April 2012
You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise: Ryan and I... →
sweetupndown:
Ryan and I went to a gun show today because we’re in the market for a 9mm (or maybe a .40 Caliber.) handgun. As we were browsing around I was approached by a older lady wearing a GOP Pin on her blouse, asking me if I was registered to vote. I told her “Yes” and she invited me to a Q & A Session…
March 2012
retailavenger85:
witch-breed:
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Firth of Forth: The individual mandate isn't the... →
barthel:
People have been talking about the individual mandate as the truly important part of fixing health insurance in America. But the other part of health care reform is the expansion of Medicaid to people who didn’t previously receive it, and that will affect far more people. (Here is…
Affordable Care Act / SCOTUS / The Right
My conspiracy theory of what’s happening at this moment is this. Seven months before the presidential election, the conservative right, wielding huge amounts of money, have conspired with the conservative majority of the SCOTUS to eliminate the Affordable Care Act in order to swing the tide of public opinion against President Obama. Why? Because millions of Americans who couldn’t...
“The court commands no armies, it has no money; it depends for its power on its...”
– Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., former Connecticut Attorney General (via liberalsarecool)
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and...”
– Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (via cyberspacecowboy)
Painful because of how true it is.
(via stfuconservatives)
Watchmohandasgandhi:
soupsoup:
reuters:
ABC News releases surveillance video of arrest of George Zimmerman.
Zimmerman said he had been bloodied badly, had the back of his head slammed into the ground, and was given a broken nose. Does that appear to be the case from this video?
Good luck with that defense, George.
“Though many millions of people will have insurance because of Obamacare, no one...”
–
Paul Waldman, The National Prospect
Obamacare isn’t actually a program.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or just ACA) just forced AETNA to reduce the annual premium on my individual policy by 7%.
This is in keeping with the tenet of the ACA that private insurance companies...
jonathan-cunningham:
““Ever since puberty, ever since I was 11 or 12, I’ve had cyclical depression. That’s something that has been a defining feature of my life as an adult. It’s manageable. But it’s real. And it doesn’t take away from my joy or my work or my energy, but coping with depression is something that is part of the everyday way that I live and have lived for as long as I can remember....
“Let’s talk about socialism. I think it’s very important to bring back the idea...”
– Howard Zinn (via emphysemainacan)
