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Author: Raine    Date: 11/13/2013 13:57:35

Computer issues this morning -- let's just get this sucker rolling.

Have you heard the good news?
The additional 57-vote margin from Fairfax was expected to give Herring a statewide lead of 163 votes out of more than 2.2 million cast – barring any last-minute changes from other localities, which had until 11:59 pm Tuesday to submit their numbers to the state election board.

A recount appears all but certain after the statewide results are certified Nov. 25, and the Obenshain campaign made clear that it considers the race far from over. “We owe it to the people of Virginia to make sure we get it right, and that every legitimate vote is counted and subject to uniform rules,” Obenshain (Harrisonburg) said in a statement.

Herring, by contrast, treated his victory as assured in a campaign statement.
Good good news, indeed.

Also Richard Cohen doesn't understand why everyone is all upset.
Richard Cohen has the Richard Cohen–iest non-apology ever in response to his grotesque piece yesterday about “conventional” Americans “gagging” at interracial marriage. “I don’t understand it,” the Washington Post columnist told The Washington Post in what has to be the interview coup on the year. “What I was doing was expressing not my own views but those of extreme right-wing Republican tea party people. I don’t have a problem with interracial marriage or same-sex marriage. In fact, I exult in them . . . This is just below the belt. It’s a purposeful misreading of what I wrote.” Ew! Richard Cohen “exults” in your marriages, interracial couples and gay couples. Note that Richard Cohen has a history of “exulting” where he shouldn’t.

 

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Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 14:16:47
Dickie, Dickie, Dickie! If you meant it to be the views of the tea party, you should have made that much clearer, you massive tool.

Comment by BobR on 11/13/2013 14:24:25
Quote by Mondobubba:
Dickie, Dickie, Dickie! If you meant it to be the views of the tea party, you should have made that much clearer, you massive tool.

I've read it and can see how Cohen could have meant it that way, but the fact that it was so poorly written that it was so easy to misinterpret makes it pretty clear that he is a shitty writer in general.

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 14:26:30
Quote by Mondobubba:
Dickie, Dickie, Dickie! If you meant it to be the views of the tea party, you should have made that much clearer, you massive tool.
...and he should not have brought the Mayor of NYC into the discussion.

I'm really bothered that WaPo continues to stand by this awful excuse for a man.


Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 14:27:39
I wanted to write a blog about next years elections, butu this ws all I could come up with:


2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014
2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014
2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014
2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014
2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014


Comment by wickedpam on 11/13/2013 14:35:09
Morning

Comment by Scoopster on 11/13/2013 14:35:44
Mornin' all..

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 14:38:43
I am so sick and tired of the Obamabashing regarding the ACA and insurance companies. It's so disingenuous it makes to angry to even write about.

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 14:41:01
and... Bill Clinton -- you ARE NOT HELPING!

Comment by wickedpam on 11/13/2013 14:41:26
Quote by Raine:
I am so sick and tired of the Obamabashing regarding the ACA and insurance companies. It's so disingenuous it makes to angry to even write about.



same here - at this point I'm very "STFU - I'm tired of paying for you to go to the emergency for a cold and running out on the bill so I have to pay for it. Suck it up. Be a grown up and pay for your on damn insurance."

Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 14:43:48
Have we all seen Governor Half-Term compare the national debt to slavery? "I don't think you know what that word means." Inigo Montoya.

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 14:43:49
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
I am so sick and tired of the Obamabashing regarding the ACA and insurance companies. It's so disingenuous it makes to angry to even write about.



same here - at this point I'm very "STFU - I'm tired of paying for you to go to the emergency for a cold and running out on the bill so I have to pay for it. Suck it up. Be a grown up and pay for your on damn insurance."
Suddenly everyone LOVES insurance companies.


Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 14:46:58
Just saying people don't get this about Obamacare.

The rollout happened 2 years ago!!!

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 14:47:43
Quote by Raine:
Just saying people don't get this about Obamacare.

The rollout happened 3 years ago!!!
Corrected.


Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 14:51:54
March 23, 2010: President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act

Coverage for children with pre-existing conditions

Coverage for young adults under 26

No more lifetime limits on coverage

No more arbitrary cancellations or rescissions

Right to appeal health plan decisions

Consumer Assistance Program

Small business tax credit

Temporary coverage for people with pre-existing conditions

Community Health Centers



2011
Prescription drug discounts for seniors

Free Medicare preventive services for seniors

The 80/20 Rule (Medical Loss Ratio)

Rate Review


2012
New preventive services for women

Summary of Benefits and Coverage


2013
October 1: Open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace begins



******STILL TO COME******


2014
January 1: Coverage begins in the Health Insurance Marketplace

Coverage for pre-existing conditions

Savings on monthly premiums and out-of-pocket costs

Medicaid expansion

No more yearly limits on coverage

Expanded small business tax credit

March 31: Open enrollment closes

2015: Employer Shared Responsibility Payment

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 14:58:26
ObamaCare Health Care Reform Timeline 2015
• Employers with over 50 full-time equivalent employees must offer health insurance.

• Doctors' income is based on quality of care not quantity of care. This is a vast simplification of the actual documentation in the bill. It is a protection from the current fee-for-service payment model.

ObamaCare Health Care Reform Timeline 2017
• States can implement their own plans which meet the standards of ObamaCare such as single-payer. (similar to ObamaCare, but instead of buying private insurance everyone pays a tax and everyone has coverage)

• Provides states flexibility to allow businesses with more than 100 employees to purchase coverage in the SHOP Exchange

• No more preexisting conditions for anyone including high-risk customers.

ObamaCare Health Care Reform 2018
• All healthcare plans (including plans held since before preventive care was required) must now offer preventive coverage.

• The "Cadillac" tax for higher quality coverage for individuals and employers purchasing insurance for employees is put in place.

ObamaCare Health Care Reform 2020
• ObamaCare fully eliminates the Medicare Gap (instead of just offering rebates to seniors).

For more information on health care reform check out our extensive coverage of Obama Care Facts.
Another excellent source.

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 15:05:42
Sorry for the long posts. As you can see, I am really sick of this. The Repubs have fought the ACA EVERY DAMN STEP OF THE WAY.

They are bitching about a website and the fact that INSURANCE companies are doing what they have always done : RIP PEOPLE OFF.

I swear, they just want the black man to fix everything and be responsible for everything at the same damn time.

Comment by BobR on 11/13/2013 15:06:02
Quote by Raine:
and... Bill Clinton -- you ARE NOT HELPING!

Bill Clinton is trying to help Hillary's 2016 run.

Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 15:07:42
Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 15:23:11

I’d like to point out that Ferguson refers to himself not as an economist but as an economic historian. So what we have here isn’t one economist criticizing one of his peers for his work in their shared field but, instead, we are seeing a historian throwing an eloquent tantrum about one economist’s claims of what will happen in the future.
A conservative economic historian... how utterly typical.

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 15:29:45
Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 15:33:12
Quote by Raine:

I’d like to point out that Ferguson refers to himself not as an economist but as an economic historian. So what we have here isn’t one economist criticizing one of his peers for his work in their shared field but, instead, we are seeing a historian throwing an eloquent tantrum about one economist’s claims of what will happen in the future.
A conservative economic historian... how utterly typical.



He's a big fan of empires too.

Comment by wickedpam on 11/13/2013 15:36:45
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
I am so sick and tired of the Obamabashing regarding the ACA and insurance companies. It's so disingenuous it makes to angry to even write about.



same here - at this point I'm very "STFU - I'm tired of paying for you to go to the emergency for a cold and running out on the bill so I have to pay for it. Suck it up. Be a grown up and pay for your on damn insurance."
Suddenly everyone LOVES insurance companies.


yeah, IKR This really would have been so much easier if it were Medicare for all or single payer but NNNNOOOO Repubs wouldn't even entertain the thought so we went with this idea to try and get everyone one the same base line at the very least.

Comment by TriSec on 11/13/2013 16:07:39
It's a curious thing. As a child, we were never overly concerned about familial history...I was raised as a Sicilian/Italian, and always thought of myself as "white" until such time I became an adult.

Over the years, as I've tried to sort out the tangled mess that is my family history (like most Americans, I'd wager) I became far more aware of our Hispanic and Filipino background. I no longer list "White" on all those demographic thingies....I've been "Pacific Islander" for better than 20 years now.

When I was a younger man, I was with a fine lady "with the brown skin" (as young Javi calls one of his friends) for quite some time. Of course, I wound up with a hispanic lady (although Cubans are different) for life.

It all comes back to something one of our members at that long-ago website we all used to frequent said..."I fell in love with a person, not their anatomy". [or the color of their skin].

Really, GOP....why is this so hard?



Comment by Scoopster on 11/13/2013 16:21:55
Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 16:23:41
FAcinating and really informative.

One takeaway: Experion's private database. <--- This should not have happened.

Me, the one who always looks to see if the GOP added to the clusterphluck. Did they make sure it was private credit agencies that did the verification when the actually bill was passed into law?


Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 16:24:43

This was another reason why I couldn't write a blogworthy blog today -- that was the first thing I saw waking up and my blood pressure went thru the roof.

Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 16:32:12
Quote by Raine:

This was another reason why I couldn't write a blogworthy blog today -- that was the first thing I saw waking up and my blood pressure went thru the roof.



The "you promised" reasoning is so fucking lame. Did at any point did Obama say I promise? Not that I recall. Since when did a politician promise mean anything anyway? Seriously people stop making policy on the yoooou promised meme.

Comment by Scoopster on 11/13/2013 16:33:10
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:

This was another reason why I couldn't write a blogworthy blog today -- that was the first thing I saw waking up and my blood pressure went thru the roof.

The "you promised" reasoning is so fucking lame. Did at any point did Obama say I promise? Not that I recall. Since when did a politician promise mean anything anyway? Seriously people stop making policy on the yoooou promised meme.

HE PROMISED NOTHING - THE BILL WAS 95% WRITTEN BEFORE HE WAS EVEN ELECTED TO THE SENATE!

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 16:57:00
The damn law works FINE. The website is what needs to be fixed.

Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 17:01:14
Quote by Raine:
The damn law works FINE. The website is what needs to be fixed.






Comment by trojanrabbit on 11/13/2013 17:06:39
Hey Harry, you fucking asshole, the R-tards are filibustering judicial appointments again.

NUKE THEM, you fucking cowardly prick.

Comment by livingonli on 11/13/2013 17:06:51
Good day, folks. On my firefox browser, refresh comments hasn't worked for the last two days and it doesn't display audiocons. I do believe I see them on Chrome.

Comment by Scoopster on 11/13/2013 17:12:17
Quote by livingonli:
Good day, folks. On my firefox browser, refresh comments hasn't worked for the last two days and it doesn't display audiocons. I do believe I see them on Chrome.

I didn't see the audiocons at all until I switched to Chrome at the office.. heh.

Comment by BobR on 11/13/2013 17:37:02
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by livingonli:
Good day, folks. On my firefox browser, refresh comments hasn't worked for the last two days and it doesn't display audiocons. I do believe I see them on Chrome.

I didn't see the audiocons at all until I switched to Chrome at the office.. heh.

ugh - so FireFox has made more updates to break things?

Comment by TriSec on 11/13/2013 18:42:09
Banana!

Kumquot!

Guava!

(It's random fruit day.)



Comment by BobR on 11/13/2013 18:59:11
Quote by TriSec:
Banana!

Kumquot!

Guava!

(It's random fruit day.)


at first I thought this was another haiku - until I counted the syllables.

Comment by livingonli on 11/13/2013 19:10:22
I just posted a link that Nicole Sandler posted on her FB page on my FB page that it was Crap Channel's decision apparently to pull the plug on Randi's radio show. I guess Rush made a stink since he said he never wanted them to distribute any liberal talkers.

Comment by BobR on 11/13/2013 19:16:30
Quote by livingonli:
I just posted a link that Nicole Sandler posted on her FB page on my FB page that it was Crap Channel's decision apparently to pull the plug on Randi's radio show. I guess Rush made a stink since he said he never wanted them to distribute any liberal talkers.

Considering how much money Rush is losing, I don't think he has much sway with Clear Channel, who are going to driven by financial considerations over everything else.

Comment by wickedpam on 11/13/2013 19:17:30
Quote by BobR:
Quote by livingonli:
I just posted a link that Nicole Sandler posted on her FB page on my FB page that it was Crap Channel's decision apparently to pull the plug on Randi's radio show. I guess Rush made a stink since he said he never wanted them to distribute any liberal talkers.

Considering how much money Rush is losing, I don't think he has much sway with Clear Channel, who are going to driven by financial considerations over everything else.



oohhh so it wasn't her idea then. okay, that makes more sense


Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 20:02:36
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by BobR:
Quote by livingonli:
I just posted a link that Nicole Sandler posted on her FB page on my FB page that it was Crap Channel's decision apparently to pull the plug on Randi's radio show. I guess Rush made a stink since he said he never wanted them to distribute any liberal talkers.

Considering how much money Rush is losing, I don't think he has much sway with Clear Channel, who are going to driven by financial considerations over everything else.



oohhh so it wasn't her idea then. okay, that makes more sense
This all sucks.


Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 20:30:42
We have another school shooting it appears. Pittsburg from Tri-State weathers FB page:
Breaking News: There has been a shooting at Pittsburgh's Brashear High School and there are multiple victims. Per local news there, police scanner indicates they are still searching for the shooter.


Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 20:34:02
Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 20:45:02
OMG.




Then this happened....




Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 20:55:46
OHMIGAWD IT IS GOING TO BE 45 DEGREES TONIGHT Bring in the plants and pets!

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 21:12:27
Quote by Mondobubba:
OHMIGAWD IT IS GOING TO BE 45 DEGREES TONIGHT Bring in the plants and pets!



We are actually expected to hit the low 20's tonite. <-- for us.


I know it sucks for the people on the streets.


Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 21:16:40
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
OHMIGAWD IT IS GOING TO BE 45 DEGREES TONIGHT Bring in the plants and pets!



We are actually expected to hit the low 20's tonite. <-- for us.


I know it sucks for the people on the streets.



Even at 45 being on the street sucks.

I do love

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 21:20:14
Quote by Mondobubba:

I do love
So do I. I think it was a wonderful addition to the emoticon collection.

&




Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 21:29:40
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:

I do love
So do I. I think it was a wonderful addition to the emoticon collection.

&




How could I forget She twerks. The world needs more tweking


Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 22:04:19
So would my sister kill me if I gave her hockey loving husband and his future hockey loving 5 year old this for Xmas?



Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 22:12:21
Quote by Raine:
So would my sister kill me if I gave her hockey loving husband and his future hockey loving 5 year old this for Xmas?




Maybe. But you would be the best aunt ever!

Comment by BobR on 11/13/2013 22:17:42
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:

I do love
So do I. I think it was a wonderful addition to the emoticon collection.

&




How could I forget She twerks. The world needs more tweking

No. No it does not.

Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 22:21:07
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:

I do love
So do I. I think it was a wonderful addition to the emoticon collection.

&




How could I forget She twerks. The world needs more tweking

No. No it does not.



Twerking bunnies, Bobber. Not tweking in general. Because rodents shaking their asses are funny.

Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 22:35:35
While regulatory activity by the Department of Justice, as well as the size of the fines, has increased in recent years, it’s still far from sufficient to deter continued endangerment to the public as the company continues to pull in the big bucks.



This is why Alternet is shitty source of information. The DoJ doesn't have regulatory authority over pharma. When there is criminal complaint for a violation of the law regulating drug marketing, the FDA or the FTC refer the complaint to Justice. Get it right, Alternet!

Comment by Mondobubba on 11/13/2013 22:55:26
Along with it being L.L. Bean's birthday, it is also everybody's favorite homophobe, Fred Phelps's birthday.

Comment by Raine on 11/13/2013 23:45:25
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
So would my sister kill me if I gave her hockey loving husband and his future hockey loving 5 year old this for Xmas?




Maybe. But you would be the best aunt ever!
and uncle -- I need to have a discussion, but I think this might happen. A gift to our Bro in law and nephew...

I think I might have to get sister love skates to make it worth while.




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