Ack, I hope your leg starts feeling better.
I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.
Spike ,'Chosen'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - May 04, 2009 5:42:43 am PDT #17857 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
billytea - May 04, 2009 5:53:43 am PDT #17858 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
That is so wicked cool, billytea!
It really is. I declare this an auspicious start to life.
Gudanov - May 04, 2009 6:00:47 am PDT #17859 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I got a letter from NRA with a membership offer and "survey" to fill out and send to your representative. The survey is basically just stating that one opposing a number of restrictions on gun ownership or purchasing gun that I haven't heard even being proposed. I suspect it may be more to get NRA voters fired up about ousting representatives than to prevent non-existent legislation from passing. That doesn't upset me at all, I meant that's the reason they exist.
Anyhow the letter got me angry because if I join the NRA you know what they send me? A knife. That's right, a knife. Where's my fucking gun?! I'm not joining the NKA dammit.
Also this has me upset.
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said Friday that he will oppose legislation that would give people the option of a public health insurance plan. The move puts him on the opposite side of two-thirds of Americans.
A poll released this week by Consumer Reports National Research Center showed that 66 percent of Americans back the creation of a public health plan that would compete with private plans. Nelson, in comments made to CQ, joins the 16 percent of poll respondents who said they oppose the plan.
Nelson's problem, he told CQ, is that the public plan would be too attractive and would hurt the private insurance plans. "At the end of the day, the public plan wins the game," Nelson said. Including a public option in a health plan, he said, was a "deal breaker."
Like the commentator in the article says, I'm WTF? Your argument is that there shouldn't be a public options because it might be better?! Jeez, at least try to make it sound like you are standing up for something and not being a total shill for Mutual of Omaha. God forbid that we have the option for something better than the current system.
Theodosia - May 04, 2009 6:02:50 am PDT #17860 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
They have an Aboriginal certificate too, and other styles too, like Victorian Pink and Victorian Blue.
I wonder if they have commemorative styles for the Sex Affirmation certificates....
Jessica - May 04, 2009 6:05:37 am PDT #17861 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nelson's problem, he told CQ, is that the public plan would be too attractive and would hurt the private insurance plans.
...and the downside would be...?
billytea - May 04, 2009 6:07:36 am PDT #17862 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Like the commentator in the article says, I'm WTF? Your argument is that there shouldn't be a public options because it might be better?! Jeez, at least try to make it sound like you are standing up for something and not being a total shill for Mutual of Omaha. God forbid that we have the option for something better than the current system.
Heh. I might also note, Australia has both a public insurance system (Medicare) and thriving private insurers, who incidentally are required to cover any certified practitioner that falls within the definition of their coverage. There is some tapdancing necessary to avoid adverse selection hurting their viability, but at least here the government is willing to do so.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 04, 2009 6:08:14 am PDT #17863 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
No more under-the-table bucks from insurance companies. One has to have priorities!
billytea - May 04, 2009 6:09:11 am PDT #17864 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
...and the downside would be...?
Well, socialised medicine, obviously. Would you want to put up with a Five Year Plan every time you get the sniffles?
Jesse - May 04, 2009 6:10:27 am PDT #17865 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anyhow the letter got me angry because if I join the NRA you know what they send me? A knife. That's right, a knife. Where's my fucking gun?! I'm not joining the NKA dammit.
OMG, that made me laugh out loud at work.
Jesse - May 04, 2009 6:19:57 am PDT #17866 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Eee!! Little tiny Ryan!!