Q: My comment has been deleted or wasn’t instantly approved. Does this mean that this site is part a grand conspiracy to silence me and my millionaire candidate?
A: No.
Q: Nobody has responded to my intense and thought provoking comment. Does this mean that everybody who reads this site is too stupid to comprehend the […]

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When even Republican evangelicals get it, why don’t our politicians?
This especially resonates with me today because I have to go to battle with my insurance company. I need an MRI on my ankle, which most likely has a protruding bone chip from when I sprained it in September. (It’s gotten to the point where I […]

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Now how many of you believe Verizon has gotten few complaints? Because I have some mortgages I’d like to sell you:
TAMPA - Verizon’s largest labor union in Florida held a second protest early this morning at about a dozen company sites to protest what it calls poor customer service.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers represents […]

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Join “Comcast Must Die.”

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This is, of course, the logical outcome of the Republican philosophy of continued tax cuts, deregulation and self-reporting. And now it’s time to pay for it:
Air travelers, whose plans have already been disrupted by thousands of canceled flights recently, may face continued chaos in coming weeks as the Federal Aviation Administration and the airlines expand […]

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More outrageous “reasonableness” from the Dems. Via Kevin Drum:
Elizabeth Warren tells us that at yesterday’s credit card hearing in the House, ordinary cardholders who had agreed to testify suddenly found out that they wouldn’t be allowed to speak unless they signed a blanket waiver:
The people who had been invited to testify had flown in from […]

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Health insurers are the best possible advertisement for universal health care:
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he issued new subpoenas to Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and WellPoint Inc., and other health insurers in a broadening investigation of possible fraud costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Cuomo […]

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I almost bought this last week. I think I’m going to stop buying processed food, it’s getting too risky:
H.J. Heinz Co. is recalling approximately 40,000 cases of Boston Market brand lasagna with meat sauce after discovering that the beef was part of a major recall.
The lasagna contains ground beef that was among the 143 million […]

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It was my first day back to work yesterday. I’m still feeling a little like shit and when the site crashed last night, I went to bed with a good book.
Did I miss anything? Wait, let me check Duncan’s …
OH NOES!!!!!! NOT IN MY TOWN!!!!!!

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Thank God we have this great for-profit medical system that’s so very awesome!

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And if doctors had to type prescriptions - or print them legibly - this would have been a lot less likely to happen:
When Tabitha Jones picked up her stepson’s medicine at a Walgreens store near Nashville in 2004, she had no way to know the pharmacy was so busy that its manager had asked for […]

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Don’t get one before you read this.

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Oh, what fun. Let’s see, there’s the time the company that laid me off cut my insurance coverage THREE WEEKS before the date in my separation agreement, causing me to be dunned for a $6000 stress test that’s still on my credit record. Then there’s the root canal my dental insurer insisted was covered (done […]

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McDonald’s to add coffee bars.

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The politicians pass legislation that basically allows credit card companies to do whatever they want, and now they are “shocked” by the outcome:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As consumers whip out their credit cards for another holiday shopping binge, a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday will examine surprise interest rate increases, even for cardholders who scrupulously make […]

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Comcast is supposed to show up and hook up my cable and internet service at the new place today, but as you know, it’s just as likely they won’t. So in the meantime, enjoy this:
Comcast guarantees on-time appointments, but did the cable guy show up during his two hour time frame? No.
Comcast said, when I […]

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For the past month or two, the cable in my living room hasn’t worked. Well, Comcast has beaten me into submission, gotten the desired Pavlovian response - I simply accepted it. The picture that pixilated, or went off completely? The code that said the channel would be available shortly - but never was? Must be […]

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This was the only way I got through to a human at Verizon today.

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