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Small prize for the best Senator Scott Brown video performance joke.
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Warning: You may not want to click the link if you’re already considering suicide as an option preferrable to another week of strategery meetings at the cubicle farm…
Small prize for the best Senator Scott Brown video performance joke.
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Joey Maloney
Code monkey like!
P.S. the only ASL I know is “we’re fucking” and “eat shit and die”.
Doctor Science
Recently:
Puzzles: Haiti-related art and photography.
Book: In the Shadow of Moloch: The Sacrifice of Children and Its Impact on Western Religions, by Martin S. Bergmann.
SiubhanDuinne
@Doctor Science: I’m glad it’s quiet at the moment so I can tell you how much I like your site. Haven’t spent much time there yet, but the puzzle images are always striking, and I’m just waiting for the opportunity to troll through all the archived book reviews. Nice site!
HIram Taine
California gives up on trying to enforce anti-rescission law against Blue Cross.
Our “justice” system would come to a shuddering, grinding halt if every single defendant demanded and exercised all their rights and had the ability to hire a powerful law firm to protect those rights.
The big insurers have just that ability.
WereBear
@HIram Taine: Blue Cross vs California is why I think they should have their charter revoked; I’m sure they are in violation of even more laws, but as you pointed out, they have a money to make the state prove it over and over…
Grace Nearing
@WereBear: And cruelly enough, the money comes from the very Blue Cross subscribers who are getting screwed.
Ain’t the free market grand….
arguingwithsignposts
@Grace Nearing: Indeed. asiangrrlMN’s rusty garden implements are needed in Gulivornia.
Combine that with the news that the “pre-existing conditions” ban may be limited to those 19-and-under, and HCR is getting less and less “R” by the hour.
WereBear
@arguingwithsignposts: Still, as I’ve said all along, “First, the egg must hatch.”
Still, it’s no wonder authoritarians are so in love with the whole browbeating/blackmail power trip. It’s so efficient.
Doctor Science
@SiubhanDuinne:
Ooo, thank you so much for saying that! Made my day.
Making the puzzles has really been a revelation for me, especially when the image is a work of art. No matter how familiar the picture is, I’ve never before spent 20 minutes just *looking* at it. I always see things I’ve never noticed before.
arguingwithsignposts
@Doctor Science: Based on the interaction here, I just went to your puzzle page. Very interesting site. A definite time-waster that I will check back with often. And a book a day? Wow, I admire your stamina!
Brick Oven Bill
I have developed a superior Republican theme song.
Mmm mmm mmn; Scott Philip Brown
Mmm mmm mmn; Scott Philip Brown
Clean, articulate, dresses not in drag
Selling lots of Cosmo mags
Mmm mmm mmn; Scott Philip Brown
Martha wondered how he had the gall
Now Michelle is throwing dishes against the wall
Mmm mmm mmn; Scott Philip Brown
El Cid
Yeah, but can a zombie DRIVE A TRUCK?
jwb
OT, but I loved this comment by Krugman: “Wow. Harold Ford’s op-ed in today’s Times has to set some kind of new standard for cluelessness.”
arguingwithsignposts
@jwb:
F**k that.
Ford is a tool. Krugman is right. That op-ed should have been laughed out of the office. Of course, these people publish chunky David Brooks on a regular basis, so … I guess I’m not surprised.
me
Health care reform is getting the block.
Scott Brown, what a huge cock!
Ash Can
And on the subject of Scott Brown, new evidence emerged yesterday in the form of a WaPo-Harvard poll, that even many of the people who voted for him basically want him to be a Democrat. (I’m linking to the DKos article — which I assure you is devoid of hyperbole and heavy on facts and statistics — because I don’t want to jump through the WaPo’s registration hoops.)
We all know what’s going to happen, don’t we? Pretty Boy will get to hanging out with all his fellow Republicans on the Hill and show his true colors, and in doing so make himself about as popular as the clap back home.
arguingwithsignposts
bTW, I love, love, love Coulton’s theme song for John Hodgman’s book.
jwb
@arguingwithsignposts: Actually, for whatever reason, the Times hasn’t seemed particularly thrilled by Ford, and I wonder if they didn’t accept this piece for publication because it was so clueless. If they’d sent it back and asked for changes, it might have made him look better.
arguingwithsignposts
@jwb:
You’re probably right. But to return to the quote i excerpted previously:
Here’s an idea, why don’t legislators do their f**king job and make those kinds of decisions, instead of sloughing it off on a “bi-partisan commission”? It’s not a good sign that Conrad and Bayh came up with a way to avoid their own responsibility. That’s why we are where we are to begin with. F**k, Ford is so clueless. Bite me. Where are those rusty garden tools asiangrrlMN is selling. We need a few for Mr. Ford, stat.
KCinDC
@arguingwithsignposts, I think you’re misunderstanding something. Do you have a link? My understanding is that the ban on preexisting condition exclusions for 19 and under is what kicks in immediately. The ban for everyone doesn’t kick in until a few years from now when the mandate does, because you can have one without the other if insurance companies are going to stay in business.
Evinfuilt
That was a wonderful start to the week, and yes you’re Anne, the dems would open the door and start to compromise.
The repubs have repeated over and over ad naseum, and yet Obama and the dems think they’ll compromise somewhere.
Rick Taylor
Via a commenter at talkleft, I found this article on Coakley’s involvement as District Attorney in persecuting the Amirault family, who lost everything in a modern day witch hunt, accused of bizarre acts of child abuse based entirely on testimony of children coaxed by prosecuters. It makes it easier for me to understand why she lost.
arguingwithsignposts
@KCinDC:
Via the NYT:
If that is the extent of pre-existing condition reform, then I’m tempted to switch to the “kill the bill” side.
Again, we have no idea wtf is in the legislation. Thanks, Congress, for proving that representative democracy is neither.
roseyv
I’m not really in the mood to blow my branze out right now (I’m at the office, and it might get me fired), but I would still highly recommend people checking out Mr. Coulton’s website and listening to (and paying for!) some of his tunes. He is quite, quite wonderful. The Soterios Johnson song is one of my favorites, although last I checked — which was admittedly a while back — the version on the website is not the better, more current version, but still.