Month: September 2013

Real quick: Elementary, First Season. Go/No-go?

I’ve got just enough left of the Amazon money (thanks to everybody who uses my site for that, by the way) to pick Elementary: The First Season up. Is it worth it? – I’m a big fan of Lucy Liu, mind you.

And I already saw Sherlock, and the first season of Castle arrives tomorrow (again, thanks).  So no need to recommend either, instead.

Moe Lane

Tweet of the Day, See, This Is How You Mess With People edition.

Well played, Jake Tapper.  Well played.

Seriously, I now know everything that I need to know about what happened with Kanye West and Jimmy Kimmel. And it’s actually pretty funny, what Kimmel did.

Bear walks into bar, gets chastised, walks out of bar.

This apparently happens in Alaska.

A bear walks into a bar, is refused service and leaves.

It may sound like a bad joke, but incredibly it happened in Alaska. And there’s footage to prove it.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu4p7PcqY8U

Kind of a shame that you can’t domesticate bears. I like bears.  I don’t trust them enough to hang around them – because, you know, they can’t be domesticated – but I like them.

Moe Lane

Disney Infinity!

This was originally yet another Obamacare post, but… do you care?  Or are numb?  I am numb.  So here:

I’m not entirely sure, but apparently it’s like this amazingly demented Disney sandbox game that will make you buy ALL THE THINGS and I don’t have time for it only I put it on the Wish List anyway because of Mrs. Incredible.  Because Mrs. Incredible is the best of The Incredibles.  This has been established by Science.

#Obamacare!

Obamacare Obamacare Obamaca oh, wait: I’ve already done this joke.  Guess nobody told Barack Obama:

Ultimately, the president guaranteed, once the law goes into full effect, “They will not call it Obamacare.”

Three and a half years they’ve been squirming under this name.  And they know darn well that the Left hasn’t had any more success on getting the name changed as they have had with any other part of the messaging of Obamacare.

:sing-song:  Five da-ayss…

Moe Lane

PS:

OBAMACARE.

@BarackObama kills Big Bird’s health care.

big-bird-uninsured

You know, a competent administration would have someone on staff whose job it would be to keep track of potentially awkward symbolic moments, in order to keep them from exploding in their boss’s face. Apparently not:

In a letter sent last week to President Obama, U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick contended that the Affordable Care Act had caused Sesame Place, one of Bucks County’s biggest tourist attractions, to terminate health benefits for its part-time employees.

“This law is hurting real people in my district and around the country,” the Bucks County Republican wrote.

A spokesman for SeaWorld, the amusement park’s parent company, confirmed Wednesday that the company was cutting the weekly work limit for part-time employees from 32 to 28 hours. Under the Affordable Care Act, companies can face fines if they do not provide insurance for staffers who work at least 30 hours per week.

Guess Big Bird can try the exchanges, just like every other part-time employee at Sesame Place… what? No, it doesn’t matter that Big Bird isn’t real: the government isn’t checking exchange applications for fraud anyway.

Via Naked DC.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

Small businesses must …fax… their #obamacare exchange applications in.

Yes, faxes are still a thing, apparently. You can even do them from your computer. And if you’re a small business owner wanting to get Obamacare coverage, you’re going to have to!

Administration officials are quietly telling key interest groups to expect initial glitches signing up online for coverage under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

Two sources tell The Associated Press that small businesses will not be able to enroll online starting Oct. 1 when new health insurance markets go live. Instead, one of the sources, a person who was briefed on the situation, said business owners will initially have to mail or fax their information so that they can enroll.

The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement hasn’t yet been made.

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