My boyfriend picked up my car at the shop and got us some ice cream novelties at the Royal Farm. Treat!
And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
lisah - Aug 11, 2009 11:07:55 am PDT #3244 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
msbelle - Aug 11, 2009 11:08:18 am PDT #3245 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
y'all all just took an express trip on the wrong train. c'mon now.
Barb - Aug 11, 2009 11:08:57 am PDT #3246 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
y'all all just took an express trip on the wrong train. c'mon now.
And that would be different from any other day how, exactly?
Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2009 11:12:16 am PDT #3247 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think the right-wingers have convinced themselves that if they can beat Obama on health care, he's toast politically. They are hoping history repeats, because after they pulled that off with Clinton, the next mid-term they took over both houses.
sarameg - Aug 11, 2009 11:19:52 am PDT #3248 of 30001
Today is batshit crazy. I'm completely on, thank god, or I'd be miserable. How many thing can I juggle at once? A lot, apparently.
Daisy Jane - Aug 11, 2009 11:21:54 am PDT #3249 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
What I'm hearing amongst my conservative friends is that most people who don't have health insurance (and somewhere there have to be talking points about this because it's the exact. same. thing.) choose to spend their money on better cell phones, flat screen tv's, and other nonsense they don't "need." (I would argue that for anything but a minimum wage/manual labor job, cells are a neccesity).
They really have never heard of someone being denied coverage, losing their jobs and COBRA lapsing (or not being able to afford it at all) or the underinsured.
Or they pretend they've never heard of it.
I am watching (listening) to this Frontline right now. [link]
megan walker - Aug 11, 2009 11:23:57 am PDT #3250 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
(I would argue that for anything but a minimum wage/manual labor job, cells are a neccesity).
I certainly hope not.
StuntHusband - Aug 11, 2009 11:27:03 am PDT #3251 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I don't have health insurance. I haven't for almost 2 years. I'm a contractor, I don't get benefits, and on my hourly wage in this city's cost-of-living market I cannot afford independent health care coverage.
Right-wingers are to be ridiculed in this argument.
Calli - Aug 11, 2009 11:31:58 am PDT #3252 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My sister, a solid Republican, hasn't had health insurance in years. This is one of the reasons she's put off getting her first mammogram. She's been remarkably quiet about the dangers of a public health care option.
Kathy A - Aug 11, 2009 11:32:42 am PDT #3253 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I want a complete deadpan satire skit taking all this craziness being suggested as truth and coming out in favor of it. Death panels? you betcha
Watch last night's Daily Show--they had on a panel made up of John Oliver, Samantha Bee, and Aasif Mandvi, all discussing which form of death panel was best: universal death panels, free market death panels, or crazy-ass death panels . Oh, and Aasif put a curse on white people.