Work, only back for a short bit. Sorry to Ron didn't even get an honorable mention and it looks like we're stuck with choosing between dumb and "plain old stupid white rich guy" in the upcoming erection.
Originally Posted By: hobie1616
Originally Posted By: Nimrod
Hey what ever happend to your Starbuck's U sockpuppet?
Ninny! Where you been brah? How's Kennel Boy magazine doing? Still trying to corner the advertising market for women's sanitary products? Are you still flying the Big Doggie from town to town in search of the most photogenic doggie behindular areas for the mag?
Ever since we did the story on Pelosi Does It Doggie Style the subscriptions are way ahead of expectations. We’re doing a photo spread next month titled Sandusky’s Puppies! We’re looking for a Sandusky stand in, you available?
BTW – I was on you fair island a while back and saw a H16 parked in the middle of a lot down by Sugar Beach. In true doggie fashion I lifted a leg and pissed in it. Wasn’t yours by any chance was it?
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So, being taxed for a 'non-behavior'? If you don't do something, you'll pay a tax?
And, why would the RINO Roberts write 'Elections have consequences'? Elections have consequences?
Tell me this will ya? Since when does the SCOTUS legislate?
Lets carry it just a bit further, shall we? GM (government motors) sells an electric car. You didn't buy and drive an electric car? Well I'm the tax man, yea yea I'm the taxman. You don't have a government certified energy efficient window/s on your home? Yep, you guessed it, pay a tax, and again for NOT buying something.
We could go on, but I think you get what I'm saying here.
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Does this bother you, I mean, does this make you fear the government? If not, you're stupider than you thought!
The GOoPers throw 30,000,000 Americans under the bus.
Screw those pre-existing conditions too.
Poor old Mittens.
Hello, human diary. It is I again, Mitt Romney, your better.
These last days have been extremely tiring. Ever since the Supreme Court decided that the current healthcare law indeed passed constitutional muster, things have been confusing, at best. Our campaign has not quite decided what to do with the information, although we remain certain we disapprove of it. In the meantime I have taken respite in my beachfront vacation home (not the California one, but the other one).
The problem is that I am, to use a term Eric F. explained to me, happysad. I am happy because the healthcare plan that I myself proposed, endorsed, implemented, and repeatedly endorsed again has received approval from the highest court in the land, which means it was good. But I am sad because that approval was technically granted to another version of that plan, one endorsed by Democrats, which means it is now bad. Trying to draw the line between the two—which plan is good, and which plan is bad—continues to be quite difficult. It seems reporter units are not entirely satisfied with the simple notion that the bad one is the one my opponent did, because he is my opponent and he is bad. I instructed my staff to explain to them further that my plan was good because I am not my opponent, and since he is bad I must by definition be good, but they reported back with unsatisfactory results. While we sort this out, we have largely decided to not say things anymore, on any subject.
I am not sure if it is the court ruling, the water here or the fumes of the jet-propelled water vehicle, but I have certainly noticed a decrease in my operational capacities. The additional weekend leap second was no help, and yet another example of how scientists are inherently biased against severe conservatives like myself.
On the other hand, it may be all others whose operational capacities are incorrect? After all, I can clearly determine which healthcare plans are good and bad, so if others are perceiving more complexities it is just as likely that they are the ones in error. Often elevators can have the right answer, in terms of adjusting tree height, but I do not know now if haircuts can meet my commitment to cheesy grits and pastries of dubious origin. All of these should be left up to the states, except for the tree dimensions. Clearly, though, if one health insurance mandate is from 7-11, and the other is not, then is it not obvious which one I should pick as my Vice Presidential unit? All these podiums have been of incorrect heights, through this entire campaign. Each of them should have been one quarter inch higher. And I am tired of pretending to like Donald Trump.
I am not feeling well, Mr. Diary. I am going to lie down for a while. I suppose each political campaign has bad weeks, and I suppose my campaigns have tended to have more bad weeks than could seemingly be explained by random chance. I am only glad that this week is of slightly smaller portion than most weeks, due to the holiday.
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Here's a story you might enjoy Todd. Or not. Do you believe the BS it contains?
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I love my friends. Even some of the more conservative ones.
I usually try to keep politics relatively light on my Facebook wall, but for some reason, I just couldn't stay quite this time around.
One of my friends (love love love her to death) posted this Trump quote on her wall.
Let me get this straight . . . We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it,

and signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, forwhich we’ll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,

 all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese,

and financed by a country that’s broke!!!!!
I don't know why, but I had to comment.
:-( I didn't want to go through all of it... but...
We're putting everyone in a risk pool to bring down the cost of medical care. No one is being taxed on it unless you refuse to purchase health insurance (thus forcing the taxpayers to pay for your emergency medical care when you do need it). Last I checked, the government does not "add" doctors. Not to mention, if it's an emergency, all 10mil of those people are already seeing doctors now in the ER. Now we're just covering them with health insurance so tax payers don't have to foot the bill for that ER visit. The part about the 16000 new IRS agents is a complete and total fabrication and has no basis in fact. NONE. It's an incredibly complex bill and that is why it is broken into several pieces and patched together by the committee and summarized for Congress. (Ever tried reading a bill? It can get tedious.) Nonetheless, if members of Congress didn't read it... well... that's still pretty crappy of them. But for the amount this bill covers, I can totally forgive someone for not reading the entire thing letter by letter. Members of Congress are NOT exempt from the law and must maintain insurance coverage that meets the minimum standards of care described in the law. Social Security and Medicare are NOT bankrupt. There are changes that need to be made (like there were in 1983), but SS will be able to pay out its obligations for the next forty years, at least. That's hardly "bankrupt". As for Medicare, there was a FOOTNOTE in the CBO's Medicare Report that said "under current conditions" Medicare Part A would exhaust funds in the next decade. However, Parts B, C, and D are still fully funded and will be for quite some time. That footnote also was a straight projection of expenditures. It did NOT take into account economic or demographic changes that are a possibility over the same term. If you factor that in, the CBO report extends "solvency" for another decade. I won't say it's in GOOD shape, but it's far from broke. As for the last statement about the country being broke... well... it's people like Trump that push through massive tax breaks for the wealthy under the absolutely ridiculous notion that that will incent them to create more jobs and generate more revenue. Sorry, but capitalists create jobs when there is a need for them. That need is generated with the lower/middle classes have more expendable cash and are consuming more goods and services. Wealthy people became wealthy because they know how to save money. Giving them more money to sock away does absolutely NOTHING for the economy...
As for the rest of it, it's all a bunch of name calling in personal attacks that I won't get into. (If you can't win an argument based on facts, resort to name calling.)
She justified posting it because it was supposed to be "funny".
If it's a joke/satire, yeah, it'd be funny, but unfortunately, people read that and believe the BS it contains. And that makes me sad. So again... :-(
Hopefully I reached one person because she deleted it.
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Psssst! Muni bonds. --- Hobie1616
Don't be fooled by appearances. In Hawaii, some of the most powerful people look like bums and stuntmen. --- Matt King
Social Security and Medicare are NOT bankrupt. There are changes that need to be made (like there were in 1983), but SS will be able to pay out its obligations for the next forty years, at least. That's hardly "bankrupt".
How much money has the government taken out of SS over the past copuple of years... hint $2 Trillion to fund other programs. How much is in reserve? Give yea hint on that too……we’re looking down the barrel of a $53 Trillion deficit by the year 2035 when the tail end of the baby boomers start dying off.
Makes one wonder what would happen if the SS contribution faucet was turned off today.
Economics is not exactly Hopey's strong point... but he's good for a laugh sometimes..
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hobie1616
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Originally Posted By: Just Todd
So, being taxed for a 'non-behavior'? If you don't do something, you'll pay a tax?
And, why would the RINO Roberts write 'Elections have consequences'? Elections have consequences?
Tell me this will ya? Since when does the SCOTUS legislate?
Lets carry it just a bit further, shall we? GM (government motors) sells an electric car. You didn't buy and drive an electric car? Well I'm the tax man, yea yea I'm the taxman. You don't have a government certified energy efficient window/s on your home? Yep, you guessed it, pay a tax, and again for NOT buying something.
We could go on, but I think you get what I'm saying here.
Ever hear of, or learn/read about Thomas Jefferson? See my sig
Does this bother you, I mean, does this make you fear the government? If not, you're stupider than you thought!
_________________________ See the Wind Feel the Wind Be the Wind
Psssst! Muni bonds. --- Hobie1616
Don't be fooled by appearances. In Hawaii, some of the most powerful people look like bums and stuntmen. --- Matt King
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"House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals." – Ben Bernanke – 2005
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