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Archive of entries posted on 2nd October 2013
Another Benefit of the Affordable Care Act
One Kentucky man reported that his insurance premiums tripled due to Obamacare.
Who needs death panels when you’ve got insurance bill sticker-shock?
They Told Me That If I Voted for Romney, Big Bird Would Suffer – And They Were Right!
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In a letter sent last week to President Obama, U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick contended that the Affordable Care Act had caused Sesame Place, one of Bucks County’s biggest tourist attractions, to terminate health benefits for its part-time employees.
“This law is hurting real people in my district and around the country,” the Bucks County Republican wrote.
A spokesman for SeaWorld, the amusement park’s parent company, confirmed Wednesday that the company was cutting the weekly work limit for part-time employees from 32 to 28 hours. Under the Affordable Care Act, companies can face fines if they do not provide insurance for staffers who work at least 30 hours per week.
Fred Jacobs, the SeaWorld spokesman, did not say whether the change in policy had been prompted by the health-care law.
Heaven help me, I can NOT stop laughing at that last line.
Link of the Day: Rattlesnake Logic
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From the Mailbag – Rattlesnake Logic
BONUS LINK:
Irritable Pundit [High Praise!] takes on Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s Twitter-flirting with his “not a skank” vegan stripper friend [NSFW]:
Personally, I suspect the message may be fake, since I’m pretty sure that woman’s incapable of blushing.
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Did She Cry When They Sunsetted the Bush Tax Cuts?
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin criticized Republicans for trying to defund Obamacare because “Congress passed a law.”
Bet she’s still cranky about the 21st Amendment, too.
Obama Warned Us – Saving the Auto Industry
As for our auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad decision-making and a global recession have pushed our automakers to the brink. We should not, and will not, protect them from their own bad practices. But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win. Millions of jobs depend on it. Scores of communities depend on it. And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.
BARACK OBAMA, Address to Joint Session of Congress, Feb. 24, 2009
“Turns out that nation was Germany, so bankruptcy ahoy!”
Rhino Poaching Hits an All Time High in South Africa
According to this news story, Rhino poaching has gotten out of hand and they may be facing extinction in South Africa.
I’ve got a plan…invite the poachers to Washington D.C. We’ve got tons of the bloated creatures there, and we actually want them extinct.
You’ve Been Judged!
Anonymiss of Nuking Politics picked her favorite punchlines to “Al Qaeda opened its first official Twitter account. Its first tweet…”
Click here to see if you made the cut.
If you did, you should probably email Keln about becoming a guest blogger there.
If you didn’t, Anonymiss has got another straight line for you to practice on.
Keep trying. No one likes a quitter.
Straight Line of the Day: Obamacare Expert “Navigators” Had to Be Told “Don’t Leave Tax Returns on Fax Machines”. They Also Needed to Be Told…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Obamacare expert “Navigators” had to be told “don’t leave tax returns on fax machines”. They also needed to be told…
Where’s Frank?
You may have noticed that Frank J. wasn’t posting like normal yesterday. And, you might find that he’s not posting a lot today.
Why is that?
Shutdown.
Oh, yeah. You TEA Partier types wanted Shutdown to come, and now it’s here. But you didn’t see the impact it would have. Frank’s been impacted by Shutdown.
The question remains, though: why? Why is Shutdown impacting Frank J?
I was thinking that he’s on a secret mission to tackle Shutdown and get the government running again. Like the Batman, he’s at stately Fleming Manor, sitting in is robe, smoking his pipe, kids running around (well, one running, while the other watches and laughs) and Sarah K. in the kitchen making him sammiches. Suddenly, the phone rings, and it’s Government, asking for help from the menace of Shutdown. Frank J. leaps to his feet, kisses the kids, grabs another sammich, puts on his cape and rushes to the rescue.
Only… Frank J. wouldn’t rescue Government from Shutdown. He might be helping Shutdown.
Could Frank J. be spending this time helping Shutdown? Maybe he’s Shutdown’s primary advisor, and is now helping it defeat Government.
Then, again, maybe I’m way off base here.
What do you think? Where’s Frank J?
This Just In…
Three years after Obamacare passed, the New York Times finally admitted it will “significantly limit the choices of doctors and hospitals”.
Let me guess… that story was right between “Hindenburg Crashes” and “Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped”.