For a fake lighthouse to guide us through the true light
in the calm waters of the sea loches.
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nas augas mansas das rías.
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For a fake lighthouse to guide us through the true light
in the calm waters of the sea loches.
Que un falso faro nos guíe polo camiño certo da luz
nas augas mansas das rías.
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Is there a way to mute or block injury posts? The bike accidents, people landing on hard surfaces and getting hurt, etc.... I'd prefer not to see them.
Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders backstage at Toad’s Place in New Haven, Connecticut, 26th March 1980, as captured by Ebet Roberts. Chrissie Hynde (1995): “There was a time when they said, You can’t say ‘Fuck Off!’ on your record” “…But not me, baby/ I’m too precious/ (I had to) Fuck off!“ (”Precious”-The Pretenders, 1980) “I’d been in England five years and thought I was too old to be in a band, but I finally met the right guys (…) The stuff that really represented me and how I felt was never really heard on the radio. Like ‘Precious’. That was written about times I spent back home in Ohio. I guess that’s what gave an interesting flavour to the band, that a lot of it came from the gutter view of Ohio and the mid-western industrial suburban malaise. But I knew ‘Precious’ would never be played on the radio because of the ‘fuck off!’ line. Someone told me it’s the best use of ‘fuck off!’ in r'n’r…”
Was a barback at Toads in the 80's, though not when this happened unfortunately.
Who else are/were boomers? Nam war protestors, Nam vets who didn't want to be there (me), Earth day supporters, bra burning feminists, Mississippi freedom riders, the four dead students at Kent state, the Civil Rights movement, the Hispanic and Chicano movements, the United Farm Workers, the members of the second wave of feminists, the gay rights movement folks, the four Black girls killed at the Birmingham bombing of the Baptist church, the list goes on and on. Fuck all of those boomers.
This is a lot of words to say #notallboomers.
First off, I'm so sorry you had to go to Vietnam. That war never should have happened, and shitty rich white boys like my dad who supported the war and did everything they could to avoid service should live the rest of their lives in shame.
No generation is a monolith, obviously, but it's undeniable that the Boomers who are making life so miserable for Zoomers and Millenials are more likely to be revanchist, racist, entitled, and selfish than not. I was raised by a pair of them. When we say "fuck Boomers" that's who we're talking about.
If you were to make a generalization like this about almost any category of person (race, gender, nationality...), Mr. Wheaton would be among the first to decry the statement as hateful. I’ll be honest, this caught me off guard, I like and enjoy Wheaton, he is a likable guy, an online curator of the interesting, strange or amusing and calls out injustice when he sees it. How do you then, go ahead and make a blanket statement about people based on when they were born. The boomers will mostly be gone in 20 years at which point, according to Wheaton’s post there should be a significant improvement in the world as all those racist, entitled and selfish people are finally out of the way. That will include, of course, almost the entire cast of TNG who presumably fit the characteristics of the rubrik placed on them. Sorry for the rant, back to my revanching.
The Secret Republican Plan to Unravel Medicaid
Bad enough that the Republican Senate bill would repeal much of the Affordable Care Act.
Even worse, it unravels the Medicaid Act of 1965 – which, even before Obamacare, provided health insurance to millions of poor households and elderly.
It’s done with a sleight-of-hand intended to elude not only the public but also the Congressional Budget Office.
Here’s how the Senate Republican bill does it. The bill sets a per-person cap on Medicaid spending in each state. That cap looks innocent enough because it rises every year with inflation.
But there’s a catch. Starting 8 years from now, in 2025, the Senate bill switches its measure of inflation – from how rapidly medical costs are rising, to how rapidly overall costs in the economy are rising.
Yet medical costs are rising faster than overall costs. They’ll almost surely continue to do so – as America’s elderly population grows, and as new medical devices, technologies, and drugs prolong life.
Which means that after 2025, Medicaid will cover less and less of the costs of health care for the poor and elderly.
Over time, that gap becomes huge. The nonpartisan Urban Institute estimates that just between 2025 and 2035, about $467 billion less will be spent on Medicaid than would be spent than if Medicaid funding were to keep up with the expected rise in medical costs.
So millions of Americans will lose the Medicaid coverage they would have received under the 1965 Medicaid act. Over the long term, Medicaid will unravel.
Will anyone in future years know Medicaid’s unraveling began with this Senate Republican bill ostensibly designed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act? Probably not. The unraveling will occur gradually.
Will future voters hold Republicans responsible? Again, unlikely. The effects of the unraveling won’t become noticeable until most current Republican senators are long past reelection.
Does anyone now know this time bomb is buried in this bill?
It doesn’t seem so. McConnell won’t even hold hearings on it.
Next week the Congressional Budget Office will publish its analysis of the bill. CBO reports on major bills like this are widely disseminated in the media. The CBO’s belated conclusion that the House’s bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would cause 23 million Americans to lose their health care prompted even Donald Trump to call it “mean, mean, mean.”
But because the CBO’s estimates of the consequences of bills are typically limited to 10 years (in this case, 2018 to 2028), the CBO’s analysis of the Senate Republican bill will dramatically underestimate how many people will be knocked off Medicaid over the long term.
Which is exactly what Mitch McConnell has planned. This way, the public won’t be tipped off to the Medicaid unraveling hidden inside the bill.
For years, Republicans have been looking for ways to undermine America’s three core social insurance programs – Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. The three constitute the major legacies of the Democrats, of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. All continue to be immensely popular.
Now, McConnell and his Senate Republican colleagues think they’ve found a way to unravel Medicaid without anyone noticing.
Don’t be fooled. Spread the word.
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