Has she been watching Benjamin Button?

Has she been watching Benjamin Button?

That would mean she's mastered the cable remote and ordered On Demand. Hmmm....

Ack. This has got me annoyed.

Go be a grown up.

Jenkins is confronted by a constituent named Elizabeth Smith -- a full-time waitress with two young kids. Smith's employer doesn't provide insurance, and she can't afford private coverage. Smith's not looking for a handout; she's looking for an affordable choice.

"I want an option that I can pay for," Smith told her representative. "I work. I pay my bills. I'm not a burden on the state. I pay my taxes. So why can't I get an affordable option? Why are you against that?"

Jenkins responds, literally chuckling at the question, "A government-run program is going to subsidize not only yours but everybody in this room. So I'm not sure what we're talking about here."

Jenkins went on to tell Smith that "people should be given the opportunity to take care of themselves with a refund, or an advanceable [sic] tax credit, to go be a grown-up and go buy the insurance."

Putting aside the asshatness of it and the fact that she really didn't answer the question. If you are providing a refundable tax credit to a single mother working as a waitress, guess what, that's a government subsidy.

Also, let's set aside the issue of if the tax credit is big enough for her to afford insurance. So the better solution is to use taxpayer money to pay a private insurer with greater overhead instead of using taxpayer money to, say, let her use something like Medicare with a lower overhead?

Ugh. I hate disingenuous arguments. I mean the woman asked why she's against a potentially lower cost option for insurance. The answer she got was that you should grow up and get your own insurance with a government subsidy instead of asking for a government subsidy. Argh.

That would mean she's mastered the cable remote and ordered On Demand.

World domination can't be far behind.

World domination can't be far behind.

As World Ruler Matilda would mandate cinnamon toast and more milk for everybody.

There would be a fair amount of dancing and running around willy nilly as well.

As World Ruler Matilda would mandate cinnamon toast and more milk for everybody.

There would be a fair amount of dancing and running around willy nilly as well.

I'm ready to nominate her RIGHT NOW.

I, for one, welcome our new Matilda overlord.

Yeah, sounds good.

As World Ruler Matilda would mandate cinnamon toast and more milk for everybody.

More milk? Ewwwww. I'm gonna have to go to Clovis for a counter-offer.

Man accused of climbing into pit toilet – again

PORTLAND — When Gary Moody pleaded no contest to trespassing in 2005 for hiding in a pit toilet on White Mountain National Forest property in New Hampshire, a judge urged him to seek help for whatever had driven him to climb down there.

According to a new complaint, Moody didn't get the message.

The 49-year-old Pittston man is charged again – this time in federal court – with climbing into a pit toilet in the White Mountain National Forest.

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According to Fors, Moody admitted that he had been in a toilet at the Hastings Campground on Memorial Day. Moody initially said he had dropped his shirt into the pit and climbed down to retrieve it.

That story was similar to one Moody had told authorities on June 26, 2005, when he was found in a toilet on U.S. Forest Service property in Albany, N.H. Moody said he climbed into the pit to retrieve his wedding ring, but officials cleaned out the pit, screened the contents and found no ring.

"I told Moody that I did not think that his trips into the outhouse pits had anything to do with dropping things by accident, and asked Moody if I was right," Fors wrote in the affidavit. "Moody said 'yes.'"

Moody admitted that he had gone into outhouse pits more than twice, Fors wrote. Moody said he never took photographs or videotaped people using the toilets, and he told Fors that he had not received counseling for what Fors called "the outhouse problem," according to the affidavit.

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"This gentleman has been subject to a great deal of media scrutiny and drawn to himself, should I say, notoriety. And a healthy share of bathroom humor, if you will," District Court Judge Pamela Albee said during the sentencing in New Hampshire.