Posts Made By: Dave Snope

I had to look up "clerisy". The suggested antonym is "booboisie", a great word to describe the contempt that California's elitist ruling class have for the yeomanry.

"Clerisy" only partially describes these people. I would add "kleptocrats", as their level of curruption and drive to enrich and enlarge their class is unequaled in the U.S. This isn't Chicago style corruption (for the most part), it's a more refined art of extracting money from one class to benefit other classes that pay heavily for the desired results.

Very cool image

That's disappointing to hear. My 2005 Forester with the "same" 2.5L 170hp engine has a lot of pep and great throttle response in all conditions and temperatures. Lively handling, too. Lower MPG rating.

Maybe you can find a late model low mileage used one that has better response?

That's a confidence poll, not an actual "downing" of the economy. Obama is doing just fine on his own damaging of the economy.

It's just more silliness from the infamous "business" columnist Michael Hiltzik, who once was cited in Wikipedia as an example of the phrase "sock puppet" (in 2006 after he was first fired from LA Times for perpetrating a fraud).

Hiltzik recently told readers "facts" like this:

"The truth is, Americans love Obamacare" :S

"It’s about time the IRS subjected all of these (Tea Party) outfits to scrutiny" :S

and he argued that the lack of income verification for Obamacare could not lead to fraud. :S

That's really nice, Dave. Fantastic catch with the galaxies in the picture.

Bonus QOTD. There are so many it's hard to pick just one.

Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi said the ObamaCare implementation has gone very well. She also dismissed President Obama’s “keep your insurance” promise. She said families that were kicked off their insurance “will do better.”

LOL, desperation. They've all fallen back on "hiding in the ocean", and the anti-statistical sham "staircase" claim that any first year math major should be able to refute. Global warming used to be all about the surface temperature. Now that that isn't working, it was all about the sea surface temperature. But that has been flat for 15 years, so now it's all about the heat hiding in the oceans. Oh, but when it's hot outside, then the surface temperature matters a lot to them. It's really quite pathetic to see grown men acting like this in their profession.

So Rod, if you thought that the heat was hiding in the ocean, skipping down to the depths without heating the upper layers, you do believe in magic. Because it sure don't follow thermodynamics and heat transfer. Or did you skip that class in college? I didn't. I suppose that you might believe that the IR radiated back from atmospheric CO2 is warming the ocean. Is that "where you thought it was going"? One little nagging problem with that: IR doesn't penetrate water beyond 0.1", so it can only warm the surface, but that isn't warming. Oh and, since this study refutes Mann's hockeystick theory (his is pissed about it), which wind are you blowing with? Hockeystick or magic hidden heat?

The punch line is that you think this debunks anything. It's obvious from this and other opinion pieces by Hitzik that he is just being a loyal footsoldier for Lord of Catastrophes. The left wrote the law that pushed the insurance companies out of California, and now they are blaming the insurance companies. It's like they locked the dog in the house all day and blamed him for crapping on the floor.

The leftists are out in full force implementing their scheme to demonize the insurance companies:

“When Obamacare got into trouble, we juxtaposed our message against the insurance companies, which are very unpopular,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who has advised her 2014 clients, including Alaska Sen. Mark Begich, to go after insurers. “We should be messaging against the insurance companies this time as well. This is not good faith. If there is a snowstorm, the insurance companies are blaming it on Obamacare.”

Why the sudden interest in "debunking" personal health care anecdotes? We've been hearing anecdotes for the last five years and not a peep.

Why did all these other personal healthcare anecdotes get a pass?

Chad Henderson
Stanley Ann Dunham
Otto Raddatz
Robin Beaton
John Brodniak
Marcelas Owens
Natoma Canfield

I don't expect an answer from a True Believer. Because these people all had baldfaced lies told about their healthcare woes by Lord Catastrophe and his Minions. Never question them. They're here to help. Themselves. Amass. Power.

What's the difference? How about "terminated"?

My insurance company sent me a letter saying that my plan would terminate on Dec. 31 and that they will no longer be offering individual plans due to the ACA.

A 2nd insurance company sent me the same letter a month later.

No matter what word you want to use, two quality insurance companies have ended my health insurance coverage and will not be offering new plans. I liked my first insurance provider, but I cannot keep it. I liked my second provider better, but I cannot keep it. I had a wide variety of plan options within these two providers that enabled me to tailor a plan to best fit my family health needs and financial plans. Now without options, I was forced to go to coveredca.gov, was funneled down to only one choice of plans that approximates my previous coverage, with no competitive plans to comparison shop from. It still isn't clear if I can keep my doctors. I'm trying to get a bunch of doctor visits taken care of before the end of the year because of that. I really don't want to switch from doctors that I have a history and understanding with. It still isn't clear if our prescriptions will be covered. All we know is what the deductibles will be (more).