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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 08:52 PM) What do you want Obama to do? Suit up and go catch some terrorists? Declare war on Libya? Bad things happen, I thought most American's learned the lesson of 9/11, maybe I was wrong. Nah, he just needs to go raise more money for his campaign and lob a few more jokes while embassies continue to get attacked. It's okay, everyone like you doesn't give a f*** that an ambassador to our country got raped and killed. Just crook the neck a little, stick your nose up just enough to look like a competent wise ass, look at the telepromter amd read it, raise some more money, and talk about how much Republicans suck and call it a day.

Nah, just let me have a presser, not answer any questions, and hop on Air Force One to do more fundraising like nothing happened. Meanwhile, let's grill the other candidate for actually having balls to take a stand. It seems like priorities are screwed up here.

I knew someone would do this. How about October late?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 09:22 PM) kap make that your avatar right now You didn't know I was Clint Eastwood, did you PUNK?

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 7, 2012 -> 02:18 PM) Go watch the IceHogs. You'll go insane at how ridiculous the fans and presentation are there. Somehow, I think he will go watch them.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 08:10 AM) as StrangeSox said, a president can't do a thing unless congress supports him. Congress Republicans tried to undermine him at every turn. How can you say he didn't get things done? 1) The GOP didn't let him, and 2) he's gotten things done. - I'm going to have health insurance thanks to him - I've had health insurance the last couple years thanks to him - I've had an easier time paying back my student loans because of him - He got Osama bin Laden - He came out in support of gay marriage - He has stopped the economic plummet, and has started the long, slow climb to recovery He's also done some things I don't like, like continuing to expand the power of the presidency (something ALL presidents, not just Dems do) But to say he hasn't accomplished anything is just not true. Weak f***ing s***. You know why? WTF did YOU do? Oh, that's right, nothing. See the point? Probably not. And that makes it saddest of all.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 09:28 PM) Let's do this voice vote one more time. I actually felt embarrassed for Vilar Raigossa. If you are going to ram the vote through, why do it three times? And by the way what man takes the surname of his wife? Don't knock it. Seriously. There's some people that have some damn good reasons for doing it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 12:44 PM) And the Washington Times. And his own Navy, I believe. That I'm sure is registered in the Cayman Islands.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 2, 2012 -> 03:18 PM) God, women take so long to get ready. It's a sushi dinner for christ's sake. There's two problems with this post.

That 0-3 KC series sticks my ass. I cannot understand why this team sucks donkey against KC. But whatever, they snapped out of it. 20-16 vs. 22-13 looks a whole lot more achieveable.

Something like that. I can't wait to sit in a hospital room for 4 days... and getting phone calls about every 5 minutes about how to do my job.

Big day tomorrow. Er something.

No, Balta just gets his jollies by faux pissed offedness about racism and ®epublicans.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 06:16 PM) Not really liking my new job at all. I thought I would be ok doing only IT work, but I was very wrong. Not that I cant do it, I just dont enjoy IT only work as much as I thought I would. (Previously I did IT/Audio/Visual/Lighting, I was kind of the catch all for technology). Have you thought about being a technical director at a theatre type setting?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 08:37 PM) Well it seems pretty clear that lostfan was talking specifically about Todd Akin's statements on abortion, so I'm not sure what he should be stopping. It didn't seem clear to me. But then again I caain't reed.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 07:08 PM) Todd Akin's statement wasn't a "gaffe" or a "mistake." It's the official position of the GOP. About abortion, sure, about anything else, hell no, so stop it.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 01:10 PM) He said it really stupidly. And I don't even like the framing. Why not flip it and try to convince people that these public services we pay for are important because they help our small businesses grow. He opened himself up for this by creating a framework where he's confronting small business owners for taking sole credit for their success...that's a tough framing. People like small business owners. And in general, small business owners do have a s*** ton of legal frameworks to jump hoops around that we should be working to simplify. I give you good points on this post.

What a f***ing bafoon. Now we know what RockStarObama and Biden were talking about over lunch last week... how to be a total dweeb and go to Tampa.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 02:13 PM) Medicare is also partially responsible for why you pay 3x as much. Private insurers are what hospitals use to make up for what they lose to Medicare negotiations. Oh, well I should have read further. But I think the point you miss is that usual and customary IS set by medicare rates. And I wouldn't agree that private insurance us what they make up for medicare negotiations... because the cost is set on that rate.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 09:07 AM) BCBS is a franchise...not all of them are the same. The problem with insurance, as is the problem with anything...is people don't care to know the details...and as they say, the devil is the details. Ask most anyone you know what type of insurance they have, and you'd be lucky if they knew if it was a PPO or an HMO. Most people don't even know the core difference between a PPO/HMO, because having to research that might cut into their reality TV watching time. If by some chance they do happen to know that, ask them what their deductibles/max expense are...or what's covered...odds are they have no idea, because they don't/won't care until it's too late and they suddenly have to care. People are lazy...even when it comes to knowing what their insurance covers. I don't wish to sound like an insurance company shill here, despite full disclosure that I presently work for one. Insurance companies do a lot of things I disagree with, a lot of things the ACA actually corrected for the better. But it takes more than insurance companies to mess this up...the doctors/hospitals/drug companies share a majority of the blame, but haven't been touched. Remember, they're the ones that send the arbitrary and exorbitant bills...but nobody seems to care about that. It's all the insurance companies fault. The problem I have with your post (and being a CPA that has worked in health care for a while) is that the doctors/hospitals/drug companies do not share the majority of the blame because what is usual and customary set upon? A medicare rate, most often. And what is the basis of that? The federal government. You want to bend the cost curves? Take out the medicare * XXXX rate to come up with a usual and customary charge that create the basis of the contracts for insurance companies and you solve a lot of problems, because these cost curves are set on an inflationary revenue curve, and it's very on purpose. However, on the flip side, and this is the part I will agree with on the blame that doctors/hospitals/drug companies DO share the blame in is that they are lobbying the hell of out of the government to establish those same medicare rates higher and higher and higher with really no real cost justification. Insurance coverage isn't a lot of the problem, contrary to the spouting of the lefty loons. It's the method of which the accounting of the health care system as a whole is based.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 08:00 PM) Tell me more about the justifications for invading Iraq that didn't turn out to be knowingly fabricated bulls*** Tell me more about the (non) justifications from the UN supporting the (non) invasion of Iraq that didn't turn out to be knowingly fabricated bulls***.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 07:51 PM) It sucks that the world is so pc, otherwise illegitimate rape would be a hilarious catch phrase. This guy needs illegitimately raped right off the ticket. There, I said it.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 07:45 PM) Not sure. The story I read was referencing a think progress blurb that said tomorrow was the deadline for this tool to drop out. I think we're pretty much all in agreement here. He needs to go find out what ... oh nevermind, I won't say it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 08:55 PM) If you consider the scale of the f***up that Bush was directly responsible for, Bush gets off pretty easy on the offensive invasion of another country that never attacked the United States and wasn't plotting any. I mean, that could go many, many other places, so he should be happy that all that happened is the media was tracking the soldiers that died while he preferred nobody talk about it. If he could have done that I'm sure he would've, but instead he had to settle for ordering no pictures be taken of coffins at Dover. At least SOMEONE was trying to remind people there was a tradeoff and more than one type of cost and it wasn't just a movie or a video game. That is absolutely a false premise and you know it, but then, you're cherry picking because you don't want to admit that there were other reasons for taking actions against Iraq. No one wants to, because it's not the politically expedient thing to do.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 07:54 PM) Angels starting pitching has been brutal lately, has Greinke won a game for them yet? #bust And I couldn't be happier. They have out Yankmeed the Yankmees. They can go blow themselves up.