Crux

Hoping to thread his way through the eye of the RWNJ needle. No problem.

Hey your new mayor and socialist city councilwoman are gonna get those McDonalds workers $15.00/hr--whether the market says their skills merit it, or not! Socialism is a growing movement. Seattle and Sea-Tac have it and it's moving towards Portland. Tacoma will catch it next since they're on the I-5 corridor. That's alright, Fairweather will be just fine. He's got guns. But if that millionaire-tax thing gets traction though, and spreads to Tacoma, mebbee he then start acting up such that by contrast his current flail-fest be looking like a Shirley Temple tap dance on benzos and alcohol. (Which his act kinda looks like already, but you know what I mean.)

Pffft, what's there to translate? Yer a commie-loving shithead--EXPOSED!

Heavy taxation is the best thing for 'em!

You only had it, your health insurance policy that got dropped, for five months? I've been wondering about that! Given what you've said about your plan, as it was, it seems to be a match for those held by plaintiffs now suing United Healthcare for deceptive practices whereby the insurance giant bilked plaintiffs out of their old plans that were covered by grandfathering provisions of the ACA--the provisions that Obama referenced when he said that under the ACA "you can keep your existing plan." Plaintiffs allege United Healthcare used deceptive practices to trick policy holders into discontinuing their ACA-protected plans, in favor of new plans not in existence when the law was written, and therefore those were plans subject to termination at will by the insurance company. While it's true that the ACA has disqualified a lot of bogus insurance policies, and that many of the complaints about "broken promises" are in regard to policies that arguably provided no meaningful medical coverage for the respective consumers, not all the complaints are about cancellations mandated by the law. Policies deemed valid under the ACA have also been dropped--by insurance companies--under cover of this "broken promises" scandal, which was conveniently an event quite predictable by insurance companies, as these business entities are fully cognizant of both the letter of the law about this and the certain on-schedule demise of various rip-off insurance policies. In not all, but some cases, consumers holding plans of types no longer desirable to the insurance companies have had their coverage "stolen" (your words) not by "Obama" (your villain) but by the insurance companies seeking to re-position for greater profit. In other words, I'm suggesting your misfortune is not bestowed by some grand transformational agenda (I'd say your words here too, but feel attribution more appropriately belongs to Charles Krauthammer), but just good old fashioned profiteering in healthcare. By the way, to support the allegation that said deception by United Healthcare was deliberate, plaintiffs point to dishonest notifications by United Healthcare that are said to manipulatively insinuate the plans were dropped because those plans were disqualified by the ACA, when that's simply not what happened. If yours is such a case, you were dropped not by the ACA, but by the insurance company--because with the old policy you proved too good at keeping your money in your pocket. And, oh yeah, because you cancelled your old policy that was protected under the ACA. (Doh!)

issues and pcp

Ah yes, the efficiency of the market, exposed!

At the intersection of Zinn bullshit and Venn diagram, revise Left, and occupy this!

Why not just put a label on 'em all, and be done with it? Some people just want to know what's not. Is that so wrong?

You tell me he's a politician. Then you ask me if he worships Satan. What kind of bullshit question is that?

Wut? Snorting coke and piloting a fighter ain't cool?

I voted against I-522, not because of any money spent on advertising by the opposition. I know this because I saw and heard literally no advertising against I-522 whatsoever. (I watch almost no television, and no local TV at all, and no radio either.) But the issue did matter to me, so I reflected on how much I hate Monsanto, and I read editorials, and even stopped into the Spray community to read what various familiar voices had to say in this forum. In fact, the only paid-for promotionals I saw were those in favor of 522. But "you guys" still lost the debate, in my view, by a long shot. Take heart. If you can't win the vote of a life-long liberal and environmentalist who hates Monsanto and was subject to absolutely none of your opposition's persuasion (someone like me), then you can know your argument is weak. That means it's all up to you change the outcome--by making a better case--next time around, or by whatever alternative route. But the tantrums expressed in the wake of the I-522 defeat, the juvenile and irrational outrage expressed by proponents on the intellectual spectrum all the way from you to Rachel Maddow, won't translate to a better case. All that's done by such demonstration is to show how sound critical thinking can be absent from the processes of even very smart people. And yes, it may be clearly departed from stupid ones too. Obviously. 93% of Americans favor blah blah blah. Good work, that. Later.

Meh... What matters a lot is not so much the moral value of an evil deed itself, but the consequences of that action to other people. Sure, Obama is said to have lied about "you can keep your existing insurance" in order help pass a law that provides medical insurance to millions of Americans. But a lot of people are against that way of providing insurance, so that's what the complaints are really about--not the lie itself, but the consequences of that lie. But seriously, what's the big deal about finally getting some change underway to fix our health care system? And then there's Bush, being compared in this thread. Bush is said to have lied about "weapons of mass destruction" in order to sucker Congress and provide his buddies with a multi-trillion dollar war in Iraq. But a lot of us are against that war, sacking our national treasure, killing a lot of people, and all that. But again, seriously now, mostly all those killed over there are brown people who don't even speak good American, pretty much, so what's the problem, really? Obama or Bush, a little lie here and there. So what? What it comes down to is really just a fair and balanced political debate between Republicans and Democrats, that's all.

Surely, some of those customers would have gotten something out of those companies. Moreover, it may have been what they wanted. 8D What I'm saying is, sometimes we are too quick to discount what people are choosing, just because it doesn't jibe with our own preferences and orientation.

for Prez sounds... smarter.

That settles it for me. Go ahead and call me stupid, but I'd vote against just about anything if Monsanto would step it up and take a swerve at a box of babies.

Some contents of this package are known to may or may not put you out of your misery, sooner of later. What part of this democrant do you republicant understand?

I saw the leaflets available in the processed junk food section next to the roasted chickens. And I read the info posted in the PJFS over by the incense and artisanal dog whistles. I even grabbed a flyer, found by the sugar pies at the check-out stand (staffed by the obligatorily chirpy-sweet cashier named Persia Fountain). But I never got wise to it all like Kimmo. What more can I do? Disclaimer: Our unfunded mandates may or may not be printed upon organically farmed paper. Please vote flower child, thank you.

You want it. We all want it. [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoHW-Tk-d-k

Be done with what?

Proposition 1 Ballot Title The City of Seattle’s Proposition 1 concerns creation of a system of publicly financed council election campaigns. If approved, this proposition would publicly fund campaigns for Seattle City Council. Candidates who raise 600 individual contributions of at least $10 qualify for the program. Contributions up to $50 to qualifying candidates are matched 6 public dollars for every dollar, up to $210,000. Participating candidates may only spend $140,000 in the primary and $245,000 overall, except when an opponent spends more. Approval authorizes six years of additional property taxes, with $2,000,000 (approximately $0.0164/$1000 assessed value) collected in 2014. Should this proposition be approved? Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . No . . . . . . . . . . . .

I think the pertinent question about food supply in regard to the role of GMOs will not be about whether or not GMO foods are nutritionally inferior or harmful for human consumption--they are neither. The compelling question is this: Does the use of GMOs to enhance crop production over the short term actually (and paradoxically) present a threat to the viability of global agribusiness over the long term?

May contain genetically modified

Does synthetic urine work?