StrangeSox

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 12:59 AM) I'm more impressed that Mike Powers also used that book. Michael Riley "Doc" Powers (April 22, 1870 – April 26, 1909) was an American Major League Baseball player who caught for four different teams from 1898 to 1909.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 06:54 AM) If you can do it without discomfort, you can tape the inured and neighbor toes together. It will help the healing to occur more quickly. That's what I did when I broke my big toe last year. Cotton balls between it and the next toe and then some athletic tape around them.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 17, 2015 -> 05:05 PM) easily a dirty slide yep, legal but dirty

That is pretty much inevitable.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 17, 2015 -> 03:23 PM) Stupid to have a press conference about a topic and a player when nothing can be answered. Amateur hour. Have the press conference after its resolved and until then release statements.

JEB'S NAME ISN'T EVEN REALLY JEB!!!!!!! HE'S LOST GREG!

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 17, 2015 -> 03:22 PM) My premiums have increased almost 50% in the last five years. So that's pretty much right in line with rates of increases prior to 2009. Also, the law passed in late 2010, not 2009.

this is surreal

Everyone knows that Jimmy Fallon is this country's political kingmaker.

Fallon films in New York anyway not Hollywood duh

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 02:38 PM) Feel free to show "my" premiums would have increased pre-ACA like they are post ACA? Conversely, feel free to show that they wouldn't be increasing absent the ACA. I did post KFF's employer plan data above, though. For at least the one year that includes ACA so far, the premium increase was less than any of the previous 5 years (didn't check the rest because I have to hand calculate, not just a table with %'s, but eyeballing the graph shows they follow the same trend).

Sure, and to counterbalance those there's a big mix of cost-control measures. Kaiser Family Foundation has done annual surveys since 1999, and you can see the average premium increase here: http://kff.org/interactive/premiums-and-wo...-contributions/ You can see that the overall premium increases from 2013 to 2014 (the year the ACA really started taking effect) grew by 2.4%. For comparison, the five previous yearly increases were 3.4%, 7.5%, 4.6%, 2.5%, and 5.0%. But if you toggle over to "workers contributions," you'll see that those increases are higher than the overall premium growth rate. For example, worker contributions rose 8.2% in 2014 compared to 2.4% premium increase. That's just your employer cutting your pay, not anything driven by the ACA. On the individual plan side, it's a bit harder to find steady comparisons, but the average premium increase for Exchange plans has been fairly low in each of the last two years now.

But that doesn't seem to apply to cknoll's plan. It's already existed for two years under those coverage requirements and will exist for three more years.

More 3 year old links from WorldNetDaily and a site that recommends articles about how gay marriage is just like Sharia law, please

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) If someone's family got a policy cancelled or had huge rate increases due to the ACA, That's the problem, though. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. You need to at least demonstrate that, statistically, the rate hike or cancellation was at least plausibly caused by the ACA. There were rate hikes and plan cancellations/changes every year prior to the ACA. eta: my plan has not changed and my insurance rates went up less than inflation last year. This is no more or less proof than cknoll's situation of the effects of Obamacare. Obama was dumb to make that promise; it's not something he could even control

Feel free to post some data showing a higher rate of premium increases or plan cancellations post-ACA. Otherwise it doesn't look like there's much of a point being made.

Prior to Obamacare, insurance premiums never rose and insurance companies never changed or decided not to continue offering specific plans.

Autozone etc. will take used oil, just a matter of remembering to bring it over there.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 07:40 AM) Yeah...I have no interest in doing it I like working on cars but changing oil is definitely my least favorite task.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 07:29 AM) Usually you save anywhere from 5-10 bucks. If you go into any auto store like Napa or Advance, they have a deal where you can get a Oil + filter deal for 20-25 bucks. Most jiffy-lube type places charge you 30-35 bucks for oil and filter. Air filters usually cost you an extra 15-20 bucks in the shop too, where they cost 10-15 bucks in the store It just depends if you want to do it. For conventional oil it's a few bucks. When I had my GTO that took 6+ quarts of full synthetic, it was the difference between $40 to do it myself or $80-90 for a oil shop. Of course, I still have about three gallons of old oil in the corner of my garage from at least 2 years ago.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 15, 2015 -> 11:11 PM) To any Soxtalker who has time to answer this question ... Let's say I quit my job tomorrow and decided to be a consultant and work for myself and needed coverage. How do I get Obamacare or would Blue Cross individual coverage be cheaper? Anyhow, what is the protocol to get Obamacare? How would I do it? What are the procedures, the step by step instructions to take? Thank u! "Obamacare" isn't a coverage plan like Medicare. What you'd do is go on to your state's healthcare exchange website (through healthcare.gov) and shop for plans there. Different insurance companies (including possibly Blue Cross) sell plans through the exchanges, and depending on your income levels etc you may be eligible for subsidies. There are people who can help guide you through that process. FWIW, the question your asking is one of the strong positives behind a more universal health care system rather than having it tied to heavily to your employer like it is now.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 4, 2015 -> 01:06 PM) If you want a movie that is an absolute waste of two hours, check out snowpiercer. I can't even explain how bad it was. agreed

Hungary sealed off the last border crossing yesterday. 22 dead after boat full of refugees sinks heading from Turkey to Greece. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-15/22-d...reports/6778526

60 Minutes had a segment yesterday on Christian communities in Mosul, Iraq that date back almost 2000 years coming under attack and having to flee. 125,000 displaced people just from one particular faith in one region of one country. http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/iraqs-christians/