Something now 🙂
I saw a story on “Red Alert Politics” on my Yahoo page. It tells about a teen who invented a gun shooting drone. It pops up and shoots the target then disappears. Revealing nothing about the whereabouts of the shooter.
A thoughtful person could conjure up several ways this could change warfare.
I like the image i saw about a woman in Nevada directing a drone to kill a truck somewhere in Islam land. Changed my attitude about women in combat.
I imagined she was thinking, “I need to kill this bunch quickly because I’m late to the babysitter.”
Weird..
hwessli, you posted this on yesterday’s news thread: “Since the civil rights era urs been generally agreed service business must serve everyone. In an era of google and yelp reviews i suspect lunch counter protests will be replaced by bad reviews leading to boycotts. In the long term this should suffice.”
Surely you can see that there’s a difference between refusing to sell a sandwich to a black man and refusing to book six hours of the last Saturday in June to photograph an event you believe to be morally wrong. You do see the difference, don’t you?
Frankly, I think a business owner should be allowed to be a bigot if he chooses, to let the community decide whether to patronize him. Owning a business should include making the moral decision that this guy might have gotten off on a technicality, but I know he’s a child rapist, and he isn’t welcome in my business. It should include the freedom to open a “smokers bar” or a “men’s-only bar” or, yes, a “blacks only” or “Scottish people only” or “redheads only” restaurant. If you narrow your clientele too closely, you probably won’t get many customers. And if you narrow them with what seems to be prejudicial hatred, you will lose customers, too. But a free market allows you to do so. If I don’t believe it is morally acceptable for a man to marry his sister, I should be free to refuse to do any business that supports that wedding (even if it is a legal wedding). If I believe a Catholic should not marry a Protestant, it is my moral right not to support the wedding. It is, likewise, my moral right as a customer/ patient not to patronize businesses that support practices I find evil. I once walked out of a store when the business owner went on and on about her hatred of Japanese people. My sister once changed doctors when she find out her ob/gyn was fine with doing abortions, and she didn’t want a doctor who saw her baby as killable. This really isn’t all that difficult. It’s all part of the freedom that most of us here are old enough to remember.
Hahaha — (or rather sob-sob-sob?): Welcome to the new health plans
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Federal regulators on Friday approved the first of a new class of drug that can sharply lower cholesterol levels, offering a new option for millions of Americans suffering from cardiovascular disease, the nation’s leading killer.
But the drug, Praluent, which analysts project will become a huge seller, is expected to become the next flashpoint in the growing controversy of escalating pharmaceutical prices, and health plans are expected to put in place strict measures to control which patients can use the drug and prevent it from becoming a budget buster.
The list price of Praluent is about $14,600 a year, substantially higher than the $7,000 to $12,000 that some health plan executives and Wall Street analysts had been expecting. Typically insurers and government health programs get discounts or rebates. …
Obama was pretty funny in Kenya. First, he promoted perversion and was rebuked by Kenya’s president. Then he cited Chicago as an example of a place that had overcome corruption.
The PC Police are at it again. Did you see the news that the wrestler guy was fired for using the N word EIGHT YEARS AGO in a sex tape? How deep did they have to dig to find something on the guy.
I know I have said some pretty stupid things in the past. I would hate to be accountable today for my actions or words 8 years ago. I certainly am not the same person now as I was then and I suspect he isn’t either.
“Hasson requested all communications and documents relevant to any payments to or compensation of fees, consultant fees, reimbursements, etc. to Deborah Nucatola, MD, a Planned Parenthood employee. And she requested that the documents be sent as soon as possible.
The Freedom of Information Act requires the federal government to be transparent, but successfully receiving information from the Obama Administration has gone so poorly — even more poorly than previous administrations — that many media outlets have resorted to suing the federal government to get them to respond to FOIA requests.
In March it was announced that the Obama administration had set new records for censoring information, outright denying access to information, and length of time to fulfill requests. They also, “refused a record number of times to turn over files quickly that might be especially newsworthy,” according to the Associated Press.”
“HHS denied her request for expedited information on the compensation and payments given to Nucatola. They claimed it didn’t fit the public’s “urgent” right to know:”
“HHS is arguing that the Planned Parenthood scandal, the very same one that has Planned Parenthood honcho Cecile Richards panicking and running every public relations response in the book, is not a “breaking news story of general public interest!””
“A new report by Avalere Health points out what an “improvement” ObamaCare has been:
[E]nrollees in ObamaCare plans have access to 34% fewer providers than those who buy a commercial plan outside the exchange. On average, it found, ObamaCare enrollees had 32% fewer primary care doctors and 24% fewer hospitals from which to choose.
Worse, ObamaCare plans covered 42% fewer oncologists and cardiologists than non-ObamaCare plans.
Yes indeed, what a deal. Couple that with sky-high deductibles (according to Health Pocket, average deductibles for the lowest cost Bronze Plan in ObamaCare are 42% higher than before the law was passed) and you’ve got a real winner on your hands. By the way, the average Bronze Plan costs around $3,500 a year and has a whopping $5,181 deductible to be paid.
Oh, and here’s the good news: “insurers are pushing double-digit premium hikes for 2016, some as high as 50%.”
So again, let’s ask, what good is insurance if you can’t find a doctor or it doesn’t pay a penny until you’ve paid your huge deductible (not to mention the premium) out of pocket? As should be obvious, for the most part it isn’t any good. Especially if you have a young, relatively healthy family. In that case, be prepared to pay for everything out of pocket.”
“Hey, employers, don’t even think about reimbursing your workers’ health-insurance premiums.
Beginning this month, the IRS can levy fines amounting to $100 per worker per day or $36,500 per worker per year, with a maximum of $500,000 per firm.
This Internal Revenue Service penalty is not written into the Obamacare law. The amount is over 12 times the statutory amount in the Affordable Care Act of $3,000 per worker per year. That is what an employer is charged when one of its employees gets subsidized care on one of the health-care exchanges. It’s 18 times the $2,000 penalty for not offering adequate health insurance.
The $100 fine is applicable not only to large firms, but also those with fewer than 50 workers that are exempt from the $2,000 and $3,000 employer penalties. Firms with one worker are exempt. The penalty for S-corporations will take effect on Jan. 1, 2016. The new rule is broad, sweeping and overly punitive.
This new IRS penalty does not assist in the ACA’s stated goal of expanding health insurance in the United States. Rather, it does the opposite. It discourages people from finding and purchasing the insurance that suits them. It also discourages companies from hiring. Consider that 14% of businesses that do not offer group health insurance have some sort of arrangement to reimburse their employees for insurance costs, according to the National Federation of Independent Business.”
The Hulk Hogan thing should remind you:
Anyt5hing and everything you say today stays out there forever.
You are always on camera. No matter what you do. Pull down the shades at home, there may be drones flying around.
This is especially true when you’re in your car.
Be sure your kids know this.
It won’t be cute ten years from now.
And it won’t be cool.
They can ever hack your car. Did you hear about that?.
But they can’t hack my 2007 model.
Private or public we shouldnt allow for discrimination.
However people should be allowed to run their business their own way.
Thus govt agencies shouldnt discriminate. I would also argue publicly traded oligopolies (wal-mart, microsoft, apple, bell, comcast etc) shouldnt be allowed to discriminate. This leaves small business — where the private property argument has some vaidity. In the modern internet age, i would think enough information is out there for consumers to make an informed decision.
I have a hard time taking anything the wwe does seriously. This is is same organization that uses every ethnic caricature possible…asian accents, arab terrorist, southern sherrifs, blackface, ethnic slurs, black pimps, etc etc. I expect this is a story line.
Wandering Views 
Nothing! I love it!
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Something now 🙂
I saw a story on “Red Alert Politics” on my Yahoo page. It tells about a teen who invented a gun shooting drone. It pops up and shoots the target then disappears. Revealing nothing about the whereabouts of the shooter.
A thoughtful person could conjure up several ways this could change warfare.
I like the image i saw about a woman in Nevada directing a drone to kill a truck somewhere in Islam land. Changed my attitude about women in combat.
I imagined she was thinking, “I need to kill this bunch quickly because I’m late to the babysitter.”
Weird..
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hwessli, you posted this on yesterday’s news thread: “Since the civil rights era urs been generally agreed service business must serve everyone. In an era of google and yelp reviews i suspect lunch counter protests will be replaced by bad reviews leading to boycotts. In the long term this should suffice.”
Surely you can see that there’s a difference between refusing to sell a sandwich to a black man and refusing to book six hours of the last Saturday in June to photograph an event you believe to be morally wrong. You do see the difference, don’t you?
Frankly, I think a business owner should be allowed to be a bigot if he chooses, to let the community decide whether to patronize him. Owning a business should include making the moral decision that this guy might have gotten off on a technicality, but I know he’s a child rapist, and he isn’t welcome in my business. It should include the freedom to open a “smokers bar” or a “men’s-only bar” or, yes, a “blacks only” or “Scottish people only” or “redheads only” restaurant. If you narrow your clientele too closely, you probably won’t get many customers. And if you narrow them with what seems to be prejudicial hatred, you will lose customers, too. But a free market allows you to do so. If I don’t believe it is morally acceptable for a man to marry his sister, I should be free to refuse to do any business that supports that wedding (even if it is a legal wedding). If I believe a Catholic should not marry a Protestant, it is my moral right not to support the wedding. It is, likewise, my moral right as a customer/ patient not to patronize businesses that support practices I find evil. I once walked out of a store when the business owner went on and on about her hatred of Japanese people. My sister once changed doctors when she find out her ob/gyn was fine with doing abortions, and she didn’t want a doctor who saw her baby as killable. This really isn’t all that difficult. It’s all part of the freedom that most of us here are old enough to remember.
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I like this article about Trump and POWs:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/heroes_and_mr_trump.html
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Hahaha — (or rather sob-sob-sob?): Welcome to the new health plans
___________________________________
Federal regulators on Friday approved the first of a new class of drug that can sharply lower cholesterol levels, offering a new option for millions of Americans suffering from cardiovascular disease, the nation’s leading killer.
But the drug, Praluent, which analysts project will become a huge seller, is expected to become the next flashpoint in the growing controversy of escalating pharmaceutical prices, and health plans are expected to put in place strict measures to control which patients can use the drug and prevent it from becoming a budget buster.
The list price of Praluent is about $14,600 a year, substantially higher than the $7,000 to $12,000 that some health plan executives and Wall Street analysts had been expecting. Typically insurers and government health programs get discounts or rebates. …
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Obama was pretty funny in Kenya. First, he promoted perversion and was rebuked by Kenya’s president. Then he cited Chicago as an example of a place that had overcome corruption.
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The PC Police are at it again. Did you see the news that the wrestler guy was fired for using the N word EIGHT YEARS AGO in a sex tape? How deep did they have to dig to find something on the guy.
I know I have said some pretty stupid things in the past. I would hate to be accountable today for my actions or words 8 years ago. I certainly am not the same person now as I was then and I suspect he isn’t either.
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Nothin’ to see here….
http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/23/hhs-rejects-planned-parenthood-foia-request-because-its-not-newsworthy/
“Hasson requested all communications and documents relevant to any payments to or compensation of fees, consultant fees, reimbursements, etc. to Deborah Nucatola, MD, a Planned Parenthood employee. And she requested that the documents be sent as soon as possible.
The Freedom of Information Act requires the federal government to be transparent, but successfully receiving information from the Obama Administration has gone so poorly — even more poorly than previous administrations — that many media outlets have resorted to suing the federal government to get them to respond to FOIA requests.
In March it was announced that the Obama administration had set new records for censoring information, outright denying access to information, and length of time to fulfill requests. They also, “refused a record number of times to turn over files quickly that might be especially newsworthy,” according to the Associated Press.”
“HHS denied her request for expedited information on the compensation and payments given to Nucatola. They claimed it didn’t fit the public’s “urgent” right to know:”
“HHS is arguing that the Planned Parenthood scandal, the very same one that has Planned Parenthood honcho Cecile Richards panicking and running every public relations response in the book, is not a “breaking news story of general public interest!””
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Donna,
Like you said…. Welcome to the new health plans.
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/07/20/obamacare-fewer-doctors-but-higher-premiums-and-deductibles/
“A new report by Avalere Health points out what an “improvement” ObamaCare has been:
[E]nrollees in ObamaCare plans have access to 34% fewer providers than those who buy a commercial plan outside the exchange. On average, it found, ObamaCare enrollees had 32% fewer primary care doctors and 24% fewer hospitals from which to choose.
Worse, ObamaCare plans covered 42% fewer oncologists and cardiologists than non-ObamaCare plans.
Yes indeed, what a deal. Couple that with sky-high deductibles (according to Health Pocket, average deductibles for the lowest cost Bronze Plan in ObamaCare are 42% higher than before the law was passed) and you’ve got a real winner on your hands. By the way, the average Bronze Plan costs around $3,500 a year and has a whopping $5,181 deductible to be paid.
Oh, and here’s the good news: “insurers are pushing double-digit premium hikes for 2016, some as high as 50%.”
So again, let’s ask, what good is insurance if you can’t find a doctor or it doesn’t pay a penny until you’ve paid your huge deductible (not to mention the premium) out of pocket? As should be obvious, for the most part it isn’t any good. Especially if you have a young, relatively healthy family. In that case, be prepared to pay for everything out of pocket.”
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And another, now that I’m logged in. 🙂
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-newest-obamacare-fail-penalties-of36500-per-worker-2015-07-23
“Hey, employers, don’t even think about reimbursing your workers’ health-insurance premiums.
Beginning this month, the IRS can levy fines amounting to $100 per worker per day or $36,500 per worker per year, with a maximum of $500,000 per firm.
This Internal Revenue Service penalty is not written into the Obamacare law. The amount is over 12 times the statutory amount in the Affordable Care Act of $3,000 per worker per year. That is what an employer is charged when one of its employees gets subsidized care on one of the health-care exchanges. It’s 18 times the $2,000 penalty for not offering adequate health insurance.
The $100 fine is applicable not only to large firms, but also those with fewer than 50 workers that are exempt from the $2,000 and $3,000 employer penalties. Firms with one worker are exempt. The penalty for S-corporations will take effect on Jan. 1, 2016. The new rule is broad, sweeping and overly punitive.
This new IRS penalty does not assist in the ACA’s stated goal of expanding health insurance in the United States. Rather, it does the opposite. It discourages people from finding and purchasing the insurance that suits them. It also discourages companies from hiring. Consider that 14% of businesses that do not offer group health insurance have some sort of arrangement to reimburse their employees for insurance costs, according to the National Federation of Independent Business.”
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The Hulk Hogan thing should remind you:
Anyt5hing and everything you say today stays out there forever.
You are always on camera. No matter what you do. Pull down the shades at home, there may be drones flying around.
This is especially true when you’re in your car.
Be sure your kids know this.
It won’t be cute ten years from now.
And it won’t be cool.
They can ever hack your car. Did you hear about that?.
But they can’t hack my 2007 model.
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I suspect most of us here drive cars that are way too old for hacking. 🙂
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no drones here
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This guy understands that the Battle Flag is a symbol of a unique regional culture, a culture at odds with the modern US:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/is_the_battle_flag_more_fun.html
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Good article Ricky.
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Cheryl, both arguments have some validity.
Private or public we shouldnt allow for discrimination.
However people should be allowed to run their business their own way.
Thus govt agencies shouldnt discriminate. I would also argue publicly traded oligopolies (wal-mart, microsoft, apple, bell, comcast etc) shouldnt be allowed to discriminate. This leaves small business — where the private property argument has some vaidity. In the modern internet age, i would think enough information is out there for consumers to make an informed decision.
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I have a hard time taking anything the wwe does seriously. This is is same organization that uses every ethnic caricature possible…asian accents, arab terrorist, southern sherrifs, blackface, ethnic slurs, black pimps, etc etc. I expect this is a story line.
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