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Sunday, July 15, 2012

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Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:46 AM

Posted by news intern Mike Gore

Crazy ol' Sun is at it Again! Solar flares from huge sun storm could make cool things in our sky.

Anti-Obama Vote: Rmoney isn't good, he's just hoping that people who don't like President Barack Hussein Obama will vote for him, because, you know...he's not that guy.

Ballard Shooting: Ex-BF allegedly shoots ex-GF, and her current guy. Crazy.

Leave Your Kid Alone: Texting college students all the time is 1) crazy and pathetic, as well as 2) really bad for them, according to a study of sorts.

I Can't See Your Halo: Joe Paterno's weird angelic halo is erased on mural. Any guesses why?

McKenna Blows up Your Computer: Rob is throwing more money at online advertising than Jay Inslee, by about $100,000 so far.

It Starts Today!: Breaking Bad starts back up for a fifth season today. Here are some interesting questions the creator answers.

This song just keeps playing everywhere and makes me want to drive my car into a wall, but there's still something so...catchy. (Yes, Anna posted this on LineOut a couple of days ago, but it's still funny)

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4 good things Bain Capital did on Mitt Romney's watch

At the time, Sports Authority had fewer than 10 stores, and was hungry for money to fuel its expansion. By the time Romney left Bain, Sports Authority had exploded, and employed nearly 14,000 people across the country.

http://theweek.com/article/index/228422/…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on July 15, 2012 at 9:48 AM

Is there a link for that second item?

Posted by Norbeck on July 15, 2012 at 9:48 AM

When is a mandate not truly a mandate? The health-care law does not truly compel Americans to have health insurance; it simply levies a tax on those who refuse to get it, with no other means of enforcement.

As a result, millions of people may decide that it's cheaper to pay that tax penalty than to buy a policy. Even with subsidies from the government, for example, it will likely be cheaper for a family of four living on $45,000 a year to pay the penalty than to get the most basic and cheapest plan offered on the exchanges.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that 4 million people will opt to pay the tax instead of buying health insurance by 2016.

http://theweek.com/article/index/230357/…

So many could end up paying and yet get zero healthcare!!

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on July 15, 2012 at 10:04 AM

"By the time Romney left Bain, Sports Authority had exploded"

From wikipedia, "In 1990 Kmart acquired the company."

So he was a minority investor in a startup company he had nothing to do with running, that was sold off 3 years later. I'm not convinced he deserves much credit for this.

Posted by JonnoN on July 15, 2012 at 10:12 AM

Whenever I hear the xylophone in that song, it makes me think of Ernie Kovacs. Was very bummed when the video wasn't done in gorilla masks and long coats. But, I have to say I like the Star Wars parody version "You're not going to get the blu-ray of the movie you used to know"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlbPXZE…

Posted by Large Hardon Colluder on July 15, 2012 at 10:14 AM

@2 - Fixed! Sorry about that, still waking up.

Enjoy!

-Mike the Intern

Posted by Unpaid Intern on July 15, 2012 at 10:34 AM

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I hate that song so much. How the hell do people like this? Really. How? I got through your little video until they started singing and then I had to stop it. I can't make it through the singing just to get to the punchline. The song is that bad. We will look back at it years from now like we look back at the worst 80's music.

Posted by floater on July 15, 2012 at 11:07 AM

@1 & 2

Didn't you fuck the comments up yesterday? Give it a goddamn rest.

Posted by GlamB0t on July 15, 2012 at 11:54 AM

Oops. @1 & 3

But congrats on learning how to properly bold your dumbass commets

Back to bed.

Posted by GlamB0t on July 15, 2012 at 11:57 AM

It's okay, Mike; nobody reads Line Out.

Posted by MacCrocodile

on July 15, 2012 at 12:00 PM

Re: 3, while four million people as an estimate of the number of blithering idiots in this country is probably low by at least an order of magnitude, I suspect that quite a few of the four million who might initially opt for the tax penalty rather than buy subsidized insurance, will change their minds within a year or two.

Once, you know, they realize that paying the penalty gives them zero protection from the financial losses that an uninsured catastrophic illness will bring.

That family of four with a household income of $45,000/yr would be able to get insurance with a subsidized premium of about $2700/yr. That's $225 a month, 6% of household income. Anyone who can't make that kind of deal a priority in their budget is doomed to failure for the host of other bad decisions they will undoubtedly make in life.

The zOMG capper from SRotU's little link:

Laurie Tirmenstein, a self-employed piano teacher in Texas who now brings her kids to the emergency room when they're sick, says she'd rather pay a $250 penalty than about $1,800 for an insurance policy. "I could much more easily afford a dadgum penalty than to be saddled month after month after month with this kind of premium," she said.

Uh, Laurie, honey, "this kind of premium" equals $150/month for you and your spawn. If you took what you spend on dadgums and goldurns (or pizza and cable) and put it in a pickle jar, you'd be surprised how quickly it adds up.

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