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Overnight Open Thread (12-5-2012)Conservative Blogger Poll: Who Should the GOP Choose as its Nominee in 2016 AoSHQ was not part of this particular Kool Konservative Bloggers Poll so you'll have to send your pipe bombs and cobras to someone else this time. :-) Here are the top 10: 1) Which of the following candidates would you most prefer to see as the GOP's 2016 candidate? And then you have the bottom 10 : 3) If the list were narrowed down to the following 10 candidates, then which one would you **** LEAST LIKE **** to see as our 2016 nominee? So doing the differential math it looks like it's gonna be Marco Rubio/Bobby Jindal in 2016. Let the pre-criminations begin!
A Physician on ObamaCare: Patients Ask Me to Break the Law ObamaCare guarantees everyone an annual 'free exam' but that's it - and it would be illegal to ask about anything else during the same visit. If you are here for that annual exam, you will not be covered if you want to discuss any new ailment or unstable condition. I cannot bait and switch to another code - that's illegal. We, the physicians, are audited all the time and can lose our license for insurance fraud. Elections have Consequences: No More Student Loan Deductions for You It turns out that the Bush Tax Cuts For The RichTM also let a lot of people deduct their student loan interest. But that will be going away come Jan. 1st: It appears that along with reducing taxes on rich people (those making more than $250,000 per year), allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire at the end of the year is going to have a bunch of other interesting effects, including: "The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families." Well if you bought the Obama ticket, then enjoy the Obama economic ride. The poverty rate is about to shoot up and permanently stay there. Why? Because it's going to be graded on the curve which guarantees there will always be an 'impoverished' 10%. Now, a family of four with full medical insurance, living in Oakland, can be considered "poor" if its yearly pre-tax income is below $42,500. In Washington, DC, the figure is $40,300; in Boston, $39,500; in New York, $37,900. Are the Five Stages of Grief All BS? By now most people are familiar with the Kübler-Ross five stages of grief. But it turns out that there's very little evidence that it's true: The idea that grief has specific stages is a popular belief and was given its most professional gloss by the Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who is often cited as suggesting that mourners pass through stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. ...But regardless of how accurately her ideas were used, the evidence for these stages evaporates under scrutiny - perhaps unsurprising considering they were based on little more than casual observation and creative thinking. America's Most Embarrassing Addresses So I'm guessing there was an unfortunately incident involving a cleaning implement in this area. At least if Lake Havasu follows Australian Naming Rules. Regularly scheduled parades without absolute control of the air are just asking for a hostile visit. "This is June 1942 and the real dark days of war for the French and this was to demonstrate that the Germans weren't invincible." 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Living in Japan Well my experience living in Japan almost two decades ago and visiting in the last few years pretty much matches what the Cracked writer says. Japan has a weird mix of high and low-tech - so people may walk around with gadgets more advanced than anything in the US yet most business is done with old-school faxes and involves quite a lot of paper-work. And public wi-fi and on-line forms for most services are extremely rare. And then you have the national utter lack of decent heating systems in a country whose climate is essentially the same as the US eastern seaboard. You can pick up an electric AC/heater, if you feel like throwing down hundreds of dollars to pay for both the unit and the required professional installation, but even then it's only enough to cover one room. The Japanese simply do not heat more than one or two places in the entire house -- they never have, and they aren't likely to start before you move here. Your only other option is a kerosene heater, which you can't really leave running overnight unless you're trying to burn and/or suffocate your family to death. Of course, having one also means keeping several cans of kerosene around the house at all times, so the "burning" thing may eventually happen on its own. But Japanese blogger AMPONTAN disagrees. Teh Tweet! Yahoo group. That is all. Tonight's post brought to you by mastering your inner wolf: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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