling as part of the background investigation process, according to an April 8 request for information posted online. Responses from interested companies are due by April 15.

OPM is looking for companies that can automatically browse publicly available electronic information, which includes information posted to news and media sites; Facebook, Twitter and other social media postings; blog postings; online court records, updates to photo and video-sharing sites; and information gleaned from online e-commerce sites, such as Amazon and eBay.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 13, 2016 10:12 AM (Ozsfq)

Sheesh. Turns out that Orwell was an optimist.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 13, 2016 10:15 AM (O/1LB)

233 Wow! RNC is saying if Trump gets 1,100 he will win the nomination.

drudge has the story.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 13, 2016 10:16 AM (iONHu)

234 Morning

Posted by: Bigby's Expressive Wrists at April 13, 2016 10:16 AM (3ZtZW)

235 OPM is looking for companies that can automatically browse publicly available electronic information, which includes information posted to news and media sites; Facebook, Twitter and other social media postings; blog postings; online court records, updates to photo and video-sharing sites; and information gleaned from online e-commerce sites, such as Amazon and eBay.

Ask the Chinese. Cut out the middleman.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 13, 2016 10:17 AM (4dbPD)

236 HHS is declaring "Victory" because the average premium increase was only 8% last year.

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

Up 8 is the new down!

Posted by: iforgot at April 13, 2016 08:39 AM

Always suspected HHS was totally 8 up. This confirms it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 13, 2016 10:17 AM (bzd8I)

237 In regards to the MU closing dorms article:

I'd venture to guess that the video of the OSU BLMers (posted here yesterday) being told they either get out or are going to be expelled may have had a bit to do with the fact that those in charge saw the financial damage suffered by kowtowing to these spoiled punks.

Posted by: H Badger at April 13, 2016 10:18 AM (n/0Nw)

238 Wow Republicans actually did something decent in killing green energy tax credits. Broken clock theory I guess.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at April 13, 2016 10:18 AM (0LHZx)

239 What is H2?

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 10:18 AM (nbrY/)

240 You're too kind VM.
You know how everybody, every couple, has "a story"? Well, ours is one that is hard to believe, and that it took 37 years or so to be where we are today makes me laugh. Grade school classmates, not friends, we were just somebody we each knew.

Posted by: IP at April 13, 2016 10:20 AM (aQQbl)

241 178 "Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced the move at a Silicon Valley conference on tech, government and climate change, noting that the Navy is facing rising ocean levels and a surge of interest as ice melts in the Arctic."

****

Ummmm. Don't they have boats?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 09:43 AM (NeFrd)

Plus, I thought a rising tide lifting all boats was supposed to be a good thing.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 10:22 AM (0mRoj)

242 229-That's some sunny news today.

Whatever happened to privacy?

Posted by: Moki at April 13, 2016 10:22 AM (ezHMO)

243 So Drudge is wishcasting again?

LOL

Trump will win if he gets 1237 votes. He doesn't get a gimme at 1100. The RNC has been pretty clear about that for a long time.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 13, 2016 10:23 AM (lyZWB)

244 Drudge barely rates on my daily reading anymore. It's just sad what all this crap has done to sites I found informative and (mostly) sane.)

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at April 13, 2016 10:24 AM (9krrF)

245 210 Government agencies bought a lot of ammunition. Who wants to bet that ammunition is already stolen or lost?
Posted by: crazy times at April 13, 2016 09:58 AM (I0sxh)

I think that's a best case scenario.

Posted by: rickl at April 13, 2016 10:24 AM (zoehZ)

246 That 1100 delegates thing is just an opinion from one of the rules committee members.
Video link here
https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/720236799574933504

Posted by: @votermom at April 13, 2016 10:25 AM (nbrY/)

247 Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 13, 2016 10:23 AM (lyZWB)

Counting on a Cruz 2nd ballot win?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Let's play two! at April 13, 2016 10:26 AM (WVsWD)

248 A new idea for "green" energy,using cheese.(government backed,of course)

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/231336/

Posted by: steevy at April 13, 2016 10:27 AM (B48dK)

249 Ayatolla Khamenei says the U.S. is secretly supporting ISIS. So one liar is calling another liar a liar. Who knows what the truth is? See WZ.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 13, 2016 10:28 AM (Nwg0u)

250 Gee I wonder which candidate that rules committee member supports? *eye roll*

Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 13, 2016 10:29 AM (lyZWB)

251 Art up.

Posted by: HH at April 13, 2016 10:29 AM (DrCtv)

252 #214

'Too ill to travel' wouldn't fall in the non-emergency category, would it?

I disagree with the other assumptions. People traveling long distances to engage the services of a specialist has never been limited to the wealthy. There was a time I can recall when people came many hundreds of miles just for a diagnostic when only a few places in the country had the facilities. When other costs weren't insane, the cost of travel was not a problem for the middle-class. Also, there have been charities that existed solely for that purpose. I don't think I need to explain the difference between a charity and a government service paid for by taxes.

There is a hell of a lot of improvement to be had by getting government out of medicine and stop pretending it's something other than a business. As long as health care is treated as a basic human right it will remain an economic albatross around the nation's neck. Access to health care should not mean every productive citizen should be on the hook for picking up the tab, especially not at gunpoint, which is the implied threat for anything paid for by taxes.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 13, 2016 10:29 AM (IdCqF)

253 Dildos are now being deployed against Ted? Do people actually get paid to sit around a table and strategize this nonsense?

Posted by: Fritz at April 13, 2016 10:30 AM (UzPAd)

254 I'm counting on nothing Tim.

Trump can still win if he can get 1237 on the first ballot. He won't get there with committed delegates so he will have to get some uncommitted delegates to vote for him. We will see how well he does given the way he keeps insulting the party and the process.

If he doesn't then Cruz is more likely to win on the second or third. I doubt it goes to 4th.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 13, 2016 10:33 AM (lyZWB)

255 Ironic that IRS day and Emancipation day are both April 15th, because the plantation is still well-staffed.

Posted by: Eromero at April 13, 2016 10:44 AM (zLDYs)

256 To really force the GOP establishments hand Trump just needs to start picking which GOP Congressional Leadership he wants his supporters to target in the event he is not the nominee. People focus when they face the threat of loosing their jobs. Trump needs to hit back twice as hard. Punch them right where it hurts them the most, their personal power. He needs to publish an enemies list also, just to make it clear and something that we can point to after the election to remind the GOP donor class who actually has the power. This wouldn't be a bad thing for the Conservative movement in general to do just to let the Rhinos know that their days of screwing us are over.

Posted by: SOUTHDAKOTABOY at April 13, 2016 10:44 AM (JaJ3u)

257 These guys:

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/
04/43/00/12/0004430012171_500X500.jpg

(remove the space)

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 13, 2016 11:15 AM (NeFrd)

258 Posted by: SOUTHDAKOTABOY at April 13, 2016 10:44 AM (JaJ3u)

Yeah you guys. More enemies lists are exactly what we need you guys. Because we haven't had enough of that shit for the last eight fucking years you guys. Because decency is for GOPes, Cucks, and Globalists you guys. Serious you guys.

Posted by: Orange Clown-Shaped Pile of Shit and Garbage at April 13, 2016 11:22 AM (cRsZi)

259 Posted by: Orange Clown-Shaped Pile of Shit and Garbage at April 13, 2016 11:22 AM (cRsZi)

Because the way we have been doing things has been working sooo well for us.

Until we make the Donor Class fear us they will continue to betray us. They need a good solid punch in the nose in order to encourage that pack of thieves and liars to do the right thing.
Because again the way we have been doing things, playing nice with them has worked out so well for us. I say we need to take a page or two from the Lefts playbook, because you know they are actually moving the ball down field and scoring whereas we aren't.

Posted by: SOUTHDAKOTABOY at April 13, 2016 01:18 PM (JaJ3u)

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