Under Obamacare, birth control pills are free. Why aren’t vasectomies?
Because everything can’t be free? As much as I’d love to see all straight men sterilized, this is just another example of the stupid ideas which I’m not interested in debating with conservatives… or anyone else! It’s just dumb. What world do they live in?
Justin
Well, I guess he was on vacation with the kids meeting the pope? God help us all. The kids were not impressed either.
Well, you're right. Sterilization for men ought to be free. It's not as if this would cost the federal government anything.
On the other hand, birth control for women is NOT "free." You have to pay for a medical insurance plan in order to get it. This can easily be hundreds per month. There may still be a copay under some plans. And the feds are unable to pay for abortions, thanks to the dead hand of Henry Hyde, serial adulterer who was presumeably never sterilized.
Salamander
Oh, sorry, we were talking about that would-be Tweet King. Meh.
Justin
Nothing is really “free” now is it? I’m not willing to pay for someone’s vasectomy or birth control given the choice… no one asks my permission. They just take.
Art Eclectic
Eh, I'm not willing to pay for other people's religious facilities but nobody asks permission for that, either.
Justin
And it used to be I didn’t care, but now I do. And twitter is a catastrophe for humanity.
Salamander
Here I'm in total agreement.
painedumonde
Simulation restarted. Look for cats!!!
golack
You do realize, it's the mice that are running the simulation.
painedumonde
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Lounsbury
Lazy journalists. At same level of "the internet exploded" articles (where the internet = some selection of Twitterati the journo follows in an echo chamber)
DFPaul
Meaningful message to his employees as he moves them to Texas? In other words, "I accept the Catholic Church's teachings on lots of stuff, so suck it Silicon Valley engineers. Texas law rules." I would guess so.
Spadesofgrey
Musk needs a bullet through his head like all billionaires, who got his money through being knighted by Wall Street bankers. This ain't 1900 anymore. He does nothing except add to the debt.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
Opa! I thought Elon was meeting with the Sports Pope, Mike Francesa.
jamesepowell
Wonder if the twitter silence was at the request of one or both boards.
Offtopic but techrelated: is @dougjballoon taking another shot at Orange County Elizabeth Warren Republiqan/Lester Maddox Democrat Kevin Drum?
SC-Dem
Please don't compare Kevin to Lester Maddox. When I was about 12 I chanced upon a Little League game where Lester was throwing out the first pitch. Later, I was surprised to find out that the Ga Tech Placement Center where I was interviewing for jobs was Lester's former restaurant, The Pickrick. That was where Maddox offered to pass out axe handles to customers in case a Black person came in to dine.
So, just saying I know a little about Lester. He was a lot like George Wallace but even meaner and less intelligent. There are no doubt people who could be compared to Lester today. Some might be on the Supreme Court. Many are in the Senate. The House is chock full of them. But certainly not Kevin.
Spadesofgrey
Maddox is superior to every Republican today. Self absorbed douche, he predicted what would happen if the black man was given guns.
Salamander
Once again, I wonder what the median age for readers of this blog is....
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
If Kevin is a Liz Warren head, & Liz Warren is adjacent to Bernie Sanders's Blue MAGA/Turn back the clock to 1950 (counter)revolution, then he is a Lestermaddoxian.
(I used to say Bernie's whitepower, but from the left, movement was the echo of George Wallace Democrats, but unlike Bernie, Ol' George actually got on a presidential general election ballot, so I went over to using LesMad because he's the exact kind of provincial, revanchist layabout that Bernie is.)
I’ve always wondered who was worse: the authentic but somewhat opportunistic racist like Lester Maddox or the completely opportunistic spewer of racism like George Wallace. It hard to say but at least Lester came by his racism honestly.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
Neither: it was Hillary, who said siperpredators.
hollywood
I read it as a shot against Atrios.
James Bowater
Doesn`t matter to me - I`ve been banned .
D_Ohrk_E1
I've discovered vaporwave -- a type of chill lo-fi jazz lounge music.
a twe minute read for a tweet....
sigh....
sorry, TWO minute read
Speaking of returns, Kevin, your old employer is back. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/07/01/radio-shack-tweets/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F374458b%2F62c06a13cfe8a21601cfd510%2F596e2b5eade4e215b7d4bdb2%2F28%2F72%2F62c06a13cfe8a21601cfd510&wp_cu=260e7e9bbb73ece841b28736efb690fb%7CC0DF36CDBE887264E0430100007F073B
RadioShack is still riding strong at the Ripon Drug combination pharmacy-Ben Franklin-convenience store-Ripon College merchandiser-RadioShack.
It’s silly that anyone noticed… or cared.
Off topic reason why liberals are such idiots. They keep imagining / proposing policies no one cares about then embarrass us all with the foolishness.
Goodness… why do they do this?
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23190169/vasectomies-obamacare-aca-birth-control-roe-v-wade
Under Obamacare, birth control pills are free. Why aren’t vasectomies?
Because everything can’t be free? As much as I’d love to see all straight men sterilized, this is just another example of the stupid ideas which I’m not interested in debating with conservatives… or anyone else! It’s just dumb. What world do they live in?
Well, I guess he was on vacation with the kids meeting the pope? God help us all. The kids were not impressed either.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251702/elon-musk-posts-photo-with-pope-francis-at-the-vatican
Well, you're right. Sterilization for men ought to be free. It's not as if this would cost the federal government anything.
On the other hand, birth control for women is NOT "free." You have to pay for a medical insurance plan in order to get it. This can easily be hundreds per month. There may still be a copay under some plans. And the feds are unable to pay for abortions, thanks to the dead hand of Henry Hyde, serial adulterer who was presumeably never sterilized.
Oh, sorry, we were talking about that would-be Tweet King. Meh.
Nothing is really “free” now is it? I’m not willing to pay for someone’s vasectomy or birth control given the choice… no one asks my permission. They just take.
Eh, I'm not willing to pay for other people's religious facilities but nobody asks permission for that, either.
And it used to be I didn’t care, but now I do. And twitter is a catastrophe for humanity.
Here I'm in total agreement.
Simulation restarted. Look for cats!!!
You do realize, it's the mice that are running the simulation.
42
Lazy journalists. At same level of "the internet exploded" articles (where the internet = some selection of Twitterati the journo follows in an echo chamber)
Meaningful message to his employees as he moves them to Texas? In other words, "I accept the Catholic Church's teachings on lots of stuff, so suck it Silicon Valley engineers. Texas law rules." I would guess so.
Musk needs a bullet through his head like all billionaires, who got his money through being knighted by Wall Street bankers. This ain't 1900 anymore. He does nothing except add to the debt.
Opa! I thought Elon was meeting with the Sports Pope, Mike Francesa.
Wonder if the twitter silence was at the request of one or both boards.
Happy Independence Day! Well, for some anyway.
https://youtu.be/IeuaTpH6Ck0
Awesome performance no matter the message.
https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1542953960260206593?s=20&t=aDfhbvRbqhFIrRknepI2AQ
Offtopic but techrelated: is @dougjballoon taking another shot at Orange County Elizabeth Warren Republiqan/Lester Maddox Democrat Kevin Drum?
Please don't compare Kevin to Lester Maddox. When I was about 12 I chanced upon a Little League game where Lester was throwing out the first pitch. Later, I was surprised to find out that the Ga Tech Placement Center where I was interviewing for jobs was Lester's former restaurant, The Pickrick. That was where Maddox offered to pass out axe handles to customers in case a Black person came in to dine.
So, just saying I know a little about Lester. He was a lot like George Wallace but even meaner and less intelligent. There are no doubt people who could be compared to Lester today. Some might be on the Supreme Court. Many are in the Senate. The House is chock full of them. But certainly not Kevin.
Maddox is superior to every Republican today. Self absorbed douche, he predicted what would happen if the black man was given guns.
Once again, I wonder what the median age for readers of this blog is....
If Kevin is a Liz Warren head, & Liz Warren is adjacent to Bernie Sanders's Blue MAGA/Turn back the clock to 1950 (counter)revolution, then he is a Lestermaddoxian.
(I used to say Bernie's whitepower, but from the left, movement was the echo of George Wallace Democrats, but unlike Bernie, Ol' George actually got on a presidential general election ballot, so I went over to using LesMad because he's the exact kind of provincial, revanchist layabout that Bernie is.)
I’ve always wondered who was worse: the authentic but somewhat opportunistic racist like Lester Maddox or the completely opportunistic spewer of racism like George Wallace. It hard to say but at least Lester came by his racism honestly.
Neither: it was Hillary, who said siperpredators.
I read it as a shot against Atrios.
Doesn`t matter to me - I`ve been banned .
I've discovered vaporwave -- a type of chill lo-fi jazz lounge music.
Love, as experienced by the red velvet mite,
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/red_velvet_mite
an exemplary tale.
The headline reads:
Elon Musk returns
'Ol Vog says
"he left?"
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