dear 19 year old girl,
thanks for getting me 18 gallons of patron. i need water now.
the end.
bwp
see? i told you.
this is me and doug on one of our earlier dates. we went to the adler planetarium and ended up on the floor and laughing our asses off.
looking through old photos… found this gem.
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my friends band arrah and the ferns are apparently reuniting for a little mini tour this winter.
yayayayayayayayay!
worst cab driver ever
just because we are drunk doesnt mean we wont tell you to turn around and go a different direction when you pull up to one of the busiest intersections in the city expecting to sit in traffic for 5 minutes.
we aint no fools.
you get no tip.
Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan
Late last night, the Congressional Budget Office released its initial analysis of the health-care reform plan that Republican Minority Leader John Boehner offered as a substitute to the Democratic legislation. CBO begins with the baseline estimate that 17 percent of legal, non-elderly residents won’t have health-care insurance in 2010. In 2019, after 10 years of the Republican plan, CBO estimates that …17 percent of legal, non-elderly residents won’t have health-care insurance. The Republican alternative will have helped 3 million people secure coverage, which is barely keeping up with population growth. Compare that to the Democratic bill, which covers 36 million more people and cuts the uninsured population to 4 percent.
But maybe, you say, the Republican bill does a really good job cutting costs. According to CBO, the GOP’s alternative will shave $68 billion off the deficit in the next 10 years. The Democrats, CBO says, will slice $104 billion off the deficit.
The Democratic bill, in other words, covers 12 times as many people and saves $36 billion more than the Republican plan. And amazingly, the Democratic bill has already been through three committees and a merger process. It’s already been shown to interest groups and advocacy organizations and industry stakeholders. It’s already made its compromises with reality. It’s already been through the legislative sausage grinder. And yet it saves more money and covers more people than the blank-slate alternative proposed by John Boehner and the House Republicans. The Democrats, constrained by reality, produced a far better plan than Boehner, who was constrained solely by his political imagination and legislative skill.
This is a major embarrassment for the Republicans. It’s one thing to keep your cards close to your chest. Republicans are in the minority, after all, and their plan stands no chance of passage. It’s another to lay them out on the table and show everyone that you have no hand, and aren’t even totally sure how to play the game. The Democratic plan isn’t perfect, but in comparison, it’s looking astonishingly good.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. NICE TRY JOHN.
no surprise here.
house in saijo
