This is a view from the Cassini spacecraft, looking back from the other side of Saturn.
If you look carefully, you can see four planets in this picture: Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Earth.
If you can’t see Mars, Venus, and/or Earth, you can see where they are here.
Smile!
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That is too cool.
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What was the timeframe and circumstance for the gazebo? Was the donation to memorialize something or someone?
It was built in the late eighties. No memorialization that I can recall.
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BIL’s cooking team competes in the Watermelon Festival cookoffl in Hempstead every year, I’ll have to check out
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It’s actually warmer here than it is in Houston.
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#2 Shannon, I’ll have to swing by and take a look at y’all’s handiwork sometimes. The picture was a little bit to small to see the details, but I do like the shape of the roof.
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Well isn’t that special; Americans’ personal data shared with CIA, IRS, others in security probe.
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I hope the wormy little racist beady-eyed fool has to pay dearly:
Spike Lee has been sued by an elderly couple in Florida, whose address he incorrectly identified as the home of Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman, according to court documents obtained by the Smoking Gun.
The suit claims the “Do the Right Thing” director tweeted out the Florida address along with George Zimmerman’s name in March 2012 to his 240,000-plus Twitter followers.
“While defendant intended to post the home address of George Zimmerman, he actually posted the address of plaintiffs Elaine McClain and David McClain,” the complaint reads.
“I don’t give a f— what you think kill that Bitch,” Lee wrote. “HERE GO HIS ADDRESS, LET THE HUNGER GAMES BEGIN.”. . . -
69 GJT says:
November 13, 2013 at 10:51 pm
What hands? All I see is her possum.Snicker snicker heh snicker giggle snicker snort giggle snicker snort heh heh
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But come on, people.
If you can’t take some joy, some modicum of relief and mirth, in the unprecedentedly spectacular beclowning of the president, his administration, its enablers, and, to no small degree, liberalism itself, then you need to ask yourself why you’re following politics in the first place. Because, frankly, this has been one of the most enjoyable political moments of my lifetime. I wake up in the morning and rush to find my just-delivered newspaper with a joyful expectation of worsening news so intense, I feel like Morgan Freeman should be narrating my trek to the front lawn. Indeed, not since Dan Rather handcuffed himself to a fraudulent typewriter, hurled it into the abyss, and saw his career plummet like Ted Kennedy was behind the wheel have I enjoyed a story more. -
This woman was stalking Alec Baldwin, Good grief. I guess it takes all kinds
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If you can’t take some joy, some modicum of relief and mirth, in the unprecedentedly spectacular beclowning of the president, his administration, its enablers, and, to no small degree, liberalism itself, then you need to ask yourself why you’re following politics in the first place. Because, frankly, this has been one of the most enjoyable political moments of my lifetime. I wake up in the morning and rush to find my just-delivered newspaper with a joyful expectation of worsening news so intense, I feel like Morgan Freeman should be narrating my trek to the front lawn. Indeed, not since Dan Rather handcuffed himself to a fraudulent typewriter, hurled it into the abyss, and saw his career plummet like Ted Kennedy was behind the wheel have I enjoyed a story more.
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OK – so what’s the visible bright critter in the lower left?
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Dang.
Hamous and I finish our coffee at the same time.
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Admittedly, most of Nemesis’s walk-on roles were in the Greek tragedies, but in the modern era, comeuppance-for-the-arrogant is more often found in comedies, and the “rollout” of Healthcare.gov has been downright hilarious. (I put quotation marks around “rollout” because the term implies actual rolling, and this thing has moved as gracefully as a grand piano in a peat bog.) But, as the president says, “it’s more than a website.” Indeed, the whole law is coming apart like a papier-mâché yacht in rough waters.
The president may now claim that he knew nothing, but he must have wondered why Henry Chao, Healthcare.gov’s chief project manager, set the bar of success at sea level last March: “Let’s just make sure it’s not a Third World experience.” At this point, it could only be more of a Third World experience if Healthcare.gov required enrollees to pay with chickens.
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Celebrities in Hollywood on rare occasions say something with which I agree.
Here are my favorites from this list…Daniel Craig: “I am bloody not [on Facebook]. And I’m not on Twitter either . . . ‘Woke up this morning, had an egg’? What relevance is that to anyone? Social networking? Just call each other up and go to the pub and have a drink.”
Sandra Bullock: “[I’m not on Twitter because] I don’t want anyone to know where I am.”But this one is really the best:
Bruce Willis: “I just [couldn’t] live with myself if I started twittering. I just think: ‘That way lies madness.’”
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At this point, it could only be more of a Third World experience if Healthcare.gov required enrollees to pay with chickens.
NR has pretty much lost me here as of late, but I have to admit, that right there is FUNNY!
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Jonah Goldberg is always funny.
People need to remember there are dozens of writers for, and contributors to, National Review and they most definitely do not always agree – with one another or the editorial staff. -
I bought my Mustang on April 15, 1964, for $3,447.50. I had just graduated from Chicago Teachers College and I told a salesman at Johnson Ford on Cicero Avenue that I wanted a convertible. He had none on the floor, but he invited me into the back room, where he had a baby blue convertible under a tarp. And there it was.
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From the trophy wife
ObamaCare… I know nothing I see nothing.
Benghazi… I know nothing I see nothing.
IRS scandal… I know nothing I see nothing.
NSA Spying… I know nothing I see nothing.
Phone tapping the media… I know nothing I see nothing.
Fast and Furious… I know nothing I see nothing.
GSA gone wild… I know nothing I see nothing.
Solyndra… I know nothing I see nothing.
Tapping of Merkel’s phone… I know nothing I see nothing.
Getting Osama Bin Laden… I was all over that, I sifted through the intel, gave the nod, virtually had my finger on the trigger, they could not have done it without me… I can’t wait for the press conference.
And this could go on and on…
Obama the Sargent Shultz of politics.
And the media is Col. Klink running the concentration camp…
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#2 Shannon
I believe that was the late fall of 1985. The day we completed the park project was the same day I was leaving for the Christmas holidays to take my wife and new baby to Dallas.
Adee
Our late spinster great aunt was moderately wealthy and wanted to do something to beautify her hometown of Hempstead. She donated the funds for a park which Shannon and I designed and built with plantings, irrigation, sidewalks and lighting. It was our idea to create the focal point of a gazebo. -
Q: What do you call 25 skydiving lawyers?
A: Skeet.
Q: What do you call a lawyer gone bad?
A: Senator.
Q: What’s the difference between a lawyer and an onion?
A: You cry when you cut up an onion.
Q: What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 70?
A: Your honor.
Q: What do you throw to a drowning lawyer?
A: His partners.
Q: How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?
A: His lips are moving.
Q: What do you have if three lawyers are buried up to their necks in cement?
A: Not enough cement.
Q: What’s the difference between a lawyer and a vulture?
A: The lawyer gets frequent flyer miles.
Q: What do you get when you cross a bad politician with a crooked lawyer?
A: Chelsea Clinton
Q: If you have a bad lawyer, why not get a new one?
A: Changing lawyers is like moving to a different deck chair on the Titanic.
Q: How does an attorney sleep?
A: First he lies on one side and then on the other.
Q: What’s the difference between a shame and a pity?
A: If a busload of lawyers goes over a cliff, and there are no survivors, that’s known as a pity. If there were any empty seats, that’s a shame. -
Two alligators are sitting on the edge of a swamp. The small one turns to the big one and says, “I don’t understand how you can be so much bigger than I am. We’re the same age, we were the same size as kids… I just don’t get it.”
“Well,” says the big alligator, “what have you been eating?”
Alligator “Lawyers, same as you,” replies the small alligator.
“Hmm. Well, where do you catch ’em?”
“Down at that law firm on the edge of the swamp.”
“Same here. Hmm. How do you catch ’em?”
“Well, I crawl under a BMW and wait for someone to unlock the door. Then I jump out, bite ’em, shake the crap out of ’em, and eat ’em!”
“Ah!” says the big alligator, “I think I see your problem. See, by the time you get done shakin’ the crap out of a lawyer, there’s nothing left but lips and a briefcase…” -
A truck driver used to amuse himself by running over lawyers he saw walking down the side of the road. Every time he saw a lawyer walking along the road, he swerved to hit him and there would be a loud “THUMP”. Then he would swerve back on the road.
One day, as the truck driver was driving along the road he saw a priest hitchhiking. He thought he would do a good deed and pulled the truck over.
“Where are you going, Father?” The truck driver asked.
“I’m going to the church 5 miles down the road,” replied the priest.
“No problem, Father! I’ll give you a lift. Climb in the truck.” The happy priest climbed into the passenger seat and the truck driver continued down the road. Suddenly, the truck driver saw a lawyer walking down the road.
Instinctively he swerved to hit him. At the last moment he remembered there was a priest in the truck with him, so he swerved back to the road and narrowly missed the lawyer.
Certain he should’ve missed the lawyer, the truck driver was very surprised and immediately uneasy when he heard a loud “THUMP”. He felt really guilty about his actions and so turned to the priest and said, “I’m really sorry Father. I almost hit that lawyer.”
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Hmmm
A bat and ball cost $1.10.
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A blonde and lawyer are seated next to each other on a flight from LA to NY. The lawyer asks if she would like to play a fun game. The blonde, very tired, just wants to take a nap, so she politely declines and rolls over toward the window to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists (as lawyers are wont to do) and explains that the game is easy and a lot of fun. He says, “I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me $5.00 and vice versa.”
Again, she declines and tries to get some sleep.
The lawyer, now agitated, says, “Okay, if you don’t know the answer you pay me $5.00, and if I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $500.00.”
This catches the blonde’s attention and, figuring there will be no end to the torment unless she plays, agrees to the game.
The lawyer asks the first question, “What’s the distance from the earth to the moon?”
The blonde doesn’t say a word, reaches in her purse, pulls out a $5 bill and hands it to the lawyer.
“Okay,” says the lawyer, “your turn.”
She asks the lawyer, “What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four legs?”
The lawyer, puzzled, takes out his laptop computer and searches all his references, no answer. He taps into the air phone with his modem and searches the net and Library of Congress, still no answer. Frustrated, he sends e-mail to all his friends and coworkers, all to no avail. After an hour, he wakes the blonde and hands her $500.
The blonde says, “Thank you,” and turns back to get some more sleep.
The lawyer, more than a little miffed, wakes the blonde and asks, “Well, what’s the answer?”
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#17 – HUH? – the *WHOOOOOSH* you hear is that (whatever it was) flyin over my head 🙂
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A man died and was taken to his place of eternal torment by the devil.
As he passed sulfurous pits and shrieking sinners, he saw a man he recognized as a lawyer making love to a beautiful woman.
“That’s not fair,” he complained. “I face torment for all eternity, and that lawyer gets to spend it making love to a beautiful woman.”
“Shut up!” barked the devil, jabbing the man with his pitchfork. “Who are you to question her punishment?” -
Did you hear about the terrorists who took a whole courtroom full of lawyers hostage?
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5 cents.
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Funny though the article might be, this commenter is on the right track:
Enjoy the Schadenfreude while it lasts. Obama has only one way out, and I believe he will do it in his SOTU Address next year. Obama has to call for replacement of the ACA with an expansion of Medicare and Medicaid to all, and to pay for it with a VAT. This will then set up the most epic political battle of our lifetimes, and Nov 2014 will be ground zero. The Democrats will be prepared for this fight, but are the Republicans?? I doubt it.
I have serious doubts about this going the way Republicans seem to think it will.
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Re the Jonah Goldberg article: Delicious schandenfruede or how ever you spell it. We told them all it was a disaster with great detail and they called us racist, hate-mongering enemies of wimminzes. The payoff is better than a rib-eye steak smothered in lamb chops:>)
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Poor lawyers, 99.99% of them screw it up for all the rest.
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31: yup
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#32 Dooood
Here is a more plausible scenario from my point of view:
About the Upton/Landrieu “Keep Your Current Policy” bill from Jim Geraghty’s newsletter:The House is going to take up the Upton bill. It’s going to pass. It’s going to pass with just about every Republican vote, and in all likelihood, a heck of a lot of Democratic votes.
Then it goes to the Senate, where three things can happen.
Harry Reid refuses to bring it to the floor for a vote.
You’re already smiling, aren’t you? You’re already picturing the ad:
“A bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives passed the Keep Your Plan Bill. But Harry Reid is playing politics, not even allowing the Senate to vote on it.”
Ouch. Every Senate Democrat will be asked, on the record, if they agree with Reid’s decision. They’ll have to denounce him.
The second possibility is that Harry Reid allows the bill to go to the floor, and the Senate rejects it.
Picture the ad, coming from the NRSC and various conservative groups.
“A bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives passed the Keep Your Plan Bill. But after voting for the Obamacare bill that cancelled your health insurance, [insert Democratic incumbent here] voted NO — leaving you and your family without insurance.”
Brutal, just brutal. Under that scenario, the 2014 midterms turn into a Democratic bloodbath that makes the 2010 midterms look like the good old days.
Then there’s the third possibility… the Senate passes it… and it goes before Obama.
And then Obama can either sign the metaphorical gut-shot into law, or he can veto it.
He’s not going to sign it. Instead President Obama will provide the most excruciatingly painful veto in recent memory, as he becomes the president who assured the American people dozens of times they could keep their plan, broke his promise, and then shot down the bipartisan legislation to keep his promise after he broke it. You think his approval rating is low now? He’ll make Bush’s second term look like a joyous series of unhindered triumphs. -
RE: A VAT to fix Obamacare ?
The Obamacare disaster is not something that can be repaired with an injection of more money. Even massive amounts of dollars cannot fix a project so thoroughly and fundamentally flawed from conception.
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Love me some Dennis Miller!!
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Tissue alert.
An old sailor’s last with fulfilled.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that President Barack Obama will offer a fix to Obamacare problems as soon as today.
“I think it can be done administratively…”😆
I did not know Nancy Pelosi had such a deep sense of humor.
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I’m gonna start a “Tastes Just Like Chicken” franchise and set up restaurants near all the major clusters of solar panels. Ya’ll better buy stock in my business now.
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#39: Dangit! I got sumptin in my eye.
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How did Squawkbox show up in an Internal Error and what’s a haberdasherbery? (sp?)
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Enjoy the Schadenfreude while it lasts. Obama has only one way out, and I believe he will do it in his SOTU Address next year. Obama has to call for replacement of the ACA with an expansion of Medicare and Medicaid to all, and to pay for it with a VAT. This will then set up the most epic political battle of our lifetimes, and Nov 2014 will be ground zero. The Democrats will be prepared for this fight, but are the Republicans?? I doubt it.
I don’t think it takes all that much preparation to ask the American People who’s plan they will go with, the ones thought up by the guys who thought up the crappy plan that raised thier rates and canceled their insurance, or the one thought up by the guys who told you all along that it would happen.
36 Texpat says:
November 14, 2013 at 9:01 am
Then it goes to the Senate, where three things can happen.Actually, there’s a fourth thing. Upton’s plan gets to the Senate where Reid trashes it and replaces it with Landrieu’s. Given this, that’s the most likely thing that will happen. Then it will be the Republicans who are standing in the way of a fix.
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When you live by the polls: White House to allow users to keep insurance.
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#40 Darren: Your link is truly hilarious! I could not force myself to actually press the button to make the witch speak; the text provided this tidbit:
Meanwhile, Pelosi also said congressional Democrats are working on a separate solution.
“We have our own proposal, which we think is really good,” she said. “I think that we’ll see in the next 24, 48, 36 hours something to the effect of how do we accommodate those people.”We should all remember this quote from Blinky. Well, Blinky, now we know what is in the bill and we don’t like it one dam bit. You crammed this schizzle sammich down the throats of the American people without a single R vote and without anybody actually reading the bill before it was passed and now you want us to trust you again that you have the solution to fix the huge problem you created by trying to fix a non-existing problem based on serial lies?!? NO! and go pound sand for asking!
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#13 Katfishy
OK – so what’s the visible bright critter in the lower left?
I didn’t find any of the 3 inner planets by myself, but I was also drawn to the 2 bright spots in the lower left. My guess is they are moons of Saturn.
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Ever since the takeover of The Weather Channel by the Nothing But Communist propaganda network the Weather Channel is now just like MTV. They call it MTV but it really has nothing to do with music.
I see the need for a new channel that actually covers the weather like TWC used to do.
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#39 – OutSTANDING! *sniffle*
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I bet climate change caused those nasty looking rings around that poor planet
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Speaking of ring-tailed animals – as I was pulling into my driveway after teaching my class last night, my headlights startled a raccoon digging for something in my front yard.
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Good morning Hamsters. Frost on the pumpkin, the pastures, the house and carriage house roofs, and 36 at 6 and 7. High overcast surely kept us from hitting 32 in the wee hours. First frost of the season and perhaps another to come with the next cold front in a few days. Yea.
Jonah Goldberg’s piece is hilarious. He inflicts a thousand deep cuts with a smile. Would slightly amend his description of the Obamacare website rollout as similar to hauling a grand piano through a peat bog. I’d make that a concert grand piano. 🙂 -
I have serious doubts about this going the way Republicans seem to think it will.
There aren’t enough Republican squishes in congress to fall down and accept a VAT and/or an expansion of medicare/medicaid to everyone. Many Democrats up for election next year would never support it either. They would be handing Senate control over to the Pubs.
Something else I find funny about this whole mess is the same Republican leadership that was calling Cruz and Lee all kinds of mean and nasty names are now crowing “See??? WE told you so!!!”
The Republican leadership is like the abused wife that won’t leave her husband. I know he’s beat me for the last 25 years. But THIS time he promises he’ll be good if I’ll only bail him out of jail. Let’s hope they don’t form another “gang” and bail the Dems out again. -
He’s not going to sign it.
So would Congress override his veto? I can see several Dem senators voting to override.
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re: #45
I’ve lost count on the number of times this moron has signed legislation that is completely unworkable and then, rather than repeal, he simply “suspends enforcement”. This is banana republic type stuff. I’m not one to jump on this bandwagon but, man, this idiot needs to be impeached. -
Alright, a new little known tax!!!
If you are single with an adjusted gross income of $200,000 or file jointly with an income of $250,000 or more, you may be impacted. Once you sell your home, any profits over the first $500,000 are already subject to a capital gains tax. And now those profits will have an additional 3.8% tax to fund Obamacare.
Aioso noted that there is also a lot of confusion surrounding this tax and many homeowners know little about it.
“I think more than anything we need some education on it so people fully understand what is this 3.8%? What am I paying?” Aioso said. -
Hamous #55;
this idiot needs to be impeached
Impeachment is one of the most underused powers We the Peple have. There’s simply extremely low political will to use it.
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There’s simply extremely low political will to use it.
And there should be. But seriously, this guy doesn’t have the skill set to run a landscaping service, much less a country.
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Impeach the Leech!
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Lots of updates on Obama’s “fix:
1) Blame insuers
2) arbitrarily cancel the cancellations
3) Insurers are to tell insured they can keep their plan at a higher premium
4) Obama’s decision completely embraces Upton billl which undermines Affordable Care Act
5) Lot’s more “you can’t make this caca up” on O’s decision to “fix” Obamacare
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/14/open-thread-obama-to-make-statement-on-obamacare-at-1135-et/ -
#39 I think that I have something in my eye.
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#55 – #59 – I aint holding my breath but I AM darn sure PRAYING!!
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Republican operative observed Wednesday afternoon that reporters should be asking Senate Democrats who voted for Obamacare if they believed at the time that people would lose their plans.
A bunch of good questions here
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I recently “liked” Kevin Sorbo on FB. I’ve found some pretty funny stuff through him. Here’s the latest:
The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, “Hello.”
”May I speak with Mrs. Sanders, please.”
”Speaking.”
”Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory. When your husband’s doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well. We are now uncertain which one belongs to your husband. Frankly, either way, the results are not too good.”
”What do you mean?” Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
“Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer’s and the other one tested positive for HIV(AIDS). We can’t tell which is which.”
”That’s dreadful! Is it possible for you to do the test again, please?” questioned Mrs. Sanders.
“Normally we can, but Obamacare will only pay for these expensive tests one time only”
”Well Doctor, what am I supposed to do now?”
”Mrs. Sanders, the folks at the Obamacare department recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, run fast and don’t sleep with him.” -
Something else I find funny about this whole mess is the same Republican leadership that was calling Cruz and Lee all kinds of mean and nasty names are now crowing “See??? WE told you so!!!”
I guess that’s at the heart of why I don’t believe this is going to go the way Repubs think it will. Most elected Rs have no credibility left (at least with me anyway). Remains to be seen how many others see it the way I do. Is a VAT the way it will go down? I agree probably not. But my view remains that Dems will step in and “save the day” with some alternative fix to Obamacare and voters will eat it hook, line and sinker.
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#64 and 65 Shannon
RE: Textbooks
I am really glad technology will finally break the back of college textbook legalized racketeering.
Also, watch for the coming dissolution of the primary and secondary school textbook industry. It is inevitable. There are numerous good and potentially bad effects from this creative destruction.
One will be states like Texas and California will no longer wield the influence they’ve had over what is used in classroom. The atheistic, dogmatic neo-Darwinists are ecstatic. -
Hamous #58;
And there should be.
Agreed but I find it way too low.
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Let me rephrase that. I think that the process to impeach should be difficult yet possible. That to me is the most important thing regarding impeaching a president or even a court justice. However, the process of impeachment needs to be sought after and people need to be willing to use it much more than they currently do.
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Now President Obama is taking Clinton’s advice and trying to honor that commitment. In remarks today at the White House today, Obama said, “I completely get how upsetting this can be” lose insurance plans that I promised Americans would be able to keep. “To those Americans, I hear you loud and clear.”
But there’s a catch with president’s proposed solution. The president is not proposing that the law be changed to allow all health insurance plans grandfathered into Obamacare’s eligibility requirements.
No, instead the White House is saying that it will use “enforcement discretion” to allow illegal health insurance plans to be able to still be sold. That is, the Obama administration will not enforce the penalty on individuals for not having eligible health insurance plans and they’ll allow the insurance companies to still sell so-called bad plans — plans they technically can’t sell under Obamacare.
“Under the White House’s approach, the Department of Health and Human Services will notify the nation’s state insurance commissioners that they have federal permission to allow consumers who already have such insurance policies to keep them through 2014,” reports the Washington Post.As Love and Rockets sings:
“Round and a round and around we go,
where the world’s heading, nobody knows.
It’s a ball of confusion.
That’s what the word is today, a hey hey.”
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I think Headshaker needs to shake his head at this point. Don’t pass out though cuz this one’s a doozie.
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And obviously there’s the set up. If from this point on, your insurance company doesn’t off you your old plan, it’s now their fault. And they no longer offer it since they dropped it due to the laws forced upon them by the Affordable Healthcare Act which is President Obama’s signature legislative achievement for his presidency.
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Headshaker, WHERE ARE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU?!?!?!?! 🙂
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“You can keep the doctors you know and trust. You can keep the insurance you have, if you like it”
Hillary Clinton, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D74ZO082G8Q&feature=em-uploademail
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Let me rephrase that. I think that the process to impeach should be difficult yet possible.
All it takes to impeach a president or federal judge is for 50% +1 vote in the House to say whatever the prez or judge constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor. Period. An impeachment is an indictment, Bill Clinton was impeached, yet the spineless Trent Lott refused to hold an open and complete trial in the Senate complete with all the evidence presented to the world. Because the nature of the offenses, lying to a federal judge while under oath, is a felony it should have been a slam dunk. The subject of the lying, sleezing around with interns, etc, was deemed too salacious for the pristine senate and that gave the Ds cover to vote not to confict.
Right now, even if the entire House, all Rs and Ds, were to impeach JugEars, indict him if you will, ONE MAN can render that decision moot, and that is Harry “Pencil Neck” Reed. All he has to do is refuse to hold the trial and that is that because as Senate Majority leader he has complete control over what happens in the Senate.
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Don’t cry for these people, needless to say. They helped make ObamaCare happen. They were only too happy to see healthy young adults forced into buying their product by a constitutionally dubious mandate and to gouge healthy middle-class people with the new, more expensive plans required by the exchanges. They wouldn’t have partnered with the White House if this wasn’t a payday for them. But now they’re screwed twice over: Not only are Democrats trying to make them the fall guy for the cancellations, they’re looking at their payday melting down into red ink if they take Obama’s “advice” and re-create the old risk pool. Oh well. No honor among thieves.
They’re not going to take it lying down. An industry insider told BuzzFeed earlier of the White House’s “fix,” “This doesn’t change anything other than force insurers to be the political flack jackets for the administration.” And within the past hour, the president of America’s Health Insurance Plans released this statement:“Making sure consumers have secure, affordable coverage is health plans’ top priority. The only reason consumers are getting notices about their current coverage changing is because the ACA requires all policies to cover a broad range of benefits that go beyond what many people choose to purchase today.
“Changing the rules after health plans have already met the requirements of the law could destabilize the market and result in higher premiums for consumers. Premiums have already been set for next year based on an assumption of when consumers will be transitioning to the new marketplace. If now fewer younger and healthier people choose to purchase coverage in the exchange, premiums will increase and there will be fewer choices for consumers. Additional steps must be taken to stabilize the marketplace and mitigate the adverse impact on consumers.” -
Bonecrusher;
It’s true that lying to a federal judge is impeachable and while I fully support the dual sharing of power to impeach and to remove from office due to impeachment, I personally would find Clinton’s adulterous affairs alone impeachable and exceutable (remove from him his official title of Presdent of the United States), I don’t think mst others would agree. That’s one example of what I mean that the will to use impeachment is way too low and ought to be used and sought out much more than it is now. -
I would like to see we the people have greater power and perhaps force a recall election.
I staunchly oppose recall elections.
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Arrests have been made after two American women were brutally beaten on Nov. 3 in Pristina, Kosovo. The victims were serving there as missionaries with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but they have since been moved out of the area.
The women, who are sisters, were reportedly followed home by the assailants, thrown down a flight of stairs and hit in the head with a sharp object. While they sustained numerous wounds, the victims miraculously survived.
It didn’t take long for authorities to locate their alleged attackers.
Just two days after the incident, six men were arrested in connection with an alleged terror plot that was “inspired by extreme Islamist ideology,” The Associated Press reported.
Two of these individuals who are being identified as ethnic Albanians are also reportedly suspects in the investigation of the missionaries’ beating. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, they are accused of joining four others in planning an attack on an unidentified target. A seventh suspect is reportedly still on the run.I’m very thankful to God above that these two sister missionaries “miraculously survived” and are in ‘full recovery’ and for the quick arrest of the attackers. These kinds of attacks are evil and horrific. May God’s peace and grace fill the earth. May justice also be served with the arrest of the attackers and would be terrorists.
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That’s one example of what I mean that the will to use impeachment is way too low and ought to be used and sought out much more than it is now.
There is supposed to be this sense of “collegiality” amongst the polititerds, you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. IF we have people of integrity ( the polar opposites of the Nanzi Pelousi types) the collegiality thing can work and actually be productive and good for WE THE PEOPLE. Unfortunately the Rs have been whipped for so long that collegiality to them mean not being taken to the woodshed for simply asking for a glass of water. Most of the Ds and more than a few Rs have no integrity whatsoever, and the whole collegiality thing is completely one sided.
Compromise is where the Ds demand 10 times what they want and the Rs give them 5 and get nothing in return. It is enought to make one vomit. -
Dat girl crazy. ST tied a get well balloon on a roadkill skunk.
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David Steinberg at PJ Media posted the following this morning.
I just spoke with David Oscar, the communications chair for the New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters and a partner at Altigro Financial Group. He had this to say regarding President Obama’s attempt to offer a one-year restoration of canceled plans:
This a new insanity.
I do not know how the insurance carriers and federal government are going to be dealing with this. First, many states require a 60-day notice of a change in plan or a cancellation. It’s November 15! How can they comply with this new element of federal law, and with their state laws?
Second, do they really think carriers are going to be willing to recreate the old plans, while also being mandated to offer the new ones that comply with the exchanges? I have a large number of clients, small to medium-sized businesses, who would much rather renew their old policies on 12/1 than sign up with the newly mandated exchange policies. Everyone is going to want the old ones! You really expect the insurance carriers to willingly deal with the financial loss and legal headaches of switching back? -
Hamous #85;
ROTFLMBO
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David Steinberg at PJ Media posted the following this morning.
Ace reports that the States of WA and AR will not be following the Preezy’s “New Plan”
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43 Darren says:
How did Squawkbox show up in an Internal Error and what’s a haberdasherbery? (sp?)
Shhhhhhhh I get 10¢ royalties every time that shows up.
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Hey, John McCain wants to fully repeal Obamacare. Of course, he’s not a whackobird.
Glenn Beck Tears Into the ‘Lousy Senator From Arizona’ John McCain for Latest Obamacare Comments
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Looks like bunsonburner is gonna hafta change his name.
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Shhhhhhhh I get 10¢ royalties every time that shows up.
You’re now 20¢ richer.
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I never count my royalties till they hatch
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Glenn Beck Tears…
When doesn’t he? Oh, you mean tear as in tear up a piece of paper. The English language is weird. Or is it wierd? i before e except after c.
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Hamous;
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I never count my royalties till they hatch
You must have fun on Easter morning. 🙂
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Beck researched his comment ts for a year before he made them. He will have more tomorrow and he promises it will change the way you think about tearing forever.
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What??? *More* corrupt navigators? 👿
http://capitolcityproject.com/second-okeefe-video-exposes-more-obamacare-navigators-telling-people-to-commit-fraud-and-deceit/ -
Sarge;
I’m still lost. I get the sacrcastic attack on Beck being dished out here and I fully agree he cries too much; but I’m lost as to the exact point here. Should Beck shut up about attacking McCain since Beck cries too much and over sentualizes too often? Do you ever over sensualize?
I am thankful for the reminders on Beck squirminess. They help us stay the course. -
War, hmmm, what is is good for…
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2013/11/14/civil-war-msnbc-attacks-bill-clinton-over-obamacare-comments/ -
No, Beck shouldn’t shut up.
People should stop listening to him. -
but I’m lost as to the exact point here.
Point? There is no point. That’s the point. 😉
Becky is a carnival side show barker. COME SEE TASHA THE GORILLA WOMAN! SHE WALKS! SHE TALKS! SHE’S ALMOST HUMAN! -
He said pointedly
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A 25-year-old model with a 42-inch bottom has been crowned Brazil’s new Miss Bum Bum.
Dai Macedo, who represented the central state of Goias in the nationwide search for the woman with the most bodacious butt in all of Brazil, was chosen from among 15 finalists by the contest’s grand jury in Sao Paolo this week.There are two videos and a slide show for you.
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WOOF
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Becky is a carnival side show barker. COME SEE TASHA THE GORILLA WOMAN! SHE WALKS! SHE TALKS! SHE’S ALMOST HUMAN!
Beck is an intellect that appeals to the pathologically naïve and the terminally gullible. Dim witted people prone to Hero Worship with fewer original ideas than he has who he can count on to breathlessly repeat his every utterance thinking they are vicariously basking in the glow of something of substance. His only talent is securing the loyalty of such folk who aren’t intelligent enough to realize that the way he does it only reveals that he and Pat Gray are laughing at them behind their backs.
At least Limbaugh is intelligent, Laura Ingraham is educated, and Dennis Miller is intelligently funny. Beck’s humor is a short step above potty jokes and he hasn’t had an original thought since he picked out what to wear to his Senior Prom, and then his momma probably picked out the tie. -
Squawk;
Down boy!
Texpat;
Don’t know if your link explains it beyond its self explanatory title ( especially for English speakers) but “bum bum” is Brazilian for the antomical “bottom”. So, Miss Bottom it is for the 25 year old model. Parabens! 🙂 -
His only talent is securing the loyalty of such folk who aren’t intelligent enough to realize that the way he does it only reveals that he and Pat Gray are laughing at them behind their backs.
Doh, tedtam’s been called out by one who obviously knows more about Pat Gray than me.
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Glenn Beck makes Lonesome Rhodes look like Edward R. Murrow. He is the Jim Bakker of political commentary, without the redeeming message of Christ and the weeping wife.
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Doh, tedtam’s been called out by one who obviously knows more about Pat Gray than me.
He is also popular with folks who can’t really debate all that well who attempt to call in reinforcements by putting words in the other guy’s mouth.
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I’ll sit back while Darren googles Lonesome Rhodes, Edward R. Murrow, and Jim Bakker.
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#108 Darren
…but “bum bum” is Brazilian for the antomical “bottom”.
So, in Portuguese, there is no specific term like “culo” or “globos” as there is in Spanish ?
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Hamous and Sarge;
Good grief you two. Here’s what I linked before you made beck the issue:
Glenn beck, Pat Gray, and Stu (I’ve no idea what his last name is) talk about John McCain’s recent position to repeal Obamacare after McCain attacked Ted Cruz for attempting to repeal Obamacare and said that such a thing will not happen. The trio criticize John McCain in an affective but hardly vilifying manner. They make a very good case against McCain and also praise those like Cruz who already made the case for repealing Obamacare. That’s all there is to the link. beck doesn’t cry nor does he appeal to stupid naive people like me and tedtam. It’s and enjoyable radio piece and, makes good and original points. That’s it. -
“Culo” means “ass”. Globo refers to the roundness of the “bum bum”.
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I’ll sit back while Darren googles Lonesome Rhodes, Edward R. Murrow, and Jim Bakker.
Who are they?
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“Bum bum” is a specific term and it means “bottom”. In Spanish that would be “trasero” which would actually mean “tush”. “Nalga” would be Spanish for “butt cheek”.
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In light of what has transpired….. a quiet musical music interlude.
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They make a very good case against McCain
McCain makes a very good case against McCain.
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Sarge
Budd Schulberg wrote the screenplay and Elia Kazan directed A Face in the Crowd.
They were both anti-communists and hated the whole leftist takeover of Hollywood. Schulberg’s famous What Makes Sammy Run ? was based on this and both he and Elia Kazan were the real victims of the Hollywood Blacklist.
There’s some great stuff out there I don’t have time to find right now on Schulberg, Kazan and the House Un-American Activities Committee. -
Good grief you two. Here’s what I linked before you made beck the issue:
Wow.
Some guy making a schizzle pot of money saying things on the radio that people want to hear criticized the guy everybody else is criticizing and praised the guy everybody else is praising.
Stop. The. Freaking. Presses.
I remain singularly unimpressed by anything in the media that tells me Sumsuchbody has “ripped” So and So, or that Big Radio Guy “tears up” Somebodyorother.
The real news would be if Rachel Maddow “ripped” Obama or “tore into” Harry Reid in a manner that confirms my belief in those people.
Glenn Beck criticizing John McCain?
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Lonesome Rhodes, Edward R. Murrow, and Jim Bakker
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Or the WWF Road Warriors
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121 Texpat says:
November 14, 2013 at 8:17 pm
Sarge
Budd Schulberg wrote the screenplay and Elia Kazan directed A Face in the Crowd.
They were both anti-communists and hated the whole leftist takeover of Hollywood. Schulberg’s famous What Makes Sammy Run ? was based on this and both he and Elia Kazan were the real victims of the Hollywood Blacklist.
There’s some great stuff out there I don’t have time to find right now on Schulberg, Kazan and the House Un-American Activities Committee.Back when I was listening to Talk Radio, Dennis Miller had an interview with an author of a book about that very subject, and he had a good deal to say about it himself. He would regularly play a clip of Anthony Franciosa’s character saying “I’ve got nerws for you Lonesome. I own 51% of Lonesome Rhodes Enterprises voting stock! I’m in bed with you Lonesome. In BED!”
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Who’s Grady Stiles but WWF road Warriors, now that I know (vaguely).
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Lonesome Rhodes, Edward R. Murrow, and Jim Bakker
Just a bunch of guys people who listen to Glenn Beck won’t know about unless somebody tells them.
My favorite quote from Lonesome:Lonesome Rhodes: This whole country’s just like my flock of sheep!
Marcia Jeffries: Sheep?
Lonesome Rhodes: Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers – everybody that’s got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. They don’t know it yet, but they’re all gonna be ‘Fighters for Fuller’. They’re mine! I own ’em! They think like I do. Only they’re even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for ’em. Marcia, you just wait and see. I’m gonna be the power behind the president – and you’ll be the power behind me! -
Sarge
There is an excellent essay on Schulberg and the themes he alludes to in his books and screenplays regarding communism, HUAC, the Blacklist, liberty and freedom. I’ve lost track of it, but it is so good I’m determined to find it again one of these days. I’ll be sure to post it here. -
Fatso to campaign for Lindsay Graham.
The Tea Party delivered these idiots a Congressional Majority in 2010 and , with the shutdown drama, have given them the ability to say “I told you so.” and they repay us with a stick in the eye.
Burn. It. down. -
129 Texpat says:
November 14, 2013 at 8:57 pm
Sarge
There is an excellent essay on Schulberg and the themes he alludes to in his books and screenplays regarding communism, HUAC, the Blacklist, liberty and freedom. I’ve lost track of it, but it is so good I’m determined to find it again one of these days. I’ll be sure to post it here.Please do.
Kazan is one of my cinematic heroes.
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Budd Schulberg lived an amazing life.
A truly amazing American life.
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NJ gov Chris Crispy sings that he liked the Hostess Ding-Dong and Twinkie but not the Ho-Ho.
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Friday????……hello,….
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Somehow the pointy haired guy reminds me of JugEars. Delusions of Grandeur.
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Izzit Friday yet or are we in a Groundhog Day feedback loop?
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Well I reckon it’s Friday somewhere………………….
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It’s Friday on The Couch.
OC thread is up.
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