It's like you have a twin brother Chumlee.

Glenn Beck: God told me to quit Fox News or 'lose my soul'
by Hunter

Speaking with televangelist James Robison, ex-Fox News personality Glenn Beck discusses being canned from nobly leaving Fox News of his own accord:

On the day he decided to leave, Beck said he walked up to a floor-to-ceiling window in his New York apartment and asked his wife, “How could this possibly be God’s plan?”

“As I stood there, the Lord whispered to me, ‘If you do not leave now, you will lose your soul,’” Beck said. “It was the easiest decision I’ve ever made.”

The Lord works in mysterious ways. Sometimes he speaks to you through your large New York apartment windows. Sometimes he speaks to you by having Roger Ailes walk into your office and fire your crazy ass. It's all good.

I don't know what Glenn's been smoking, but apparently he's been sharing:

“The primary reason that he left is because they were not comfortable with him talking about God and Jesus as often and as freely as he did,” said Robison, who participated in Beck’s presentation.

Wait, was that the problem? That's not how I remember it. I remember Glenn Beck slowly becoming more and more detached from reality, littering his shows with inexplicable conspiracy theories and crying jags brought on by apparently nothing in particular. I remember anonymous mutterings by other Fox News employees that he was making the already-impossible-to-shame network look even crazier, and reports that Fox head Roger Ailes was making the conscious decision to rein in his network's most inflammatory and crackpot elements in an effort to appear less, um, crackpotty. Oh, and the advertisers were peeved, and the audience was shrinking, and no network is going to keep flushing their own credibility down the toilet unless there's at least some decent money in it for them, which there wasn't.

But now we hear that it was really all about how Fox News hates Jesus, and God spoke to Glenn Beck in his New York apartment and told him he'd lose his mind soul if he kept working there? Well heck, that's pretty darn convenient. God really helped Glenn out on that one, I guess.

Are we back to Glen Beck? So next maybe give us an update on Trump. Or perhaps another Krugman piece as we all need a good laugh.....

Too bad you don't believe Tood.


Obamacare will provide $1.3 billion in rebates to consumers
by Joan McCarter

The Affordable Care Act is doing what it was supposed to. You won't hear that from congressional Republicans or Mitt Romney (or, probably the Supreme Court), but the provisions that have already gone into effect are working. That includes people up to age 26 being covered by their parents' plans, free wellness exams for seniors, "doughnut hole" Medicare prescription drug savings, and insurers no longer being able deny coverage to children because of a pre-existing condition.

Here's another one. Beginning in 2011, health insurers were required to spend at least 80 percent of premiums (for small group plan, 85 percent for large groups) on actual medical care, and if they failed to meet that standard they had to pay a rebate of the difference. They'll have to make those rebate payments by August of this year.

The Kaiser Family Foundation just finished a survey of what happened in 2011 [pdf] with that rule, the "medical loss ratio," and found that insurers will be paying $1.3 billion in rebates for 2011 including "$426 million in the individual market, $377 million in the small group market, and $541 million in the large group market." About one-third of consumers in the individual market are going to see rebates, averaging at $127 per person. For the group plans, the purchaser of the plan (employer or other sponsoring group) will get the rebate, and 28 percent of the small group market and 19 percent of the large group market will get the rebates (which will be much smaller per person, about $14).

But what's really interesting about the study is that is suggests that the medical loss ratio rule actually means that insurance is doing what it's supposed to do: provide health care. As Sarah Kliff writes, experts expected that rebates, based on 2010 numbers, would have amounted to at least $2 billion. Which means that $700 million in premiums paid went where the Affordable Care Act said it was supposed to go: into providing health care coverage.

And now, if you're on unemployment, you make too much for Govt. assisted healthcare.

Mikee, and you other Kool Aid drinking libs,

YOu can't be serious!

NOw what 15.6 T in debt?

Ya, lets tax the rich!, Those suns of bitches... oh wait, that has not proven fruitful in the past.
Lets spend our way out of this, oh wait, that has not proven to work either. Well,...
Damn the Torpedos- Here's the Sex Pistols!

You want the unions (Public unions should be outlawed btw) to run everything? Your childs best friend, lets say he's 5'9", 150#'s, 15 yrs old, can't even hold a flashlight while working anb after school job on your farm.
This might take away a UNION job!

What we really need, is a bigger government dictating even more things in our lives! We need bigger government to spend more, squash the sh%t out of any profitable enterprise, and make damn sure they never try and make a profit again! Only the Government and Unions can do that!
The Big Eared Anti christ was right!
Those capitalist SOB's! Oh wait, what's that? Our government wasn't founded on those principles?
Well, by God, oh wait, god is dead-right?
Well then, ignore the founding document of this here USA,
that makes things much more convenient, doesn't it?

The Mental Disorder of Liberalism makes me want to puke!

Don't you mean emesis Todd? As a health care "professional" you should always use the proper word rather then stooping to using street lingo. Tisk tisk.

Do you know these guys Tood? They know you.

"The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition."

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.

By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, Published: April 27

Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West’s comment — right out of the McCarthyite playbook of the 1950s — so striking was the almost complete lack of condemnation from Republican congressional leaders or other major party figures, including the remaining presidential candidates.

It’s not that the GOP leadership agrees with West; it is that such extreme remarks and views are now taken for granted.

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.

“Both sides do it” or “There is plenty of blame to go around” are the traditional refuges for an American news media intent on proving its lack of bias, while political scientists prefer generality and neutrality when discussing partisan polarization. Many self-styled bipartisan groups, in their search for common ground, propose solutions that move both sides to the center, a strategy that is simply untenable when one side is so far out of reach.

It is clear that the center of gravity in the Republican Party has shifted sharply to the right. Its once-legendary moderate and center-right legislators in the House and the Senate — think Bob Michel, Mickey Edwards, John Danforth, Chuck Hagel — are virtually extinct.

The post-McGovern Democratic Party, by contrast, while losing the bulk of its conservative Dixiecrat contingent in the decades after the civil rights revolution, has retained a more diverse base. Since the Clinton presidency, it has hewed to the center-left on issues from welfare reform to fiscal policy. While the Democrats may have moved from their 40-yard line to their 25, the Republicans have gone from their 40 to somewhere behind their goal post.

What happened? Of course, there were larger forces at work beyond the realignment of the South. They included the mobilization of social conservatives after the 1973Roe v. Wade decision, the anti-tax movement launched in 1978 by California’s Proposition 13, the rise of conservative talk radio after a congressional pay raise in 1989, and the emergence of Fox News and right-wing blogs. But the real move to the bedrock right starts with two names: Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist. full article

"Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Talk about a scatalogical remark!

Take your pick....

Well, you know me Bucky, I always lean way to the right, so I'll pick the one on the right.

Check out this short video about where our tax dollars are ending up:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/us-bridg...aylist=14594944