MikeAmundsen

"“I’m not saying this is a plot by Hitler to steal Glenn Beck from all of us internal organ by internal organ by internal organ and then reprogram him to use as a weapon. But isn’t it fascinating that I’m the only one with the courage to ask these questions?”" - MikeAmundsen from Bookmarklet

It was spot on. Loved it. I don't think the audience could figure out what was going on, though. - Mark Trapp

Brilliant! - Kenton

"The Journal editorial says the House bill "'pays for' about six years of program with a decade of revenue, with the heaviest costs concentrated in the second five years." It's true that the taxes kick in first, before many of the bill's biggest expenses get started. But the editorial doesn't mention that the CBO projects the largest cost savings for the bill's final four years, and that the bill appears to be self-sustaining starting around 2017. So we rate the statement Half True." - MikeAmundsen from Bookmarklet

"Wasserman Schultz was correct when she said the GOP plan does not prohibit health insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. We found nothing in the 219-page Republican plan that would do that. Insurance companies have argued that they can only absorb the cost of taking people with pre-existing conditions if they could offset that expense by expanding their customer base through mandates that everyone buy insurance. And the Republican plan doesn't do that." - MikeAmundsen from Bookmarklet

What a crock of shit! - Mark Layton

"It relies on bedrock GOP principles of consumer choice, no tax hikes, limited government involvement and caps on lawsuits. But it would have limited impact. Where the Democratic bill is projected to reduce the number of uninsured people by 36 million by 2019, the GOP bill would reduce it by only 3 million." - MikeAmundsen from Bookmarklet

"Yesterday I attended a biweekly meeting of an informal a UC Berkeley group devoted to Python in science (Py4Science), organized by Fernando Perez. The format (in honor of my visit) was a series of 4-minute lightning talks about various projects using Python in the scientific world (at Berkeley and elsewhere) followed by an hourlong Q&A session. This meant I didn't have to do a presentation and still got to interact with the audience for an hour -- my ideal format." - Cristo

"Slaid Cleaves (born June 9, 1964[1]) is a singer-songwriter born in Washington, D.C. and raised in South Berwick, Maine and Round Pond, Maine. An alumnus of Tufts University[2], where he majored in English and philosophy, Cleaves lives in Austin, Texas." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...] - MikeAmundsen

"This morning I was born again and a light shines on my land // I no longer look for heaven in your deathly distant land // I do not want your pearly gates don’t want your streets of gold // This morning I was born again and a light shines on my soul" [http://woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics...] - MikeAmundsen