Also seen tonight:
If you can’t read it all, it’s a liquor store/deli that also sells groceries, ice and ammo. Guess they don’t sell guns, though. They should have called it “Alcohol, Tobacco, and Ammo.”
Automotif – 50’s Merc
Saw this outside the burger joint I ate at tonight:
Lighting sucked, and all I had was my cell phone, but very tastefully done!
“Obama Promises To Lower Health Insurance Premiums by $2,500 Per Year”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o65vMUk5so?rel=0&showinfo=0]
One of my Facebook friends is someone I went to High School with. She posted this tonight:
Tonight I decided I wanted to be fully informed about what Obamacare would mean to our family if we chose to pursue it as our health insurance option. I went to the Obamacare website online. That website sent me to an insurance broker who called my home. I told him I wanted to check rates for Obamacare for our family of four. He said, “I can give you a quote but its going to be a terrible plan and more expensive than any other plan because the rates just went up 40% in North Carolina.” I pressed him to give me the rate anyway. He then quoted me a rate of $2195/month with a $14,300 deductible. (That equals basically paying $2195/month with no coverage short of a healthcare catastrophe.) I then asked him how that quote would change if my income was lower. He said that the rate would be exactly the same for anyone over a $40,000/year income. If someone making $40,000/year (only $16,717/year above the poverty level for NC) decided to sign up for Obamacare, they would be paying $26,340/year in insurance premiums plus whatever health care costs they had until they met their $14,300 deductible. (By the way, if this happened, it would mean, at that point, they would have spent more than they make/year on their healthcare.)
Who wants to sign up for that deal?
Nobody. Nobody at all.
I refer you back to February’s post, “American Health Care is All Over But the Screaming.” Read the links. And the links in the links.
Quote of the Day – Brad Thor Edition
If you’re unfamiliar with Brad Thor (I was), he is the author of technothrillers such as his most recent novel Foreign Agent. He was interviewed by Reason‘s Nick Gillespie on current political events (and his new novel). Today’s QotD comes at 25:40 of the interview:
I’m a big believer of Federalism. There’s too much going on in Washington, it’s too disconnected, and we ought to be making decisions… I moved to Tennessee because I didn’t like the decisions in Illinois. I mean, if the states are the laboratories of democracy, Illinois’ a fricken’ meth lab.
Sign of the Times
The Leading Cause of Electile Dysfunction™
Happy Halloween!
I WILL NOT Register
I discovered in 2003 that the state of New Jersey had outlawed the original Marlin Model 60 .22 caliber rifle as an “assault weapon” because its tubular magazine held “more than 10 rounds.” Now New York City has done something similar, but it’s magazine capacity limit is five. And they’re serious about it:
The only effective use of a firearm registry is to make it easier to take guns away from the law abiding.
I will not register. After the first felony, the rest are free.
I’m REALLY Tired of 2016
Rest in peace, Steven DenBeste.
I’ve quoted extensively from Steven’s work at U.S.S. Clueless, and today I find that not only has Steven passed, but the archive of U.S.S. Clueless is gone as well. Both are major losses.
Dammit.
UPDATE, 10/27/16: Several commenters have noted that the archive is available on the Internet Wayback machine and in several other sources. Apparently a lot of people felt it was worth making a copy.
I Used to Joke…
I’m completely serious here. I used to joke that if the Cubs won the pennant it would be the Seventh Sign of the Apocalypse.
Apparently that was taken as a challenge.
I need to load more ammo.
America, Fuck Yeah!
Two videos from Jay Leno’s Garage that just make me feel good:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HADpy9bF2U4?rel=0&showinfo=0&vq=hd720]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYzuqAX2A3A?rel=0&showinfo=0&vq=hd720]