Oh, just click through. It's great.
You've seen the full video, right?
It gets dark when he gets frustrated and then beats the puppy to death with the glass.
It's going to be -6 (regular) when I go to work tomorrow. Unless I decide to sleep in.
Obama drawing of Michelle Obama with little hearts around it is just ridiculously adorable.
The full video really is great.
I grew up with that same ugly gold eagle lamp in our basement.
If I could never heard the phrase "Behold my Egyptian god card" again, that would be just great.
9: Barry O. is exceptionally charming. And since the thing is basically an PSA for today's Obamacare deadline, it makes me wonder: couldn't he have used that charm to persuade the American people on single-payer? Medicare for everyone! YOLO! I don't know. Maybe not, but it seemed like he didn't even try for it.
12: Or at least a public option.
Don't make me link to a million Mayhew and Lemieux columns.
12: Oh, Stanley. No. There are too many people still too racist to succumb to his charms (at the very least), and the conservative/libertarian message about government being the problem rather than the solution has managed to take too strong a hold, and the insurance industry refused to be on board anyway.
Glad to hear that I'm not the only one reading Richard Mayhew with appreciation for the sheer information.
Sure all us obots find it charming but I can't help but wonder if team war thought the same of GWB's infamous "Any weapons under here? Nope!" sketch, and if they feel the same about this as we felt about that. Joking about the tyranny of government subsidized insurance, what a monster!
There were people here who basically felt antagonized by his charm. A lot of the PUMA crowd felt similarly -- it meant he was false and self-admiring, etc.
17: And the selfie stick became his scepter. King Obama!
16: The term, Childers argued, is disrespectful to the memory of Kayla Mueller, the American humanitarian worker held hostage by the Islamic State and killed during Jordanian airstrikes against the group earlier this week. According to Childers, the video was recorded the same day the White House announced the death of Mueller.
"The president says, 'YOLO, man!'" Childers said Friday morning. "And for people at home who may not know what that stands for, YOLO stands for 'you only live once.'"
"Well you know who's not alive, Juan, now?" she asked Fox News political analyst Juan Williams. "Hitler Kayla Mueller."
I'm sitting around the house eating brownies and those little cheese circles that come in red wax. It's just too cold to pass up snacks in favor of the actual food we have.
20: I just made a Spanish tortilla, basically a huge potato omelet (10 eggs!). I'm rather impressed with the results, if I may humblebrag.
Well I can open the cheese without deforming the wax.
To continue my bragging, I want to let everybody know I have diamond horse armor. I didn't even know that was a thing.
12: no, the best plan is to conscript the entire population by executive order to fight the War on Terror. Children, the disabled, pacifists, everyone. Then announce the next day that he's thought it over and it was a stupid idea. Everyone is discharged honourably. Sorry about that, don't know what I was thinking.
Oh, by the way, you're all veterans now, with one day of honourable service, so you all get VA health care. Instant NHS.
The only problem is babies born after Mass Conscription Day won't be covered but you either make Mass Conscription Day an annual thing or you do it as part of the birth registration process, so every neonate gets drafted at birth, and then discharged from both hospital and the Marine Corps simultaneously a day or two later.
The VA is currently facing a huge backlog.
The diamond horse armor comes with a special diamond knife that enables you to slice the wax around the cheese just so? And what do you do with the undeformed wax shell? Admire it?
Also, the VA system isn't remotely comparable to a single payer system. It pays if you have a service connect disability or if you meet a threshold for need. The threshold is very high by American social welfare standards, but still cuts out somewhere in the middle class. Plenty of people receiving services at the VA are using private insurance as partial payment.
Recently, I was telling the story of registering with the Selective Service (the US conscription agency, basically), and I was struck by the fact that it's still a male-only thing. So ajay's plan of conscripting everyone also strikes a blow for feminism.
Curses, another insane scheme skewered upon the antlers or reality.
27: I was talking to an NP who was helping out with her Dad's are. He must have been Medicare-age, but he went there for certain things and not for others.
But, you can pay? I always wondered what you were supposed to do if you were well off and suffering from PTSD. They might have the best expertise, group therapy to deal with combat-caused PTSD, but you didn't qualify, because you had too much money.
That would be service connected and covered regardless of your income. I think. I don't pretend to understand the system.
He could declare everyone to be Native American, and let them get healthcare through the IHS. Strike a blow for manifest destiny and universal healthcare.
Even now, the general public has reservations about Obamacare.
32 is much better. And a sop to the nativist lobby as well.
32 is a fantastic idea. Thanks, Caracalla!