Insurrection

[Phantomgrift]

Fun nature fact. North American Bullfrogs and South African Cane Toads routinely eat scorpions and anything else they can fit into their oversized mouths.

[HisDivineShadow]

[Phantomgrift]

See, you were doing really well and I was actively following what you were saying there, right up until you veered off into personal insult territory concerning a stab at my job, and it caused me to dismiss everything else you said with a mental sneer of self-righteous disdain.

This is the internet. This is not my job. Online, I'm free to mock people or basically fart around for my own mental amusement. Additionally, after years of "sifting through data", I've come to realize that there are so many facets of "data" concerning political topics and who did what, or whom caused such'n'such to fail, that it's actually difficult trying to piece together any solid semblance out of a lot of it that could truly be unbiased. As I already deal with levels of stress from my actual job, why bother adding to that stress by getting overly-in-depth on everything that crops up in the news? It's not healthy for ones mental state.

P.S. Anyone notice how people like to make grand assumptions about trifles like "proven thoroughly wrong"? Really, this is news to me as I was under the odd notion that I wasn't trying to "prove" or "disprove" anything. It's not like this is a valid scientific debate on something proven to be factually true. It's economics and politics, two ever-shifting topics that can have a multitude of factors behind them influencing outcomes.
But it's alright, the basic facetious insults are only tossed out when someone disagrees with the groupminds favorite opinion.... Resulting in delightful attempts at snark like "P.S." messages in a forum board. God, I've been insulted to the quick... I better scream cyber-bullying, run home and kill myself because those peoples on the intertubes really know everything about me.

Stay funny HDS.

[Despanan]

SO what do you guys think about the fact that Bloomberg has effectively become an 80's movie villain, and has assigned a special "elite" anti-vandalism NYPD taskforce to track Banksey down like he's friggin' batman?

[Phantomgrift]

If Bloomberg is a villain, obviously we're talking somewhere in the realm of "Stilt-Man", "Frog-Man", or "The Condiment King"...

[dexeron]

[Despanan]

[HisDivineShadow]

[HisDivineShadow]

[HisDivineShadow]

This article might interest you guys:

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/inside_ ... obamacare/


Basically Hannity had three couples on his show who claimed they had bad experiences with Obamacare. The couples were as follows:

1 - Owned a small business and on Hannity said they had to cut employee hours.
2 - Said on Hannity a 13,000$/year policy that was being terminated and replaced with a new, ACA-compliant policy
3 - Couple covered by Blue Cross said on Hannity that their 10k/year Blue Cross policy would be replaced by something that costs 50-75% more.

So the author of the article calls up each of these guests and re-interviews them to fact-check.

1 - Turns out this couple has 4 employees. They apparently didn't understand that Obamacare does nothing to businesses with less than 50 employees.
2 - Hadn't checked healthcare.gov because it wasn't working. When the author plugged in their info, turns out they would qualify for a $7,600 plan.
3 - Also shopped around for this couple. Found a policy that cost $3,700.

He only discussed a little bit of comparisons between policies, but overall it seems like the ones who are most vociferous against the ACA also know the least about it.