Oh no! Geico commercial causes Offendeditis

Sadly, it is not just Liberal whiners that can contract Offendeditis. SIGH!

Have you seen the Geico commercial with the pig and the girl? It’s really kind of creepy and now the insurance company is taking heat from a group of moms who say it promotes bestiality.

Angry parents are up in arms over a “repulsive” cellphone app commercial that they say promotes bestiality.

One Million Moms wants auto insurance firm Geico to pull its latest TV campaign in which a woman appears to be flirting with a pig.

The conservative Christian group that monitors children’s programming issued a statement to condemn the clip.

For the love of God people! It is just a freaking commercial, meant to be funny, stop hyper-ventilating! This is why fewer and fewer commercials during Super Bowls are any good, (this years crop stunk). Anytime anyone makes a slightly edgy, or funny spot, here come the whiners looking for some attention. Sure they scream that they are offended, but what they really mean is “LOOK AT ME”. The “Conservative” group One Million Moms, says the commercial is ‘horrible’ for families. Sorry, but groups like this might do a lot of good, but when they pull stunts like this they just makes Conservatives look like prudes! And, really they are not much better than Liberal groups who want to ban everything that offends them. Sorry, but a Statist is a Statist!

 

Comedy Gold! AARP Advertises Medicare Supplement Insurance Chris Matthews says seniors cannot get on Chris Matthews Show

Ah, yes! The Daley Douchebag Award is not given out that often here, but Crazy Legs Matthews just earned himself one

So, wait, I get a Daley Douchebag Award?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…a day after MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews said for the umpteenth time that no one will sell senior citizens health insurance, AARP ran ad on his show promoting – wait for it! – Medicare Supplement Insurance

As NewsBusters reported Thursday, Matthews is regularly making the completely false claim that no one will sell health insurance to seniors.

Quite the contrary, Medicare Supplement Insurance – or what is also referred to as Medigap Insurance – is a booming business in America with currently almost 10 million policy holders.

As such, Matthews is either ignorant of this incontrovertible fact, or is lying to his viewers.

Matthews defines Raving Moonbat doesn’t he? He knows he lies about this issue, Hell, he lies about most everything on his show

So, how much is a human life worth under Obamacare?

Well, if that life is still in the womb, it is worth, it would seem, $1. Chris Wysocki is rightfully infuriated by this

Let’s be clear about something.

Abortion is not ”health care”. Two lives go in, only one comes out.

Most of the time we call that murder.

Alas, the Obama administration is determined to ensure that every woman has the unfettered ability to cleanse her womb of wayward cells, at any time, for any reason. Or for no reason. Even if those cells happen to bear a striking resemblance to a living, breathing, bouncing baby. It’s her right.

And, to guarantee that the extermination of inconvenient children is truly “free” for the asking, starting in 2014 you’ll see a surcharge built in to every American’s health insurance premium.

One dollar per month. No exceptions. No exemptions.

The Department of Health and Human Services has finalized the policies governing state health care exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and with it the rules governing abortion coverage under the new law.

Life News reports that “the concern pro-life organizations had about the ObamaCare legislation funding abortions has been confirmed.”

Indeed pro-lifers have long known that the health care law, specifically Section 1303, would require enrollees in the health care exchanges to pay a separate monthly surcharge for abortion coverage.

With the final HHS rules set in stone, the surcharge is a dollar.

Now, I know that many liberals will scoff at such language. Indeed, they will mock my saying that any human life is worth merely a dollar under Obamacare. These Liberals really should think though. If government begins putting price tags on our lives, at any stage, where will that end? So, when it comes down to rationing care, how much IS your life worth? Do you REALLY trust government to make that call?

Yep, even without the mandate, Obamacare still sucks

Do0n’t believe me? Ask a doctor, Milton Wolf

It’s Not Just the Mandate: ObamaCare’s Other Infringements
The bill seizes liberty from doctors and insurance firms, too.

•Doctors must purchase and use expensive electronic medical record systems.

•Doctors must electronically record certain patient data such as ethnicity, BMI (body mass index), blood pressure, and smoking status — and turn over patient data to the government upon request.

•Doctors treating Medicare patients must practice according to government “quality” guidelines or face economic penalties.

•Insurance companies must offer numerous “free” benefits, including various preventive health services, birth control, and coverage of “children” up to age 26.

•Insurers may not raise their rates to cover these new expenses unless the government agrees those rate increases are “reasonable.”

•An Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) of unelected bureaucrats will set prices for Medicare services that will lead to de facto rationing.

Read it all and check out Dr. Hsieh’s blog We Stand FIRM.

This bill is a disaster for America. This nation might need some work on our medical insurance situation, but this bill does nothing to help those needs.

Just one more thing the “experts” have screwed up in America.

Kurt P rails against what he calls the “Pussification of American males”

Alternate title- How could she do that to the poor boy?

So we have a 36year old cougar (34 when she did him) who ‘ruined the 16 (14 at the time) year-olds life.
because she ‘forced’ him to have relations -and now his life is hell because:

1. H.S. girls are wanting to go out with him (for his experience)
2. Guys are asking him for advice.

I feel his pain.

The point here, and I agree with it this; Every teen boy, TRUST me, I was one and I know, wants this to happen to him. Now, I am not suggesting that we ought to not punish teachers who act this way. But we really ought not let “experts” tell us that this will ruin a young man’s life either.

Romney says he would repeal Obamacare, but………….

Last year he said he would repeal the parts he does not like, but keep those he does, such as the “incentive” Have a listen

OK, so he likes the incentive, but what is that incentive? Ben Domenech explains

Romney applauds the “incentives” to purchase insurance in Obamacare, which he says “works.” This, of course, refers to the individual mandate. The “incentive” is a fine.

Romney also inaccurately describes why his exchange functions – again leaving out the taxpayer funded subsidies which are inevitably redistributed from other taxpayers. Of the 412,000 people added to the insurance rolls in Massachusetts since 2006, only 7,000 of them have coverage not subsidized in whole or in part by the taxpayers.

Romney says that the “rates are lower than they otherwise would be” according to this. That’s an item for further debate, but premium rates in Massachusetts are the highest in the nation and double the national average. They have increased dramatically since his plan passed – he really believes they would be even higher without it?

Well I am sure there is nothing to worry about, I mean Ann Coulter swears that Romney IS the MOST Conservative candidate so………, and, Christine O’Donnell points out that Romney has been consistent, after he changes his mind! EGADS!

Once more my Liberal friends, there is no such thing as “FREE”!

Sure, some women are buying the free birth control pills line, but, big time party-pooper Chris Wysocki is here to say “not so fast”

Ladies (and girls), get in line for your latest government handout — free birth control pills! And breast pumps and condoms and pap smears and of course the “morning after” pill.

The new guidelines, which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) labeled “historic,” will require new health insurance plans to include women’s preventive services including FDA approved contraceptives, breast feeding support, and well-women visits — all without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible — beginning August 1, 2012.

Free stuff! From Barry and the Democrats! Vote for them!

But of course “free stuff” is not actually free. Somebody’s gotta pay. And that somebody is Maggie. She’s not pleased.

I learned today that I am forced to pay for your birth control and your morning-after, or a-few-days-later, abortion. Condoms included. It will all be “free” to you, because Obama said so. I’ll pay for your breast pump and other breast feeding “supports.” If I’m sounding bitter, I guess I shouldn’t. “These historic guidelines are based on science and existing literature.” Nevermind. I’m. Still. Bitter. No copays. Complete coverage. You still have time to run out and buy your condoms. Coverage starts today. There’s about 4 hours left to do what you’re going to do and bill it to me. Go on now. Ron Burgundy is waiting.

Yup, the bottom line is buried in the various news reports:

Of course, insurers are likely to pass the cost of free screenings to their customers through higher premiums.

WOW! Imagine that! Costs for “free stuff” being shifted to others. Like I have said before, once the government starts using taxation to encourage, or discourage behaviors, we are in deep trouble.

Now, ladies, there is still on free form of birth control, that IS truly free. There is such a thing as NOT sleeping with a guy, and I can say that this method is being used, trust me, I know from recent personal experience, SIGH!

And while the media is reading Palin’s Emails, and digging through Michelle Bachman’s husband’s trash……….

They missed this story

Is this, sadly, going to be the second campaign in a row where the so-called mainstream media will make a fetish of fact-checking the Republican candidates while ignoring the misstatements and gaffes of the Democratic candidates — of which there is now just one, President Barack Obama?

Last week, as both Newsbusters and the MRC documented, the New York Times (Kevin Sack) published a lengthy piece on how the White House “declined to challenge” a new book by ex-Times reporter Janny Scott that documents how Obama “mischaracterized a central anecdote about his mother’s deathbed dispute with her insurance company.”

The broadcast networks — throughout the 2008 campaign and the President’s push for ObamaCare — repeatedly conveyed Obama’s claim that while his mother, Ann Dunham, was sick with terminal cancer, she had to fight with insurance companies to “pay for her treatment.”

“I will never forget my own mother, as she fought cancer in her final months, having to worry about whether her insurance would refuse to pay for her treatment,” Obama told an August 11, 2009 town hall meeting in New Hampshire.

But ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to mention Scott’s now-undisputed account, drawn from a review of Ms. Dunham’s correspondence with the insurance company: “Ann’s compensation for her job in Jakarta had included health insurance, which covered most of the costs of her medical treatment. Once she was back in Hawaii, the hospital billed her insurance company directly, leaving Ann only to pay the deductible and any uncovered expenses, which, she said, came to several hundred dollars a month.”

Wow, just wow.

Your Blog of the day is

Adrienne’s Corner

Take a peek at her post on health care costs and tell me it does not smack of common sense and reason.

Somehow, in the past 50 or so years, the entire concept of health insurance has been turned inside out and upside down.  No longer do we insure against a catastrophic event, what was once called a “major medical” policy, but now expect our insurance to pay for hangnails and head colds. 

As a nation, we run to the doctor for the most trivial of reasons because “it’s free.”  This phenomenon is not relegated to the people who are insured through their employer, but includes Medicare recipients also.

A number of years ago, I had a lady friend who was on Medicare.  She had problems with the maintenance of her toenails and so her doctor referred her to a podiatrist.  Every six weeks, she visited the podiatrist to have her nails clipped, not by the doctor, but by an assistant in the office.  Medicare was billed for an office visit and for the clipping of her nails, a procedure that could have been performed by any competent manicurist.  Of course, if she went to manicurist, she would have to pay $5.00 or $10.00 to have her nails clipped.  Why do that when you can get it done for “free.”

Both my husband and I are recent receivers of this abomination called Medicare.  Unlike most recipients, I carefully review the statements for our services.  Just a few weeks ago, my husband had a electrocardiogram performed.  When I saw the amount billed to Medicare, I almost had a stroke.  A relatively simple procedure, the technology of which has long since paid for, cost close to $4,000.00.  A doctor isn’t even required to do the procedure, a technician being sufficient for the job.  Admittedly, a doctor “reads” the results, which were already known to us by the nurse.   What Medicare actually paid the clinic for the procedure is an unknown, but not for long, since I plan on spending some quality time with the billing office to find out this information. 

Take the time to read the whole thing, it is excellent

And again I ask, if ObamaCare is so freaking great…………..

Why are so many getting waivers to get the heck out of it? And why are the unions who pushed so hard for it, getting so many of those waivers? H/T Weasel Zippers

(Atlanta Jounal-Constitution) — The Obama Administration has rolled out another 129 waivers to one provision of the new health reform law, with almost half of those new exemptions going to various union groups.

The extra waivers bring the total to 1,168, giving businesses, health plans, unions and others an exemption from a portion of the law that in 2011 requires an annual benefit limit of no less than $750,000.

In other words, these 1,168 waivers allow companies to limit health insurance payouts to less than $750,000 — those annual benefit limits will be phased out by 2014.

The waivers now cover almost three million Americans, but the feds argue that is “less than 2 percent of all Americans who have private health insurance.

Almost half of the new round of waivers were given to union health benefit programs, a fact that is sure spur new complaints from health law critics in the Congress, who see these waivers as evidence that the Obama health plan is flawed.

Among the unions that were recently approved for waivers:

• Teamsters Local 237 in New York, covering over 51,000 workers
• Carpenters District Council of Kansas City Welfare Plan, for 20,898 workers
• Southeastern Iron Workers, for 5,143 policies
• Minneapolis Retail Meat Cutters and Food Handlers for 10,720
• the Fulton Fish Market Welfare Fund for 1,211

A great new idea for a Geico ad

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Geico does some very creative commercials, and their latest one features a man asking if switching to Geico can really save you 15% or more on car insurance, here is an example

After viewing the Superbowl yesterday,I have a new idea for Geico. Try this on for size. Could switiching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? Does Christine Aguilera suck at the National Anthem?

Chris certainly thinks so!

Christina Aguilera’s butchering of our National Anthem was really bad. B. A. D. Bad.

And disgraceful.

She flubbed the lyrics! “What so proudly we watched”? I cringed.

How sad that these talented singers have to over sing everything, often butchering our National Anthem.

A new year, but the same old California!

Still Stuck on Stoopit!

California is broke. Instead of fixing the budget, California legislators enacted 725 new laws to burden their citizenry. Here are a few examples:

AB 119 prevents insurance companies from charging different rates for men and women for identical coverage.

AB 715 makes a change to the California Green Building Standards code. The change will require new California buildings to be energy efficient.

AB 12 allows foster youth to acquire state services until the age of 21.

AB 97 bans the use of trans-fats in food facilities.

Do Leftist Nanny Staters EVER learn? Apparently not! Faced with crippling debt, the legislature doubles, triples down on the same big government idiocy that got them into that debt! Some more lowlights from the legislating orgy!

AB 1871 allows people to lease out their cars when they are not being used—alleviating the need to purchase additional insurance.

SB 1317 allows the state to slap parents with a $2,000 fine if their K-8 child misses more than 10 percent of the school year without a valid excuse. It also allows the state to punish parents with up to a year in prison for the misdemeanor.

Now, to be fair not all the bills are bad, or unneeded, but, many are, and the time and energy used to write, debate, and pass these bills waste time that SHOULD be spent on serious matters, like massive budget shortfalls! And, sadly, the same is true of many, if not most state legislatures across America. We focus a lot on federal waste and pork, but we must not forget the waste at the state level.

Doug Ross: Why yes, ObamaCare IS working………

If by working you mean driving up premiums, driving us towards single payer, driving doctors OUT of the medical field and of course driving health insurers out of business. More, and MUCH more of the destruction at Doug Ross!

Everything they said about this bill was a lie. And that includes the word “the”, “patient” and “protection”. Worse still: the bill hasn’t truly kicked in yet.

CT: Anthem Approved For Health Rate Hikes As High As 47 Percent.

FL: Blue Cross Blue Shield: Rates Up 10% in 8 Months. Excerpt: “President Obama told us that under his plan, health insurance premiums would go down. I think he forgot to tell Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida.”

NC: Celtic: Half of 18% Premium Increase Due to ObamaCare.

NY: Insurance for New York City small businesses rise as much as 74% in 2011. Excerpt: “[The company CFO] wants to know why [the] health care provider, GHI, is asking state regulators for permission to hike insurance premiums by 50% to 74%. …The only solution he sees to rising rates is maintaining his current staff of 10 employees, instead of expanding—which does nothing to reduce the city’s 9.4% unemployment rate.”

OR: Regence BlueCross BlueShield: Expect Up to 17% Rate Hikes.

WI: Celtic Insurance Premiums To Rise 18%.

And those headlines are, my friends ONLY the tip of the Obama Iceberg! Oh, but don’t worry folks, if you really get sick, the government will help, plan your death that is!

The White House is pushing back against a front-page New York Times story out Sunday that suggests end-of-life planning policies — or “death panels” as termed by critics — have been resurrected through Obama administration rule-making.

The new Medicare rule that takes effect on Jan. 1 will allow payment for doctors to provide counseling to help beneficiaries deal with end-of-life planning assistance. The “voluntary advance care planning” is included in a Medicare regulation issued Dec. 3 that covers annual checkups, known as wellness visits.

But the White House said Sunday the end-of-life planning provisions aren’t new to health care services provided by the government.

“The Times story is wrong. This benefit was signed into law under President Bush. The only thing new here is a regulation allowing the discussions –authorized in 2003 by the prescription drug benefit — to happen in the context of the new annual wellness visit created by the Affordable Care Act,” said White House spokesman Reid Cherlin.

When similar wording to the rule appeared in the health care bill debated earlier this year, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, complained loudly that the provision would “start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia.”