I gave up on trying to sleep so now I’m reading Horns by Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son). I’m up to chapter seven.
I have no idea where my muse is. She’s probably trying to sign on to the Obamacare website or something. Either that or she ran off with the neighbor’s gardener again. It pisses me of because Obama promised me “If you like your muse, you can keep your muse. Period.” I hope I don’t have to get a new, higher-priced muse.
But without a muse I can’t write so all you get is this open thread.
The Crawdad Hole 
The James O’Keefe video on the Obamacare Navigators. No matter how you feel about his “work”, isn’t this something corporate media should be digging into?
‘I’m offended anyone would give credence to so-called video news reports offered by rank amatuers such as James O’Keefe. Everyone knows if any type of newsworthy conditions existed anywhere in this country, the experienced and proven news media would be on it’.
– Waltuh Chronkite
This writer gets slammed by comments for writing an NYT article about how she got slammed on Facebook for complaining about Obamacare jacking up her rates and losing her doctors
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/opinion/daring-to-complain-about-obamacare.html?_r=0
On a related note, a former NYT writer promotes the paper from liberal to propaganda 😉
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/11/11/former-ny-times-journalist-says-newspaper-now-presidents-propaganda-arm-wake-obamacare
He’s off by about 5 years — NYT has been the Obama propaganda arm since at least the 2008 primaries (if not earlier).
The “sticker shock” of government mandated health insurance hit MA a few years ago. My local FB friends have adapted to higher premiums, larger co-pays, and deductibles they will seldom ever reach. Yes, 98% of MA residents have health insurance, but it remains to be seen if we have better health care. And the war between the “haves and the have nots” didn’t go away. One of the interesting things is how expanding Medicaid to folks who hadn’t qualified before plays out among my friends. It is largely viewed as “welfare” by those who don’t qualify. And those who do resent the “freeloader” tag. One is a SAHM with 3 kids, a 4th on the way, and a blue collar husband. Hubby has insurance at work, but Mom and the kids are on Medicaid. Mom is very upset because her other pregnant friends get routine ultrasounds. Her doctor says he’ll do an ultrasound along the way, but right now it’s not medically necessary. She only wants one to find out the sex of the baby. The lady writing in the Times ain’t seen nothin’ compared to what this lady is getting on her FB page.
My local FB friends have adapted to higher premiums, larger co-pays, and deductibles they will seldom ever reach.
We’re all frogs slowly being boiled alive.
And it’s all for nothing. Few are getting medical care they couldn’t have had before, medical costs are up, more people use the emergency rooms than ever before. I mostly say nothing because we have Cadillac insurance. But my brother has “good insurance” through his employer. He mostly uses the minute clinic at CVS. It still counts toward his deductible, and it costs a lot less. Before he got hit with the $1000 deductible, he went to the doctor. The clinic is fine for some things, but it shouldn’t replace having a doctor, and he’s paying for someone else to use the emergency room for the same ailment he has.
Swilling the Koolade keeps the frogs from noticing the heat. 😆
I don’t see people in the west quietly adapting to the Feds interference in their life like MA people. The Federal government is on the east coast and made up of east coast people with east coast values. Westerners see them as “other” or “self appointed overlord elitists” even “imperial” .
We’ll see.
“interlopers”
Sometimes my muse heads off to the museum just to catch up on things….she comes back.
It also depends a bit on which muse is actually taking a break! Clio and Calliope tend to stay away the longest!
My muse is a middle-aged alcoholic named Edna with a USMC tattoo on her arm and a 2-pack a day smoking habit.
That explains a lot.
😆 Klown
Goes without saying.
TMI
hmmmm….in that case she may be gone a while…
What I find most interesting this morning is all of the prog articles discussing how Obamacare is really on the right track and once the glitches are worked out everything is going to be awesome…for everybody. I think I’m losing my grip on reality.
I find it funny that the vile prog articles stopped blaming Republicans for the Ocare disaster, now it’s back to BELIEVE in the Lightbringer 😉
That was what Sarah nailed Lauer with, when he asked something bizzare like “when Ocare becomes wonderful, how are you going to feel then?”, she pretty much answered with a “are you effing kidding me!”. I have hope.
Yes, I watched that….not a Lauer fan but I really thought SP was awesome in her response…but Lauer personified how the vile progs are now twisting this….just you wait, Henry Higgins, just you wait….everything is going to be even better than you thought because it’s Mr Do Right!!!!
Everybody has to clap for tinkerbell to live.
Corollary: The govt has to do away with those selfish non-clappers; for the greater good. You know it must be done.
Just you wait. Any minute now OWS is going to change the world.
A good piece of “viral lying”…
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/11/11/think-progress-posts-deceptive-picture-claiming-gun-rights-advocates-intimidating-moms-against-guns/
Alex Jones’ InfoWars is more reliable than ThinkProgress, and Jones is a full-body wrap tinfoil conspiracy nutjob.
Interesting that the Left wants Hillary challenged. I just hope they come up with some better names than they’re throwing out here.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/189919-left-wants-challenger-for-hillary
Looks like a looming Warren Faction v. Hillary Faction smackdown. Pass the popcorn 😉
You read it here first over a year ago. 😉
If Obamacare hadn’t imploded then Kathleen Sebelius would be a contender for the ABC (anybody but Clinton) candidate. She’s toast now.
The one bright side of this fiasco.
Yes VM I remember that.. 😀
Another big “SCORE!” for the MSM. Don’t expect the Warren Movement to disappear soon. Even if it does, the pundits will keep it alive. Sponsors will pay for airtime more readily during a televised brawl than they would for a coronation.
Hillary won’t make the same mistake she made last time, and she won’t have to.
Back in 2007-08 she had to treat Obama with kid gloves to avoid alienating the black community. I don’t think she has to worry about alienating the Native American vote this time.
But the far left will never support Hillary, and neither will the Obots.
And neither will the DNC, if she dares to mention who made the decision to stand down re: Benghazi
Fauxcahontas is even LESS
experiencedqualified than Barack Obama was in 2008, and that’s hard to do.The Obots aren’t going to vote for Hillary. First they can’t deal with women, then she is old and she once challenged Obama. They won’t even get around to her politics and qualifications before the reject her.
Warren is a woman, and she’s old, too, and they love her.
Bill Clinton: Obama should keep his promise
Except he can’t. They NEED those people to be forced into more expensive plans.
Besides, the insurance companies spent the past 3 years successfully changing their plans to meet Obamacare rules – they don;t have a reset button either.
Exactly. They all knew this was coming. I think the only thing they didn’t predict was how vocal the victims of the fallout would be. Unfortunately for them, tons of media freelancers lost their plans too, so the media was a whole lot more willing to cover THIS anti-Obama story than they are with others.
Big Dawg looks horribly ill.
As for deductibles and copays? That’s another place where people are going to get screwed. Ours have tripled since 09. And are going to go nowhere but up. As I understand it, and I could be wrong, these deductibles are crazy. NOTHING is covered, at all, until you meet that deductible.
Sticker shock is going to flare again next year when the employer mandates kick in.
Same happened with mine. But some things are covered (yearly pap smear/gyno visit, for instance) without having to meet the deductible.
I wonder if he’s still on a vegan diet ? I think his health scare and wanting to lose weight for Chelsea’s wedding shrunk him 😀
AFTER he went out & campaigned for it to give Obama the cover he needed to “win” FL, OH, VA & NH in 2012.
Big Dawg can go fuck himself.
ITA
I think he’s trying out Hillary’s 2016 campaign – she’ll “fix” Obamacare.
The fact is Obamacare is a cancer; you can’t fix it. You can only either kill it or be killed.
Amen!!! 🙂
Word.
Yep, and so it begins … too little, too late. Not fighting Obama all the way to the convention floor was my first “WTF Bill?” moment, and many more followed. Gah.
Bill. The consummate politician. Gotta love him taking the easy way out, looking like the good guy, tauting something he probably knows can’t happen, knows that his buddies in insurance don’t want to happen. He must be coaching Landrieu.
No wonder his ratings soar. Oh, the luxury of being in the position to be “the good guy”.
If he’d said this a year ago? Maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess. But now? It’s just Bill being Bill.
And what’s with that camping table cloth he’s wearing as a shirt? Is this his “common folk” wear? Can I have it when you’re done, Bill? I need a new table cloth cuz my other one is full of char holes.
LOL at the tablecloth shirt.
Yup, just Bill sharpening his knife on Barry’s bonehead.
Bullshit, Bill. Those copays and deductibles will double under Obamacare.
And this “gesture” won’t help Hillary, so quit playing games.
Did I get banned? Comments won’t post. 😦
Ok that one worked.
I don’t see any comments in spammy
LOL I kept getting a message I had never seen before. “Sorry, this comment can’t post”
Something new every day.
Your comment got Obamacared?
I blame Obama for that glitch 😀
😆
Banned YOU !!!! Never happen. You are one of all our Favorite posters.
Word Press messes up now and then. Mostly now. 😆 😆
Lindsey Graham now has 4 challengers to primary him 😀
http://thesouthcarolinaconservative.com/2013/11/11/breaking-game-changing-challenger-enters-primary-race-against-lindsey-graham/
Nancy Mace is still my favorite. Sadly, Graham will probably lose the primary, switch to Independent, run in the general …. and win 😉
Come on Nancy!!! 🙂
It would be better if he had just one challenger.
Saw this on an AoSHQ comment
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/11/12/spike-lee-being-sued-disgraceful-george-zimmerman-tweets#main-content
remember when spike lee tweeted the wrong address of george zimmerman?
well here comes KARMA. couple who live at that address are suing him. Hope they take him to the cleaners
You have to love Karma’s kisses!
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/11/almost_no_hope_for_obamacare_fix_panic_may_be_the_best_option.html
get the feeling that backtrack and his bunch are going to wish they were on a slow boat to China come January 1 2014
Forbes is even predicting full repeal. But what a clusterf**k it’s become in the meantime for those poor souls who were playing by the rules and suddenly became uninsured.
Here’s the link:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenhayward/2013/11/11/obamacare-will-be-repealed-well-in-advance-of-the-2014-elections/
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/11/troubling_sign_of_incipient_national_security_tyranny.html
DHS – NSA and a few other government agencies can not take a joke
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/11/its-an-obama-world-the-us-now-redistributes-more-than-2-trillion-a-year/
USA now backtrack’s world
redistributes more than 2 TRILLION a year
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/11/12/last-week-sebelius-says-they-do-not-have-any-reliable-data-on-number-of-obamacare-enrollees-today-wapo-reports-government-sends-enrollment-data-to-insurers-every-day/
I am shocked, just shocked I tell you. she lied
Here’s an idea:
Fit all GOP candidates with shock collars. Zap ’em whenever they start to mention gay marriage, rape, sex, or any part of the female anatomy.
if they really want to win they will stay on message about the economy and obamacare and how it hurts women and families and away from messages about sin. that is for the church not the government to talk about
My attorney did that to her toddler to keep him out of the living room…
Heh.
Need to put them in rehab a couple of years before campaigning starts. Condition them like Pavlov’s dogs.
They just can’t seem to help themselves.
The scary part to me is even if they aren’t SAYING it- they’re thinking it.
How do we get them to stay out of our lives? BOTH sides? They all need to mind their own damn business and take care of things that are properly governmental. Things like road building and disaster relief. The military. Treaties that don’t conflict with the Constitution.
honk
My favorite local columnist made a similiar suggestion 😀 This is a great read, not only as a post mortem for the Va. Gov. race, but for all idiot Republicans and the people who consult them……..
http://hamptonroads.com/2013/11/gops-baby-time-throw-out-bath-water-too
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/11/dems-looking-for-the-tall-grass.php
dems looking for tall grass
hey hey ohb how many healthcare plans did you kill today
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20131112/DAA11OTG2.html
the dirty little secret about backtrack green energy push
Much better to destroy the beautiful rural landscape of Iowa with unneeded corn crops, I say, than take a chance if disturbing the deserted scrubland of California’s interior coast range with fracking.
http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/11/applebees-declares-bankruptcy-offering-free-alcohol-veterans-day/
Applebees declares bankruptcy after offering free alcohol on veterans day.
maybe proofreading should have done and limits placed on number of drinks offered
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/11/12/incumbent-dem-sen-kay-hagans-17-point-lead-collapses-after-obamacare-rollout-disaster/
a preview of 2014?
http://www.independentsentinel.com/8-hideous-obamacare-lies-for-tuesday-november-12th/
WOW only 8 lies about obamacare today
If Megyn keeps this up I may start watching the news again, but just her program:
every night her show gets better and better. she is coming in to her own at the new time
I hope this is parody
Apparently it’s real
#Hosurance
Hefner wins another.