Displaying 601 To 630 Of 2,270 Comments Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act When life throws you unexpected challenges, many people fall back on the comfort of doctrine to see them through. » Posted By funksands On June 28, 2012 @ 6:14 pm [img]https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/548198_450904944927825_1867480631_n.jpg[/img] » Posted By funksands On June 28, 2012 @ 6:02 pm From my wife’s conversation with her sister on facebook after the ruling: My wife: (In her coonskin cap) “I for one am very happy for my sons and my husband. Maybe now they can have a dignified health future and we don’t have to emigrate to Australia and New Zealand. For what it’s worth: “First we establish incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance”, Romney write. “Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages ‘free riders’ to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others” Her sister: “I understand that. But I also want my kids college paid for and someone to pay me for all the wok I do as a stay at home mom. But I know that it is my responsibility to do it, not someone else’s. I am not going to pretend I know what it is like to have a child with the same needs as your son (And I’m pretty sure there are programs in place to help take care of him when he gets older) But I do know that it is our own jobs as parents to provide for our families. We have friends that say they can’t afford insurance so they get assistance. And then they go on these great trips and drive fabulous cars. How is that right for people to rely on the govt. for things that they should pay for aand then spend their money on other things like that? Whenever govt. gives something they have taken from someone else and that’s just not right. And I love you. Again, I think we just have to agree to disagree.” This has been Red/Blue Playhouse. Come back by tomorrow for another showing!!! » Posted By funksands On June 28, 2012 @ 3:57 pm I was curious, so I hopped on a conference call being hosted by a large investment firm to discuss “what this means”. Their take? 1. ACA passing muster is good for healthcare business all up and down the entire health care supply chain. 2. The election will determine whether the law in its current state will last 3. Revenue increases and tax reform are going to be needed to pay for all of this 4. This does nothing to resolve any hiring uncertainty US business feels around the ACA Just reporting. It was interesting hearing a purely business take on the ruling. No hysteria or rending of garments, just dry observations. » Posted By funksands On June 28, 2012 @ 2:13 pm [img]https://distilleryimage8.s3.amazonaws.com/bccc4800c13411e180d51231380fcd7e_7.jpg[/img] » Posted By funksands On June 28, 2012 @ 1:36 pm @benshapiro “This is the greatest destruction of individual liberty since Dred Scott. This is the end of America as we know it. No exaggeration.” » Posted By funksands On June 28, 2012 @ 11:45 am Ad, thanks for posting this. Did you have two articles prepared, like when its the seventh game of the World Series? 🙂 » Posted By funksands On June 28, 2012 @ 9:25 am Weekend Music Thread – A Tribute to Fathers I can relate to that last comment. » Posted By funksands On June 16, 2012 @ 8:19 pm Sue, no kidding! Especially that one! I had a similar experience in Montana at a bar in the middle of snowstorm. Me and a friend of mine, down to our last $40 bucks decided to walk down to the local Mexican restaurant and tie one on. When we got there, there was a guy at the door, asking for a $20 cover charge. We’re looking around at the foot of snow that’s already fallen and beg the guy to let us in, we’ll drink all night, promise! So he lets us in, and we find out that the act that night is Donovan. Of course, being 20 we have no clue who Donovan is. What’s funny is that because of the snow, there are only 5 people in the place, so Donovan comes over, sits down, beckons everyone around and starts playing requests! He fires off some Beatles (telling some great stories about them, and about how they ripped him off 🙂 ) some acoustic Zeppelin, and a bunch of old great blues numbers that I had never heard of. What was awesome is that he drank with us, knew almost every song we requested and even bought a couple of rounds. What an amazing night…. » Posted By funksands On June 16, 2012 @ 8:18 pm Sue, I think people in general love sharing things that are beautiful and they are proud of. Art, performance and community are some of the best things. Even better when they get delivered together. » Posted By funksands On June 16, 2012 @ 8:12 pm That was 1960. I guess Ray would have been 30. » Posted By funksands On June 16, 2012 @ 8:06 pm [img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf0X7QuK4LI[/img] Ray Charles – Hallelujah I Love Her. My dad is still alive, though we had a near miss a couple of weeks ago. This thread made me think of one of my favorite stories he told me as a kid. My dad grew up in Rolla, MO (my mom too)and after high school he beat a path to St. Louis to find work to pay for college. My dad was the first in our family to ever go to college, let alone graduate. He worked in a succession of temporary blue-collar jobs. One night he was walking back to his apartment through one of the traditionally black working-class neighborhoods, and passing a bar heard music blasting, with an overflow crowd spilling out of the joint. He squeezed in to find Ray Charles banging away with a three-piece band in the corner. Every head in the place turned to see a 6’6″ white country boy walk in, the only white face in the place….and then right back to what they were doing. My dad said that Ray played almost 90 minutes without pause. He said that on that night his music tastes completely changed, leading him to seek out BB King, Fats Domino, TBone Walker, then on to Miles Davis. He’s said in recent years that it remains one of his dearest and clearest memories. » Posted By funksands On June 16, 2012 @ 8:03 pm When the Chips Were Down, Mitt Romney Cut and Ran – To France Sue,one day on Kolob is equal to 1000 years on this Earth, which the Egyptians call Jah-oh-eh. Its said our sun receives its light from Kolob through the medium of Kae-e-vanrash, the Grand key which governs the heavens. Bringing these pearls of wisdom to the unwashed heathens in France is why Mitt decided not to serve in Vietnam That’s one to grow on. Great article!! » Posted By funksands On June 11, 2012 @ 8:29 pm The MSM and Pres. Obama’s Support For Gay Marriage FC, It absolutely was! My wife and I talked about it all night! I thought about this morning and thought that it was interesting that such a calm, rational statement about what should be a no-brainer should cause such an uproar. » Posted By funksands On May 10, 2012 @ 8:40 pm What’s remarkable is that is that the statement was found to be so remarkable. The FOXNews guy had it right: “The President steps into the 21st century”. Next story. » Posted By funksands On May 10, 2012 @ 7:53 pm An America Made in Mitt Romney’s Image KQ, absolutely! But looters don’t. Looters innovate through legislation and lobbying and cronyism. Dem Presidents have presided over: Better job growth They also tend to favor policies that favor the middle class, which are garlic to the looter kleptocrats. » Posted By funksands On May 16, 2012 @ 10:44 am There are trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars at stake. Its so quaint that people think that the democratic process, their grandmother’s SS check, and their job is going to be allowed to stand in the way of the GOP looting. » Posted By funksands On May 15, 2012 @ 8:25 pm Ad, the worst part of a Romney presidency would involve my wife leaving the country. She will not, I repeat, will not live in a country where a bishop and priesthood holder is the President. I keep probing to see whether this is hyperbole, but she is grimly serious. Romney may or may not agree to and be able to enact the above. However, in Romney, the GOP feeders finally have the guy they need that without remorse, conscience, or pause will gladly slip the shiv into whoever they order him to. All the while he’ll pander to the Americans that have bought the argument that we can have everything our nation needs if we just grow our economy. It doesn’t matter what tax rates are, it doesn’t matter what regulations we have, it doesn’t matter what precedence the courts overturn, it won’t matter that there is no safety net anymore. When we don’t pay taxes, our government no longer feels accountable to us. And when we don’t pay our taxes, the government borrows to pay the bills. And when that happens we don’t care, because it isn’t our money. That’s the perfect environment for a kleptocracy, with Captain Willard Klepto at the helm. The GOP is done fucking around, and a Romney nomination is just another sign of that. » Posted By funksands On May 15, 2012 @ 8:22 pm New Romney Campaign Advisor is 8 Year Old Child This was funny one? It still make me angry. » Posted By funksands On May 4, 2012 @ 5:52 pm KQ, great find. That neatly sums it up for sure » Posted By funksands On May 4, 2012 @ 5:51 pm Injustice in America – A Petri Dish for a Virulent Culture AB, I hadn’t heard that song in a 100 years. Perfect complement and antidote to my shitty mood today. Thanks nice lady. 😉 » Posted By funksands On May 3, 2012 @ 7:54 pm Ad, I agree that many people certainly seem to be more aware and reactive to this issue than before. I’ve said before that Americans are great once things break. They band together, put their shoulders to the grindstone and fix it. Two challenges face us. As CLady mentioned below, the scale of the problem is daunting. Social media is a double-edged sword in regards to this. It made us SO much more aware of the problems that are eating away at us, but it has also made us aware of ALL the problems that face us. Do you think this has the potential to diffuse efforts across so many issues that we won’t be able to generate enough attention/pressure to force change? If I polled 100 different people on what they felt the biggest problem facing us from an injustice standpoint was, I might get 50 different answers! It just seems like if we could just organize enough to focus on 1 thing at a time, we could have a massive ripple effect through the whole system. The environmental movement and the first Earth Day pressured Richard Nixon to come up with the EPA, the Clean Water and Clean Air acts because he felt that if he didn’t do it, he’d lose the next election. It just feels like we have giant ocean of outrage that is about 3 inches deep. » Posted By funksands On May 3, 2012 @ 4:13 pm Ad really nice piece. Our nation, to the cynical observer is one that gives some poor bastard who steals $20 from a 7-11 30 years, and gives someone who steals $20 million from a pension fund a raise. I like Sue’s comment that economic equality and a large middle class bred some complacency in how we respond to the creeping normalcy of the situation we have now. As long as we got our cut, what does it matter if someone goes to jail for 40 years for a bag of pot? What does it matter if the last abortion clinic in a state gets shut down, or con men and the ticks that feed on the public body get fat and bloated? Why rock the boat? These changes have been so gradual, comparatively they don’t look much different than problems from 10-20 years ago. Objectively however if observed by the future historians that unearth the ruins of our civilization, they’ll shake their heads in wonderment that we never permanently learned our lessons of the past. » Posted By funksands On May 2, 2012 @ 8:39 pm Weekend Music Thread – TV is a Laugh It’s music. It’s TV. It’s hilarious. L&G: Cop Rock[img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWwNTSj2Cy0[/img] » Posted By funksands On April 29, 2012 @ 8:55 pm He Doesn’t Wish He Could Be a Real Boy – Romnocchio! Ad, fabulous piece of work! I would argue that Romney is the perfectly engineered candidate for the new GOP. The dogma for the GOP has narrowed so significantly only a contortionist like Romney can slip » Posted By funksands On April 4, 2012 @ 6:52 pm Remarks by the President at the A.P. Luncheon Not me. 😉 » Posted By funksands On April 4, 2012 @ 3:52 pm Serious question: Who are the President’s attack dogs? Who is going to do the very public heavy lifting on and against the MSM and their lazy, hand-wringing, horse-race coverage? He doesn’t have the time to do it, so who is doing it? It seemed like Bush and Clinton had entire staffs to do nothing but go on television and radio to refute information and stories that the media reported on. Who is that guy/gal for Obama? Wasserman-Schultz? Axelrod? Who is it? Because in another month the GOP primary is going to be over and it is going to be time to break out the nunchucks. » Posted By funksands On April 3, 2012 @ 8:22 pm What If? The Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court KQ, that’s a good comment. Righties seem to have no trouble cooking up and eating these comparisons. My favorite is the hysterical “The US is an eyelash away from being Greece!!” Yes, other than being completely different, you are absolutely right. » Posted By funksands On March 28, 2012 @ 3:18 pm KT, I think it does too. Today really feels like the the conservative justices harrumphing and showing how displeased they are about this law…before they allow it anyway. At least that’s what I tell myself. » Posted By funksands On March 27, 2012 @ 5:53 pm Wow, lot of very smart people posting very smart things on this story. Now for a change of pace… The wild verbal gesticulation by some of the conservative justices about where the limits of Congressional power to compel activity might be a good thing? If they don’t really have an idea of whether or not Congress has the power to compel this, don’t they have to fall back on EVERY court’s supposed default position? Doesn’t ever court have the default assumption that EVERY law passed by Congress is constitutional unless it is blatantly NOT so? Or has the Roberts Court evolved beyond that? » Posted By funksands On March 27, 2012 @ 5:37 pmComments Posted By funksands
Lower deficits and debt
Better market performance
Lower poverty rates
Smaller government
through the opening to the nomination. He is as critical for the next phase of the GOP as the President is for the next phase of the Democratic Party. He is comfortable lying. He is comfortable taking multiple positions on the same issue. He is comfortable being whatever he has to be to get the job done. The powers that be in the party recognize and appreciate this sociopathic slipperiness and value it. In a party that has moved 100% to tactical strategy and away from functional policy, Romney is the template for the new, better, colder, Republican. Consider him the beta test for the upcoming product line.
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