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From dakiwiboid:
Ten things you should never buy used
and
Ten things you shouldn't buy new
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What the health care reform means for you Plug in your income, household size and insurance status to see how you will affected.

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Biden's commentary: This is a Big Fucking Deal! Yes, it is Joe. Yes, it is.

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Because medical expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy. Check out the other four too.

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From our "I see your true colors" department:
Tea Partiers lose their shit. They spat on Rep. Cleaver, Called Rep. Frank a faggot and Reps Lewis and Carson niggers. No, I'm not going to censor that. Look at their ugliness. The mainstream republicans will never repudiate these people because they agree. They just prefer to do it in coded language rather than bluntly.

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Our "I see your true colors" department, take two:
Newt Gingrich says Health Care Reform will destroy the democrats, just like the Civil Rights Act did. Watch him backpedal here.

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"True Colors" part 3:
At least 4 democratic offices have been vandalized in the wake of the bill's passage. What next? street riots? Also disturbing: 3 of the 4 offices belonged to female congress-members.

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Portion sizes in Last Supper paintings changing. Ignore the comments.

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Clip of the Day:
From killabeez and T. Jonesy

Comments

[jess-faraday.livejournal.com]

I'm just flabbergasted by the fact that people are being driven to violence over the idea of something that will cost most of them nothing, and will benefit many of them. I'm surprised that violence has not ensued over NOT having some sort of federally-supported healthcare coverage. Truly, this society is upside down.

[jenshih-blue.livejournal.com]

How much do I love James Tiberius Kirk after watching that?

(((((((((((((((((((((THIS MUCH))))))))))))))))))

Thanks for making my day. *grins, giggles, & flounces away*

[jlm121.livejournal.com]

The Tea Party and Gingrich scare me because there are such evil undertones and overtones in so much of what they say.

Was extremely proud of the way Cleaver and others handled the situation. My general opinion of their collective statements was
"We've been been spit on by stupid people before because we were trying to change society."

I stole the Shatman to put up on my lj today. Yesterday was his 78th Birthday.

[grail76.livejournal.com]

Actually Michael Steele was asked about it over the weekend. He said, some people just, "Got stupid."

It's a start.

[heraldofdarknes.livejournal.com]

Ok, Valar. Gotta back up here a tad.

My parents help head up the Tea Party movement in Tipton County. I've been to the protests. A lot of what they're angry about is valid, and I've seen pagans, christians, young and old there.

Don't let a few bad apples make us forget that every movement has them. Republicans, Democrats, Pagan, Christian, Socialists, etc. Everyone has extremists. These people are scared not of the quality of service (which will inevitably go down due to the lack of competitive market), but of where the money is coming from (we can't just print more, the dollar is already falling). Every time there's a regime change, there's going to be unrest. Especially when there's a liberal government. Us gun-loving freedom people are always worried that things will get taken without our permission. Give the government an inch and it takes a mile.

Would I have used the words that were used? No, not in a million years. But a few bad apples don't mean that the movement isn't valid. If that were the case, we'd still belong to Britain.

Just a thoughtful though of thought-ness.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

1) If you're not reading cbpotts, you should be.

The thing is, the current health insurance situation is unsustainable and unaffordable. If I still worked at CBU (I left 4 years ago) and things had continued as they were pay-wise, I would be making 22000/year. I would be spending over 9000 of it on health insurance premiums for a policy that covered next to nothing.

And it's that way all over. Premiums go up by 20% a year. Your pay goes up by 3%. We are rapidly approaching a time when most people work solely to pay their insurance premiums with nothing left to live on.

There are problems with the reform, namely that it isn't enough. There are no caps on premiums. The insurance companies are going to cherry pick and dump the expensive people into the high-risk pools. There is no public option.

How are we going to pay for it? I don't know. I'm not a bean counter and it's not my job. How are we going to survive as a country with 45 million people, 1 in 6, who can't access basic preventative care? Who have to wait until they are practically dying to go to the emergency, then face bankruptcy for not dying and whose costs get rolled onto the rest of us anyway?

The reason handweaponry worked against the British is because that was what THEY had too. In an era when whole city blocks can be blanketed with microwaves that heat all metal in and on your person to burning hot, a shotgun isn't going to do it.

Besides, we don't have a liberal government. We have a right-leaning corporate centrist in power. We've just been so far out on the batshit fringe it looks leftist.