You know, I bang my head on the desk trying to come up with an incredibly lucid explanation of some obscure point and then someone like Paul Waldman does it better in fewer words- (T)he CBO also says that repealing the mandate will result in 13 million fewer Americans with health insurance — hence those …
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Nov 15 2017
About that $300 Billion “Savings” from repealing the Individual Mandate
If you’re like me you’ve heard on the Cable TV and in the newspapers that repealing the Obamacare Individual Mandate will save $300 Billion and asked yourself, how does that work exactly? Should you find a semi-reputable source, like say The New York Times for instance, you’ll find a paragraph similar to this- If it …
Nov 14 2017
Hitting On Eighth Graders
You know, maybe it’s ok if you’re in the 9th Grade and you have a Junior High School (7th, 8th, and 9th Grade) / High School (10th, 11th, 12th) Educational System. My second girlfriend (I wasn’t fast enough for my first one, a classmate) was a Junior (High School, get your filthy minds out of …
Nov 12 2017
Dolchstoßlegende
The confluence of Armistice Day and the 100th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution has caused Clio to rear her head again and consider the fortunes of the German Empire in 1918. Contrary to plan, Germany had been thwarted in the West by the French and British but experienced considerable success on the Eastern Front against …
Nov 11 2017
Cut Cut Cut!
What about cut are we not understanding here? Cut health care for the sick and elderly. Cut deductions for 99% of the population. Above everything else cut the necessity for .01% Plutocrats and Transnational Megacorp Monopolies to pay any taxes at all. It’s also a give, Give, GIVE! program. Give wealthy heirs Aristocratic privilege. Give …
Nov 10 2017
Not Just Meatballs and Lingonberry Jam
It goes on your meatballs. No, seriously. On the other hand Scandanavians like Lutefisk too, I’ve tried that and it’s not nearly as horrible as you’d think. Nuclear War is exactly as horrible as you’d think. How to Build a Fallout Shelter Using Nothing but IKEA Furniture By Nick Greene, Vice Nov 9 2017 In …
Nov 10 2017
What could possibly go wrong?
After you give out a $300,000,000 no bid contract to a 2 person firm that happens to be located in a Cabinet Secretary’s home town that his son just happened to used to work for? Puerto Rico is in blackout again after power line fixed by Whitefish fails by Umair Irfan, Vox Nov 10, 2017 …
Nov 09 2017
About That Big Medicaid Victory in Maine
Maybe no so much. You may have missed it but Seema Verma, head of the Health and Human Services Department’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to institute work requirements for benefits. States will be allowed to impose Medicaid work requirements, top federal official says By Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post November 7, 2017 …
Nov 08 2017
Just Last Week!
Look, I doubt there are many who are more supportive of Sam Bee than I, after all I thought they ought to put her and Jason Jones in charge at The Daily Show and do a spoof of the Happy/Eyewitness News Format in the Colbert Pundit mold. It’s still a good idea dammit. Alas she …
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