Shocked face – The Media Has a Very Different Attitude Toward Donald Trump’s Health Than Hillary Clinton’s
The media appears to have a very different attitude toward President Donald Trump’s health than it once did toward former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
Guess it’s too much to expect them to “do their job regardless of who is President.” Of course, this obsession with Trump’s physical or mental health says a lot more about the media that it does about Trump.
Give me a break. How #piegate is the latest example of the Trump administration’s credibility being called into question – LA Times
Indeed, on the surface the pie matter seems trivial, but it also speaks to the credibility of an administration and a president who have faced repeated questions about truthfulness, said longtime Republican strategist John Weaver.
I knew the press would start doing their jobs when a Republican was elected, but I didn’t realize they would take stoopid pills as well.
No Sh*t – Ellen DeGeneres Ogles Katy Perry’s Boobies, But That’s Okay. Bet it’s not OK if I do it? Victory Girls blog has photo-shopped pictures of various “gentlemen” taking Ellen’s place. Read the whole thing.
What is life without challenges – You Pay the Price | According To Hoyt
The thing is, it seems to me, or at least in my experience, that nothing worth doing is ever easy. Or simple. And if you’re really fortunate and get great success handed to you on a platter nine times out of ten you turn your back on it, despising it, or else break at the first real difficulty.
I’ve seen more potentially good writers be destroyed by having their first novel accepted than by having to struggle through ten novels to sell one at last.
Heinlein said humans are made to overcome adversity, and if we have things too easy:as humans, as societies, or as individuals, we go to pieces.
The thing is, it seems to me, or at least in my experience, that nothing worth doing is ever easy. Or simple. And if you’re really fortunate and get great success handed to you on a platter nine times out of ten you turn your back on it, despising it, or else break at the first real difficulty.
I’ve seen more potentially good writers be destroyed by having their first novel accepted than by having to struggle through ten novels to sell one at last.
Heinlein said humans are made to overcome adversity, and if we have things too easy:as humans, as societies, or as individuals, we go to pieces. (emphasis added)
Fortunately, I’m not at risk for that. Nothing is ever easy or simple. And yet I forge on, and often end up getting what I wanted all along.
This is why it’s vital to have challenges, like the conquest of space, or interstellar flight. Because humanity as a whole needs things that aren’t easy or simple.
We need to continue achieving. Else, might as well let the snowflakes convince us to stop breeding, and end up extinct or with the sort of population that won’t support agriculture let alone a technological society.
Nothing is ever easy or simple, and yet, as humanity battles on,you could say we’re working to specs.
Fortunately, I’m not at risk for that. Nothing is ever easy or simple. And yet I forge on, and often end up getting what I wanted all along.
This is why it’s vital to have challenges, like the conquest of space, or interstellar flight. Because humanity as a whole needs things that aren’t easy or simple.
We need to continue achieving. Else, might as well let the snowflakes convince us to stop breeding, and end up extinct or with the sort of population that won’t support agriculture let alone a technological society.
Nothing is ever easy or simple, and yet, as humanity battles on, you could say we’re working to specs.
Wall said Sarah.
If you don’t behave the arrogant progressive establishment will beat you down. Prominent Conservative Artists Blacklisted Because of Involvement with Alt*Hero Comics Series | Lifestyle
Timothy Lim paid the price for not being politically correct i choosing who he freelanced for…
Timothy Lim, a talented freelance professional illustrator and cover artist, has been fired from Mount Olympus Comics because he took a job to create the cover for the subversive right-wing comic series Alt★Hero. After Alt★Hero creator Vox Day announced Lim’s contribution publicly, Lim received this message from his current employer.
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Asked if Lim had ever been attacked by conservatives for drawing Bernie-themed covers, he laughed. “In seven years, not once has a conservative contacted me to shame me for my work or blacklist me for the clients that I had.” (emphasis added) Lim’s major work includes Star Wars Adventures, Back to the Future, Street Fighter X G.I. Joe, TMNT and much more. He worked for seven years as a merchandising artist with properties that included Marvel, Lucasfilm, Valve, and Nickelodeon.
PJ Media reached out to Vox Day for his opinion of Lim’s blacklisting from Mount Olympus. “The fact that a comics publisher, of any political stripe, would refuse to utilize the work of an accomplished illustrator like Timothy Lim simply because he worked with someone else they don’t like is absurd, but more importantly, it is proof that they are less interested in producing quality content than they are in pursuing approval from social justice warriors.”
The holier than thou attitudes of the progressive elites really sickens me. Does he do good work? Can he do the job? Can he interact successfully with those required to successfully complete the job?
None of that matters if you’re a conservative illustrator freelancing for a SJW comic book and you also dare to do some work for “the other side.” Note, we’re not talking about stealing plots or trade secrets here.
But if the reverse occurs,the conservative employer is mainly worried about the key questions:
Does he do good work? Can he do the job? Can he interact successfully with those required to successfully finish the job?
In addition, where the liberal/progressive is working in a conservative environment, they will take it upon themselves to make sure everyone they are working with understands they are a liberal/progressive/SJW. They enjoy the opportunity to create disruption. No effort to fit in while they do their job. More it’s an effort to broadcast as far and wide as they can get away with what they view as their “superior” attitude. They may do a great job, but rest assured their SJW arrogant attitude will be known by all.
Does the reverse happen, sure, But I’ve seen it much more frequently when an the worker is an actual employee vs. a freelance artist. In the freelance and consulting words, if you’re a conservative, you lay low in almost all but the most “safe” situations. Coming out of the closet is hazardous to your employability. Just ask Timothy Lim.
Oh, and this is how you get more Trump. We’re taking notes and we vote.
This is how you get more Trump – Democrats Are Calling Psychologists To Talk About Trump’s Mental Health
What a blessing I’m too old to change. The Men Taking Classes to Unlearn Toxic Masculinity.
Sound like an idea that should be mandatory in Boulder school systems. Whoops, I’m sure it’s already implemented. Silly me.
First you’re a twit. Second, “Grow the Fuck up.”: My liberal white male rage: What should I do about it? – Salon.com
After that, you need to meet former NPR CEO Ken Stern or take a similar adventure as he did: Former NPR CEO opens up about liberal media bias
But mostly, you need to grow up.
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RTD is broke but the stoopid pseudo-intellectual elite Progressives in Boulder can do it better. Gag me. With RTD struggling, might Boulder launch a regional transit authority? – Boulder Daily Camera
I don’t understand why Boulder doesn’t start their own version of PERA (Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association) since their so damn smart and can do almost anything better.
Coming to a country near you – NHS provokes fury with indefinite surgery ban for smokers and obese
The NHS will ban patients from surgery indefinitely unless they lose weight or quit smoking, under controversial plans drawn up in Hertfordshire.
The restrictions – thought to be the most extreme yet to be introduced by health services – immediately came under attack from the Royal College of Surgeons.
Its vice president called for an “urgent rethink” of policies which he said were “discriminatory” and went against the fundamental principles of the NHS.
In recent years, a number of areas have introduced delays for such patients – with some told operations will be put back for months, during which time they are expected to try to lose weight or stop smoking.
But the new rules, drawn up by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Hertfordshire, say that obese patients “will not get non-urgent surgery until they reduce their weight” at all, unless the circumstances are exceptional.
The criteria also mean smokers will only be referred for operations if they have stopped smoking for at least eight weeks, with such patients breathalysed before referral.
Wonder why this is happening? Well not really.
Subsidies based on income just became much more valuable – Trump’s health subsidy cuts may not hit local enrollment
The situation is the tax credit to reduce premiums paid by Obamacare enrollees was already shielding them from this year average 26.6% increase in Colorado. The fact that the average increase is now 32.6% is not relevant to those receiving the credits as the credits will rise to nullify the increase in plan prices.
HOWEVER, if you are not eligible for a tax credit, then you will feel the full force of the rate increase and as the article says, some counties in the eastern plains have much higher increases than 33%.
Despite the headline, the article points out exactly that…
Those who don’t qualify for tax credits or more affordable plans because of the cost-sharing reductions could see much higher premiums, Hanel said.
Some of these consumers bought plans directly through insurance companies before the Affordable Care Act and maintained that business relationship.
Out of the 435,000 people on the individual market statewide, 248,000 policyholders would face the premium increase, according to Colorado Health Institute. (emphasis added)
This is a much higher number not eligible for tax credits than I’ve seen elsewhere. I suspect Connect for Health Colorado doesn’t really have an interest in counting higher income enrollees that avoid their antiquated website.
That would be the University of California Santa Cruz – Students storm library, shut down College Republicans meeting
One of the ringleaders of the protest was student activist Haik Adamian, who posted an announcement in the official UCSC Student Facebook group calling on students to deny the CR group its First Amendment rights.
“White Supremacist, fascist sympathizing College Republicans are having a meeting at McHenry library, room 0332. Everybody be aware of this violent racist activity happening everyday on this campus!” he wrote, adding that “We need a movement of people on this campus that rejects the ‘right of assembly,’ or ‘right of free speech’ for white supremacists and fascists.”
Haik Adamian is a brainless thug.
After nearly two hours, school officials eventually called the police, who reportedly arrested three of the protesters.
Two hours!? Sounds as if the University is not particularly interested in protecting the rights or providing safety to their Republican students. Perhaps they should be designated as a special class.
It appears there IS a silver lining…
“When the protesters came in, we all just wanted to talk with them. We didn’t want there to be any trouble, and since we enjoy debate, they would’ve been welcome to talk,” CR President Brandon Lang told Campus Reform, though he added that he “wasn’t surprised when they continued their chanting, as they made it obvious from the outset that they weren’t there to talk.”
Lang isn’t terribly bothered by the incident, though, noting that “all of the people who came down to see what was going on…ended up siding with us because it was immediately obvious that what they heard was inaccurate” and speculating that the incident may even “result in the club receiving a lot of new members in the coming week, as I’ve seen an uptick in the number of people requesting to join the FB page.” (emphasis added)
Turns out some of the protesting thugs were UCSC Student Union Assembly officers. This sissified group decided to take no action…
Despite the group’s patience with the protesters at the time, though, CR members addressed the UCSC Student Union Assembly meeting Tuesday night to propose sanctions against two protesters who also happen to be SUA officers.
While the SUA ultimately decided that it was not consistent with the SUA Constitution to sanction the members, Lang told Campus Reform that many of the student government representatives seemed “minorly disturbed” while being informed of their colleagues’ participation in the disruption.
I refer you to Why Conservative College Kids Should Be a Protected Class by Toni Airaksinen
Direct Primary Care (DPC), the future of primary care.
Selected quotes:
On demoralized primary care doctors and attrition…
One of the most profound changes to American health care, brought about by the Affordable Care Act is that it drove thousands of independent doctors to throw in the towel and join large hospital networks. This is particularly true of primary care doctors, as the rules involving medical records, billing codes and prior authorizations have gotten more complex. Physicians find they can’t survive without joining large healthcare networks. And they’re increasingly demoralized. 48% of our present family medicine, primary care workforce, said they’re leaving in the next 3 years.
On your care being managed…
I think what most people are accustomed to is someone managing their health care. For a lot of reasons because we’ve been doing that so long they just can not imagine what it would look like if they were just paying their doctor.
Doctor patient relationship…
But fundamentally whenever you work in partnership with your patients without the interference from a 3rd party it really changes everything for the patient and the doctor. So we’re able to be very creative in meeting their needs. Able to give them transparency in pricing and just redesign the entier healht care experience around what patients really need. As opposed to us being distracted by all of the 3rd party coding and billing and all those things that the normal health care system has.
Goodness, someone finally gets it right – By Cutting Off Obamacare’s Insurer Subsidies, Trump Might Help More People Get Health Coverage – Hit & Run : Reason.com
But the premium hikes won’t directly affect most low-income people, however, because Obamacare’s subsidies increase with premiums, insulating those individuals from higher costs.Instead, this move is likely to raise premiums for people who earn too much to qualify for subsidies under Obamacare—which is to say, the people who have already been hit hardest by the law’s price hikes. The expansion of the subsidies, meanwhile, gets paid for by taxpayers, increasing the deficit by about $194 billion over the next decade.
But no one cares about the people who make more than 400% of the Federal Poverty Level. They don’t have any special interest group looking out for them.
Plus, what Trump did was right, it’s the rule of law and the power of the purse. Powerline’s John Hinderaker explains: ON OBAMACARE, TRUMP RESTORES THE RULE OF LAW
Judge Collyer ordered an end to the illegal federal payments, but stayed her order pending appeal. The current Department of Justice, having reviewed the legal issues, now has concluded that Judge Collyer was correct, and that the subsidies that the Obama administration paid were unconstitutional. Therefore, the president has now elected to follow the law, and has ended the improper payments.
John concludes…
If Congress wants to continue the subsidies, it can do so. Its appropriation, obviously, will make them constitutional. But regardless of what happens from now on, the Trump administration has acted admirably by refusing to go along with the unconstitutional regime that Barack Obama instituted.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Congress does appropriate the Cost Sharing Subsidies, heck it will even be bipartisan. However, most will be doing it under false pretenses that they poor are being screwed and they need to fix it. The poor are not being damaged by the lack of CSR subsidies, it’s those just over 400% of the Federal Poverty Level.
What can I say? Boulder is a stoopid place! Boulder booze manufacturers left scrambling, again, as once-dormant tax shows signs of life – Boulder Daily Camera
In August 2016, Boulder staff realized that a city tax on local booze makers, first implemented in 1974, was mistakenly going unenforced. As a result of this discovery, the city decided to start charging the 27 manufacturers to whom the tax — about a $3,000 annual fee — should apply.
DIRECT PRIMARY CARE Cutting out the middleman | GJSentinel.com The future of primary care.
Dr. Craig Gustafson can remember back a few years when he was seeing 20-25 patients per day. He spent hours doing paperwork to send to insurance companies to justify the charges for each visit and what he felt was little time practicing actual medicine.
After 10 years at a private primary care practice, he left to pursue another model and founded Appleton Clinics, a direct primary care office that charges patients a monthly fee for unlimited visits and doesn’t use insurance.
“I felt the traditional medical system, at least for primary care, was not serving and primarily focused on the needs of patients. We were ultimately responsible to insurance companies instead of the patient in front of us,” Gustafson said.
Do you want a doctor visit where you don’t feel the doctor is in a rush? Where you’re not anxious that you have to review everything in a small 15 or 20 minute window? Where the doctor aggressively helps reduce your medical costs with access to low cost medications and referrals to low cost labs and hi-tech imaging? That your yearly physical is included in your monthly fee?
The you should give serious consideration to finding a Direct Primary Care practice.
It’s definitely working for some Grand Junction doctors…
“For me, I felt like I wasn’t getting enough time with patients until now,” Boyer said. “I want a way to make money in this model without compromising our product.”
Between them, the clinics now treat thousands of Grand Valley residents and are showing steady growth as direct primary care practices, gaining new members and hiring doctors in what has become a more popular way to handle primary care across the country during the last 15 years.
It’s also interesting that the patient demographics have turned out differently than expected…
The type of patients who have come to use direct primary care has surprised Gustafson. He initially expected more financially well-off patients who could afford to spend extra money on primary care to have better access to their doctor while still being on Medicare if older or visit his office in addition to having insurance for everything else.
In reality, both Appleton and Trailhead have seen a wide range of patients: families with one or multiple income providers working for small employers, self-employed patients and lower-income citizens. Twenty to 30 percent are on Medicaid, although Gustafson said Appleton does not keep records on insurance providers.
For Medicaid patients, the issue is most likely that they qualify for the service, but have been unable to find a primary care doctor and can still afford the $69-$89 monthly fee, especially if they have some health issues that require more frequent visits.
Read the whole thing. Although this article is about Grand Junction, there are DPC practices in the Front Range area as well. Visit directprimarycare.org to search for a practice. I’ve been using a DPC doctor for at least almost 3 years now and am very pleased.
WHO WILL NANCY AND HER FRIENDS COME FOR NEXT? Nancy Sinatra Calls For NRA Members To Be Executed By Firing Squad | MRCTV
Stoopid witch with a ‘b.’
PJ Media’s Toni Airaksinen relates her College enlightened journalistic experience writing non PC articles at the Columbia Daily Spectator – Why Conservative College Kids Should Be a Protected Class
But instead of focusing on social justice in the traditional way, I focused on something else — the dangers of feminism, misleading sexual assault statistics, and the lack of due process for men in campus rape trials. I wrote columns arguing that Columbia should offer a course in men’s studies, and that students shouldn’t report microaggressions. Sure, women face problems in society, but men do too. Shouldn’t we care about them?
Hell no! Laughing out loud on that one Toni. No doubt Toni has shared experiences with kindred soul Helen Smith who blogs at PJ media and is a big men’s rights supporter.
Toni continues her story, admitting she was somewhat naive…
The backlash was swift. Perhaps I went into it too naively. After all, I was a student at a women’s college, a hotbed of militant feminism. I should have expected it. But after a while, the angry comments and diatribes students emailed me gave way into something more pernicious — being targeted on campus.
Students started yelling, quite literally, when they saw me on campus. One student followed me around twice in the local grocery store, trying to accost me. They’d come up to me at my campus desk job, demanding an apology for what I’d written. One student would take pictures of me when she saw me at the library. Then, the death threats came in. Not from strangers on the internet, but from fellow students.
She thought she was alone…
Needless to say, my experiences aren’t unique, at least for outspoken conservative and libertarian students on campus. As the rates of targeted harassment of gay and transgender students has fallen, students who don’t conform to left-liberal ideology face harassment at rising rates. When I first started getting death threats, I thought I was alone. It wasn’t until I started meeting other outspoken conservative students that I realized that the experience was de rigueur.
Ashley Rae Goldenberg, a popular libertarian journalist, faced death threats from peers when she was a student at George Mason University. Kassy Dillon, a student at Mount Holyoke, was tracked down by peers on election night and was verbally assaulted. Marisa Ricchey, a student at UT-Knoxville, saw her service dog get kicked after someone on campus saw her pro-Trump pin. These are just a few cases. There are dozens more that have been covered by the media, and even more that don’t break news
Likewise, as websites like Campus Reform and The College Fix report — harassment that students face has rise precipitously since the election. One pro-Trump student, 18-year-old Andi Moritz, was forced to flee Boston University after facing relentless harassment from her peers. Her only crime? Asking for a ride to a Trump rally so she wouldn’t have to carpool with a guy she didn’t know well.
Got that, forced to flee Boston University from peer harassment. Shame, absolute shame on both Boston University and the snowflake pieces of scum students that are supposedly her peers.
She has some recommended solutions, to which I recommend you read the whole thing.
And why is it important to implement these solutions? Toni explains in her concluding paragraph…
The cultural values learned in college colonize all other aspects of American life. That’s why colleges should step up to the plate. If people don’t learn that harassing conservatives isn’t OK while in college, will they ever learn?
It is beyond a travesty what is happening on our college campuses. If you as an administrator don’t feel shame, you should resign or better yet, you should be fired.
