I have one more day of school left. I’m working on homework. I accidentally took a 6 hour nap this afternoon. Entertain me. Enlighten me.
EDIT: Thank you to everyone here for all the kind words throughout this first part of my nursing experience. It means a lot to me, and I really appreciate it. You guys make me laugh. You make me feel good about myself when no one else (not even myself) is saying anything positive. Thank you. It means the world.
I got nothing.
Let me turn it around on you. Show me your boobs.
Get out of the pool!
Ok, but keep a bucket handy to catch the vomit.
That’s weird. I’d say the same thing to you!
No, I’d need the bucket to catch the drool.
See? This is what I’m talking about. No one says that in real life.
I do.
You are a robot, obviously.
Ozzbot? Nah. I just say whatever comes into my head.
Fish sandwich?
Hmm, it has been about a year…
I wore my corset today, and I was so impressed with the result I had to feel myself up for a minute. They were perky little things today, they were!
LOL!
Pics or it didn’t happen.
I’ve only had one picture taken of me today, sweetie, and I sure as hell ain’t posting it here!
Ok, just send me a link to wherever you do post it.
Go create an account on Fetlife. Or something.
That’s the trouble with the internet. It’s way too hard to find porn.
I have to thank you, doc. I had never even heard of it until you mentioned it.
This surprises me.
better late than never.
It makes me wonder what the hell else is out there on the web that I’m missing because I don’t know it exists.
My piercer took the picture. It was just for her portfolio. I hope she doesn’t post it anywhere.
I’m craving right now.
I kinda want sex, and I kinda want tacos, and I kinda want pain, and I kinda want beer.
Some of these things overlap, while others conflict.
I had a Pepsi tonight for the first time in over a month. It was goood.
now THAT’S discipline.
What creeps me out are the people who drink a 12 pack of diet every day. It’s a chemical bath of nastiness, but with zero calories!
But delicious.
What we need is a highly nutritious diet soda that enhances the health of its’ afficionados.
No, artificial sweeteners taste disgusting.
I endorse this statement.
Signed,
DFA
I’ve just been drinking water since my kidney stone incident. I still feel really dehydrated though. I have a doctor’s appointment next week (my first day off since this happened), so I’m hoping I can get an out patient order for some fluids.
Sounds like a fine idea.
I nominate 30 weight motor oil and leprechaun urine.
I don’t see any conflicts.
I still just want a BJ.
and boobs to play with, so I guess I’d need 2 chicks to do it right now. but I’m a little selfish at the moment.
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at least you’re honest enough to admit it. That’s gotta count for something.
I need my apartment cleaned by Friday. Want to make a trade trade?
In.
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As the daughter of a nurse (not to mention a person of the age where I’m likely to start using more and more medical services) I have tremendous respect for your profession, and even greater respect for your decision to make a big career change, and your perseverance through this part of your training. There’s still a lot ahead, but you’re going to be equal to it. And your mom is just jealous, because that graduation outfit is awesome.
Thanks again.
Also, thanks for reminding me my dress still needed to be washed. LOL
Way to go Jennifer!!!! Although I think Mike V was asking to be nursed in another, less medical, manner.
In..
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Jennifer, you should feel good about yourself. We all think you feel great.
In real life, people must think I’m creepy as hell.
Good night, folks. I’m gonna go see if there are any crazy dreams waiting for me tonight.
I am floating in a blissful haze of bourbon and pork fat (went here).
Right on. I’d be kinda envious if I was good at that sort of thing :)
lucky lucky man.
wow, that looks fantastic. must. go. there.
The menu has all the right words. I would definitely give this place a try (btw, although sherry is traditional in she-crab soup, brandy is much better).
Oh, and with all do respect, there is no way on Earth that their shrimp & grits can top Ozzwife’s.
Oh, and Berkshire pork… FKing amazing. I’ve been to a place here called High Cotton (unfortunately, not in many years now), and they used to do a Berkshire pork chop topped with onion straws. I’d get the bacon bourbon sauce and then sub their duck confit risotto for whatever side they offered (I think it was collards, but I can’t remember). For my app, I’d get their bacon-wrapped, crab-stuffed shrimp (with barbecue sauce drizzled over it) and for dessert I’d have creme brulee and a cappuccino. That meal was just about perfect.
We’re planning on taking the in-laws there when they’re in town.
That whole neighbourhood has changed so much for the better in the last few years, and having it all withing walking/drinking distance is bliss.
hello…hello…helloooooooooo
Hello!
yay! hi! :)
Have you been to the Alameda County Fair yet?
not yet! we are hoping to make it sometime this weekend. :)
I went last night, for the first time. Pretty good, not nearly so many quilts as San Mateo though – is that usual?
i’m…not sure. ;)
we’ve only been once (maybe twice?) before. LOVE all the gardens there!!!
I miss being outside.
congrats on your accomplishment, jennifer! you are amazing. ♥
Someone just gained at least ONE new fan…
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You are awesome.
You can tell it’s new phone book season when you get about fifty of them in two weeks. Overkill.
Tear them in half in your bare hands in front of somebody to scare and/or impress them.
Woo John Roberts!
Meh. I’m not a fan of the precedent this sets.
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Which one? Limitation of the commerce clause or the bit about Medicaid funding?
If you mean that you’re not a fan of the individual mandate, well the Supreme Court explicitly ruled against the idea that Congress is allowed to force you to purchase something. From SCOTUSblog:
Instead, they ruled that what the mandate *effectively* does is apply an additional tax to people who choose not to purchase health insurance… and taxes designed to modify people’s behavior are all over the place and aren’t particularly controversial.
The one where the government is forcing us to purchase something from a private party for-profit company.
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The Supreme Court said that the government can’t do that. But the mandate stands because they interpreted it as a tax on people who choose not to buy insurance.
I agree that it seems weird to be moving towards a system where everyone pays in for health insurance, but then some companies get to take a cut off the top before that money goes to the doctors, nurses, hospitals, etc. The conservative argument in favor of this (rather than single-payer) is that the insurance companies will have profit motives to innovate in ways to deliver the best service for the lowest cost. Personally, I think that most of their innovations are likely to be weasely attempts to deliver less service without fessing up to it, but I think that there is a glimmer of hope that it could work out. The part of ACA that forbids rejecting people with prior conditions is important for this, since the main way insurance companies have made money in the past is by not covering people who are likely to get sick. Once they are required to cover those people, then the profit motive of the insurance company starts to line up a little better with the goal of having healthier people.
“Buy this or we’ll tax you for it”
not a fan.
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How is that different than “Buy a house and we won’t tax you?”
Or conversely “Don’t buy a house and we will tax you”
Property Taxes say hi.
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Not a federal tax.
Still a tax for owning a house.
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and you get a break on your federal taxes for it
*Especially if you are filthy rich.
But before this gets into a tangent about homeowners vs renters, let me just reiterate my point that the US government uses tax policy to influence people’s decisions in all sorts of ways, so I don’t think this ruling is setting any ground-breaking precedent. If anything, the precedent from this ruling is restricting the federal government, because five justices did not accept the Commerce Clause argument.
Then, if we’re not worrying about major changes to precedent, we get back to opinions about whether the ACA in particular is a good bill. I think it’s not the best, but that it is much better than nothing.
the thing that is making me angry about MSM is them always repeating that the ACA is unpopular.
Sure polls say that but 1) they don’t seem to note that every provision (save the mandate) is very popular and 2) people like me don’t like it cuz its not single payer.
Like you said, everything is popular except the mandate, but the whole package polls poorly. (link)
Crap, can someone fix my stupid link?
done
thanks
How about “buy this and we’ll give you a tax credit” against a baseline of higher taxes? There are approximately eleventy-billion things that the government gives people tax credits to buy (houses being by far the giant in the room). I don’t have an example off the top of my head for “buy this or we’ll tax you”, but I’m pretty sure that examples exist.
But really, in commonly accepted law, I have a tax penalty against me because I rent an apartment rather than owning a home (though as a MA resident, I actually do get to deduct part of my rent from state taxes). So this sort of thing already exists in a major way. And I think that the public benefit of having more people with health insurance is much greater than the public benefit of having lots of homeowners.
flood insurance in certain areas no?
I don’t know anything about flood insurance, but it appears that you are correct: http://www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart/pages/about/when_insurance_is_required.jsp
Though the flood insurance thing is for houses that have federally regulated/insured mortgages. So that explains my follow-up question of why I never heard about this re: the arguments about the mandate.
So you prefer the “I’ll freeload by going to the ER when I get sick” plan we were on? Or the “If I’m poor and get sick I should just go untreated” randian world view?
Yes. That is *exactly* what I said.
I’m quickly being reminded why I really hate talking about this kind of shit on this site.
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Your critique against ACA actually sounded kind of left-wing to me, though in a way that is also compatible with right-wing libertarians.
It was neither. It was “this is how it sounds to me”
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right. the problem is just that the government currently taxes people if they don’t purchase plenty of things. For example if you don’t have kids you aren’t eligible for the child tax credit or head of household. I don’t remember anyone railing against that as the destruction of America/unconstitutional.
That’s a horrible example. You can’t buy children.
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You absolutely can.
Go to a third world orphanage.
apparently it takes 10 hours
Do you oppose mandates on purchasing car insurance?
That’s the best analogy for me; most states impose that mandate on individual car owners.
For me a better analogy is fire protection. I don’t at all oppose California’s decision to require me to pay to have a fire department that will protect my house.
Like healthcare, it is something I don’t need right now but cannot promise I would need later.
That makes much more sense.
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Does it convince you? I, for one, found those stories about the private FD that let a house burn down pretty awful (in much the same way I read about uninsured people with health problems and no money pretty awful)
Don’t get me wrong – I think everybody should have access to health care, but I don’t think the government forcing people to buy insurance from a private company is the way to do it.
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So there are two questions: One is the law constitutional: which is obvious and without a multi decade attempt by the right to politicize the court the answer would be obviously YES, which is why REPUBLICANS proposed it in the 90s as the alterantive to HIllarycare. Second, is this a good way of fixing the healthcare system? I would say that universal federalized care is, but that doesn’t make it unconstitutional.
Well there you and I agree.
I think the medicare age should be reduced to zero.
“nevermoor wants to deny health coverage to the unborn”
WHO SAYS THE UNBORN AREN’T ZERO YEARS OLD?!?
I agree with you, Mike. However, at this time our only alternative is the system that’s currently in place. And given those 2 choices, I prefer the mandate. I would prefer a single payer system, but that’s just not politically feasible right now. Maybe someday we’ll be where Canada was 60 years ago, but we’re not there yet.
Huh. I sort of thought the private fire department lets a house burn down was more of a cautionary hypothetical and not a real thing. But I guess not.
You must have missed FK on those days.
Lively debate?
I think so. That or I was just angry.
This story is not about a privatized fire department, but instead is about a city contracting out its services to the surrounding area for a reasonable fee of $75/year.
The dickish part is the FD not putting out the fire over a trivial amount of $75, but in fact this is a city department, not a private one.
Good point. I googled “private fire department lets house burn down”, saw that link, and then forgot about the whole private part. And I agree about the dickish part.
So this brings me back to my question about the private fire department story. Do private fire departments actually exist in the US? Or just arrangements like the one from that article?
But of course they did. If they didn’t, no one would pay the fee.
@colin:
I wouldn’t know. Personally, I think a privatized FD is a stupid idea.
@nevermoor:
If that particular city is the only entity in the county with a FD, then the county should levy the $75 fee on all property within the county. The idea of subscription-only fire services is also stupid, and the idea that a FD (public or private) would stand by and let someone’s home burn is insulting.
@drK
Agreed. They need a fire-fee mandate, even though it is requiring people to buy something and therefore socialist fascism.
It seems to me that the county should say, “If you don’t pay the $75 and your property bursts into flames, the fire department will put the fire out and bill you for the entire cost of the service, rather than just $75.”
That’s different. Nobody is forcing you to buy a car.
Actually — now that I think about it — maybe we can mandate EVERYBODY to have a job! BOOM. Unemployment is FIXED, baby.
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No one is forcing you to have to use the healthcare system, but everyone does. The Supreme Court says that hospitals have to treat everyone regardless of their ability to pay.
No, they say that Emergency Rooms are required to stabilize you if you go in for an emergency.
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Honest question: what is the other option?
Your Fire Dept scenario.
No I don’t know how that would work. Yes I would be in favor of 1 or 2 percent tax or whatever it is to have universal health care. No I am not in favor of the government mandating that we have to buy 3rd party insurance instead or they’ll just take the money anyway.
I’m probably not explaining myself clearly but I look at it like the government saying that you have to buy a chevy cruze, or htat you have to buy food from a certain manufacturer, etc.
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Fair enough (and as you’ll see above, I agree). But given that that solution is politically unfeasible, I’m not sure how much it advances the ball.
My hope if it was repealed was that it forced us to do single payer.
That being said, its not forcing you to buy one brand of HC just that you have to buy health care.
That path goes through Vermont. Hope it works there.
Or a private nonprofit (e.g. Kaiser), depending on where you live.
I am a fan of this photo at the very least.
Someone needs to go in and delicately add a tear in his eye.
Wow, the photographer who snapped that one must be patting himself on the back right now.
“One of these people did not remember to put on lucky purple shoes this morning….”
I must be missing something ’cause there is no photo of note on that link.
Here is the photo that was originally at the top of the article: link
Ah – got it. I thought the reference was to
OsamaObama instead ofBonerBoehner.Too bad the picture has nothing to do with today’s decision.
I had a feeling that this was a file photo of some sort. But fitting, nevertheless.
I don’t blame him for that expression – that’s pretty much how I’d feel if I had to share the stage with her.
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Humble GOP response.
That little baseball trip I had planned? It’s turning into something a bit bigger and will probably include a visit to Victoria, BC.
to visit the shrine of harden?
Ha!
It is official.
Time to party?
Also, congratulations!
Not yet.
You’ll still have to pee in a cup. And handle 100’s of cups of pee from others.
Nope. We pee in the cup when we first started. I have graduation tomorrow, then work the next two days. Then we go back for a review course next week. I work on the 4th, then I work the following weekend, then I get to party!
Well at least you get to party eventually!
Congratulations, of course!
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WOOT!
woohoo
That’s FKing brilliant – many, many congratulations.
Well, these are awesome.
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Ha, I can see why they’ve had a sudden increase in orders! If I had a yard on a street that had a lot of foot traffic (instead of a fenced-in space usually only visible to my mail carrier) I’d be all over those.
I’m assuming that link contains boobs.
That’s why I clicked on it.
I’m amazed Nadal’s out of Wimbledon in the 2nd round.
This Colorado fire is making me so sad. My hometown is really getting hit hard.
It’s really awful. I’m just glad there haven’t been deaths on the scale of the Oakland hills fire.
California’s wildfire season has been pretty tame so far (knock wood). I wonder if grover’s crew got called over to Colorado to help.
I wondered that too. I’m getting a lot of my updates from a high school friend whose husband is a Colo Spgs firefighter.
That would describe grover.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
Almost congratulations, Jennifer! You’ve worked so hard for this. It’s awesome!
I’m in the mood to go on an urban safari and bag me a thirty
pointstone redneck.I recently bought the first cowboy hat I’ve ever owned; please don’t shoot me.
You must have had a LOT of pork fat last night if you weigh thirty stone now. Either that or DFA’s using you for some sort of human foie gras experiment on you.
He’s force-feeding FSU just to prove to dogfather that it isn’t really so bad.
and now the poor boy has to wash himself with a rag on a stick!
He looks hot in the cowboy hat and muumuu though.
SHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT TELL THE MEAT!