Open Thread It Doesn’t Get Better Spoony< Part Deux

Posted on February 20, 2014 by DeniseVB

Just twerking, having trouble posting on WP, this is a test and an Open Thread if it works….Okay it didn’t in the preview, so now going to publish….wish me luck !

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19 Responses to Open Thread It Doesn’t Get Better Spoony< Part Deux

  1. votermom says:
    February 20, 2014 at 4:50 pm

    Obamacare killed my sister

    http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/02/10/column-obamacare-killed-my-sister

    This Wednesday, my little sister, Julie, will be buried. She died because she delayed seeking health care for what turned out to be a catastrophic condition after her private health insurance policy was cancelled because of Obamacare. As she waited for a new Obamacare-approved policy to kick in, her condition deteriorated to the point that it was too late.

    Julie, her husband, and four children were covered by a medical plan they liked, and had been promised they could keep by President Obama. But like so many others in this country, her family’s private health care policy was cancelled because of the Affordable Care Act. So my sister and her family struggled through the expensive and incompetently designed Obamacare website to find a new policy. Unfortunately, while they waited for their new Obama-approved healthcare plan to finally kick in, my little sister fell ill. She couldn’t keep down solid food. She should have gone to a doctor. But she toughed it out, as many people do, until her new coverage would kick in on February 2. She and her husband didn’t have a lot of money, so she didn’t want to incur what she thought were avoidable medical expenses.

    But she didn’t make it. It turns out that, unbeknownst to her, she wasn’t suffering from an upset stomach or food poisoning, but a badly blocked gall bladder that had become highly infected. Her body went into septic shock just two days before her Obamacare policy would have kicked in. Her kidneys shut down. She went to the emergency room where, after heroic efforts, a marvelous medical team managed to stabilize her condition. I saw Julie that day for several hours. She could not move, or speak, but a tear trickled down her check when she saw the eldest daughter of her four children. After I left, hoping for the best, I learned the next day that her gentle heart stopped beating around 4:00 a.m.

  2. underwhelmed says:
    February 20, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theanchoress/2014/02/20/over-fcc-plans-msm-finally-a-bit-curious-re-obama-admin/

    You know, it might be time to think about editing your national anthem. Land of the Free is becoming more and more inaccurate.

  4. The Klown says:
    February 20, 2014 at 6:32 pm

    Ace is the place:

    [T]he President… never wastes an opportunity to show just how right the absurdness of the social media noise machine is. When Obama jokes about being able to do whatever he wants, then turns around and hits an HBO producer up at a State Dinner for advanced copies of television shows to get him through an extended weekend, how are we as a desperate electorate supposed to react? We tolerate the luxuries afforded to our leaders. Just don’t be a dick about it.

    How is a world currently engulfed in flames of revolution supposed to react?

    The problem for a President who makes any excuse to hit up a golf course or admits to watching tons of HBO is there are still events in the world happening outside his windows. People are desperate for American leadership and can’t wait for the killer on True Detective to be revealed.

    Nobody in Kiev is interested in the fallout of the Red Wedding.

    Nobody in Venezuela cares about the fate of Zoe Barnes.

    Obama and his administration can’t wait to inject themselves into pop culture as it suits their narratives. If Lego Movie is number one at the box office, the Secretary of State is referencing global warming to 3D movies. If the Super Bowl is trending on social media, out come the football analogies. Michelle Obama is on Jimmy Fallon’s new Tonight Show and Joe Biden on Seth Meyer’s follow up. Actors pushing health care that they themselves refuse to sign up for. What message does it send the world when cries for democracy in Ukraine and Venezuela are met with silence, but tweeting about a cable show is paramount?

    Barack Obama is the first President optimized for SEO and therein lies the problem. When #Venezuela and #Kiev are the top trends on Twitter for two days straight and not #HouseOfCards or #TrueDetective, the online persona machine that elected Barack Obama goes dark and resorts to a spam account selling us crappy insurance.

    At the height of violence that erupted with both protests this past weekend, where was he? Hosting a Hollywood premiere style party for #GeorgeClooney and cast of his film #TheMonumentsMen, in private at the White House, simply because he could. Right now in Kiev, historical statues and art are being burned in front of the world. He was content to remain silent and watch a movie about it happening instead. The real world does not interest this President. The set design does.

  5. wmcb says:
    February 20, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    Media meltdown over Ted Nugent making appearances in TX gov race for Abbot. Dummies.

  6. wmcb says:
    February 20, 2014 at 7:50 pm

  8. wmcb says:
    February 20, 2014 at 10:21 pm

    Author James Ellroy (dude who wrote LA Confidential among other things) goes off on Obama in an interview:

    How do you feel about Obama?
    I hate him. I think he’s a coward, incompetent and I find him sinister. He’s the face of cancerous socialism under the guise of benevolence. His wife going on the Academy Awards by remote hook-up made them come across like Soviet apparatchiks.

    http://m.shortlist.com/entertainment/books/james-ellroy

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