Bushie, lipo isn't for severe obesity.

True, I'm really not considering either, I know I can do it if I put my mind to it.  Unless things get real desperate, which I don't consider it now, then I might think about it.  I'm not sure if gastric bypass is something the Indian Doctors do anyway.  I don't have insurance for civilian medicine.

You'll have it soon. You have to buy it in 2014. But insurance companies generally make you prove you've made a serious effort before they'll pay.

FWIW, I understand the penalty for not having insurance in 2014 is only $98. Obviously it'll increase the next couple years, but it looks like 2014 is more of a "test run" of the mandate, getting it in place and all. The penalty is far too minor to be a major motivator.

I saw on the board that Rep Loon voted yes, after hesitating for a bit.

She said, in part, her final choice was swayed by one of her daughter's best friends coming out to her via email.  Aww.

Apparently some of the Republicans drifted over after one of them introduced an amendment to make it absolutely, totally, completely obvious that this was not An Attack On Marriage, including changing the bill to say "civil marriage" rather than just marriage.

Have a map!



David FitzSimmons managed to be a Republican from a gay-marriage-ban-supporting district that is a part of Michele Bachmann's federal district who voted for gay marriage.  Bless him.

Garofalo's district voted for it too. Loon and Kieffer though are from most likely the two strongest districts against held by Republicans.

A big disappointment is Tim Kelly.

Oh yeah. Celebratory mood while I was at work.

I actually plan on heading down to the Capitol Monday to counter-protest the bigots who will be out in force.

Lief is right. This is a bad idea. The sports blackout ban one is not though.

Haha yes now I do. I totally forgot about that thing but was just reminded.

Nothing notable about him or that he adds to the ticket, though I'm glad we're at least now considering that perhaps the VP nominee's main purpose isn't to "deliver" their home state or neighboring states.

So over/under on how many miles Bushie walks before Halloween?

Sorry, that was stupid and unfunny.
This one is BRUTAL.

But that's just one person who's an unsympathetic celebrity. This is demonizing the whole NRA and basically implying every member is a sociopath.

Bushie if you're serious post a screenshot of the confirmation screen after you cancel. You can edit out the site names and obviously any credit card info.

I'm guessing Bushie's subscriptions use this company, which despite the professional looking and completely un-NSFW site is primarily nothing more than a payment processor for porn sites: http://www.ccbill.com

Click on "Cancel Subscription". You need to enter two out of three pieces of info, the email used, the subscription ID, or the credit card used. I'm assuming Bushie knows his email, so finding the subscription ID in a receipt in it shouldn't be too hard. Even if it's not them but some similar company, it's probably a similar process.

Bushie, if you had gotten a minimum wage job working 20 hours a week when you got home, in addition to at least giving you some walking or mobile time that wouldn't be spent hanging around the house (not that being in a fast food restaurant is necessarily all that good for you, but hang on here), then $7.25 x 20 = $145 a week, and you've been home for about two months. $145 x 8 = $1160. That's almost enough for the Kenya trip. OK there's taxes and you can't be promised to get even a minimum wage job as soon as you got home, but still you should've been able to make enough with your tax refund to cover the Kenya trip and not have to mooch off your mom. Which kind of defeats any argument as to NOT taking such a job or at least looking, or at least signing up with a temp agency where you could probably get something at least $9/hour, not exactly great, but better than you have now. Then again when I worked at a temp agency it was mostly things like moving office furniture from an old location to a new one or unloading tires at a dealership, and even though it was only for 4 hours that'd probably be enough to get Bushie to collapse...

Another -- some states tax different items. Some states tax food, and some don't. Some tax prescription medicines, and some don't. Some tax religious materials and some don't. 

It is quite interesting. The freeloaders using EBT are exempt from paying sales  taxes that real Americans have to pay in some situations.

Inhumane piece of s**t.

...Wow. Even for krazen that's...

And there are people who think I have a problem with empathy?

Haha, couldn't be easier. NY-8

MN-5

iTunes already collects sales taxes. I've noticed it appears on my bill when I download apps. So the thing of coding different systems for different states is already being done easily by some places.

http://onion.com/10eHy3d

Oh wow. This is the most direct and brutal attack on any right wingers I've ever seen from it. It's not satiracle mocking of them like they usually do, it's an utterly mean-spirited demonization just like Seth MacFarlane does. Fantastic.

House vote is coming on Thursday:

http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_23188690/minnesota-gay-marriage-bill-set-thursday-vote-house

Good sign. I doubt Thissen would bring this up if he didn't have the votes.

I believe BRTD has a PDF of the lost Update. He needs to upload that.

http://speedy.sh/seCmS/thelostupdate.pdf

For the record I don't know if the band was even fans of him. They just picked the name because it sounded unisex and they were 2/3 male and 1/3 female. So it's not like Jack Kerouac that I know is a FF because I don't think Jawbreaker would've namedropped him in their lyrics if he wasn't. But I'll give Rilke the benefit of the doubt anyway.

He's pretty bad, but "one of the worst of all time" would put him in Uwe Boll or Michael Bay territory.

As noted above, his quality record is about on par with Michael Bay's. Even the Transformers movies were better received than The Happening and The Last Airbender.

Flipped his sh[inks] at me once, when I mentioned in passing that an ID is required for most credit card purchases here.  He went ballistic at me for reasons that made sense only to him.

Other than the misogyny, that's the first thing I think of about him.

Oh yeah I forgot that image he posted about a year or so ago. That would have to change my "Don't see anything wrong with him" statement. I'd change my vote if I could.

I need to know which arc we are corresponding to each season to answer. Season 5 with the move to Utah would probably be in the single digits though. Season 6 would be around 20% with most reviews saying "it's bad, but it's better than the one that came before."

His quota of great/passable/terrible movies is about similar to Michael Bay's...and his last two are renowned as two of the worst movies ever made in the last decade (The Happening and The Last Airbender).

I thought After Earth potentially looked cool until I found out he was behind it. There's no way to get me excited about anything directed by him.

President of the USA - Ronald Reagan
Vice President of the USA - George HW Bush
Monarch of the UK and other realms of the Commonwealth - Elizabeth II
Prime Minister of the UK - Margaret Thatcher
President or Premier of Russia or the Soviet Union - Yuri Andropov
President of France - Probably Francois Mitterand
Pope of the Catholic Church - John Paul II
Speaker of the US House of Representatives - Guessing Tip O'Neill
Majority Leader of the US Senate - dunno. PPT was Strom Thurmond though.
Prime Minister of Canada - Guessing Pierre Trudeau
Prime Minister of Australia - Guessing Bob Hawke
Governor of Massachusetts - Michael Dukakis

No clue for the rest.

*edit* upon checking all my guesses were correct. And Howard Baker was Senate Majority Leader as well as Senior Senator from Tennessee.

You don't know who the UK Labour leader was in December 1983? Or 1982's best picture winner? C'mon man!

Neil Kinnock. Never would've got that one.

Ghandi. Might've got that if I was able to guess for a long time.

Liberal Christians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk2OLYK0yx4
Conservative atheist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzGFytGBDN8

Enough said.

Think of this, would you rather hang out with Aaron Weiss or Christopher Hitchens? (Yeah obviously we have to assume the latter is still alive.)