- Healthcare co-ops: Liberals hate ‘em, conservatives don’t like ‘em, most people don’t know what they are, and virtually nobody loves ‘em. This is why they’re such a fabulous compromise. [New York Times]
- Russia blamed the disappearance of the cargo ship Arctic Sea on PIRATES, of the non-Somali variety. [New York Times]
- An explosion at a power plant in Siberia has left 64 workers trapped and presumed dead. [BBC News]
- Three people were charged with stealing 130 million credit card numbers; to be fair to the ringleader, even the prosecutor noted he “worked very, very hard at something he was very good at.” Huzzah for a strong work ethic! [Bloomberg]
- It’s hurricane season, and a baby hurricane called Bill is nearing the West Indies. [CNN]
- The Swiss bank UBS will hand over to the US the names of 5000 American clients suspected of tax fraud, causing a collective anxious pants-wetting of some of our nation’s wealthiest citizens. [Reuters]
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I’d prosecute them for stealing credit cards, but I want to be forward looking and not get mired down in the past on some kind of left wing vendetta or something.
Co-ops are where everyone takes a turn at being the doctor.
Russia blamed the disappearance of the cargo ship Arctic Sea on PIRATES, of the non-Somali variety.
Maybe it’s the Ice Pirates?
I may be misunderstanding modern technology here, but aren’t there things like radar and GPS and Google Earth and falcons and snowmen that can let the authorities know where a huge fucking cargo ship is?
It’s not like it was some guy on a raft or something.
[re=388971]Eric Cheney[/re]: The rightwing hillbillies living on 8K per year can stop getting worked up about socialism & Kenyans in the Whitehouse–now they have a TRULY pressing issue to scream about: those goddam traitor Swiss bankers. I expect to begin seeing the bumperstickers above the trucknutz before long. Some clever update of the France-hating of a few years back (“First Iraq, then Chirac”) It’s awful early in the morning
, so the Swiss-hatin’ slogans aren’t exactly rolling off my tongue yet. Maybe after some coffee— a little help?
What the hell is it with Russians and power plants?
Why did the pirates steal a ship loaded with timber rather than one, say, loaded with cars? I can think of a lot of jokes involving the word “wood” but no real reason.
[re=388971]Eric Cheney[/re]: Same for the tax cheats. No need to criminalize differences in tax philosophy, as in they don’t think they should pay any to the country which has given them everything. No need to be vindictive about it. Never mind that the taxes they’ve dodged could go a long way toward providing health insurance for the 50 million currently without.
SuisseNutz!
Bill Will, Quentin Tarantino’s latest hit, coming this fall!
[re=388983]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Better, this was a hydro plant, and yes, the explosion was at the base of the dam.
[re=388978]Decker[/re]: Butt Pirates, the crew caught teh Geyhz and are now on their way to Boca for a little all-male conga line action.
Seriously though…Piracy? I didn’t think Russia had that many Libertarians.
[re=388990]4tehlulz[/re]: So we can be pretty sure the fires out?
There’s one common feature behind each of those stories: Charles Widmore.
[re=388979]gurukalehuru[/re]: Wasn’t this an episode of X-Files once? And all the people on the ship were replaced by aliens who leaked oil out of their eyeballs? Get Mulder and Scully on this, stat.
[re=388979]gurukalehuru[/re]: If the cargo ship had its “I am here” beacon turned off, it might as well be a tiny row boat, so far as locating it in the vastness of the earth’s oceans is concerned. This “can’t find shit in huge bodies of water” property was the idea behind convoys in WW2. As in it’s just as hard to find a collection of ships as it is to find just one.
“We got a great big convoy, truckin’ through the night…convoy.”
Is the credit schemer’s lawyer by any chance his MOM?
@hobospacejunkie: This is exactly the reasoning I use when setting fire to cows in cornfields, but does anybody thank me for helping? Noooo!
[re=388995]hockeymom[/re]: I thought it was Mulder who found a WW2-era ship in the Bermuda Triangle and all the people on the ship were named after characters in the Wizard of Oz or something.
I think the Dems should come up with a compromise that will guarantee ALL Republicans votes. Like huge subsidies to healthcare companies, tax breaks on their profits, and privatizing Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA. PWN’D!
They should have put Gonzalez to work stealing FOREIGN credit card numbers. The national debt would be solved!
As for Bill – the local NBC affiliate (on the NC coast) has been freaking out about it for, I don’t know, 3 or 4 days at this point. I think last night was the first night they admitted Ana isn’t going to hit us.
I was reading the TV news (my journalism adviser in college used to say, “TV news is an oxymoron”) headlines to my friend last night – me: “Apparently a new study says most dollar bills are ‘laced with cocaine.’ I think they mean ‘have trace amounts of cocaine residue.’” my friend: “that’s not new; I read it in the 10th grade.” Me: Oh look, there’s the story I did a week ago. Except they got the names wrong, even copying it off my story.”
How is this exaggerated, sensationalized crap doing well while my beloved newspaper industry is dying?
[re=388993]dijetlo[/re]: Depends. Rivers have been known to burn on occasion.
Congress is a failed institution but Congressmen have the best health insurance. After bring us energy dependence, the iraq war, the current tax code, the economic crisis, etc. it is unlikely they will pass healthcare reform to benefit us.
[re=388994]facehead[/re]: Exactly! The “trapped and presumed dead” Russians were really placed onboard the freighter, replacing its crew since they have magical powers from being in a Russian power plant. They’re magnetized now or something, which will help the freighter find the island. And Gonzalez was just fixing numbers so nobody will notice that Widmore switched the crews.
As for the state of the health insurance mess, fuck, I’m starting to think not even smokey monsters and Locke’s coming-back-from-the-dead powers could fix it.
Hurricane Bill we be succeeded by Tropical Depression Hillary.
[re=389002]hobospacejunkie[/re]: ‘I thought it was Mulder who found a WW2-era ship in the Bermuda Triangle and all the people on the ship were named after characters in the Wizard of Oz or something.’
And Scully discovered they were all vampires.
Who are these assholes claiming health care “socialism?”
We guess that Medicare and Medicaid–which provide health insurance money for tens of millions of Americans, including conservatives, far-right-wingers and Republicanas–is not socialism? Even though it is government-sponsored, taxpayer-sponsored, tax-money-sponsored health care? Of course it’s not “socialism,” and neither is the Obama administration’s health reform plan.
Nothing done by the Obama administration is in any way “socialism.” If ignorant people think that the government providing money to help certain institutiions is “socialism,” then, fine, we’ll take out all of the government money that goes to Medicaid, Medicaid, Social Security, education, the military, police departments, fire departments, public works agencies, transportation, planning and zoning, code enforcements, consumer affairs regulations, commerce rules, trade laws, import and export laws, existing health care, social services, corrections, jails, prisons, buses, subways, trains, the postal service, drivers’ license agencies, environmental agencies, fish and wildlife agencies, natural resources, pollution controls, and about 5,000 other government functions.
Is government sponsoring all of these areas “socialism?”
Maybe we shouldn’t have any government, and we’ll just live in some crazy, psycho, lawless society. Yes, that would be better.
These protesters need to shut the hell up, get a life, and stop acting like assholes
What do they expect when they name a ship the Arrrrctic Sea?
[re=388983]ManchuCandidate[/re]: This is what you get when the means of production are owned by the people: Scoliasm = Chernobyl!
Shit – All we will here about for the next week is how Bill is going to give the entire East Coast a blow job.
NYT is all wrong about the ship Arctic Sea. It was not pirates. It was Vikings!
[re=388999]itgetter[/re]: Oily Taint!
An explosion at a power plant in Siberia has left 64 workers trapped and presumed dead.
I’m pretty sure that is the start of every Doom clone since 1995.
I have one question: will I be able to get fresh ground peanut butter and bulk alfalfa sprouts at my local healthcare co-op?
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