ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott appears on WAEB.com Radio 790AM (Lehigh Valley) from 9-10 a.m. Today. Streaming
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1 RedPepper // Jul 30, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Hmmm.
Beer Summit Day!
Sgt. James Crowley: will have a Blue Moon. That brew is mostly owned by London-based SABMiller.
Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: prefers Red Stripe, owned by London-based Diageo PLC.
Pres. Obama: will have a low carb Bub Light, which used to be American, but last year the company was bought by a Belgian-Brazilian company now known as Anseuser-Busch InBev NV.
Maybe you guys should try a Samuel Adams?
Or, since health is the latest hot issue, how about a Guinness?
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 30, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Scott~~Good job! (Yes, I actually listened.)
RedPepper~~The Beer Fest at the White House is ludicrous because I already know that neither the Negro guy nor BHO are going to apologize to the Caucasian guy for their racism.
3 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 30, 2009 at 1:11 pm
BHO will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom political ally Sen. Edward M. Kennedy—that’s enough to make me hurl. UNbelievable.
4 RedPepper // Jul 30, 2009 at 1:12 pm
JL3: Tch, tch, tch.
It is impossible for “people of color” to be racist.
FWIW, I’m fairly sure that it is also impossible for Honkie MF’ers to not be racists. It’s in their DNA, I suspect …
Get with the program and refrain from “commenting stupidly”.
5 Laughing@You // Jul 30, 2009 at 1:50 pm
“I’m fairly sure that it is also impossible for Honkie MF’ers to not be racists. It’s in their DNA”
Well Red, all I know is when I was a “Honkie MF’er”, I was often racist!
Didn’t you mean to say DNC?
Even now, I have to admit, I think media went overboard on their “King of Pop” coverage. So much so, in fact, I’ve almost stopped wearing my Rhinestone Glove.
Everthink?
6 Laughing@You // Jul 30, 2009 at 2:02 pm
“BHO will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom political ally Sen. Edward M. Kennedy—that’s enough to make me hurl. UNbelievable.”
Scum!
Cowardly liar!
Traitor!
God’s gonna get you for that!
“For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also rip”.
Really Jameson! Now, I hope they put it on prime time!
What would happen to you if they did two dozen “Breaking News” repeats?
Well, I ‘ll be keeping my fingers crossed in that hope.
Everthink?
7 upnorthlurkin // Jul 30, 2009 at 2:08 pm
The murderer from Mass. getting the MOF?!
What did you expect?!
I do however support the award going to Jack Kemp! Not sure how that one made it into the mix.
8 Laughing@You // Jul 30, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Washington Post
Ezra Klein
Page 16 of the House Health-Care Bill Does Not Make Insurance Illegal
There’s been a weird talking point bubbling up that the House health-care plan makes private insurance — sigh — illegal. Rep. Michelle Bachmann, who breathes out crazy like the rest of us exhale carbon dioxide, warns that “on the 16th page, it says whatever health care you have now, it’s going to be gone within five years.” Investor’s Business Daily says, “right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.”
Sigh. Not really. Shadowfax does the lord’s work and explains what’s actually going on here. The short version is that your insurance doesn’t become illegal. It just has to offer itself through the Exchange and follow the new rules, like not jacking up your prices because you had strep throat last year. As for the 93 percent of us who don’t purchase coverage on the non-group market? Our insurers are unchanged. Scary, huh?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/07/page_16_of_the_house_health_ca.html
9 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 30, 2009 at 3:01 pm
10 (1) LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT.—
11 (A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in
12 this paragraph, the individual health insurance
13 issuer offering such coverage does not enroll
14 any individual in such coverage if the first ef-
15 fective date of coverage is on or after the first
16 day of Y1.
10 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 30, 2009 at 3:08 pm
(page 17)
8 (b) GRACE PERIOD CURRENT EMPLOYMENT-
FOR
9 BASED HEALTH PLANS.—
10 (1) GRACE PERIOD.—
11 (A) IN GENERAL.—The Commissioner
12 shall establish a grace period whereby, for plan
13 years beginning after the end of the 5-year pe-
14 riod beginning with Y1, an employment-based
15 health plan in operation as of the day before
16 the first day of Y1 must meet the same require-
17 ments as apply to a qualified health benefits
18 plan under section 101, including the essential
19 benefit package requirement under section 121.
11 Laughing@You // Jul 30, 2009 at 3:24 pm
After listening to Fred Thompson’s interview of Betsy McCaughey, Patient Advocate and Founder of the Committee to Reduce “Invectious” Deaths, regarding Health Reform Bill H.R. 3200.
Health Reform Bill H.R. 3200
I began to smell an ignorant nutjob lying rat.
In the interview Ms. McCaughey specifically cites pages 425 and then page 16 to draw some outrageous conclusions.
After listening to this junk I was sure many of my friends here would be sucked into this Right-Wing Smear & Fear Campaign, so I found the bill to which this shameless liar refers.
Read, in particular, the pages she cites and stop being lead around by the nose!
Health Reform Bill H.R. 3200
energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090714/aahca.pd
Everthink?
12 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 30, 2009 at 4:10 pm
The Medicare Cost Control Myth.
The actual name of the H.R. 3200 is America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 and it can actually be found here.
13 upnorthlurkin // Jul 30, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Okay Chuckles, I just went to the bill… HR 3200 and it’s there just as Jamison points out….I believe that makes you either ignorant, illiterate or a liar….
14 Darthmeister // Jul 30, 2009 at 4:27 pm
More headlines to make one hurl:
Dan Rather wants Obama to help save the news…
Yes Mr. Rather, the only link missing in the state sponsored national socialist media is having Obamessiah save the “news” industry through an infusion of taxpayer “bailout” money. Not that the liberal media could be any more beholden to the Obamanation government or anything like that!
RASMUSSEN: OBAMA APPROVAL DROPS TO 48%…
‘This is a president who needs a vacation’…
Actually an impeachment and subsequent banishment to some minor Hawaiian island would make more sense given his utter incompetence and mendacity since moving into the White House.
Unemployment rates rise in 90% of metro areas…
Wait, I thought the Donks were saying last month the economy was in recovery. Oh yeah, sorry, this is actually quite consistent with their “jobless recovery” meme. Never mind.
15 Darthmeister // Jul 30, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Mmmm mmm mmmm, Samuel Adams and its full body taste! Figures that Obama would drink Bud Lite™, a lite beer for a real lite weight. Now Miller draught …
Last August, the company I QC for (which makes leather bags for Harley Davidson) was asked to send employee volunteers to help with an official Harleyfest event at the local HD dealership here in town. The event was one of the stops of Harley’s every-five-year touring event which last year attracted about four thousand bikers to this large, mid-west Harley dealership.
I and six other employees (including the owner himself) volunteered for the four beer booths. I never had so much practice drawing beer out of one of those pressurized taps. It was all Miller products: draught, regular, and Lite. By far the male bikers preferred regular and draught with the lady bikers opting for the Lite. Even though volunteers got free beer, I was only able to drink two 16oz. cups in four hours because it was so busy. The worst part was when the kegs started going dry and started spitting, but Miller provided two expert techs to keep up with the keg turnover. I bet we poured nearly a thousand beers each!
Got to meet Willie G. and I was able to get few digital photos of him and his ride that has an engraved plaque with his name. Also some eight State troopers with their Harley Davidsons showed up. Their bikes ended up drawing the biggest crowds as the troopers shot the bull and signed autographs. It was a lot of fun even though the biker band wasn’t the best, though they could rip off a fairly respectable Steppenwolf imitation now and then … “Magic Carpet Ride”, “Born to Be Wild”, etc.
16 Laughing@You // Jul 30, 2009 at 5:45 pm
“Okay Chuckles, I just went to the bill… HR 3200 and it’s there just as Jamison points out….I believe that makes you either ignorant, illiterate or a liar….”
Are those my only choices?
Lurch I never said a datgummed thing about the little fella’s America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 post!!!
He was correct (a rarity in itself) about the name of the bill. I guess that’s what the aahca in my link stood for, although I did leave the “f” off the pdf part.
By the way, your kindness, neither link is working for me me at the moment.
Now, I want you to take some time to reflect on your harshness to me. Then, make a list of the reasons I should overlook your behavior, followed by writing a hundred times, “I will not be sassy to ET again”.
Get busy now, I’m waiting!
Everthink?
17 onlineanalyst // Jul 30, 2009 at 9:34 pm
This is worth a watch…in case anyone is keeping a scorecard.
Meanwhile Pelosi is having a meltdown, blaming the eeeeevil insurance companies for the stalling of the health-care travesty. Her aides had to gently guide her into her office to avoid further embarrassment.
BTW The design of the bill(s) as currently written will price private insurance companies out of competition and ultimately destroy them. I don’t believe that our Constitution allows for government to set up its own “corporations” in order to “compete” with the private sector.
18 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 30, 2009 at 10:03 pm
“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,” he says. “A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation’s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.”
19 onlineanalyst // Jul 30, 2009 at 10:21 pm
In embedded video Barney Frank admits that a public plan will lead to a government takeover of health care.
20 Laughing@You // Jul 30, 2009 at 11:19 pm
“I don’t believe that our Constitution allows for government to set up its own “corporations” in order to “compete” with the private sector.”
OLA,
Well, if you say so, but you’ll have to tell all the old duffers here, NO MORE Medicare!
RAM, sorry dude, we’ll have privatize VA Hospitals. Well will mail you information on your new deductible and co-pay.
Save the Insurance Companies! They are barely making money as it is!
Say is AIG an insurance company?
Let’s see now, Republicans have resisted the Social Security and Medicare for the same reasons that are being offered today.
Republicans say they have a better ideas, but they are only stimulated to come up with them responsively.
How about some tax cuts for everybody! Better yet, let’s get rid of taxes altogether!
Just think, finally, a Conservative Utopia!
Everthink?
21 R.A.M. // Jul 31, 2009 at 4:19 pm
L@Y: I will not argue with you on everything you say, as long as you answer one question-OK?
Why the rush to pass this behemoth bill that NO ONE has read?
Didn’t you or any Obama backers learn anything from the behemoth Stimulus bill that was RUSHED through?
P.S. I am trying to be civil so would you try too?
22 onlineanalyst // Jul 31, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Our VA hospitals are our nation’s thank you to our veterans who have served our nation. I do believe that the relationship is a reciprocal one, L@Y, not a matter of entitlement. Sadly, our VA hospitals are in need of better government support, yet the federal budget does not meet their needs.
Similarly, Medicaid as well as Medicare are already underfunded. The fiscal demands on these systems are unsustainable even though they do not reimburse hospitals and doctors for the services demanded of professionals. Those systems will soon be bankrupt, yet our congresscritters want to enact a public system based on similar Ponzi schemes. The federal programs have put the onus of funding on states, which already are experiencing difficulties balancing their budgets.
Ironically, when the prescription part was added to Medicare, the Dems screamed that the bill was an award to Big Pharmacy, but it turns out that Big Pharma was able to deliver the medications more cheaply than a government-coordinated program could.
At any rate, most fiscal conservatives were not happy with President Bush’s expansion of the prescription program. He did so because he was reaching across the aisle to appease his Dem critics. The whole situation ended up being darned if you do, and darned if you don’t.
One of the other feet in the government takeover of the health sector is the expansion of the SCHIP program. The ceiling of income eligibility for participants is absurdly high. The general public should not be subsidizing health care for families that are able to afford to meet the medical needs of their children.
A one-size-fits-all health-insurance federal plan is suicidal. California, Hawaii, Tennessee, and Massachusetts already are going broke with their health-insurance systems.
When health care is perceived to be "free," the health-care consumer makes unsustainable demands on it, heading to a doctor for every sniffle and scratch. With a co-pay, a health-savings account, or a relatively high deductible, the health-consumer is a little more careful and has "more skin in the game."
Health insurance should be purchasable across state lines and be portable from job to job. Tort reform should limit aburd malpractice awards. Small business owners should be able to purchase insurance through pools with other such businesses in order to have bargaining power for better rates than they would have as individuals. Pools for people with pre-existing conditions should be available for those who had formerly been denied coverage.
Health-insurance consumers should have a choice of the type of coverage that meets their needs. Catastrophic coverage may be enough for a young, healthy worker. "Designer coverage" can be purchased at a higher price for those that think an insurance company should be paying for their Botox, their Lasiks surgery, or their tummy tucks.
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