To All the Small Business Owners in Skyboxes Across America
Michelle Malkin and National Review, two great… tastes… that… oh bleeding Hell Christ, is it Judgement Day already?
Michelle Malkin, National Wingnut Reunion Tour:
Obama Lied, My Health Plan Died
Esoteric topics are esoteric?!? Since when?!?
So yeah, last time’s entry might have been a teensy bit inside baseball (And the Understatement of the Year Award goes to…), so let us return once more to the fertile lands of the National Review, which seems to be in the midst of recruiting every single failed shitbag with a halfway recognizable name. Dennis Prager, Michelle Malkin? Why not? Fuck, I give it inside of a year before I’m quoting an Ann Coulter piece coming from these blighted lands.
So how’s ol’ Michelle, mah belladonna, been up to since her glory days of ripping the heads off kittens and pissing in the kiddie pool? Well apparently, like most of the wingnuts of today, whining about the glory days.
Shorter (or the last port before Jungle):
- Yes, that’s correct, we’re still trying to sell easily disproven lies and scare-tactics against health care reform as if it was still 2009 and we were still relevant. Hey, you try to be relevant in the modern right as a woman of color without turning tricks by the roadside for whatever sugar daddy wanders drunkenly your way!
Oh joy, more Obamacare bullshit. Because if the past 4 years of wingnuts demonstrating just how little they give a shit about actual health care reform and how willing they are to scream bloody murder against even moderate conservative reform of our broken abusive system haven’t actually changed a single mind, then damnitt, they can just do the same things, but EVEN LOUDER!
And for that extra dash of class, we get a title still trying to piss on Bush era liberals as if a) we didn’t turn out to be 100% right about that disastrous war of choice and b) as if it was a good idea to remind people that you were once so attached to Captain Codpiece’s… er… codpiece that you were accused of being a barnacle.
We begin with an outrageous lie.
Like an estimated 22 million other Americans, I am a self-employed small-business owner
… pfft.
Uh huh, yeah, sure, and I’m the bloody Queen of Fresno, ruler of the lands from the Big Boy Burger shop to the place where the oil change shop used to be.
Yeah, sure, “self-employed” “small-business” owner, I mean, there’s being asked to swallow whoppers and then there’s having your jaw broken just trying to work the shaft. Yeah, being employed by how many countless right-wing media programs to pop on and do your demented bat impression for a few minutes before walking away with a pile of money larger than your head is totes equivalent to being an actual small business owner. I mean, you work for how many companies writing books, doing appearances, writing blog posts? And you still want to pretend that you’re some American Dream, small-business owner trying to get your neighborhood pie shop through to the next quarter despite the recent blueberry blight? Just because you threw an Incorporated after your name in order to make it easier to dodge taxes? Oh, please. Spare me.
And you wonder why people have learned to tune out you fuckers when you go on about pretending to speak for the “poor small business owner”.
who buys health insurance for my family directly on the individual market. We have a high-deductible PPO plan that allows us to choose from a wide range of doctors.
Why?
No, really, why the fuck have you had to waste your family’s money buying some shitty non-insurance with an obscenely high deductible (you do realize that that means an obscenely high amount out of pocket before your “insurance” even bothers to cover anything, right? And those tend to be coupled with cripplingly low caps so if you do get super sick, they won’t even cover that catastrophic care?).
As we’ve established, you aren’t some poor independent artist trying to make enough to live on with commissions and the rare piece that sells to a minor gallery. You’re a dedicated wingnut who has been suckling the teat of wingnut welfare for the last *cough cough* years. You’re saying that every last one of those major media companies? From the Koch brothers shell organizations to Fox fucking News to the various right-wing publishing scams to the National Review, not a damn one could even be arsed to pony up for some generic bottom-dollar “health plan”?
And this is somehow the fault of the mean old liberals who tried to implement an actually functional health care system but were beating back to a tired conservative wish list that entrenches a lot of shitty health insurance problems, but at least tries to fix the most obvious scams and failures to take care of the masses.
Or rather, we had such a plan.
Last week, our family received notice from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Colorado that we can no longer keep the plan we like because of “changes from health care reform (also called the Affordable Care Act or ACA).” The letter informed us that “to meet the requirements of the new laws, your current plan can no longer be continued beyond your 2014 renewal date.”
In short: Obama lied. My health plan died.
Mm hmm. And if this is a true story, which is highly unlikely after that load of bull to start us off, it’d be a good fucking thing.
The plan you described was a fucking fraud, selling the “cheapness” of “high deductible” health care to sell you a plan that would only serve to bankrupt you and fail to pay out when you needed it. In short, you were paying for the privilege of health care in name only.
And frankly, if that didn’t seem to bother you and you are weeping for its loss, then Bob damn, I’m not sure what your beef is seeing as how the most cynical look at the new law will just have you doing the same damn thing.
Remember? Our president looked America straight in the eye and promised: “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) also lied when she pledged: “Keep your doctor, and your current plan, if you like them.”
This isn’t just partisan business. It’s personal. Our cancellation letter states that Anthem is “not going to be selling new individual PPO plans.” When we asked whether we could keep our children’s doctors, an agent for Anthem told my husband and me that she didn’t know. The insurer has no details available yet on what exactly they’ll be offering. We either will be herded into the Obamacare federal health-insurance-exchange regime (launching October 1), a severely limited HMO plan, or we’ll be presented with costlier alternatives from another insurer. If they even exist.
Yeah. I heard. And after months of shitting on every piece of it you could and preventing any implementation and appealing to the wingnuts in charge of these abuse factories to protect whatever loopholes they had, you’re somehow shocked when the insurance jackoffs who were already robbing you blind gives you one last dicking around for old time’s sake?
Seriously?
Are you fucking new to health insurance?
Did you seek out a brand new health plan that you knew would be discontinued by the program in order to bring back your wingnut creds with a faux “see how my people have suffered against this atrocity” story for your paymasters and their insurance overlords?
Oh, you did? Well, it wasn’t exactly subtle, dear.
My family is not alone. Across the country, insurers are sending out Obamacare-induced health-plan death notices to untold tens of thousands of other customers in the individual market. Twitter users are posting their Obamacare cancellation notices and accompanying rate increases:
Linda Deright posted the news she received from her insurance company, Regence of Washington State: “63 percent jump, old policy of 15 yrs. cancelled.” Karen J. Dugan wrote: “Received same notice from Blue Shield CA for our small business. Driving into exchange and no info since online site is down.” Chris Birk wrote: “Got notice from BCBS that my current health plan is not ACA compliant. New plan 2x as costly for worse coverage.” Small-business owner Villi Wilson posted his letter from HMSA Blue Cross Blue Shield canceling his individual plan and added: “I thought Obama said if I like my health care plan, I can keep my health care plan.”
So what you are saying is that Blue Cross/Blue Shield was scamming your ass, selling you health insurance that was so utterly useless that it was viewed as the outright scam it was by the new system and discontinued for actual health insurance instead of “in name only” bullshit? And not only did you fall for it, but you proudly went to twitter to bleat your stupidity to the world in the hopes that it would enrage other delusional octagenarians with a remarkable power to forget all other insurance fucking arounds to rant about them damn darkies in Our Whitest of Houses?
Well, let us all celebrate your courage and wonder, you brave heroes of yore!
Few among Washington’s protected political class are paying attention, because they enjoy their lucrative taxpayer-funded government benefits and are exempted from Obamacare’s destructive consequences.
Gosh, wouldn’t it have been nice if we could have all had that? If we could have all had government benefits and government health care that was free and available to anyone as part of a sane taxation scheme that didn’t let the 1% of fuckwads build so many gold replicas of their scrotum they don’t know what to do with it all with money that could be going to actually helping people survive and relax enough to create new industries, companies, and yes, genuine small businesses?
If no one had to worry that a single hospitalization was going to slam them so far back to Completely Fucked Town that they couldn’t even remember their own name? Where we actually gave a damn about health care rather than letting a dedicated band of greedy illiterate shitheads burn everything down in the name of trying to cheat their way to power for power’s sake and their fears that good things that benefit people might awake people out of their stupor and actually reward the party that cares about them?
Gosh, what a nightmare world that would be!
But one of my state’s Republican congressional representatives, Cory Gardner, also lost his individual-market plan. Unlike most politicians on Capitol Hill, Gardner chose not to enroll in the federal health-insurance program. When I asked him why he opted to participate in the private market, he said, “Because I wanted to be in the same boat as my constituents — and now that boat is sinking!”
Oh well, let me weep for the lying shitbird who turned down free steak in order to lie about “how Obamacare is ruinin’ mah family”. Speaking as someone who is holding out hope for maybe perhaps possibly working for something that lets me buy into that given to state employees, I can’t really muster up the tears for the fuckburger who wanted to make a political theatre event out of “losing” health care that didn’t actually cover anything.
And just how much that seems to speak for those of us who’ve never had the luxury of being able to get away with catastrophically poor decisions as that because life keeps kicking us in the gonads without stop.
Gardner points to recent analysis showing rate increases in the individual market of 23 to 25 percent in Colorado. “After my current plan is discontinued,” he wrote last week, “the closest comparable plan through our current provider will cost over 100 percent more, going from roughly $650 a month to $1,480 per month.” He now carries his Obamacare cancellation notice with him as hard-core proof of the Democrats’ ultimate deception.
Maryland announced that its post-Obamacare individual-market rates could also rise by a whopping 25 percent. The National Association for the Self-Employed is recommending that its small-business owners and freelancers plan for at least a 15 percent increase nationwide. One of the reasons for those rate hikes, of course, is that Obamacare’s mandated-benefits provisions force insurers to carry coverage for services and items that individual-market consumers had deliberately chosen to forgo.
Americans who had opted for affordable catastrophic-coverage-style plans now have fewer and fewer choices. This includes a whole class of musicians, photographers, artists, writers, actors, and other creative people who purchased health plans through the individual market or through small professional organizations. As St. Vincent College arts professor Ben Schachter reports in The Weekly Standard, groups such as the College Art Association, the Modern Language Association, and the Entertainment Industry Group Insurance Trust are dropping their plans. Young, healthy members of these groups “are far more likely to see their rates go up — or to face the individual mandate penalties.”
Thanks to Obama, access is down. Premiums and health-care spending are up. Research and development on lifesaving drugs and medical devices are down. Because of Obamacare costs and regulatory burdens, at least 300 American companies have cut hours and benefits, according to Investor’s Business Daily. And the Obamacare layoff bomb continues to claim victims.
Obamacare is destroying the private individual market for health insurance by design, not accident. For hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of self-employed job creators, three fundamental Obamacare truths are becoming as clear as Obama’s growing nose: 1) You can’t keep it. 2) We’re screwed. 3) The do-gooders don’t care.
I’ve been at the point, they describe. Looking over faux bullshit non-insurance insurance scams because it looked like it was the only way to have “technically” insurance in order to get through those sorts of roadblocks to care. And it turned out that “technically” insurance is just “not” insurance. If it’s not in the “care provider list” then it doesn’t count and you’re just as screwed and out your dough for shit that doesn’t cover anyone.
I’ve seen friends blindsided by that crap. Going through chemo and cancer treatment with a plan with a payment cap and a high deductible. I think it saved them a total of a couple hundred dollars. The rest was made up with go-arounds and collections.
What is coming up on our plates isn’t fantastic. It isn’t where we’re going to want to end up and it’s not what’s going to be the solution to all the myriad of problems with our scam-based insurance culture. But it’s a start.
And if all that the right-wing can bring is whining 4 years later with bullshit media stunts about “losing” the single worst joke to ever be called “health care” as if real people didn’t understand how little it matters to lose shitty faux-insurance, then they are going to continue to be shocked as people shrug their shoulders and continue to support Democrats because they at least do not seem to treat life and death and most importantly health like some sick game of “gotcha”.
And you can try to appeal to the young, the uninsured, the struggling artists, but they’ll continue to look through your “I’m a small business owner” poses and your self-serving self-promotions at their expenses.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. From the “small-business owners” here at Sadly,No! Enterprises and our Lord Master Soros who rules over us all. All hail Soros! We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Heh, whoops on the last post everybody. Sorry about that. That’s my bad.
Defending my own burglar.
So the pattern I’m seeing is the Blues are being dicks.
I am a self-employed small-business owner
running a small snotchoes stand by the side of the highway.
BTW, isn’t what they’re saying is that BCBS is being a dick, not the ACA? (Completely unlike they are the rest of the time, pulling shit like “oh, did we change your drug coverage suddenly on you? Well, surprise! Not like we’re required to TELL you these things or anything, after all!”)
Maybe if she spent more time working and less time peeking through peoples windows to look at their counter top she could afford a better health plan.
I’ll always be grateful to Malkin for helping me to name my band.
Maybe she should just start going to emergency rooms.
Or ask her church or Neighborhood Fund for help – churches love doing charity
for anchor babies, especially the good old southern baptist church I am certain she goes to.Hey, she could do the chow mein segments on Foxbots In Teh Morning, she was raised on it, right? That’ll buy her some ibuprofen!
Any extra kids? Ask yer representative, Cory Whattehfuck, to put child labor laws on the chopping block for a good compromise for the government shutdown. Betcha little Brittney or whatever could fill those empty shelves at Walmart lickety-split!
scribblescribble, PythagoreanGymkata, blendpoorly
That’s a takehome of nearly $3.50 an hour! Moet and Chandon with Ramen, baby!!!
Remember, the Koch brothers qualify as “small business.”
isn’t what they’re saying is that BCBS is being a dick,
Crappy product proves to be unviable in a regulated market. Conservatives complain about impact of competition. Details at 11.
Well, sure. The GOP is the party of personal responsibility, which is why it’s always the other guy’s fault, particularly if the other guy happens to be female, or black, or poor, or not (their version of) Christian, or LGBT, or anything other than a member of their tribe.
The GOP is also the Christian party, which is why they are so vehemently opposed to anything that might improve the lives of the downtrodden.
They’re the party of rugged individualism, which is why the GOP acts in such strict accord. Anyone who thinks the TPers are making the Prince of Orange do anything he doesn’t want to hasn’t heen paying attention. By “losing,” he’s been able to get about 98% of what he wants, and can keep coming back as the ones who’ve given so much already, being losers and all.
They’re the party of go-it-alone capitalism, which is why they reallyreally hate competition.
My question, actually, is this. If Malkin’s insurer has had four years to get used to the idea of ACA reform, why did the Anthem CSR Mr. Malkin spoke to on the phone say she “didn’t know” whether the Malkin children could keep their existing pediatricians? What have they been DOING for the past four years if they weren’t reframing their policies and training their customer service peo–?
Oh, being Republicans.
Never mind.
I am fortunate enough to have single-payer health care. As in VA healthcare, as a 70s era veteran. I love it. I am so grateful to my Dad (81) for insisting I sign up for it. The Minneapolis VA has the best doctors ever.
Michelle Malkin is an idiot but we already knew that, didn’t we?
I wish everybody could have this. I’m just sorry everybody doesn’t.
My Dad, who has Republican leanings, but is not really a staunch Republican, is persuaded by the argument (which he knows to be true) “the Republicans want to cut your veteran’s benefits”.
He knows that. It’s what keeps him from voting straight Republican. He claims he’s just going to sit out the election in 2014. Well fine Dad, more for us. I’ll go vote for all of us haha.
when we’re instructed to vote for Hillary
Yes, we all do what we’re told by George Soros and the liberal vaccine elite blah blah yadda yadda flibberty floo blurp blurp blurp.
So, Hillary isn’t going to bring back headbands if she’s elected? Bummer, man.
Man, you’re just another jive turkey, trying to bring me out of my groove. Don’t talk to me about soul, you’re the mayor of Zombietown around here, dude.
We either will be herded into the Obamacare federal health-insurance-exchange regime (launching October 1), a severely limited HMO plan, or we’ll be presented with costlier alternatives from another insurer. If they even exist.
So you went off half cocked (heh) to complain about it when you don’t even know what better, cheaper, more comprehensive options are now available to you. You haven’t even looked. What a twatwaffle.
Got notice from BCBS that my current health plan is not ACA compliant. New plan 2x as costly for worse coverage.”
Suuuuure it does, that doesn’t smell like utter bullshit at all. Imma bet you too haven’t looked at what you can now get. I’m only saying that because EVERYBODY NOT A WHINGER is deliriously happy with their new options.
I’m gonna guess there’s a small (very small) kernel of truth in that. If you’re going to offer a “health insurance” plan with high deductibles, lifetime caps, and the ability to decline payment based on “preexisting conditions” where you get to define what a “preexisting condition” is – in other words, money for nothing -the price you charge is more based on your actuaries’ estimate of the pain point at which the
rubescustomers start to notice that you aren’t actually giving them any more than a band-aid or two. If you have a law that closes down most of your escape hatches, you’re going to have to charge more to achieve profit.Agreed, I should have been more clear. The new plan from your current scammers is 2x. But once again, that conveniently ignores the likely fact that MOAR BETTERER planz are at hand.
The Andrews Air Force Base golf course is funded through user fees and that’s why it remains open,
OUTRAGEOUS! .
Just five days after #94 came screaming out of Left Blogtopia, Assclowns of the Week #95: Monumental Stupidity double-sized edition is hot off the presses. You read that right, a double-sized edition. Out of the 20 spots and dishonorable mention this week, the assclowns on this week’s spit are: Half-term half-wit Sarah Palin; Pat Robertson; Faux News; Darrell Issa and yours truly (17). All this and much, much more!
Did I mention I have a Tumblr? I could use some more followers.
I use it to post nerd shit and art. This month, in honour of Halloween, I’m posting one drawing from my Vampire Series every day.
Not so Breitbart says “oh noes!!! They’re closing the oceans!!!”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/05/Feds-Try-to-Close-the-OCEAN-Because-of-Shutdown
I live right next to Florida Bay, and yes, parts of it are considered inside Everglades National Park, but I have not seen one actual news article about any charter boat captains being affected. And, believe me. that would be big news around here. Also Rick Scott would be all over it. A quick search finds absolutely no mention in any legitimate Florida newspaper.
Snopes has a couple of new articles pertaining to the shutdown:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/rushmore.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/museum.asp (Fox News, unsurprisingly, reported this one as true.)
I guess, if you’ve been trained to think of government as something that is actively engaged in thwarting your every pleasure (which might actually be true for a special group if sociopaths, come to think of it), either of these stories might be believable. But, really? The people falling for this must be rageaholics of the first water.
Urgh. I’d completely forgotten about the completely BS part at the end about the more expensive plan being worse, because, no, duh, the point is you end up with actual coverage, not something you think is coverage until you need to use it, when you find out you’re on the hook for an obscene amount of money.
I know someone whose wife got E. coli. Since she’s still taking meds for leukemia, it made her sicker than it would have if she’d had a properly functioning immune system. She pulled through, but the cost of her treatment would have been $1,000,000, thanks mostly to the way charges are cranked up for the uninsured.
The fact is, liberal bias in the media keeps many Americans from the truth: the government spends too mucn money and it will destroy us. We cant live byong our means and someone needs to make sacrafices, I think Liberals should lead the way. Especialyl not start Obamacare it will banrupt every family and the USA as well and kills jobs, as well as be socialism, they keep up the drumbeat but here in the Heartland we know it is the end of Ameirca unless we stop it, and the Tea Bag Party will do it.
(Assuming this conversation took place at all.) That’s a question for the doctor. As in – Will you be participating in this plan?
My own situation is instructive. I started a new job last week and my health insurance won’t kick in until Nov. 1. So I bought a 30-day BCBS policy with that costs about $130, but it has a $5,000 deductible.
Now, that will be just fine for covering me if I get into a car accident or something in the next few weeks. Yes, I’ll be out $5,000, but I won’t lose my home and every penny I have in the bank. But as a long-term policy, it’s unacceptable (and unavailable even if it were acceptable).
My work health plan, the real one, the one that will make it possible for me to get checkups and go to the doctor for routine care, will cost about $350 a month (about three-quarters of which will be paid by my employer). But it has a reasonable deductible, as well as all the other Obamacare goodies (no lifetime limit, they can’t deny me benefits because I had a hangnail in 1987, etc.)
But according to Malkin math, I’m paying ALMOST THREE TIMES AS MUCH FOR HEALTH INSURANCE!!11!!!!11!! and it’s the greatest outrage in the history of etc.
I don’t think it’s even cherry-picking facts. I think these people are literally incapable of paying attention to more than one thing at a time.
I think these people are literally incapable of paying attention to more than one thing at a time.
and especially if that thing is something that is not them…i will finally be eligible for health insurance through the hospital i raise money for in less than a month which is going to be huge for our financial picture since they pay the premium…can’t get the son on the plan because the premium for additional family members is truly obscene. but, that’s okay since he can now get obamacare. mn has some pretty decent options for low income folks, but he makes too much for madicaid and to qualify for mncare, he has to be without insurance for four months…and with him being a type one diabetic, there’s no freaking way we could let his insurance lapse…
for the life of me, i do not get why people have such a boner for paying out the ass for bullshit insurance…their obsession with blowing job creators baffles…
also, too…hubbkf had his best show ever…he sold a shit tonne of work… 🙂
Plus, the “job creators” they want to blow aren’t really job creators, they’re actually people who want to make sure true entrepeneurs don’t have a chance.
And congratulations to hubbkf on the excellence of his show.
Okay, I gotta say, you guys have finally gone too far with the Photoshop.
I mean, come on. No human being could ever look as hideous as that. It’s just ridiculous.
To rosebuddear:
You say you wish everyone could have single payer health insurance.
I agree. We COULD have it … by passage of HR676.
It’s called Medicare for all.
I’m not sitting on a hot stove waiting, however.
Plus, the “job creators” they want to blow aren’t really job creators, they’re actually people who want to make sure true entrepeneurs don’t have a chance.
zackly…while i admire their dedication to paying their own way and being bootstrappers, i can’t help but wonder why their devotion to the free market ideal is infinitely more preferable to them than following their christian ideals…
Americans who had opted for affordable catastrophic-coverage-style plans now have fewer and fewer choices
In other news, Americans who opted for Snake Oil to cure their cancer had fewer options due to that #%$&@ FDA.
Americans who opted for e-coli laced water had fewer options due to that #%$&@ EPA.
Americans who opted for tainted meat had fewer options due to them #%$@& gummint meat inspectors.
affordable catastrophic-coverage-style plans
God forbid we should be encouraging plans geared more toward preventative health care so the catastrophic care isn’t as necessary.
Never mind as well that preventative care would bring down the cost of health care overall.
bash her based on her crazy-as-hell looks
Oh, the looks are only the icing on the cake.
It’s
turtlescrazy, evil and stupid all the way down.THAT’s why we bash.
In other news, Americans who opted for Snake Oil to cure their cancer had fewer options due to that #%$&@ FDA.
Americans who opted for e-coli laced water had fewer options due to that #%$&@ EPA.
Americans who opted for tainted meat had fewer options due to them #%$@& gummint meat inspectors.
Luckily the government shut-down has opened the availability of those options to everyone!
[ed. guys I wanna keep this one]
And here’s the co-blogger of Sadly No!, Provider_UNE, also too being a cis-sexist pig.
WTF?????
[an example of a pathological attraction]
Did I mention I have a Tumblr? I could use some more followers.
I do seem to recall, and possibly bookmarked it on the old frankentop. While not on tumblr, I have the link open in a tab and will bookmark it on this lappy. 🙂
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also, too…hubbkf had his best show ever…he sold a shit tonne of work… 🙂
WooooooooooooooHoooooooooooooo!!!!
🙂
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Wait, are you saying someone who doesn’t like this law might make up a bunch of silly bullshit about it?
That doesn’t happen in this country. There are small businesses being regulated out of existence EVERY DAY.
I will attest to the fact that the Washington Exchange website is broke as fuck and none of my attempts at getting a quote for my company have been successful.
DAMN YOU OBUMMER!
wait…what? it’s gotta be some kind of joke…
wait…what? it’s gotta be some kind of joke…
Wow. That’s pretty awesome. Pretty sure this lady will be looking for work soon.
Concern Troll is very concerned about stuff that happened 2 years ago on a blog comment thread.
Yes, we are all powerful public figures with millions of devoted crackpot fans.
Sorry for engaging, y’all.
Pretty gun.
Cool dagger gun.
every book or story I could find published between 1819 and 1923 that featured a vampire of some sort
If you run out of material, have a look at Dijkstra’s “Idols of Perversity”. It is unintentionally hysterical in places but still a good source of fin-de-siecle cultural obsessions.
we are all powerful public figures with millions of devoted crackpot fans.
I’m still waiting for my crackpot fan starter set to be delivered.
See, that’s because you ordered yours with the optional “off” switch. Do you know how hard it us to find one of those?
I accidentally ordered the crockpot fan kit and I’m STILL waiting for them to heat up.
More Catholic Bishop shenanigans. http://thecontributor.com/religion/how-catholic-bishops-pushed-shutdown-–-and-even-default-–-over-birth-control
Gawd I hate those fuckers.
The Swiss are finding the power of the referendum. On Friday they delivered enough signatures to force action on the countries first ever minimum wage law and next month they will get to vote on the “1:12 law”. The law would limit monthly executive pay to no more than what the company’s lowest-paid staff earn in a year.
On our side of the pond, truckers are planning to block the beltway October 11, according to this USNews article:
Further on in the article, one of the organizers says they aren’t actually shooting for impeachment – they just want to arrest everyone they feel has violated their oath of office.* As one of Chas. Pierce’s commenters points out, the only names he names are Dems with ladyparts.
I just want to point out that I plan to lay blame for the whole hostage-taking thing squarely at the feet (or tentacles) of the GOP.
*I know. The projection is strong with this one.
OMG Saturday Night Live blames Republicans too!
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/10/06/snl-shutdown-gop-bachmann
Also, this little gem from page 2 of the article:
So, if I understand this, they resent having to buy equipment that will use less fuel, the increasing price of which they also object to. Since the price depends largely on Big Oil and what they think will bring them the best profits, attacking the Feds makes perfect sense. Likewise decisions made by state governments, local governments, and insurance companies.
Uhm, hm.
They just want to swing their penis-substitutes, I think.
and the high cost of diesel fuel
Since they’re obviously paying the price for the fuel it’s tough to argue that it’s too high. Invisible hand, free market, etc. etc.
Why isn’t the president using the bully pulpit to increase the amount of petroleum?
Via the Facebook page…
http://ridefortheconstitution.org/earl-conlon-advised-not-to-misrepresent-himself-to-media-as-spokesperson/
And here’s some interesting meanness about their spokesperson:
http://therealpetesantilli.blogspot.com/2013/04/pete-sham-santilli-rise-to-mediocrity.html
It always amazes me that conservatives’ go-to phrases for fuckups always come from fuckups committed by one of their own guys:fill in the blank-Gate, Obama’s Katrina, etc.
Surprising!
Hmm. So someone who wants to shoot Obama in the testicles and Hillary Clinton in the vagina is involved here. I’ll be darned.
I’m shocked to find perversion in the priesthood. http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/minnesota-archdiocese-accused-withholding-child-porn-police
Equally shocked to find the archdiocese his the evidence.
Case in point.
I was going to point out that wanting a woman shot in the vagina was a touch misogynistic, but that equal opportunity psychotic rambling makes it a-ok. Or something.
It’s not my fault the troll’s post keeps getting deleted, Denny. Not that I’m complaining.
Ahhhh! Why do I keep responding today?
Not only am I feeding the troll(s?), but I end up looking like a crazy person when it gets deleted.
I’m just going to continue talking to myself, then.
Hey, Philip, how goes it?
Shut up, it’s none of your beeswax!
Sorry, Spearhafoc, but you just can’t compete in the sheer unhingedness department. I think part of your problem is you lack sufficient of malice.
Sufficient malice.
Good news everybody!
A couple years ago, I linked y’all this feel good POOP. Well, medical science has never been one to rest on her laurels, so now that POOP is available in oral format.
Two girls, one dose.
There’s a human centipede joke in there but I’m not going to make it.
What’s up, looney libs?! The funky fact of the matter is, you smell! Brick-a-brack-a-boodle-doo! Da Cool Couch and Mighty Michele the Brainy Bachmann are going to show you the true face of the Heartland and True America and stuff!
VCarlson once said something rude to someone and is probably an eliminationalist and a hypocrite of some kind. Here’s proof from a thread from five years ago. Bookmark it!
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I saw an article about that. I liked the part about how part of the problem solving was the many layers in which the colonizing bacteria are encased to make sure they make it to the proper portion of the gut unscathed.
Also, 25-35 pills to swallow in one, er, sitting.
“Poop pills given to 27 difficult patients” I could get behind.
When will PENIS be available in pill form? Asking for a friend.
Sure. That’s a brilliant plan in place riddled with creepy areas where you have to give blood to clear security. Just park your trucks on the other side of the sound barrier and see who comes out to Do Something about the noise. (Not to mention this fuckhead is laboring under the misconception that the natives will be intimidated by his multi-wheeled penis.)
But maybe the five zillion law grotesquely overarmed enforcement agencies – who are bit twitchy what with various unfortunate events around here on top of an unprecedented number of death threats against various elected officials including the PotUS backed by the general fact this kind of teabaggist bullshit is not regarded as normal around here will decide to take seriously a threat to interfere with local and interstate traffic, attack members of Congress and the President or even cause an epic car wreck up by throwing their brakes if a cop looks at them funny. They could decide to do something really drastic, like block all semis from getting anywhere near the Beltway starting Thursday, just in case.
Result – the Trucking Assholes Association are left stranded at rest stops and on roadsides with their fellow truckers who just wanted to make their deliveries and get on to the next job. Not exactly the Smokey n’ the Bandit story they have in mind.
However, I am hoping that the SS has checked them out, accessed the threat and decided to let the two members have their little convoy.
During one of those ‘time stood still’ mornings on I-95 I caught an hour on SCPR with a cheerful woman describing the miracles possible from fecal transplants. I found it somewhat surreal. Her thesis was that there are people gifted by the genetic lottery with better flora than the rest of us but that they will share.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next GOP Senator.
It occurs to me that the GOP and trolls have a lot in common. If they don’t get the control they want, they just make it as difficult as they can for things to work for anyone else.
medical science has never been one to rest on her laurels
In my experience the aphids get up your bum when you do that.
Sufficient Malice
Good band name?
Congrats to hubbkf !
Spear: I like your drawings of the undead. Blogwhoring works!
I’d pay like twofitty to see these fuckwits attempt to detain a Congressprick
President Obama waived a ban on arming terrorists in order to allow weapons to go to the Syrian opposition. Your listeners, US taxpayers, are now paying to give arms to terrorists including Al Qaeda…This happened and as of today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s end times history.
So, Michele, why are you quoting yourself on this blog?
So, they’re all upset cause they say Obama sold weapons to our enemies? Hell, they canonized St. Ronnie for that.
Sufficient Malice
Good band name?
Malice in Chains
Malicifent Bastards
Malice Before Thought
Thallus Malice – AKA Not Likin’ Lichen
Band names or Disney villains?
Is Ms Malkin a trucker? Just checking.
“If all I get is one or two congressmen walked out of there in handcuffs, that will be a shot across the bow that will ripple across all branches of government. … I hope they are all civil enough and brave enough to step out onto the congressional steps.”
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10/07/truckers-for-the-constitution-plan-to-slow-dc-beltway-arrest-congressmen
Grand Malice Year
Grand Mal Seizure
Oh. Game names.
Michelle Bachmann said,
Yeah, we know. The impeachment counts against Obama are (1) that he deprived our plucky Syrian freedom-fighter allies of weapons and left them to twist in the wind; and (2) that he knowingly facilitated the flow of military aid to islamists. Just get on with it.
How is traffic coming to a standstill on the Beltway different from any regular day?
Now, if they try to stop the freights on the CSX mainline… well, those assholes don’t cotton much to trespassers if you catch my meaning, now.
Children as fine, as long as they’re broiled properly.
Of couse, the ACA doesn’t add to the deficit, any more than the “death panels” will mean that medical assistance will be withheld for elderly people.
D- for our C&P troll here, which is par for the crazy course he seems to be on lately.
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University (GMU) in the United States is a non-profit[1] American market-oriented research, education, and outreach think tank. It works with policy experts, lobbyists, and government officials to connect academic learning and real-world practice. The Mercatus Center takes its name from the Latin word meaning “markets”, and reflects the Center’s free market-based approach to solving public policy problems.
Yep, a think tank that is for a ‘free-market based approach’ to everything disses the ACA. What a surprise!
Unless you’re a wingnut waiting for the End Times.
What is your faulty radiator to us, they then asked of the prophet.
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!
five zillion law grotesquely overarmed enforcement agencies
Note the lack of complaint about that from Teabaggers.
“You want to take my money in taxes to give health care to someone? THEFT! THEFT!”
“You want to take my taxes to give to paramilitary pokice departments? Sure, how much ya need?”
Of course, if the truckers DO get roughed up, expect a lot of belated whining about how this is all Obama’s fault.
pokice = police
NEED MOAR COFFEE
five zillion law grotesquely overarmed enforcement agencies
I’m so old, I remember when police wore blue. Now they wear black in almost every jurisdiction–well urban ones, anyway. Hmmmm polizei wearing black. What does that remind me of?
Also, the “truckers threat” is pure hot-air. County police and state troopers in the Beltway jurisdictions won’t put up with that crap. If the trucker jerks actually do attempt to sabotage the DC Beltway, ignore lawful instructions from cops, and deliberately disable their vehicles in the roadway, they’re going to be facing an ever-lengthening list of charges. Not to mention revocation of their Commercial Drivers License.
Speaking of hot air, Albuquerque’s International Hot Air Balloon Festival is on this week! Mass ascents with 500+ colorful ballons. Pretty! I’m going out on the balcony now to watch…..
http://www.google.com/search?q=albuquerque+balloon+fiesta+mass+ascension&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hhBUUt3LHcG7qgHX-IEw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1005&bih=951&dpr=1
Note that this dumblefuck has twice issued orders to local police: “Don’t bother us or we’ll block the road,” and “Arrest the people we tell you to.” Thinking he can scare the locals into putting his gang’s tag on his car is another tragic result of smoking meth while watching Convoy.
Police really enjoy being ordered around by idiot redneck truckers. This is going to work out well for Conlon and Convoy of Contravening Booger Eaters.
I need Pringles (cuz I hate popcorn)
The more I think of it the more it sounds like prior MASSIVE TAKEOVERS OF WASHINGTON that are cancelled at the last minute because the organizers
are visited by the reality fairy, shit themselves and decide to stay homedecide to spare D.C. THE CRIPPLING MIGHT OF ITS MIGHTY TAKEOVER. Extra bonus points for dark hints that Obamathugs came to their homes and threatened them with nuclear wedgies.We came on a poop transplant B
My Grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did foam
Chugging all night
Got into a fight
This is the worst hospital visit I’ve ever been on
So hoist up the toilet roll B
See how the poop plant sets
Call for the Doctor On Call let me go home
I wanna go home
Why don’t the let me go home, yeah yeah.
This is the worst hospital worst hospital visit I’ve ever been on
The poor cook he got the shits
And threw away all my grits
And then he took and he ate up all of my (undigested) corn
Let me go home
Why don’t they let me go home
This is the worst trip I’ve ever been on
Don’t take the brown acid.
Those pictures of the balloon festival are pretty sweet. Is that the biggest balloon festival in the world? It has to be close.
No one could have predicted! http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/shutdown-salmonella/
I’m so glad the chicken I cooked last night wasn’t from Foster Farms 🙂
Don’t worry the free market will fix it! Since we are all rational actors with full information working in a perfectly free market without any distorting forces like monopolies or logistics based restrictions on availability I’m sure everyone will stop eating salmonella causing foods, and the market will punish unsanitary producers for their lack of quality control. No market-distorting government intervention is necessary. The people sickened by the tainted food will have a few good laughs between bouts of vomiting and diarrhea and clearly not go broke from medical costs, because that never happens in our rational free market health care system. And even if did bankrupt them or kill them, it will be an instructive lesson to their family and friends to not skimp on heath insurance if its available or go without it for any reason.
that are cancelled at the last minute because nobody else has the time, money, energy or will to show up, knowing that their little rebellion is based purely on bullshit…?
This trucker has a far inflated estimate of his own capacity to mess things up. Its not like people with a CDL are rare. Some of them are even democrats. While this guy is discussing his political views with the highway patrols of Maryland and VA and the police force of DC, any number of local delivery drivers will be happy to move the ‘disabled truck’ roadblock to a convenient exit. If he actually hits a few cars and causes a pile up to stop traffic, I imagine law enforcement will take a mighty dim view of his version of dissent, and express their views in ways he might find uncomfortable.
If the ‘Truckers for the Constitution’ group imagines that this truck protest will lead to a regime change as they state, they are less in touch with reality than the Symbionese Liberation Army were.
Just when you thought they couldn’t get any more offensive,
Those children are IRRESISTIBLE!
Also blame the parents:
http://www.news.com.au/world-news/divorced-parents-also-to-blame-for-pedophilia-polish-archbishop-jozef-michalik-says/story-fndir2ev-1226735118811
Aaand the reason the Catholic Church gives for being the arbiter of Morality and Correct Behavior is … ???
Unfortunately, I ‘m afraid “because we have enormous political power and lots of money,” “because you’ve been letting us do it for centuries,” and/or “because we said so!” will be sufficient for far too many people.
Helmut: If its not the largest event hot-air balloon event in the world, it must be one of the largest. The ‘custom’ balloons are pretty nifthy. Ground crews drive all around in pick-up trucks following their balloon. Most balloonists are good enough to set down in reasonable locations…but, from what I understand, there have been some weird landing locations.
My balcony has a view of the lift-off site, which is nifty…with the Sandia Mountains in background. Today, alas, the wind is from the south, so I didn’t get to watch them sail by. A favorite track is along the Rio Grande, is the wind is from the north.
There isn’t enough room for hundreds to take off together; they go up in flights of @ 20 – 30 … then the next group lays out their balloons and inflates. Balloons take up a LOT of ground space! They start just as soon sky begins lightening before dawn, when the air is still and cool / cold to get maximum lift. There are also night ascensions, which are supposed to be really lovely. (I haven’t seen one yet.)
There are also skill contests: To land precisely on a target. Also there’s a game where car keys are put on top of telephone pole; the car goes to the first balloonist who can retrieve the keys.
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EXFORD! We’ve missed your songs! Thanx for bringing this one to Sadlyburg.
Actually, I think he could mess things up very easily, even if he only gets 2 other trucks to join him. Anyone who’s been on a highway when there are cop cars driving along at the speed limit knows the effects are felt for miles, not just in the slowdown, but in the sheer volume that backs up. It’s probably why it isn’t done very often – just often enough for a new “generation” of cops to learn what a bad, dangerous idea it is. Roads really are very finely balanced affairs – it doesn’t take much to really screw ’em up.
As for these guys undoubtedly inflated view of themselves, yeah – they’ve been watching the wrong vids, and have obviously cast themselves as “plucky hero who saves the day and Triumphs Over Evul.” I’ve checked Wikipedia – the Capitol Beltway’s 64 miles. That’s a lot of trucks. It also passes through 2 states and the District of Columbia – if these eedjits think that means there’ll be lots of Dukes of Hazzard / Smokey and the Bandit – style frustrated cops stopping at the edges of their jurisdictions, I suspect they’ll have a nasty surprise or two. And while it is a rush, and fun to be part of a big group on a road that the normal drivers have to notice and give way to, I think most of the people they block will just be really, REALLY pissed. At them (and rightly so). Especially if they do it during commute time.
As for “arresting” Members of Congress (I have a few candidates in mind, which I suspect share no members with the group he has in mind), well, I think he’ll only get one attempt, at best. I think he also has an unrealistic view of how close the Capitol Beltway is to the Capitol.
Of course, it’s fun to shred his delusions, but the Vandals of the GOP (and the Dems who have been enabling them) continue to do a very effective job of enriching and empowering the 1% at everyone else’s expense.
The Fiesta probably means extra headaches for the Air Traffic Controllers at the Sunport. As if they didn’t have enough to worry about with Kirtland AFB using the same runways.
Hey, let’s privitize the ATC’s! If planes fall out of the sky or collide, then–hey! you’ll know to research airline safety before purchasing a ticket. Tough petunias for the hundreds of dead. Probably be a bunch of collisions at the busiest locations. Gubmint regulashuns are ebil!
“Vandals of the GOP” might be a band name, but who would want to be a member?
He could cause a traffic backup for an hour or two, (longer if they deliberately cause a traffic accident) but 90% of that time would be the police schooling him at length about precisely how much trouble he is in. He is deluded about how many truckers would want to make trouble for themselves just to make an asinine statement about just how little they care for the current administration.
Oh, this has the potential to turn public opinion completely around. Car drivers just looooooooove it when truckers obstruct them and force them off the road. Maybe they could all overload their trucks and tear up the roads while they’re at it. Nothing like creating a lot of potholes to endear the people to your cause.
I think he also has an unrealistic view of how close the Capitol Beltway is to the Capitol.
Maybe he thinks it goes into town? That guys living in NW use it to get to Capitol Hill?
Reading things like this illustrates the completely insane beliefs people have about the area. Needless to say he imagines we’re wall-to-wall cringing, gun hating liberals in itty bitty cars. And I am certain Earl Colon hasn’t taken into account that a large number of Blah and Hah people in the population translates into a large number of Blah and Hah police officers. (And again, I can’t begin to convey just how many law enforcement officers we have up here. Water and sewage has its own police force. That’s how many.)
So let’s do a little thought experiment that involves Redneck TruckNutz from Georgia getting into a confrontation with police officers who are darker than a pumpkin spice latte, some of whom left Georgia to get the fuck away from the TruckNutz crew.
I hope they have enough cash left over to get their trucks out of impound, after they’ve made bail.
And that none of the roads in the city have weight limits. Not to mention a complete lack of tunnels that are too short for a semi.
I for one would invite them to park just on the Virgina side of the Potomac and then march along the GW Turnpike, being sure to stop and hurl rocks at the gubbermint buildings around the big red & white water tower.
Joe Escalante, of The Vandals.
Good thing scare quotes are public domain.
Good thing scare quotes are public domain.
What else would be available for all the intellectuals at NRO.com?
The Pasty Doughboy excepted, of course
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2013/10/4/112727/355
Not everyone on the right in Congress is arguing in good faith. At least some of them want the US to default on the debt, and not because of any bullshit ‘fiscal responsibility’ reason either.
New post!