I don’t find this ad offensive, just dumb. Does this entice anyone to try an Oreo pizza? Do people actually eat this shit?
I’d rather eat an apple.
Don’t have balls? Get some for your car.
October 24, 2007 at 1:23 pm (Cars)
Tags: testicles
Another pet peeve of mine nursed along by too much time on the road: SUVs with nuts. I just don’t get it. By hanging this accessory from your truck, aren’t you perpetuating the popular wisdom that you’re compensating for a small penis with a ridiculously oversized vehicle?
I was surprised to find so much competition in the manufacturing of these testicles:
Really, the idiocy is starting to get to me.
October 6, 2007 at 3:08 pm (Children, George W. Bush, Health, Politics)
Tags: s-chip
A follow-up to my previous post:
NPR’s All Things Considered reports that President Bush kept his promise and vetoed the S-CHIP expansion bill.
The reasons he gave make no sense:
“I don’t want the federal government making decisions for doctors and customers.”
The bill would require nothing of the sort. It would just pay for children to have private insurance. In no way would it put the government in charge of what kind of care children could receive, it would simply allow them to receive care.
“This program expands coverage, federal coverage, up to families earning $83,000 a year. That doesn’t sound poor to me.”
Well, me neither. I’d love to make half that. But that number is inaccurate. Stan Dorn, a senior research associate with the Urban Institute, a Washington-based think tank, says, “This bill would actually put new limits in place to keep states from going to very high-income levels. SCHIP money would no longer be available over 300 percent of the federal poverty level, which is about $60,000 for a family of four.”
NPR further reports:
Dorn says the real irony is that the bill, which was negotiated largely by Republicans in the Senate, goes a long way toward meeting the goals that Bush said he wanted for the program.
“It’s limited the ability to go up the income scale. It’s focused resources on the poorest uninsured kids. It’s imposed new duties on states to prevent government funds from crowding out employer coverage,” Dorn says.
In other words, the bill addresses all of the president’s complaints, including his concern that families with private coverage now will drop it in favor of government-subsidized care.
