“Blagonivich?” the hair asked angrily.
“Forty-seven percent job approval rate,” the hat said. “I can do whatever I want.”
“Whatever we want!” Donald cried from the couch. He took another fistful of McDonald’s french fries and ground them into his pubic hair. No one had managed to get him dressed since signing the pardons.
“Vindicated on impeachment, cleaned out all the rats and traitors, the Democratic primaries in disarray, the luscious Hope is returning to the White House, investigations into Biden… I have never felt better,” the hat said.
“And my Twitter fight with Little Mikey Bloomberg!” Donald said. “Woosh!” he said along with the whooshing sound of another tweet being sent. He dropped the phone into his armpit and went back to eating.
“I’m so happy I could just unravel!” the hat squealed.
“But Blagoyavanch?” the hair asked.
“For you,” the hat crooned. “I did it for you.”
“Huh?” the hair asked.
“The hair, the hair,” the hat said. “You know he’s going to be grateful to be out of prison. He’ll give it up.”
“Give up what?”
“The hair, that glorious mop of rich Chicago hair,” the hat said. “I’m trying to get you laid, son!”
“Aw, yeah,” Donald said, grinding his bare ass into the couch.
“He’s a guy,” the hair said frostily.
“I know, but hair is hair, right?” the hat asked.
“I’m not gay,” the hair said.
“I didn’t say you were, but humpin’ up on one guy’s hair’s not going to turn you gay, right?” the hat asked.
“You fruit-fucking assturd,” the hair said.
“Burn!” Donald crowed, throwing a fistful of french fries into the air.
“He’s a hot silver fox now,” the hat said, leering.
“You pardoned a Democrat because you thought I would want to have sex with his hair?” the hair asked.
“Yes,” the hat said brightly.
“Despite the fact that I am not gay and reproduce through the asexual production of polyps?” the hair asked.
“Yes,” the hat said.
“I fucking hate you,” the hair said.
“I know,” the hat said. “I’m totally Han Solo.”
Hair, flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it, my hair
Fun fact, if you grow hair too long, the weight of it will cause allopecia.
I actually know someone this happened to.
Was her name Rapunzel?
No, Festus. Years of hard-hat wear never helped, either.
“Open up the door bitch! This is Woofa Goofa with the green teeth, let me in!”
Mine reached a certain length then stopped, I don’t think the forehead expanding was linked to the long hair though.
Same thing has happened with the beard, it reaches a certain length, and just stays there, slowly turning more grey.
Well, if you have enough wear on the hairs, they will individually break after a while, providing a practical limit to length. You have to be pretty pampered and protected to get to the lengths required.
““I didn’t say you were, but humpin’ up on one guy’s hair’s not going to turn you gay, right?” the hat asked.”
:bravo:
It’s only gay if you’re the bottom.
Well at least Pete has that going for him among his gay credentials.
They actually adhere to this in Brazil, a culture dominated by machismo. You are gay if you’re the receiver, but you’re straight if you’re the pitcher or the suckee.
It’s so obviously about dominance and not romance. They have beaches where women are prohibited or have to be pretty modestly covered
, but the men cavort around naked and do as they please.
beaches where women are prohibited or have to be pretty modestly covered
What’s the point of a Brazilian, then?
Well there are a bunch of beaches. Choose wisely.
But even the lovely Brazilian babes who get too flaunt what they got complain privately about the overwhelmingly macho culture they are trying to navigate.
% of “be careful what you wish for” in their private griping?
I have the feeling that those same Brazillian babes aren’t interested in the current emasculated men from the US colleges though.
“What’s the point of a Brazilian, then?”
“How many is a Brazilian” -G.W. Booosh
How many is a Brazilian
One of my favorite Bush jokes.
I’ve gone down on guys who had to have a girly magazine open during the process so they could claim that they (but not I) was straight. This was when I was young and stupid. It’s super disheartening.
Tough enough figuring things out when you a straight youngster.
Hopefully it has gotten a bit better for gay youngsters.
Imma guess it is now the straight kids that get the stink-eye now.
Glory holes, sigh… glory holes.
From what I’ve read, ancient Rome had a similar machismo culture.
“They actually adhere to this in Brazil, a culture dominated by machismo. You are gay if you’re the receiver, but you’re straight if you’re the pitcher or the suckee.”
Not just Brazil. This is a definite Latin American (like in South & Central America and the Caribbean) thing. Never got it.
Even power-bottoms?
“He’s a guy,” the hat said frostily.
Shouldn’t that be the Hair’s line?
They get confused.
The Muses aren’t exactly sober.
Insulin is a helluva drug.
I fixed and now you look like a big stinky dum-dum!
/gaslighting
What sex is Caitlyn Jenner’s hair?
Depends if the hair is pre or post op.
Did xe get the ultimate snip-snip? I know Xe didn’t before the magazine covers, though the boob job was done.
Don’t you mean “pre or post mop”?
^^^gold^^^
Do I detect a note of insincerity?
None whatsoever. That’s the sort of smart pun I really enjoy.
Equine, sourced from only the finest pure-bred fillies.
Maybe Blagojevic has information that could lead to the arrest of ******* *******, and will accidentally hang himself while accidentally shooting himself in the back of the head from a distance of 4-5ft away, and perhaps someone has a notion that this might be more likely to transpire with him walking free.
Ps – Oh fuck off, Preet. Find a hobby or something.
*Preet dials an unusually long string of numbers*
“Nigel? Preety. Yeah, you got your ASBO pad handy?”
Thanks, the pardon finally makes sense to me now.
I am still trying to figure it out. Did blago have dirt on Trump or what? NOBODY likes Blago.
Where is the advantage?
I think it really does just curb our arbitrary justice system that completely singled him out for excessive punishment.
Blago is gonna spill the beans on Obama. A lot of the people that were hit hard during the Obama administration were hit so they could silence/discredit them and prevent them from telling us how corrupt & criminal the D.C. establishment had become because of Obama and the people he put in charge.
Think so?
I am just playing the conspiracy theory game, man. However, there was and still is a lot of this going on. See Flynn, Stone, Papadapolous, and a bunch of others that they want to silence.
I have no idea.
Being serious, I don’t think there is an advantage, or political calculus involved. Trump just thought he’d served enough time already, so he did it.
Me too. As usual, everything is analyzed to the hilt.
I Covered Blago’s Trial From Start To Finish. Trump’s Commutation Isn’t Crazy.
Interesting.
Did you not notice the name of the author? NATASHA KORECKI
RUSSIAN COLLUSION!!!!!!!!
The smoking gun we’ve all been waiting for! Proof!
If there’s any political calculus (I’m not saying there is, but there could be) it’s trying to paint a picture of consistency to go along with requesting lighter sentencing for Stone.
Except Blago did much worse than Stone IMO.
Very true, which is why Trump saying Blago’s 8 years served is enough puts him in a good position to argue that Stone deserves much less. If there was any strategy behind it, which again I am not saying there necessarily was, but this would make sense to me.
I’m with Fatty. I think SF’s theory makes as much sense as anything.
Trolling, IMO.
Maybe Trump is hoping Blago will run for office and further embarrass the Dems. I’m assuming that pardon means full restoration of rights, like the conviction never happened.
I think he only had his sentence commuted, so the conviction would still stand.
Not a pardon though. Just thought he served enough time.
Thanks, guys.
The mayor of D.C. got elected despite being a convicted felon. Blago should take a note out of his book and use the “Bitch set me up” line as part of his campaign sloganeering.
Who doesn’t want another “Trumpocrat” on his side?
Technically, Blago did not get pardoned; he had his sentence commuted.
As a fuel, how does bamboo rate in terms of amount of effort in collecting versus heat output?
I get that it is hollow. I also get that you can make charcoal from it. I’m just wondering if it’s more, less or about equal work when compared to, say, trees.
I see, according to the internet, it burns faster and hotter, but doesn’t last, so you basically need to be constantly feeding fuel into the fire.
In a woodstove you can control the speed of the burn by limiting the airflow.
Given the smaller mass per unit and greater surface area, you’re still going to be loading more often, especially if you need to maintain a given temperature range.
For some odd reason my mind is still on brick production in a fictional settlement, and their most readily available fuel is bamboo.
Burns like grass.
It is significantly faster growing than wood, so more replaceable.
One of the arguments you hear for hemp being used to produce paper.
Because it is grass. I know this, because my youngest son was once fascinated with this fact, and told it to me repeatedly.
What, are ya Writing a Book or something?
/ Ducks……
Or something.
I’m still working on that pesky ‘story’ bit. I’ve got characters and setting.
In order to increase the mass/sq. in., crush it first by running it over with a D9 Caterpillar.
I’m afraid that is not an option available to the settlers.
Always plant bamboo close to a neighbor you don’t like.
Under them, after staking them out?
This world doesn’t have giant caterpillars bred for hauling?
The moths are too big of a problem when they decide to pupate.
Though, thinking it through, a burro-sized caterpillar wouldn’t be out of place.
And think of the textile industry!
I don’t know.
You can make charcoal from bamboo, if they are using it as their primary fuel for brick making I would assume they’d convert it to charcoal instead of using straight bamboo.
I don’t remember the details on Blago (and I’ll be damned if I’m going to research it), but I have a sort of dim memory that his arrest verged on entrapment.
As always, “You can’t cheat an honest man” applies.
Sure you can. It’s just easier to prey on the corrupt.
When he threatened to jack up $8M that was supposed to go to Children’s Hospital in Chicago, unless they ponied up…. right there is a hangin’ offense.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20081209/NEWS04/200032145/children-s-memorial-target-of-guv-s-shakedown-efforts-charges-say
“He’s a hot silver fox now,” the hat said, leering.
LOL!
Hat is relentless.
“You fruit-fucking assturd,” the hair said.
I am stealing this insult.
^ I came here to say this. ^
#metoo
It’s like you guys never read Penny Arcade. The Fruit Fucker is a recurring character there (it’s a juicer… kind of).
They’re still around?
Yep, and grown even larger. They’re up to five conventions they run (Seattle, Boston, Texas, Unplugged – Philly, Australia), a charity started off to show up Jack Thompson (there’s a name you don’t hear anymore), designed games and RPG supplements, podcasts, streams, and still put out three comics a week.
I guess they’re better businesspeople than comedians.
They’ve told the story a couple times how they sold all the rights away on the cheap when they were young and dumb. Here’s what I could find in a quick search for it.
Maybe Il Trumpissimo is preparing the ground for his pardon of Stone. “Look, I set one of your guys free.”
Like the old spy exchanges across Checkpoint Charlie.
OT: But Unfuckingbelievable
James Comey lecturing anyone about propriety of blind justice is beyond the pale.
Why do I think reservoir tip when I read that?
I was more reminded of the drip associated with gonorrhea.
Ribbed for her pleasure.
Seems like the hat and the hair have a sibling relationship wherein the the Hat is the elder and the Hair is the younger. Discuss.
Notice me, senpai!
They seem to me more like the standard comedy duo “buddies” like Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, etc.
Speaking of which, who would you name as the greatest comedy duo of all time and/or your favorite one-time pairing of actors in that sort of relationship? As a one-off, I loved Kevin Kline & Charles Grodin in the movie “Dave.”
Close.
It was Robert DeNiro and Grodin in Midnight Run.
That one came to mind for me, too.
I’ll also add in an obscure one: Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines in “Running Scared.”
The “Fish Called Wanda” with Cleese and Kline was fucking hysterical the whole time, although the ending with K-k-k-ku-Ken was movie-stealing in its hilarity.
Running Scared is very funny and unjustly overlooked.
John Cleese and Kevin Kline although I’m not sure if that meets the parameters.
I’ll allow it – Kline’s mania & Cleese’s stiff-upper-lip propriety were a great match, IIRC. (Been too long. Time for another view.)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lwfuUyTMpVY
Blu-Ray has deleted scenes –evidently so does YT.
The Two Ronnies
Reagan and Jeremy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C59pI_ypQ
Canada’s beloved Gross Guys, MacLean & MacLean (NSFW).
Pryor and Wilder.
Stir Crazy and Silver Streak.
Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll?
Mostel and Wilder in The Producers.
A fairly obscure one – Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Hilarious movie and they had great chemistry.
Alright…which one of you wrote this?
Police Officer Claims He Feared For His Life After Shooting Family’s Roomba To Death
Shit happens, bruh…
Nimitz? I thought it was Halsey who was in the wrong place.
The best satire isn’t.
I’m trying to finish an article for here but having an issue with formatting.
How can I make a numbered list start at not 1.
e.g.
45.
46.
47. …
Right now I’m using (ol) to start the list.
Sounds perfectly cromulent to me:
https://electrictoolbox.com/start-html-ol-with-different-number/
Thanks. Got it sorted.
Sounds perfectly cromulent to me:
https://electrictoolbox.com/start-html-ol-with-different-number/
nevermind, ddg delivered
Too answer your question in the previous thread. I meant that there are far too many things against the law, victimless crimes/crimes against the state/process crimes/criminalization of FedGov agency regulations, things of that ilk. Does that make sense? I’ve spent the morning muggled up on a 3 way blend of Wedding Cake, Do-Si-Dos, and G13, so I’m likely not terribly cogent.
That makes sense. I was wondering if you were also aiming at duplicative/overly specific real crimes as well.
That didn’t make any sense, but best of luck. 🙂
Different strains of the Devil’s Lettuce, varying in potency and effect, all ground up and mixed at different ratios.
https://www.leafly.com/strains/wedding-cake
https://www.leafly.com/strains/do-si-dos
I just submitted an article this morning. It is short. If TPTB want to schedule it in the midday Friday spot which is open, I am cool with that.
How can you see that?
ooo… nevermind. I can even… do stuff on the calendar? uh… oops!
yeah, I thought about just scheduling it myself, but I didn’t want to go there.
Heh. Yeah, hopefully everything is back where it belongs.
I submitted my post.
That was golden. And very little stomach-churning imagery to boot (although it was still present, it’s good I wasn’t planning to have any fries for lunch). My one question is, what was up with the Han Solo line? Does it have any meaning, or is the Hat just being crazy?
A reversal of the scene in The Empire Strikes Back.
Princess Leia: I love you.
Han Solo: I know.
Ah, thanks. I wasn’t thinking about it from that perspective, but it makes sense.
Ruh-roh
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, who is described in a new campaign ad as “incredibly sensitive” to the LGBTQ community, described transgender people as an “he, she, or it” and “some guy in a dress” just eight months before he announced his campaign, BuzzFeed News reports. “If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she, or it can go to the locker room with their daughter, that’s not a winning formula for most people,” Bloomberg said at a Manhattan forum hosted by the Bermuda Development Agency in March 2019, where the former New York mayor criticized Democratic candidates for talking about transgender protections.
“I’m sorry you’re such a bunch of thin skinned nancies.”
Oh please please please let this come up at tonight’s debate.
Hey! He’s evolved since then! That was back… almost a WHOLE YEAR AGO!!
– WaPo
He’s not wrong. Arguing about stupid culture war stuff like that isn’t a winning formula.
Just like he isn’t wrong when he said that if the government is paying for all health care they are going to prioritize healing up a young guy over some 95 year old with prostate cancer.
The problem is that he is trying to get a bunch of crazies who value “feelz” and alternate realities to vote for him. Bringing up the truth isn’t going to help him with that group.
Hey, I may have just observed the bug that created my squirrely reply twice above. I have no idea what “Varnish server cache” means, though (and yes, it was “varnish,” not “vanish”).
???
I once had Winston’s mom do that for me. Worth the $20.
Sure, if you’re into prostate massage.
Same as downtown.
Varnish is a reverse proxy used to accelerate web traffic, which uses a cache to deliver pages faster. I would assume there was a problem with the cache that caused the page to load incorrectly.
“Whatever we want!” Donald cried from the couch. He took another fistful of McDonald’s french fries and ground them into his pubic hair. No one had managed to get him dressed since signing the pardons.
How do you know he doesn’t manscape?
I’m just guessing that he doesn’t shave what he can’t see. I mean, I guess Pence could do it, but the sheer erotic charge of that scene is beyond even my reckoning.
This is my head, after reading that last sentence:
Or maybe…
The first picture is your head after reading that last sentence. The second picture is your head after you’ve read the scene once SF decides to write it anyway.
Nobody has mentioned Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie. yet?
I am disappoint.
I’ll add another one that just came to mind, Peter Falk and Alan Arkin in the original “In Laws.” My dad made me watch it as a kid and I’ve rewatched it since; it really is that good. Peter Falk is a national treasure. Range? Who needs “range” as an actor when who you are is just that good.
Great movie. Great pairing.
You beat me to it.
My favorite bit was serpentine!
I was visiting my grandparents one summer and my grandmother took me to see it. It’s one of my favorite memories with her.
What the fuck was that?
I was robbed at gunpoint back in the ’90s delivering pizza. I ran back to my car in a serpentine pattern. It wasn’t until I watched this clip where I even remember picking that up. Laughing right now thinking about it.
Jeez! Glad you can.
Ad now that I’m reaching back, a ton of others come to mind: MASH has several options – and with several different cast members; I loved Jack Klugman and Tony Randall as the Odd Couple growing up; Walther Matthau and Jack Lemmon in the original; there have been so many well-done variations, I can’t possibly pick one.
There’s a reason it’s been done so many times.
“Serpentine, Shel, serpentine!”
Loved that movie. My grandparents took me to that one when I pretty young. I guess they thought any movie with Columbo was safe.
Little did they expect the painting in General Garcia’s office!
No one is going to mention Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in the Silver Streak?
Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein?
+1 “NO matter what I say…”
I am Klo….Buchar.
*Whinney*
I do that bit every time I hear her mentioned.
I can fix that hump.
+1 Abbie Normal
What knockers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9K9wiH2Lko
Yes,
Good one!
BTW, the duo doesn’t have to be two guys, though that’s by far the most common. One classic case in point: Burns & Allen. (Wish I could think of two chicks.)
Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn as The Sweeney Sisters on SNL.
Tina Fey and Amy Pohler
Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance
Would Mary Tyler Moore and Ed Asner count?
How about Archie and Edith?
Yes and Yes
Lucille Ball and Gale Gordon.
Thanks! And of course there’s Saunders & Lumley in “Ab Fab,” but they don’t fit the “straight one/silly one” archetype.
The correct answer is Rebecca DeMornay and Mary Gross in Feds.
In the early ’90s I would have sat and watched Rebecca DeMornay read the phone book for an hour.
“What are we going to do about this, Joel?”
Gonna do a check-it-out thing
oops! Accidentally apt.
It’s a pretty stupid movie, but my fair Rebecca was to die for
Ooh! Vivian Vance and Coral Browne in Auntie Mame
https://youtu.be/2gsRMtl70aQ
Or sometimes Rosalind Russel.
Speaking of Rosalind Russell, I’m going with Hayley Mills and June Harding in “The Trouble With Angels”
Laverne and Shirley weep.
I confess I almost never watched that.
I did 🙁
Boy TV sure was slim pickins back then.
Aw, I still like L&S. Michael McKean tunes, for one. Happy Days is the one that’s aged badly. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HLTx5ZwJiS0
Squiggy became a minor league baseball scout.
Yeah, it wasn’t that bad.
And yeah, Happy Days was terrible.
Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly. (Or ZaSu Pitts.)
Zuzu’s Petals?
Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin?
Fun with numbers
The Medicare For All plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren would save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars each year and would prevent tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, a new study shows.
The analysis, conducted by researchers at Yale University, the University of Florida and the University of Maryland, found that transitioning the U.S. to a single-payer health care system would actually save an estimated $450 billion each year, with the average American family seeing about $2,400 in annual savings. The research, which was published Saturday in the medical journal The Lancet, also found that Medicare for all would prevent about 68,000 unnecessary deaths per year.
“Our study is actually conservative because it doesn’t factor in the lives saved among underinsured Americans—which includes anyone who nominally has insurance but has postponed or foregone care because they couldn’t afford the copays and deductibles,” Alison Galvani, an author of the study and researcher at the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis at the Yale School of Public Health, told Newsweek.
——-
“The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is incurred by employers and households paying for health-care premiums combined with existing government allocations,” the authors wrote in the study.
The authors also noted, as Sanders often does when discussing Medicare for all, that health care expenditures in the U.S. are “higher” per capita “than in any other country.”
According to my model, my model is correct.
This was a common joke in my fantasy baseball league. At the end of the draft, someone would inevitably comment “According to my projections, I am going to win.” Well, no duh.
After about the 2nd time making fun of someone, someone would do it jokingly every year. Or, I would lament that my projections had me 4th.
“I’ve done it! I should come in dead last!”
*8 months later*
“I won! Woo-hoo!”
… with the average American family seeing about $2,400 in annual savings
This seems suspiciously close to what was claimed for Obamacare. How’d that turn out?
the average American family seeing about $2,400 in annual savings
If its truly just removing the current requirements for Medicare eligibility, it could save individuals a lot more than that, especially people on health exchange plans. Unless they are just counting what employers charge employees for health coverage, which is a lot less than the total cost.
Also – what happens to Medicaid? Does it go away? If so, then we are looking at a huge increase in the cost for the Medicaid population, because Medicaid pays less than Medicare. Currently, the states pay for about 1/3 of Medicaid. Would that stop, so the feds suck up the entire bill?
I could see a lot of support from employers for Medicare for All – takes a big cost off their books. If it replaces Medicaid, I think you’d see support from the health industry as well, and likely from state governments.
Substantially decreased burden for public sector employee/retiree health insurance costs. I assume military retirees would also move to this plan.
Do you really think the pubsecs will get moved off their current Cadillac plans and onto the plans for the serfs?
Wishful thinking, but both pub/private sector unions are coming out hard against Medicare for all.
Does medicare pay market rates or below market rates? I may have confused it with medicaid, but I thought it paid below market rates and so had to be subsidized by people with insurance, in which case medicare for all certainly would save no money.
Medicaid pays way below actual cost for most things.
Medicare pays roughly cost, for hospitals at least.
Commercial plans pay above Medicare, generally up to 120% of Medicare for hospitals. at least.
It makes no sense to refer to “market” rates in healthcare. There really is no such thing as a functional market.
Found this in the comments, apparently dug up from the study (couldn’t find a link in the article, so can’t verify).
Now, “reducing pharmaceutical prices via negotiation” sounds nice, but $219 billion in savings? HOW? And “Improving fraud detection” for $191 billion…why haven’t they reduced the billions in fraud they’re already paying out? Reducing reimbursement rates for hospitals, physician, and clinical services for $188 billion PER YEAR? Reducing overhead? With a government program????
Improving fraud detection: $191 billion
Hilarious. This only makes sense if you think the private plans suck at detecting fraud.
Reducing reimbursement rates for hospitals, physician, and clinical services: $188 billion
Reframing this as “reducing revenue to health care providers” (which is what it is) makes it sound not so great.
Reducing overhead: $102 billion
Whose overhead? And since when is the government more efficient than the private sector? Since when are government requirements easier to meet than private sector requirements?
Eliminating uncompensated hospitalization fees: $78 billion in savings.
What the hell are uncompensated hospitalization fees? I’ve never heard of them. i have no idea what this could be. If this is a reference to some mysterious plan that pays hospitals for uncompensated care, then this is just another reduction in revenue for healthcare providers. Remember when ObamaCare was going to get rid of uninsured patients? How can we have ObamaCare and “uncompensated hospitalization”?
They never seem to count how much it will cost to raise the revenue. They handwaive the extra spending the IRS will take as not being applicable. There are a lot of costs that they ignore that will inevitably go up. And that is not including that their models make some very bad assumptions about what will happen in the equilibrium, as well as making no mention about the quality/availability of care being reduced.
Thats the part that gets me.
‘we will magically get the same quality and a greater quantity of care for less’
Do you even demand-supply curve bro?
No way are there 68k deaths/year this will prevent. If you told me 68k additional deaths/year I might believe you though.
I think they are counting the fact that they will be paying you for the care you currently eat as a loss due to uncollected bills. How you call that a savings for the party paying this bill is a mystery.
Check out Medpac.gov. Disproportionate share hospitals are eligible for uncompensated care payments, which was $12.4 billion in 2019.
So – they’re going to cut off payments to “disproportionate share” hospitals for uncompensated care, because they’re going to be paying for said care? How does that *save* money? Even if the “uncompensated care” money is 1:1 with the Medicare rates for said care, it’s a wash at best.
“Disproportionate share” (DSH) refers to a high share of Medicaid patients, not uncompensated care patients. We get underpaid for them, but we are not uncompensated for them. Disproportionate share payments are supposed to help offset the Medicaid underpayments.
Under a true “Medicare for All” system, there would be no more Medicaid (because they would have Medicare), and no more “disproportionate share” hospitals.
I wondered if that was some butchered reference to DSH, but I couldn’t figure any way it made sense.
Reducing pharmaceutical prices via negotiation: $219 billion
When Amazon or Walmart do this, it’s evil. When the government does it, it somehow suddenly, magically becomes virtuous.
Disheveled And Covered In $100 Bills, Bernie Sanders Claims He Was Attacked By A Group Of Billionaires
Sanders said he was out in the streets of Reno at 2 a.m. to purchase a can of beans to eat when suddenly he was approached by two billionaires in ski masks and expensive tailored suits who shouted, “This is billionaire country!” The billionaires began pelting Sanders with stacks of one hundred dollar bills while yelling derogatory things at him, like, “You’re just a millionaire; that’s only one step above being poor!”
as billionaires do tend to disappear at night, either to fight crime as costumed vigilantes or to manage hedge funds.
The Bee is just killing it; I need to give them some money.
The Bee is consistently better than the Onion was at its peak. Although nothing will ever top “Smells like splattered brains.” That was print only, well before The Onion was online.
Ass Wednesday is on topic!… somehow…
http://archive.is/a6Ofn
Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot.
Peter Falk and Alan Arkin in the original “In Laws.”
That was a great movie.
(Wish I could think of two chicks.)
Romy and Michelle?
Shirley and Laverne
DAMN YOU!!! (beat me by two minutes).
Thelma and Louise?
Never saw it. Was it even a comedy?
I don’t recall laughing at it, but I don’t laugh at most comedies.
I laughed.
The ending was pretty funny.
aaaaaand, I’m out.
I’m out.
To get some fries?
And some pubic hair.
Comes with at most fast food places. You just have to complain about something.
After watch a few hair frying videos, it seems to get curlier when fried. So I imagine fried public hair become toothsome little knots.
After watch a few hair frying videos…
One of the darker corners of PornHub?
https://babylonbee.com/news/popular-new-noah-diet-has-you-eat-two-of-every-animal-at-every-meal
https://babylonbee.com/news/worship-team-replaced-by-animatronic-band-from-chuck-e-cheese
The last line is great.
They are ruthless on the bass players. also…
two, you can only repeat the bridge two times. Even my 11 y/o daughter knows this. After this people are checking out. You may think it’s deep and spiritual but the congregation is disengaging.
Pay him for the pizza.
Oh wait, different bass player joke.
Babylon Bee?
A 12-year-old was given a black doll with beads forming a noose around its neck at a Mardi Gras parade
Nope. CNN
The young girl looked down at the item. It was a stuffed black doll dressed in a red and white gown and an apron — also known as a Mammy doll, a caricature that perpetuates offensive stereotypes about African Americans.
Beads hung around the doll’s neck in the shape of a noose.
“She hung it from her finger and she felt degraded. She felt attacked. She didn’t even want to stay at the parade. She was ready to go,” Fairconeture told CNN.
The incident left Fairconeture speechless. And when she asked her daughter whether she was OK, all the girl could say was, “Why me, Mom? Why me?”
Police are investigating
I… uh…
Mardi Gras is well known for sedate, sober, and tame crowds.
Regardless, I’m going to guess that it was a doll with beads, and the beads got tangled.
Why do you persist in excusing literal genocide by the Klan?
Because this is the week to get a packzi fix. So I’ll do my anti-Klan shopping at the Eastern European Catholic shops.
Hmm, cherry pierogies sound interesting
One of the pierogi shops near me has a whole slew of dessert pierogis, including candy bar. I’m a big fan of their breakfast pierogi more, there’s something right about a pierogi filled with egg, cheese, and bacon for breakfast. For the traditional potato and cheese ones, I have my choice of any food store (bakery, butcher, cheese maker, etc) will have pierogis, or I can stop in at any of the churches for ones made by someone’s grandma.
The girlfriend once tried to bring Mrs. T’s into the house…
I’ve easily eaten my weight in Mrs. T’s over the years. It was a staple at my grandmother’s house growing up. That and this farmer’s cheese from hickory farms that I can’t find now. I’ve never been to an actual pierogi shop, but I’ll be on the lookout when traveling.
That’s your Cleveland privilege talking – ain’t no pierogi shops anywhere near here.
I’ve eaten Mrs. T’s pierogis before.
I lived.
I like pierogis but I don’t think I could stomach Mrs. T’s anymore.
Never in my life would I put those two words together. It is dependent on where in town you are. Now, I’m in the Parma area, made famous by Drew Carey. The girlfriend grew up in a suburb that trended more Italian and Jewish. I grew up in an area that would be best described as working class suburb.
If there’s no better options, Mrs. T’s are serviceable. But for me to go to a grocery store, I would have to pass at least two options to purchase pierogis.
The ones at the church bazaars are usually amazing. There are few shops, but many people who make them still from grandma’s recipes.
https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/local-pierogi-makers-ready-to-celebrate-national-pierogi-day-1.2542682
Never doubt the quality of baking by little old ladies. The strudel shop by my house the ladies laughed at me when I said their strudel was really good, almost as good as my grandma’s.
Noose? Necklace? Same diff.
At this point, I assume all such stories are hoaxes until proven otherwise.
Police are investigating
Investigating what?
“We’ll look into it.”
*circular files the report*
Well they have to track down the owners of all the floats in a parade that are festooned with Saints jerseys. I mean, do you know how many of those that there are in Mississippi?
It will take years to track them all down.
If it was one of the black krewes, NOMTOC (New Orleans’ Most Talked Of Club), Zulu Social Aid And Pleasure Club, etc. that sort of throw is expected and treasured. I have Zulu coconuts featuring woven top-knots with chicken bones in them. The Zulu King wears a lard can for his crown and carries a shank bone for his scepter. Hell, marchers in Zulu’s parade are required to wear blackface regardless of their ethnicity.
The only time I ever have cereal is when I’m travelling or a work breakfast.
WTH? A box of $13 cereal is going to fix everything that is currently ailing the global staples sector. Pay no mind that developing economies no longer look at western staples as obtainable luxuries like they used to.
$13 box of health-conscious cereal could be key to General Mills’ growth
reproduce through the asexual production of polyps
Wait, what?
Get your ass checked for the hair’s babies every year after 50.
I generally don’t care much for politicians, but I like the cut of this guy’s jib
https://theminnesotasun.com/2020/02/12/minnesota-session-begins-with-debate-to-adjourn-until-next-year-were-safer-if-the-legislature-goes-home/
Mazeppa is pretty close to my hometown
*stares, unblinking at Sugarfree*
Regardless, I’m going to guess that it was a doll with beads, and the beads got tangled.
My first reaction was “beads looped around doll’s neck to make it easier to hand down to somebody on the ground”.
*Assuming it actually happened .
OT: the Cato Institute urges us to stop worrying and learn to love intersectionality.
The overall point is not necessarily wrong, but it’s almost painful to listen to Comenga try and may friends with current academic intersectionality.
Anyone that tries to legitimize intersectionality can fuck right off.
Since the point of intersectionality is to create a stack of interest groups with various social and legal privileges, I don’t see how any soi-disant libertarian could be anything but completely opposed.
Et tu, Cato?
::looks around:: Are we the last ones left?
Don’t forget, there were people at Cato all in on the Russia collusion hoax. And stuck to it long after it was obvious it was a hoax.
Nobody needs more than 10 wives!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-utah-polygamy/utah-senate-votes-to-decriminalize-polygamy-among-consenting-adults-idUSKBN20C2HF
The way this is being reported is kinda dishonest. It is being made not a Felony so as to loosen the grip that certain Polygamist Leaders have on their communities, because as it is the people living in Colorado City (Polygamist settlment in southern utah) don’t have anything to do with the State government due to the huge levels of mistrust of the government because of past persecution.
As it stands though Utah is still the only state to have Polygamy be banned in its constitution.
Colorado City is in Arizona.
It spans the border, and yes Colorodo City is on the AZ side. It’s Hilldale on the UT side.
Not trying to sound like I’m splitting hairs, but its an important distinction to make.
Utah: Shall issue, limited booze, and no Polygamy.
Arizona: Constitutional carry, booze everywhere, and Polygamy.
In comparison, Arizona practically sells itself.
No it’s fair. Those Fuckers in SLC are ruining Utah.
The booze situation is complicated. You have a set of legislators that like the arangment as is. And you have a set that doesn’t. And then you have a set that would rather get the state out of the booze business, but it produces a lot of money that is earmarked for schools, and they don’t want to cut elsewhere to make it up.
I just buy booze at the Wal-Mart SuperCenter in Page. #problemsolved.
I didn’t realize you lived so close to the border. Though i rarely make it to SE Utah.
I don’t. My family used to have a cabin outside St. George. It was a 4th of July thing until my aunt needed to sell it.
They talked about that aspect in the article. I thought it was a pretty good one.
Yeah. This one is pretty good, but the headlines ive seen at other outfits are pretty click baity.
Good for them. They’re insane, but good for them.
Nobody needs a wife. /bitter divorced guy
Hookers and friends with benefits on the other hand.
More seriously this can only work if they get rid of the rampant welfare fraud used to subsidize these relationships.
“Proponents of this bill attempt to piggyback on the success of the gay rights movement by promoting the narrative that this initiative is about consenting adults doing what they will,” the anti-polygamy group Sound Choices Coalition said in a statement. “This has nothing to do about consenting adults or gay rights. It’s all about weaponizing God.”
No one ever consented to being in a polygamist relationship. We MUST PROSECUTE THE MOTHER FUCKERS!
…what?
See because the people practicing polygamy are religious fundamentalists and socially traditionalists, they aren’t deserving of the same rights as other consenting adults.
I know that there are guys who prey on teenage girls through polygamy. I’ve personally known several “lost boys” who were run out as teenagers from Hilldale/Colorodo city. The whole point of this is to break the power of fear that the Religious Leaders hold over those communities.
See because the people practicing polygamy are religious fundamentalists and socially traditionalists, they aren’t deserving of the same rights as other consenting adults.
I pretty much made this argument when Obergfell was decided, although I said it was because gays are thankfully no longer seen as icky, but those fundies practicing polygamy are.
The horrified shrieking I got in response was pretty fun.
Needz moar gay polygamists!
Hmm.
Well, they should have less animal waste than they used to, since the big wet market is shut down. And my eyeball is that this should be a hell of a lot more than they need for medical waste – these are enough for 200 tons a day. Even if its just for medical waste, the reported rate of infection shouldn’t require nearly that much capacity.
I am reminded of 4chan’s analysis of the rate of bodies being cremated.
Chicoms lie. Of course the outbreak is worse than they’re reporting. When you rack up all the secondary data, it points to catastrophe in Wuhan, and increasing problems across the country.
I agree. The secondary data (new incinerators, on-scene footage from Wuhan, constant ramping up of quarantine/travel restrictions, and the spike in sulfur dioxide in known hot zones), the official numbers look like so much bullshit. As in, order of magnitude bullshit.
I don’t know how accurate it was, but the sulphur pollution analysis was probably impressive.
It is the Star. The first article linked at the bottom of the page you linked is this.
SARS 2 Panic boogaloo
The “reported” rate of infection. So they could have a larger medical waste problem, than they’re admitting, they’re only now destroying animals with possible contamination, and/or they are incinerating a lot more bodies than are being reported dead.
So my questions are. Are they covering it up because the virus is more deadly than thought? Or are they covering it up because their shit healthcare system is causing a higher death count than should be? Or both?
My hypothesis-
The number of infected is far higher in Hubei than elsewhere and they’ve been lying/don’t know.
A lot of the responses such as putting everyone who might be infected in “hospitals” is counterproductive for many/most patients but perhaps effective for protecting uninfected.
The healthcare in China, specifically Hubei, is what it would look like here at those infection rates. It would overwhelm our system as well and reduce it to triage.
A lot of unanswered questions about covid-19. Rates outside of China, and really outside of Hubei and a few others, are rather low and fatality rates are even lower. The one enigma is the Wuhan Princess which suggests that in enough concentrated setting, the rates can skyrocket. The other thing is apparently a large number can be asymptomatic and pass the virus.
The other thing is apparently a large number can be asymptomatic and pass the virus.
That’s the scariest part of this. It’s possible the first few people infected were asymptomatic and that is why the outbreak happened over such a large population so fast as the disease was spreading before anyone knew about it.
The tell on all of this is that the ChiComs are worried enough to collapse their own economy in order to stave this off.
They would never, ever, ever consider shutting down half or more of their industrial production if they weren’t scared shitless.
Maybe. But you have to remember that the incentives are also radically different over there. The desire to bury shit is high because if you are in power and something happens, you will bite the bullet from the Party.
Can everyone do me a solid?
In the United States, the mortality rate of the 2017-2018 flu season was 10 percent. Can we all agree to treat influenza as seriously, if not more, than the Wuhan Plague? Particularly since the more virulent strains of the flu are more dangerous than the coronavirus? Like if you get the honest-to-goodness flu, and not just a bad cold that people call “the flu”, you stay home from work or school? That you vaccinate yourself and your family? That you wash your hands after touching doorknobs and your dicks?
COVID-19, which is actually quite mild compared to SARS or MERS (MERS is some scary shit), is just a preview of what a really serious pandemic of the flu, H7N9 (Chinese Bird Flu) for example, would look like.
^^Chicom plant^^
Have you seen some of their honeypot agents?
No. Pics?
What have you done for the Party lately?
morality rate?
Sorry. Porn was in the other browser tab.
Can we all agree to treat influenza as seriously, if not more, than the Wuhan Plague?
No! People want to panic because it’s those icky commies covering something up!
I remember the Great Ebola Freakout of 2014. Fun times at TOS.
I would never deny the public the opportunity of sharing my dick germs.
They’re including pneumonia in that figure, which definitely skews the numbers.
Very few people die of the flu or the coronavirus full stop. What is dangerous about them is that what they do to your lungs leaves you open to opportunistic infections, and in your already weakened state, that’s what kills you.
Can we all agree to treat influenza as seriously, if not more, than the Wuhan Plague?
How about I promise to freak out if Spanish Flu 2: Electric Boogaloo starts up, but keep treating the regular flu as a “meh”?
That you wash your hands after touching doorknobs and your dicks?
You go too far, sir.
Just kidding. I’m a compulsive hand washer. I probably wash my hands too much. Although when you risk getting dick sweat on your hands from other people who don’t wash their hands, is there really any such thing as too much hand washing?
When you start to bleed from the scrubbing.
I suspect that the mortality rate for the Wuhan virus* in a developed country with decent medical care is probably in the low single digits. The data is still very thin on the ground, though.
However, I recall seeing a report that listed dead recovered Wuhan virus patients in China. The ratio was somewhere just under 1:4 dead v recovered. I haven’t seen that report other than the one time, because I suspect a lot of people were saying “Holy shit, that’s a bad mortality rate”. Makes me wonder what the mortality rate really is in China. Early/partial data, but I wouldn’t expect to see a ratio like that if 98% of their patients are recovering.
I think its still way too early to have much of a handle on how bad it is, especially since the vast majority of data is sourced from the ChiComs. I’m not too worried about it in the US, though. I’ll be very surprised indeed if it kills 5% as many Americans as the flu.
*COVID-19 is just another PC euphemism, in my book.
I agree. And Wuhan Virus is easier to remember.
It’s the difference between a “name” and a “designation”. Is “dog” a euphemism for “canis lupus familiaris”? Of course not. However, the latter is more useful in academic contexts, whereas, the former is more useful in everyday contexts.
I will clarify:
“Use of COVID-19 outside of technical epidemiological or virological research contexts is a PC euphemism, in my book.”
I would have believed you, had I not listened to NPR’s reporting on how the virus naming committee was specifically established to combat racism.
Well, luckily for you an me, we don’t live in Canada, so we can call it what we want.
Alright, the Kung Flu it is, then.
I get what you are saying as far as medical infrastructure, but remember that the mortality rate of the 1919 flu epidemic was only 2%. And, yet, 2 percent of the world’s population is still a lot of people. In America alone, the median rate was half a percent and that was still half a million dead. The WHO estimates the mortality rate of the Wuhan coronavirus is also around 2%. So, even if the Chinese are being honest, we should definitely take it seriously, but we have had influenza epidemics that have higher rates of death and those are not given the same amount of media attention. Familiarity breeds contempt.
So then it’s the rate of infection, which appears to be higher with Wuhan than the flu.
From what I understand, the jury is still out on that one. Some people say it is, some people say it isn’t. We need a bigger n to know for sure. Mortality rate comes into play to in that if a disease is deadly enough, transmission rates lower as it “burns out”.*
*Knowledge of epidemiology stems from hours of Plague Inc.
I get what you are saying as far as medical infrastructure, but remember that the mortality rate of the 1919 flu epidemic was only 2%.
Yet the mortality rate of the flu today is 10% in the world’s most advanced medical system. I wonder what the explanation is for the increase in lethality.
It’s not quite apples to oranges but Granny Smiths to Red Deliciouses. The 1919 flu was good ol’ H1N1 (Spanish flu/Swine flu), the 2017 flu was H3N2 (Hong Kong flu). Different strains are more lethal than others. Our assorted medical doctors and other folks can tell us why, but from what I understand, different strains produce different antibody responses.
that needs to go on one of those zero context quotes thingys.
Fuck. Off.
Billionaire George Soros has once again taken shots at Facebook, this time calling for the removal of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. According to Soros, Zuckerberg and Sandberg are “helping Trump get re-elected.”
The Daily Mail reports that leftist billionaire George Soros has called for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg to be removed from their positions at the company as he believes they are “helping Trump get re-elected” by refusing to fact check political ads.
How much of Facebook stock does Soros own? Is he on the board of directors? Yeah I though so. What Rebel Scum said.
According to Soros, Zuckerberg and Sandberg are “helping Trump get re-elected.”
Only Soros is allowed to spend billions to influence international politics.
OT, but…wow. I’m pleasantly surprised: Ryan Newman walks out of the hospital.
Excellent.
Chelsea Handler✔
@chelseahandler
While our president exonerates criminals and releases them from jail, notice what color they all are.
Do you have something against black people?
Not orange?
Sounds like Chelsea missed Trump’s Super Bowl ad…
Why would she watch a game that enslaves black people?
I always prefer my sociopolitical commentary come from a hack “comedian” whose entire act was based on being a slutty lush.
Pardons and commutations aren’t “exonerations”, you ignorant . . . . person.
Have any of you gun nuts ever purchased from TSS? I hear they do free shipping on Firearms, but don’t know if their prices are that great.
Prices look pretty good. But everyone seems to be in the same ballpark.
What are you looking for?
:Gazes Shifty Eyes:
I’m not looking, but i’m helping a friend find an M&P 9. I know there are cheaper outfits but i’m usure about the whole FFL deal/ shipping.
I mean my friend isn’t sure about it.
Anything that is a firearm will need to be shipped to a FFL.
The LGS’s around here have gotten pretty canny about pricing their stuff above internet prices, but below internet prices + transfer fee.
Yeah. For some reason i feel like the retailers will get pissed if i just have it sent to them, without ever having talked to them.
You need a kitchen table FFL.
Flexible hours and they don’t get weird about you not buying a gun from their inventory.
Sales tax may be the only sticking point.
I still prefer buying local.
They are not, based on the two “featured deals” I looked at. For comparison, bot Classic Firearms and ArmsUnlimited have that Beretta for $499.
More important to find the local FFL who will receive the shipped item.
These guys are actually local so I would probably buy direct from them
If you have one nearby, Rural King has become my go to place. They have the cheapest sale prices I can find, beating places like Cheaper Than Dirt, but also will do FFL transfers without any issue.
I also really like they have have a basically fuck you sign to Dick’s that announces RK will never cave and always support gun rights.
https://gun.deals
According to Soros, Zuckerberg and Sandberg are “helping Trump get re-elected.”
That statement is bullshit, but aside from that, so what? Are you in favor of democracy, or are you now openly advocating one party rule?
I think we all know the answer, but it’s mildly amusing to see them make their case so blatantly.
Thanks, GT-
Ryan Newman walked out of a hospital Wednesday just days after being injured in a serious crash at the Daytona 500.
A picture showed Newman leaving Halifax Medical Center holding the hands of his two children. His estranged wife, Krissie Newman, subsequently released video of the moment he walked out.
Excellent. NASCAR has done a ton of work on the seats in those cars, to make them better/safer/stronger. Looks like it paid off.
His estranged wife
Well now we know the cause of the “accident”
Lots of really interesting drafts for articles out there…
Finish your articles people.
No.
^Heroic Bartleby.
I’d prefer not to be called that.
You scriveners are all alike
Plus mine.
(Its not that interesting, but is at least short)
My shame pile of drafts is safe on my machine. I don’t upload them until they just need some final touches.
I don’t draft articles here.
That way nosy people can’t see what I haven’t finished unless I make the mistake of posting before the whole set is done.
Joe Rogan gets high and stumbles upon Buddhism’s Four Nobel Truths
Podcasts ate boring as fuck. I made it 4 minutes. Two stoners spouting profound insights at each other is real interesting. Not.