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Best way to start the weekend – Zhanna Friske
Trying to post good news about Obamacare but this site keeps giving me an error. Here's just the link (see if this works) – www.cnbc.com/id/100925732
Weird. That worked but a formatted post with links gets "Internal Server Error". I guess the Pols software doesn't want good stories 🙂
Nah, Dave…the server just has indigestion from having to process the Euro-pop.
As the video was allowed, I think that Pols is telling me more pop videos 🙂
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100925732
from the above link
I think this means the entire process can occur at these sites. If so, the main government site can be changed to a single page with links to each of these providers. There's been almost no reporting on this and the sites themselves don't have this set up yet. But if they can, we may see all this working next week.
And there's more good news. The GOP has come out with some specific alternatives to Obamacare. Special thanks to Congressman Ryan for taking the lead on this.
David–do you ever tire of being completely clueless? That story is from July.
And oh, by the way–have you actually been on an exchange site yet, or are you simply (once again) talking about shit you know nothing about?
Hey Ralphie! Nice to hear from you. If you ever come to Denver, dinner's on me.
I'm sure David is aware of the article's age. He tends to…forget to include anything that might take away from the point he's trying to make.
My point in this post is they may have a simple solution to this mess. Quite different from my previous post.
And it doesn't matter when this happened, what matters is the approval is in place so why not point people directly to these company sites?
Or do you prefer any means of attacking someone rather than looking for a solution to the problem?
But doesn't it strike you that the article is from long before the roll out and therefore probably based on assumptions that may no longer apply and may therefore no longer be operational, so to speak?
Congressman "Useless" Ryan?
Congressman "I do pump my ass up for nothing" Ryan?
<*mmmmphf*>
I went there and got an article from July.
Proof, as if it was needed, that the world is all screwed up.
"Right wing cyber attacks on healthcare.gov Confirmed by Homeland Security
http://www.examiner.com/article/right-wing-cyber-attacks-on-healthcare-gov-website-confirmed?cid=db_articles
Where is Monica Goodling when we need a strong Justice Departent?
Assuming that they catch the people who spread these denial of service attacks, will they be as hard on them as they were on Aaron Swartz?
They should face prosecution and jail time.
The Obama Administration's vendetta against Aaron Swartz was awful.
Absolutely.
Sometimes it's not paranoia, no tin hats required.
In Colorado, we spend campaign money on issues, not candidates. This is amazing, to me. From TRACER, the secretary of state's website, a graphic about how money was spent in 2013 in Colorado:
Amazing? There were no major candidate races, but a huge tax increase and secession votes. See what it looks like next year.
Well, yeah. What I'm getting at is how much of our political change now happens in "off-year" elections, reflectd by 16 million dollars.
The recalls, Amendment 66, tax law changes – all of this happens when most Americans aren't paying attention. Which can lead to a "tyranny of the minority", mirroring what is happening in the US House of Representatives. And, I think, to even more corporate takeover of government.
Issue committees have so much more flexibility than candidate committees. They can pop up, fund a $150K smear campaign (as AFP-Colorado's "Free Colorado" campaign did against John Morse and Angela Giron"), then become inactive. Tax filings don't come out for a year, and can be laundered through other committees. Katherine Kennedy, at 2318 Curtis St, is the registered agent for over 40 conservative issue committees and 527s. Go to TRACER, do a registered agent search, put in Kennedy, and 47 results will come up, most of which will trace back to Katherine or Katie Kennedy at the Curtis St address.
The same thing happens if one does a search with "Nicolais" as registered agent. 6 lobbying "issue committees" come up, along with generalized campaign slush funds such as the Senate Majority Fund.
I guess that my point is that, absent a reversal of the Citizens United decision, we need to get better at tracking issue committee expenditures, because they are well on the way to determining our political futures.
Plus, the money spent on the non-partisan Denver School race was obscene. I think the same might be said for the Douglas Cty school board race.
I think most of that "issue" money was to push for Amendment 66.
The same definitely could be said for Douglas County. And I love how the media just called both those races victories for "reform", without explaining how different the "reform" in question was in those two races. They made it sound as if the same kind of thing triumphed in both Denver and DougCo which couldn't be farther from the truth. Are average journalists just a lot dumber than they used to be?
They're younger. Experienced people have been bought out or laid off.
Editors, particularly experienced ones, are an endangered species. See Post, Denver.
They don't read much, anywhere, not even the paper they work for. They don't know the issues themselves so how can they question the politicians? They're happy with press releases and snappy sound bites.
Suppsedly they should be learning the discipline as journalism students. Guess not.
J-School is only the basics. The rest is taught by experienced reporters and editors.
It's true in almost every line of work. No matter how fine your education, you learn the real job once you're on it. People ahead of you teach you the tricks of the trade.
It's called evolution:-) Which, by the way, continues.
I realize that people in all professions and trades learn more on the job than in school or training but the basics in journalism courses used to include stringent standards for fact checking and and strict differentiation between verifiable hard info and opinion. And even with opinion, the distinction between informed opinion and opinion pulled out of thin air just because was clear cut. If they are still teaching any of that in essay writing or in journalism courses, it doesn't show.
When my kid was in High School, the school paper he worked on demonstrated higher standards of journalism than what we see in "professional" journalism now. Heck, when I was in junior high (we didn't have middle school back then) the standards for an essay in any 7th grade class in my school (granted the finest public school district in the Chicago area at the time with our high schools considered on a par with the best private prep schools) reflected higher standards for backing up any contentions than what we see across the media today.
I think It's a combination of the every opinion is equally valid (perhaps an offshoot of the self esteem nonsense that prevailed starting several decades ago in education) and pure Wikipedia for all your report and term paper needs laziness. I bet the ninnies who just did their job for Rand Paul by lifting material straight from Wikipedia with barely a comma change didn't even realize that doing so was plagiarism or that copying from a single source isn't research.
It's a cultural change and not one of the positive ones.
I might add…
As well as our print media, our television options are… well, underwhelming.Those of you who have never spent time watching western slope TV can't truly grasp what it is like. Many of our anchors and reporters are fresh out of college (or still in it) and are paid peanuts to get "sound bite " stories for the 5:00 news. Ours is a training market.
I am assuming that trend toward youth and inexperience is also present in front range media, but here, because of our limited menu, it is profoundly noticable…
Our Family’s Obamacare Saga
So, a few points:
One final note: I am 16 days into Medicare. Yea! But, up through October, I was paying $750/mo to United Health Care for a $4.5K/HSA plan. The Colorado Obamacare website says that I could buy an equivalent plan for $450/mo. Yea!
Overall, I think that the Kenyan-Marxist Healthcare is a Good Thing®, but it is very complicated. I have no idea how people without a college education are going navigate their way through it successfully. I know what they did before: they went without medical insurance.
Good news. The pregnancy clause is hilarious.
Old Newsman scores another…Charles Ashby with the GJ Daily Sentinel on Gesslers Quixotic Quest to piss off growing voting demographic.
Gessler made a…
but
Quality reporting from reporters in the field is the Sentinel's enduring value in Colorado. You have to wade through Wagner, Harmon, and Penry, but there are very solid journalists working there as well.
That's true, CT; Ashby's solid, along with a few others. Pity they have to work for a guy like Jay Seaton, who gives space to people like Wagner, Harmon, and Penry, and thinks alliteration is the key to good journalism.
Wagner and Penry don't count as journalists. They write columns, and they're terrible. But it's Seaton's ink.
Gertie…
You are then inferring that Harmon does??
Solid investigative journalism. Ashby pulled together years of Gessler exploiting fears that immigrants were voting, and shows the cynical waste of resources Gessler promoted in furthering his partisan agenda. Handy to have this all in one place, finally.
I was just made aware of a story regarding a secret trade agreement currently underway and continuing in Salt Lake City, very soon. This is news to me, but, perhaps not to this community. I checked out the "Democracy Now" link, but my time is short this morning.
Unless my impression is wrong, this is important….be very afraid…
Check out the following links:
http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2013/11/expose-trans-pacific-partnership/
www.exposethetpp.org/
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/14/tpp_exposed_wikileaks_publishes_secret_trade
http://emsnews.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/wikileaks-tpp-secret-trade-deal-reveals-one-aspect-of-bilderberg-plots-to-annihilate-all-economic-power-of-labor-class/
http://www.citizen.org/Wikileaks-publishes-TPP-IP-Chapter
TPP will be a killing blow to the American economy, if half of what it is projected to allow is allowed. Why the hell would we want to offshore more jobs, weaken regulations, and discourage "buying American"? Grrrr.
Albert Becco, Pueblo Democrat and representing the Alliance for American Manufacturing, quizzed Scott Tipton at a town hall recently about Tipton's support for the TPP.
Tipton danced around it, as he did with most of the tough queries from his audience. Paraphrased, Tipton's reply to Becco was "I am for creating jobs. My hydroelectric and lumber bills (note: I don't know which bill this is) will create American jobs. Trust me."
Trust me…?
Paraphrased, as I said. Tipton definitely was portraying himself as a jobs creator with a jobs plan, to answer Albert Becco's concern.
Right…I caught the inference. Of, course I trust him. How could anyone ever doubt the integrity of Congressman Tipton? Well, other than the majority of his constituents, I mean.
Who vote for him nevertheless.
I am not sure he can continue to count on it, though, BC. The last year or so has seen a significant opposition to him growing within his own party. This will be an interesting election…
I wouldn't get overly optimistic. Just sayin'.
Believe me, BC, I have lived here far too long to be optimistic about voters on the western slope. How many times have I seen them reject an outstanding candidate and elect a greedy buffoon to office?
Answer…almost without exception.
It's been the same for me here in CD6 with the exception of a couple of terms for a really good HD38 Rep, Joe Rice, swept out in the 2010 election with the help of a million and a half spent in a little old HD to elect a poor man's Sarah Palin named Conti, as ignorant as the day is long. She honestly believed that St Reagan never raised taxes and that taxes under Obama were skyrocketing compared to the past. But am looking forward to the first possibility of ousting the GOTP from the CD6 House seat in 2014.
2 miners dead in Ouray. 20+/- trapped
I guess that they got everyone out and to hospitals except for the two who died. Thoughts and prayers for the families and the recovery of the miners.