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Take that middle class! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/health/p...amp;_r=1&hp

Pretty influential 90s band made 5 of my favorite records, countless of my favorite EPs. Former leadman Stephen Malkmus formed a band Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks who opened for Radiohead in the early 00s, made a great album with the Silver Jews called American Water. Slanted and Enchanted Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Wowee Zowee Brighten the Corners Terror Twilight

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QUOTE (chunk23 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 03:42 PM) The thing is though, with the exception of the progressive caucus (who tend to be ignored at all times), it seems that they just plain don't want the public option. If they are faced with a bill where they mandate insurance, and they don't plug it up with subsidies, that's even worse suicide.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 03:41 PM) The Dems can lose 9 Senators and still pass something through reconciliation. 10 Senators if Massachusetts names a temporary successor. well aware. Here's to hoping Sestak is providing enough heat that Specter continues his opportunistic flippy floppy

s***, if this is one and done those tickets will be INSANE to come by. Awful venue, as well.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 03:36 PM) I think the non Baucus proposal has 51 or 52 votes in the Senate, and it probably can get to 230 votes in the house. If that's the case, split the bill. Vote the public option budget stuff through reconciliation. Then put the preexisting condition language, tort reform language, etc in a regular bill and make the GOP stand up against it. One thing, Josh Marshall was reporting that there is a caveat to reconciliation for the public option. Due to some amendment by Byrd, any reconciled bill needs to come in at some zero cost proposal, which would need to beef up the public option. The more they beef it up the more votes they may lose, especially in Arkansas sens.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 04:31 PM) Mandating that you're required to pay as much as one out of every eight dollars you earn to the insurance companies is what comes out of the bipartisan deal. The bipartisan deal that the GOP senators who helped craft it are walking away from. Bring on reconciliation, IMO - the GOP is not acting as an honest broker in any health care reform effort. whatever to the GOP, if this is the bill that the dems need to pass to get BLUE dog support, why would the repubs support it. The bill the dems will be owning is essentiallly telling the poor and middle class voters they need to pay money to health insurance companies, who are probably dancing to the bank right now.

QUOTE (chunk23 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 04:22 PM) The bipartisan thing was never going to happen. Which is why I hate that they bothered trying to compromise in the first place. Everyone knew the republicans would vote against anything put forth by a democrat, so why even bother? That's why I think the democrats don't really care that much about the reform. If they did, they would've started with single payer, so if need be, they could negotiate down to public option. An individual mandate without a public option is a disaster and is a worst case scenario. Afterall, Baucus is a leading recipient of donations from insurance companies. Well, frankly, passing the mandates, is going to make people a whole lot more welcoming of the public option.

It's my guess. There's no way they got that much from anything but the subsidies.

Oh you were wondering? They are slashing the subsidies that will help poorer people pay for the mandated insurance. REFORM yayyyyy

:headbang 2010 in New York. Can't effin waiit. Plus I'll likely be back by then!!! http://pitchfork.com/news/36505-holy-s***-...eunion-is-real/

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 02:46 PM) The Sox pitching can win them the next 17 games. I smell a new thread!!!

GUYS A GRADE A PRICK or something like that. REAL PRESIDENTIAL BUSH!

yeah, bye bye video rental stores. An indie video store in Columbia was on cnn.com or something for doing pretty well. But they have a pretty good deal going where professors go to them when they need students to check out a movie. Nobody really minded because everyone loves the place. (Connected to indie movie theatre and bar/bakery) While it was a big part of my childhood, I'm not gonna cry. Just like with record companies, they were so hilariously shiftless and stupid with no vision or idea of what to do next, just clinging to when they were big, that I'm just gonna laugh. HAHA.

probably because Obama seems younger.

Ahhhhh YOU CAN SAVE IT. It all seems so obvious when you spell it out for me.

so you don't need to make a whole pot of simple syrup huh.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 09:36 PM) Or they could be doing research. I'd like to know more about the exact wording and span of these provisions, but in general, I tend to dislike a lot of the Patriot Act. I really, really didn't like that Obama flip-flopped and supported retro immunity to the telecoms, which I think set an awful precedent. I just think we are now at the point where any administration can (and likely WILL) act illegally, and unconstitutionally (and this is where I most think following the constitution MATTERS), and they are shielded as long as they act like they are working a) for national security or bee) with good enough secrecy it doesn't come up until the next administration and we all just want to moveON.org

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 09:32 PM) Kanye acted like a douche. As irrelevant as the awards may be, he acted like a jackass and embarrassed her in front of millions of people. It doesn't matter what the stage was or how much the award truly "mattered"; he was an ass, and it was completely uncalled for. The awards were uncalled for, his behavior matched it.

I mean, are library records really going to catch anything? Is hollywood that influential? Let's arrest everyone who checks out the anarchist cook book.

I respect that she was the most pleasant thing on the otherwise tortorous radio station we were forced to listen to at my restaurant. But, did I mind Kanye West cutting her "THANK YOU GOD FOR GIVING ME THE GRACE TO GET A FAKE AWARD" speech off to provide some entertainment to the world. Granted I didn't see it. But the answer is no.

OMG GMAFB THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS

The absurd thing is the vindication of these awards that by all accounts started out as a joke and are more embarrassingly irrelevant than even the grammys. If this was Taylor Swift's moment in the sun, than a plague on both houses.

hahaha