December 2009
holidays #30 almost done
Bluecross can't wait-- the blood sucking begins →
As health care costs continued to rise and our members’ utilization of health care services continued to increase, we found it necessary to change the benefits structure of our Personal Choice plans to keep premiums as affordable as possible.
Read: Costs are rising, and members are using too much health care.
The two new plans, Personal Choice-Basic and Personal Choice-Value HSA will...
“Get rid of a book? No way. Every one is a brick keeping the building standing....”
– Joshua Ferris (via jingc) (via mandalay)
fuck the Kindle
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My brother is wise at 18.
Bro: [catches glimpse of nipple on my tumblr dashboard] What site is that? What weird stuff are you looking at?
Me: It's just some website. It's art!
Bro: I could take a dump and call it art, so what.
Health Reform Subsidy Calculator -- Premium... →
“Amazon and the Kindle have killed the bookstore. Why? Because people who buy 100...”
– Seth Godin (via azspot)
I probably buy about 25 or so books a year from stores and Amazon- for pleasure, maybe 35 or more for reference and text books, and I thought that was a lot compared to most people. people bought 300 books a year?
the goddamn Kindle will pry the book out of my cold dead...
Interconnecting 4 Texas Wind Turbines Reduced... →
other-stuff:
imall4frogs:
(via age-of-ecology)
I new Avatar was some racist crap
thanks for seeing it for me and saving my money.
"There is a American kid in Afghanistan who is... →
unburyingthelead:
(via claytoncubitt)
Also good:
Brooks is a perfect example of the kind of spineless Beltway geek we always see beating the war drum at times like these. It’s because nebbishly little dorks like Brooks and Paul Wolfowitz and David Frum got their books dumped in high school that we end up dropping daisy cutters on Afghan sheep herds and shipping working class American kids...
Mass text messages
pragmatism:
Sending holiday greetings are by far the emptiest gesture of kindness one can make. Especially when they are sent so damn early that they wake me up.
Have a good day, ya’ll.
Married Jonas Brother Says Sex Not Worth the Wait →
banalitycheck:
alliphant:
studentloansforbeermoney:
“NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Just days after tying the knot after years of abstinence, Kevin Jonas of the pop sensation the Jonas Brothers stunned his teenaged fans by announcing that “to be honest about it, sex was not worth the wait.”
“After we did it, I was kind of like, that’s it?” Mr. Jonas told reporters at a New York press...
Town Names That Are Fun To Say, Pt. 1:
notthatkindagay:
inothernews:
phunkyfresh:
inothernews:
“Quogue”
“Massapequa”
“Shinnecock.”
bangor!
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Flashback of the Day
abcsoupdot:
via zoewithtwodots:apsies:savagemike:
When Sen. Al Franken objected to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s request for additional time, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that in his 20-plus years in the Senate he had never heard a senator do that before. However, a Political Wire reader sends this excerpt from the Congressional Record from October 10, 2002: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator’s time...
“U.S. Nobel Peace Prize laureate President Barack Obama has signed the order for...”
– How recent strikes on Yemen, which killed 49 civilians (mostly women and children) but not the one al Qaeda targeted, were reported in Iranian media. Why do they hate us? Pointing out such things, as my hero Glenn Greenwald steadfastly does, is not anti-American or “blame-America-first” behavior. It...
“We are not going to have a second wave of financial crisis,” Geithner said in an...”
– Geithner: There Will Be No ‘Second Wave’ Crisis - CNBC
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WE ARE SO FUCKED.
(via sexartandpolitics)
“So just consider the record here. The New York Times will frequently label what...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
this came up recently at a dinner among friends. apparently my friends believe that what Greenwald is talking about is considered acceptable by “us” because of 9/11; it changed everything you know. Me not believing murder and torture was acceptable was...
Health bill debunking →
(via rmidd)
Stranded. In Virginia. No Beer! Send Help.
SOS
Holdout Senator Agrees To Support Health Care Bill... →
notthatkindagay:
A holdout no more, Democratic Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson agreed Saturday to provide the 60th and deciding vote for Senate passage of sweeping health care legislation, capping a year of struggle and a final burst of deadline bargaining.
Nelson had a brief response - “Yeah” - when asked whether he would support the measure as he strode into a private caucus of fellow Democrats.
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"When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like...
k-troll:
cijimcb:
clingtomymouth:dalida:bonesarecoralmade:wordsandsteel:
If we think of Avatar and its ilk as white fantasies about race, what kinds of patterns do we see emerging in these fantasies?
In both Avatar and District 9, humans are the cause of alien oppression and distress. Then, a white man who was one of the oppressors switches sides at the last minute, assimilating into the...
I have to admit, tuning in to listen to the Prez...
(via inothernews)
I have to clean out my underoos when the President talks like smart people. I just remember listening to Bush. if he had an agreement with China it would be like, “Heh, starting next year. the US and Chyneh, heh, will be limitin’ carbon emissions. by alot.”
“Mr. Lambert’s act left viewers feeling not just offended but assaulted. Again,...”
– Peggy Noonan: The Adam Lambert Problem - WSJ.com
Subtitled: “”Wrong track” poll numbers aren’t just about the economy.”
Eat shit, Noonan. She goes on to ask if we’re more vulgar than we were 50 years ago. God I fucking fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
(via sexartandpolitics)
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The Sad Demise of the Exception
jeffmiller:
southpol:
“In New York City, the Bowery Mission tossed away a batch of fried chicken brought by a local church to help feed the homeless. The chicken contained trans fat, and city law bans all licensed food vendors, including emergency food providers, from serving food with trans fat.”
—
A Bunch of Chickens - Daily Brickbats : Reason Magazine
I do not understand this...
Crazy abortion stories! →
Hot Air: Mother smothers new-born while it is still attached via umbilical cord, can’t be charged with crime because of said cord.
“In the state of Virginia as long as the umbilical cord is attached and the placenta is still in the mother, if the baby comes out alive the mother can do whatever she wants to with that baby to kill it.“, says Investigator Tracy Emerson. “She could shoot...
"It’s the same narrative every year: Congress... →
southpol:
(via unburyingthelead)
this story is awful and dumb. Tiabbi is better than this lame fart.
“Here is a Roman emperor who never set foot in Italy; a great conqueror – the...”
– William Rosen (via azspot)
This looks outstanding.
Iraqis say Iran seizes oil well in southern Iraq →
muppetpants:
notthatkindagay:
Iranian security forces seized an oil well in southern Iraq on Thursday night, two senior Iraqi government officials said Friday.
Iran denied the incident took place and said that Iraqi authorities have not yet contacted the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad. Iraqi authorities didn’t know whether Iranian forces still had control of the property on Friday.
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I think its Traficant with one F, but whatevs...
Trafficant is a Traffi-can! →
YES!!!
I find your respective reasons for wanting to see...
why do you people want to see Avatar?