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telle90: kalleanne: (via suupjared) LMAO Can’t...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:25:39 -0500

kalleanne:

(via suupjared)

LMAO

Can’t really argue with that

The sheep goes “Baaa.” The cow goes “Moooo.” The spleen goes drinking,...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:07:45 -0500

The sheep goes “Baaa.”
The cow goes “Moooo.”
The spleen goes drinking, steals a car, shoots up a Wal Mart, and then sets itself on fire because it’s sick of being trapped in crazyland.

Ready to go back home nao.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:08:43 -0500

Ready to go back home nao.

Three fucking days already. Enough!

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:31:03 -0500

Three fucking days already. Enough!

Matter of life, death

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:35:05 -0500

Matter of life, death:

talix18:

jhnbrssndn:

azspot:

I worked for 24 years for the Miami Herald. We parted ways in July 2008 during a staff-reduction effort. I have been unable to find work since.

I continued my insurance coverage under COBRA, paying the entire $579 monthly premium.

Aetna has notified me that when my COBRA eligibility expires, it will not insure me for any price. Why not? The company didn’t say, but the answer is obvious: my “pre-existing condition” isn’t profitable. I wear a $5,000 insulin pump — the third one insurance has paid for since 1999. The pump’s insulin-delivery kits, which must be changed every three days, cost $199 a month at market rates; insurance pays the full cost now. The insulin itself costs $338 a month (my current co-payment is $54). The test strips used in my blood-glucose testing monitor cost more than $200 a month over the counter (my current co-payment is $48).

I have had expensive laser eye treatments to stanch the blood leakage associated with diabetic retinopathy. The treatments have been successful; my eye health is stable and my vision perfect — but there is always a chance I will need further treatments.

Additionally, I’m sure Aetna has tables predicting my chances of organ deterioration or other complications and what that will cost. No matter how you examine it, I’m a bad bet for profit-based health care.

The health insurance industry, thus, has issued to me its solution for how it can maintain its profitability: Die, Mr. Steinback. You’re too expensive to keep alive.

I am a beneficiary of the best medical science the world knows, much of it generated by the profit-based medical research industry. But I am also a victim of a system that resists covering the cost of those miraculous discoveries for the very people who need them.

It’s hard not to notice the irony of the debate in Washington over health insurance reform. Some politicians and their supporters say they will work to defeat the bills because they cost too much and might raise taxes. Too bad I can’t offer those people a choice: Would you rather have a higher tax burden, or Type 1 diabetes? I’d gladly trade, if I could.

Some who describe themselves as prolife say they will oppose the bills if there is even a hint of funding support for abortion rights. The American Journal of Public Health estimates that 45,000 people die in the United States each year for lack of health insurance coverage. Failure to pass health care reform is going to kill a lot of people like me — so how exactly does defeating health insurance reform qualify as prolife?

Some say they won’t accept a so-called government-option health insurance plan. I don’t understand people who fear government bureaucrats — who have no profit motive and ultimately must answer to the people — yet feel fully at ease with corporate bureaucrats whose sole interest is the bottom line and answer only to shareholders.

Thirty-nine U.S. senators voted to kill the reform bills without so much as a debate. All but one House Republican opposed the bills. Additionally, many provisions in the bills won’t kick in for years, and the Obama administration insists that reform be revenue neutral. I’m scheduled to begin dying in two months. One of America’s political parties doesn’t want to talk about it, and the other fears taxes and is in no apparent hurry to solve the matter.

Without health insurance reform, what are my options? Working for a small company or for myself is ruled out because I could not get health coverage. I am limited to seeking work for a large corporation with a group health plan — and few are hiring these days.

I could try to get a government job, which would offer excellent health insurance — but an expanding public sector frightens so many people.

Maybe I could arrange a marriage of convenience to someone who has a good health plan. But then I really should look in France, Canada, Japan or any other developed nation, since, unlike in the United States, all of their citizens are covered.

It all seems a tad un-American to me. I believe a nation is best defined by what I call “shared destiny”: the goals we collectively embrace, the burdens we collectively share. Is the cost of good health for every American a burden that should be shared by all Americans? Should it matter to all of us when any of us dies a preventable death?

You can't unsee or unread it

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:15:00 -0500

Orange and Blue.

This one’s been out a while, but there’s new blood to be spilled here.

duckandpenguin: anderrhea: I get up for two seconds and my...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:48:48 -0500

duckandpenguin:

anderrhea:

I get up for two seconds and my spot is suddenly occupied.”Move, Zig.” He farted and then took off. Ass.

TAKE OFF EVERY ZIG … YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DOING …

Yah. The ‘rents never got why the name was so funny to us. Ah well.

I get up for two seconds and my spot is suddenly...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:38:20 -0500

I get up for two seconds and my spot is suddenly occupied.”Move, Zig.” He farted and then took off. Ass.

The best part was there were two, TWO people we saw riding bikes...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:11:00 -0500

The best part was there were two, TWO people we saw riding bikes in this shit. Yeah, okay, I’m from here too - but I’m not an asshole about it. I almost took a picture of the state house but it was snowing so hard that we couldn’t see it.

What was supposed to be ~ inch of snow magically turned into...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:08:58 -0500

What was supposed to be ~ inch of snow magically turned into 4” of snow. (This is downtown MontP where it is snowing like a mother fucker.) Ye gods. Also, my mom’s Rav4 has an alarm in it that, when you start to fish-tail, goes BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP! I almost yelled “REAVERS CAP’N!”

Bar in a Northern town. Hey-o mah mah maaah

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:53:10 -0500

Bar in a Northern town. Hey-o mah mah maaah

Hooking a brotha up. Zig vs Catnip. Winner: Catnip

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:54:29 -0500

Hooking a brotha up. Zig vs Catnip. Winner: Catnip

Gouramis. The couple that harasses every human that comes in the...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:00:10 -0500

Gouramis. The couple that harasses every human that comes in the room together, stays together. They’ll chase you all the way across the tank If they have to - compliance is mandatory.

I don't agree.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:25:43 -0500

duckandpenguin:

No. There are no just wars. Wars are unjust, period. The innocent suffer, and destruction reigns, no matter the cause. Causes may be just, and wars may be necessary, but war is not just. War is bad. No amount of necessity changes that.

This

lawful: inothernews: “On November 14th, 1984, astronaut Dale...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:25:13 -0500

lawful:

inothernews:

“On November 14th, 1984, astronaut Dale Gardner used a Manned Maneuvering Unit to travel, untethered, from the Space Shuttle to the Westar 6 satellite. And caught it. And serviced it. And came home, safe and sound.”

BADASSMUTHAFUKKA.

(Photo and caption via BoingBoing via NASA)

It surprises me that his balls don’t block the view of Earth behind him…

NASA ‘shopped em out and layered this shot in with one that he’s not in..

lawful: yeldog: Not gonna lie…I would drive this, and I think...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:21:44 -0500

lawful:

yeldog:

Not gonna lie…I would drive this, and I think it’d be awesome.

You are correct.

I’d whip some righteous shitties in a snowy parking lot with that thing. Blasting music from some band with a lot of umlauts in its name.

"need wirter for articles in all catagories and that can handle assignments if you can edit proof or..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:09:05 -0500

“need wirter for articles in all catagories and that can handle assignments
if you can edit proof or think you can do managment let me kno your qualifications in those areas
also being able to take photo’s r a plus
this is a paid job
some jobs are full time
some part time
some seasonal”

- This is why I often cry myself to sleep. That’s what’s out there. The director of the joint which was the subject of my most recent attempt to score a gig apparently ran off with all of their money. Awkward. I think my luck is so bad that it’s actually proactively bad. Crivens.

Zig vs Laser Pointer

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:53:39 -0500

Zig vs Laser Pointer

Heh. This stuff will keep you from keeling over AND shutting up...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:37:48 -0500

Heh. This stuff will keep you from keeling over AND shutting up for at least three hours. That’s what it does for me anyways. I prefer just avoiding bees, but you know, stuff happens. Which is why I did some yelling at old people because it’s expired.

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Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:38:07 -0500

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