>> ^reed:

I hope he got the shot!


Yeah, I'd like to see that angle.

So, what race was this? Was the driver hurt?

Downvoting because that is some awful reporting. Here is a New York Times article:

Health Rules Are Waived More Often
By REED ABELSON
Published: November 9, 2010

As Obama administration officials put into place some of the new rules that go into effect under the federal health care law, they are issuing more waivers to try to prevent some insurers and employers from dropping coverage and also promising to modify other rules because many of the existing policies would not meet new standards.

Last month, federal officials granted dozens of one-year waivers that were aimed at sparing certain employers, including McDonald’s, insurers and unions who offer plans that sharply limit the coverage they provide. These limited-benefit plans, also known as “minimeds,” fail to comply with new rules phasing out limits on how much policies will provide in medical care each year.

Concerned about the potential disruption that would be created by enforcing the new rules, the administration has granted dozens of additional waivers and also made clear that it would modify other rules affecting these policies. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services issued more guidance, saying it would use a different method of calculating spending for these plans so they would be able to meet new regulations dictating how insurers should use the premium dollars they collect.

While critics say these moves could water down the new law, the administration says it is responding to concerns from employers and others that many workers have no other alternative. The new rules also require that the policies clearly say how much coverage they provide and that they do not satisfy the law’s new standards.

“This new guidance helps improve transparency so that consumers know the value and quality of the plan they have,” said Steve Larsen, the director of oversight in the agency’s office of consumer information and insurance oversight. “In 2014, higher-quality coverage will be offered at an affordable price in the new exchanges. Until then, the annual waiver process preserves limited benefit plans offered by employers, preventing significant premium increase or loss of access.”

But a spokesman for Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, a West Virginia Democrat who favored strict rules on insurance company spending, said he planned to hold a hearing on the issue.

Among the waivers recently granted were for employers like Darden Restaurants, which operates the Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurants, for 34,000 of its workers. Federal officials have granted 111 waivers to employers, insurers and union plans, who are responsible for covering about 1.2 million people.

Darden said the waiver would allow it to offer employees access to affordable coverage as the health care law is started.

In addition to granting waivers, the administration also said it would establish a different way of calculating the spending for these plans for the first year that “takes into account the special circumstances of minimed plans.”

Moving this video to reed's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Somewhere, Reed Timor is swearing.

Moving this video to reed's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

>> ^Seric:

I wonder how good he would be if he'd spent that time learning real drums


Its simular how to how the top sim racers could probably beat allot of the profesoinal drivers out there.

its gr8 to have a game thats relitavly cheep and fun and delivers a simular exsperance to its real world equivelent.

playing on rock band will teach you far far faster than if u were to play real drums reeding sheet music and boring tutoreals , when you engage the competative parts of the brain or make something enjoyable the brain will learn things far faster than if its a choir or the lerning process is bady structured.

as for the technkees that you dont use when playing a game like rock band im pritty sure you could pick them up and develop your own stile in a short amount of time on a real drum kit if that was something you wanted to persue.

I mean seriously, you literally snipped out the phrase "I'm sure there will be congressional oversight", and cut off the part where I said why I thought that

Sure. You said it, but have no proof it will happen so why belabor it? As with all piles of money in Washington, that 20 billion will get misappropriated and spent on unrelated crap with only token pennies on the dollar going to BP oil damages. Every citizen must view government as the ENEMY, because history proves that eventually it will be.

I know that leftists disagree with that stance... This poll proves only Democrat zombies are big gummint fanbois... Most other folks have a healthier point of view.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2010/48_see_government_today_as_a_threat_to_individual_rights

There's part of your fever dream I agree with -- namely, the rich and the powerful never get held accountable for anything.

Agreed. Guys like Barney Frank should be penniless street bums in the stocks at town square instead of still being in charge of the committee he used to screw up the economy.

Free speech zones, dissent = sedition, opposition = traitors, with us or against us…

I am not a slave to a political ideology. I don’t apologize for people when they do the wrong things. So I I freely and openly condemn(ed) the tactics the GOP used during Bush to stifle dissent. Will you do the same? Do you condemn people like Pelosi, Reed, Obama, Olbermann, Madcow, and all the others on the left who routinely mock, belittle, and censor Tea Partiers, call people “Nazis”, and the “party of No” for no reason but to grease the skids of their agenda? Thankfully, I am not bound with such fetters. Boo - hiss to 'free speech zones' no matter what party is behind them.

We need the Fairness Doctrine, badly. The rightwing dominance of the media has had a disastrous effect on our country's welfare. Rupert Murdoch has done incalculable harm, just to make a buck.

No – we don’t need any government regulation of media. The marketplace of ideas is a grand collision – and viewpoints of all kinds are available everywhere without government interference. The Right may dominate talk radio, but the left dominates most other media with an iron fist. Hollywood, CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, the NYT, AP, PBS, tv shows, pop music, and the vast majority of news channels, newspapers, and internet blogs either tilt left or are outright left wing extremists.

So does your opinion of the “Fairness Doctrine” include forcing all these left wing radicals to give conservative views ‘equal time’ in all media venues? Or do you only care about talk radio because it says things you don't like sometimes? See how your support of such a concept leads only to tyranny and abuse? The whole FD concept is an attempt by neolibs to break down one of the few areas where they don't dominate. Rather than cheer it on, it should totally creep you out and outrage you.

You righties always get your panties in a wad when you can't insult broad swaths of the population with derogatory racial and sexist remarks.

No – we get annoyed when sanctimonious lefties use political correctness to stifle dissent. I don’t insult minorities or make racist/sexist comments. And yet here you are, accusing me personally of being a racist and a sexist based on no evidence. Funny how you are using Political Correctness to stifle dissent, isn’t it? Gee – it’s almost like I was EXACTLY RIGHT! Thanks for proving my point. Sadly you aren't alone. This kind of crap is commonplace from the left on campuses, in public schools, on news, in the media, in entertainment, and in politics. Ried, Pelosi, and more commentators I can count have all used the same tactic. Shame on you all.

BP committed a crime, the kind of crime that they could (and probably will) try to weasel out of with legalities.

If they commit a crime, you take them to court. You don’t have the Executive Branch create a private slush fund. If they violated the law, then punish them with the law. Don’t make up crap from the Oval Office.

pritty nice ,

don't really enjoy rap ,

my issue is now I have seen it i don't want to listen to it again , its like reeding a poem repeatedly , if u have music that is overly dependent on the words then its just annoying to listen to again.

Here are the 4 nay votes that homeboy left off his list:

Bayh (D-IN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reed (D-RI)

Ledger, Lee, Phoenix, Candy, B Lee, Oliver Reed, all died while filming-but not by chopper blade-

The issue with privatising things , espesualy in a culture of make all the profit you can regardless of how it affects the people , is you end up with situatoins like you have with the amercan helth care service.

the fact is if the amercan helth care service was more goverment controled and paid for with taxes it would be a better service for the vast majorty of the populatoin.

there would still be waistage but at least it would be in a positoin where if it was bad it could then be changed easily,

if things are controled by super ritch multicoperate entities which is basicly what would happen in a full libatarian socity you would end up with a socity of super ritch and super poor.

if annything america is alredy to far down the "libitareain" road , and needs to work on bieng more socalist and democratic.

There are manny laces where goverment should not get involved , but there are manny places where goverment is benoficail to a socity.

from reeding all the pionts on theat website it seems that libatarinisum in a large part just says no to goverment for the sake of it without actualy evlauating in each case if goverment could be good , it just asumes that goverment is always bad with no thought.

>> ^HugeJerk:
My biggest issue with this video is calling the guy the "Christmas Bomber"... if Richard Reed is the "Shoe Bomber" this guy should be the "Underpants Bomber".


When she wants to be lighthearted, she calls him the "Thunderpants bomber" if that makes you happy.

My biggest issue with this video is calling the guy the "Christmas Bomber"... if Richard Reed is the "Shoe Bomber" this guy should be the "Underpants Bomber".

>> ^MaxWilder:
This makes me very, very sad. Not sure why. Like our world is becoming more fake every day, because fake is cheaper than real.


And filming people pretending to do stuff reeding a made up script is real ? its just a progression of the medium. just because the back drop is done in as a comp or CG dose not make it less real if annything it denotes more artistic intentoin and controle.

there are still plenty of films and sceens that rnt cgi as much as there are things that are 100% cgi. if you want tno CGI and just actors then go to a theater.

personalty i don't give a shit how the end product is achieved so long as its enjoyable and its not to exploitative of people. ( the only time it matters is when its done bad but most the bg stuff in this 90% of people would never know about or notice )

Lou Reed-Heroin-Live

Don't think this is the Velvet Underground