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    General Political Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I swear on my mammy this is verbatim from the comments section and there are so many more where this came from

    "I GUESS WE HAVE TO BELIEVE IT WETHER WE WNAT TO DO NOT ,ITS A DARN SHAME A WORLD SUCH AS OURS HAS TO GO LIKE THIS,I DON'T THINK GOD WANTS THIS ,AN WILL PUT A STOP TO IT SOON ,WE HAVE ONE OF THE GREATEST COUNTRYS IN THE WORLD ,PEOPLE FOR GET WHERE THEY COME FROM ,WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY AN TO SEE A FEW TEAR IT DOWN ITS THE SADEST THING ANY ONE CAN THINK OF .WHAT A SHAME GOD HELP US"

    heres one more quick one

    "We do not have a Commander and Chief. We have an EVIL DEMON named Obama. Barack HUSSEIN Obama. A Racist American Hater is all he is. BB"






     

    General Political Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Is there anything worse (besides my posts of course) than listening to this woman f up the English language?? I mean Im not literary giant but is there something weird about this first paragraph??




    Look, I’ll keep this brief because I want to spend quality time getting kids to bed tonight. Doubt I’ll get much sleep though because the recent proof of government corruption makes me nauseated. If it doesn’t you, and you can blindly ignore the status quo embraced by our politicians and low information voters, then I unapologetically call out your disloyalty to the ethical foundation of the greatest nation on earth.

    When you have a moment, please read my review of a jaw dropping, searing new book that provides the proof that Washington, D.C. has strayed so far from the planks in both major political parties' platforms that we are fools for trusting any who have refused to fight against cronyism and extortion. This is the stuff Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin and a few others have railed against so boldly. It's the stuff “tea party” patriots of all stripes rallied against to grow the grassroots movement that is the only political solution to defend... our republic! “60 Minutes” covered some of this on Sunday, Sean Hannity had an outstanding interview with the book’s author tonight, and other mediums are doing right by not ignoring these revelations.

    Here’s the deal: all politics is local. And personal. Let me personalize this. It is UNBELIEVABLE that the press would investigate every nook and cranny of my life; send gullible reporters to my little town to kick over every rock any family member ever tread underfoot; scour every email I’ve written; research every Palin campaign disclosure like junkyard dogs; sic 12 AP reporters to fact check my book; breathlessly report about my wardrobe and an old used tanning bed I bought to get some sun during Alaskan winters as if these were vital national news stories; hound friends, personal doctors, strangers, and just downright strange people, etc., etc., etc., to know everything we do (and they still get the story wrong!). They blew and still blow all those resources “investigating” the irrelevant hockey mom from Wasilla. Meanwhile our government goes to hell in a hand basket right before the “elite media’s” closed eyes, and it took my friend Peter Schweizer to slap you upside the head to see any of this corruption? Good God. Be ashamed, media, be very ashamed.

    Now, I think I’ll go read “Green Eggs and Ham” to my little boy, then we’ll all say a prayer for our country as I join you in readying for tomorrow’s battle for America.

    Here’s my review of Peter Schweizer’s new book “Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets”:
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/21/Extortion

    - Sarah

    General Political Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

     Oh, you haven't hear about the ACA fees?  Imagine that.

     

    OH! You mean the ones implemented state by state and mostly Republican Governors who want to destroy health care for poor folks?

     

    Have you heard about the many different tax CREDITS small and medium businesses get under the ACA? No?? Oh! Imagine that!

     

    Quote: (not that anyone really cares)

     

    "

    How will the credit make a difference for you?                 

    For tax years 2010 through 2013, the maximum credit is 35 percent of premiums paid for small business employers and 25 percent of premiums paid for small tax-exempt employers such as charities.

     

    For tax years beginning in 2014 or later, there will be changes to the credit:

     

    • The maximum credit will increase to 50 percent of premiums paid for small business employers and 35 percent of premiums paid for small tax-exempt employers. 
    • To be eligible for the credit, a small employer must pay premiums on behalf of employees enrolled in a qualified health plan offered through a Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Marketplace.
    • The credit will be available to eligible employers for two consecutive taxable years.

     

    Here’s what this means for you. If you pay $50,000 a year toward workers’ health care premiums — and if you qualify for a 15 percent credit, you save... $7,500. If you save $7,500 a year from tax year 2010 through 2013, that’s total savings of $30,000. If, in 2014, you qualify for a slightly larger credit, say 20 percent, your savings go from $7,500 a year to $10,000 a year.

     

    Even if you are a small business employer who did not owe tax during the year, you can carry the credit back or forward to other tax years. Also, since the amount of the health insurance premium payments is more than the total credit, eligible small businesses can still claim a business expense deduction for the premiums in excess of the credit. That’s both a credit and a deduction for employee premium payments.

     

    There is good news for small tax-exempt employers too. The credit is refundable, so even if you have no taxable income, you may be eligible to receive the credit as a refund so long as it does not exceed your income tax withholding and Medicare tax liability.

     

    And finally, if you can benefit from the credit this year but forgot to claim it on your tax return, there’s still time to file an amended return."

     

     

     

    General Political Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    can someone explain to me why folks premiums would get higher by the private insurance market being more open and adding millions to its roles?? I just don't get the line of thought here.
    Unless youre arguing that their work will drop them or something. Otherwise it doesn't seem to make any sense? Anyone?

    The Pearl Jam Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    yeah not sure how that's the case but that's cool. I stay in the front right corner so maybe the floor wont be so packed :)

    see on the left side you cant do this BUT on the right side you can take the hallway all the way up front by the stage and just walk in right there. been going to that spot for 25 years now and we always have the best of times.


     

    The Pearl Jam Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I love old shitty venues! Old coliseums are awesome. They really are stuck in time as they usually only have a few things a year that go on there. The Richmond Coliseum and The Hampton Coliseum are both like stepping back in time.

    Youll never see a better coliseum show than Hampton and the spaceship is taking off this Friday night

    hampton_outside.jpg




     

    General Political Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Yeah I don't care, I am going to call it the TEA party.  I think it is important to understand what they are and what they stand for (or at least originally).  If you don;t like it, you can go fuck yourself.  

     

    Yeah I don't care, I am going to call it the TEA party.  I think it is important to understand what they are and what they stand for (or at least originally).  If you don;t like it, you can go fuck yourself.  

     nice work but be careful. Midwest folks don't like anything out of the ordinary

    General Political Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

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    I beg to differ. I work for a large company and we have a software platform that we have invested millions in and almost 15 years and right now it is still not running. Google SAP horror stories for companies who spend huge amounts of capital and time only to fail or launch a shoddy product. K-Mart had their company on the brink of failure over inability to launch their inventory system. And remember the private sector supposedly always does it better. So there is no way you can say that 3+ years is plenty of time to get a system running error free. Also there is an assumption that building the system began immediately .

    Putting a software project into play is complex and rarely bug free.

    as a software product and release manager (believe it or not) :)
     I can attest to this but the shit should be straight by now.

    General Political Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    cut n paste

     

    #1 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug.  An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.

    #2 According to the CDC, approximately 9 out of every 10 Americans that are at least 60 years of age say that they have taken at least one prescription drug within the last month.

    #3 The 11 largest pharmaceutical companies combined to rake in approximately $85,000,000,000 in profits in 2012.

    #4 During 2013, Americans will spend more than 280 billion dollars on prescription drugs.

    #5 According to Alternet, last year “11 of the 12 new-to-market drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration were priced above $100,000 per-patient per-year”.

    #6 The CDC says that spending on prescription drugs more than doubled between 1999 and 2008.

    #7 Many prescription drugs cost about twice as much in the United States as they do in other countries.

    #8 One study found that more than 20 percent of all American adults are taking at least one drug for “psychiatric” or “behavioral” disorders.

    #9 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.

    #10 Children in the United States are three times more likely to be prescribed antidepressants than children in Europe are.

    #11 A shocking Government Accountability Office report discovered that approximately one-third of all foster children in the United States are on at least one psychiatric drug.  In fact, the report found that many states seem to be doping up foster children as a matter of course.  Just check out these stunning statistics…

    In Texas, foster children were 53 times more likely to be prescribed five or more psychiatric medications at the same time than non-foster children. In Massachusetts, they were 19 times more likely. In Michigan, the number was 15 times. It was 13 times in Oregon. And in Florida, foster children were nearly four times as likely to be given five or more psychotropic medications at the same time compared to non-foster children.

    #12 In 2010, the average teen in the U.S. was taking 1.2 central nervous system drugs.  Those are the kinds of drugs which treat conditions such as ADHD and depression.

    #13 The total number of Americans taking antidepressants doubled between 1996 and 2005.

    #14 All of those antidepressants don’t seem to be working too well.  The suicide rate for Americans between the ages of 35 and 64 rose by close to 30 percent between 1999 and 2010.  The number of Americans that are killed by suicide now exceeds the number of Americans that die as a result of car accidents.

    #15 According to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 36 million Americans have abused prescription drugs at some point in their lives.

    #16 A survey conducted for the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that more than 15 percent of all U.S. high school seniors abuse prescription drugs.

    #17 According to the CDC, approximately three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the United States because of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs.

    #18 According to the Los Angeles Times, drug deaths (mostly caused by prescription drugs) are climbing at an astounding rate….

    Drug fatalities more than doubled among teens and young adults between 2000 and 2008, years for which more detailed data are available. Deaths more than tripled among people aged 50 to 69, the Times analysis found. In terms of sheer numbers, the death toll is highest among people in their 40s.

    #19 In the United States today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined.

    #20 Each year, tens of billions of dollars is spent on pharmaceutical marketing in the United States alone.



     

    General Political Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Why do folks like Hixter immediately come to the defense of doctors and CEOs, pharma companies and folks making over 250K (you know its tough out there) but when someone asks for a minimum wage raise or talks about teachers and its under the bus and forget them. Let them figure it out in the open market is the call.

    Is that the Christian way or what? I don't get it

     

    General Political Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

     

    Mostly, i think they see it as an unwelcome intrusion and hassle that will make their businesses more difficult and expensive to run. Government red tape is never any fun.

     

    There's also the fact that we have a shortage of physicians and (potentially) adding tens of millions of new patients will make things even worse.

    yer serious Clark?

     

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