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Obamacare Plunges To New Lows: Presenting DogeCare

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First it was frat bros, then it was sluts, then it was Richard Simmons. Now, that the doge meme has arrived, Obamacare marketing desperation has just sunk to unfathomable lows. This is almost as bad as the Joseph A Bank vs Men's Wearhouse M&A equivalent of the Jerry Springer show.

For the dumbfounded, Marketwatch explains.

The famous, or infamous depending on your viewpoint, “Doge” meme, featuring the picture of a dog with captions indicating he thinks in broken English, was borrowed by HHS in the above photo and put out over the agency’s Facebook page.

 

So instead of the “So scare” and “What r your doing?”  that we see on the original Doge, the HHS version says “Much affordable,” “Many coverage” and “So health insurance.”

 

That promptly elicited groans from those who visited. One mocked the broken English with: “Much desperate. Very pandering. Wow.” Another said: “I’ll need that healthcare because I just got cancer from this.” The lion’s share of those who commented were similarly unflattering.

One can only imagine how horrendous the sign up stats for the all imporant young demographic must be for the administration to have to resort to this.

 

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Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:21 | 4489328 Seize Mars
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I saw somewhere (and I'm trying to verify) that the Supreme Court in the period between 1935 and 1995 found exactly - zero - Federal Laws to be unconstitutional.

So much for the Supreme court as a refuge for Liberty.

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:26 | 4489350 Colonel Klink
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Why would a government entity find it's actions to be wrong?  Eventually the people are going to have to make a stand and take their country back to it's founding principles if things don't change.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:04 | 4489616 JoBob
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Eventually the people are going to have to make a stand and take their country back. 

Period.

Things have already changed past the breaking point.

The Tree of Liberty needs nourishing. Now.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:27 | 4489749 scrappy
Fri, 02/28/2014 - 16:03 | 4490520 f16hoser
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SHACK!

Hoser, Lt Col

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:34 | 4489419 thamnosma
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Maybe we should empower the Supreme Court of Egypt to review our laws.  It has more integrity.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:12 | 4489265 ebworthen
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Just wait, the insurance companies will be pushing payments with Dogecoin via Bitcoin; but that won't work either.

The way this country is going there will be compulsory pet health insurance 'ere long.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:12 | 4489269 FuzzyDunlop21
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Comic sans font. The most unprofessional font in the world. Why not just use crayon? 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:18 | 4489313 jmcadg
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You beat me to it. who fuckin' uses Comic Sans?

This is a design low, bring back the slapper.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:41 | 4489473 Buckaroo Banzai
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Comic Sans is integral to the Doge meme.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:19 | 4489322 Colonel Klink
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Because the wax keeps clogging the printer head.  Besides they're running low from writing all the laws and corrections to the Constitution using them.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:26 | 4489356 CrimsonAvenger
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done by the same guy who did the birth certificate.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 21:25 | 4499385 MeelionDollerBogus
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Ironically I find it the most readable font at work so for all my notepad windows, I force it, and as I'm aging, I force it to 18 point font.

Not every window of every sort but my notes I make on the fly, yes. No matter how I resize windows & any pixelation that takes place, that font seems to lose readability least.

For my emails & ZH's copied to email for reading for easy zoom control, I stick to Verdana.

And for those still pondering the side-bar issue:

in firefox, which is not permitted at work, but I'm using it at home I use the webdeveloper plugin/tool.

control+shift+i

or for the sidebars themselves the fastest way is to right-click & press Q.

This lets you see the #div nodes. Delete them.

div#sidebar-right

div#sidebar-left

Now click on Style Editor and look for sheets #3 and #4 for left and right margin definitions for the middle column container div.

Change all of them to something smaller like 30px or 1px or whatever suits you. You can see the changes happen live.

If you reload the page, reply, edit, anything, it's all reset to normal annoying squeeze-view.

Until you do that you have side-bar free viewing of your Banzai7's & comments, etc.

I just open a new edit / reply window in another tab, leaving my clean viewing tab of a ZH article untarnished.

I hope this ends the nonsensical suggestion of purchasing a 16:9 monitor only for viewing zerohedge.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:12 | 4489270 Smuckers
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What does the fox say?

Sat, 03/01/2014 - 13:03 | 4493634 StandardDeviant
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Et que dit le volatile?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:12 | 4489272 Firing Pin
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The White Snow is obviously impeding the progress of the Colored Dog. This pic is raciss!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:49 | 4489526 KickIce
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They missed an excellent chance to blame the weather.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:12 | 4489273 maskone909
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is this pronounced "D-AW-GEE" ?

im not yet up on the latest hipster speak

if it is pronounced as the forementioned, ive been hearing crackheads use that word for years

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:28 | 4489366 blueRidgeBoy
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just in case your question is serious, it's pronounced "doj", one syllable, with the "j" sounding the same as how many pronounce the j in Beijing (even though that j is actually a normal j) and a long "o".  I am ashamed to know this fact.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:47 | 4489520 maskone909
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thanks for the clarification

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:37 | 4489812 Big Corked Boots
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So, it's like the Doge's Palace in Venice?

(quietly impressed that a Blue Ridge Boy would know this)

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:12 | 4489274 NaiLib
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The Dog should sue for being connected to that!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:13 | 4489277 BeerMe
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Getting dumber by the minute.  Reminds me of watching most things on TV.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 21:19 | 4499353 MeelionDollerBogus
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That's why I don't watch TV. Have one beside me: it's with the apartment as I moved in, returned the satellite receiver to save the landlord some money & maybe save me some in the future. I didn't use it anyhow. For 12 solid weeks it sad beside me unused as I do this thing called work, and when I'm not working, I am anyhow because I'm analyzing charts using real math & projecting future outcomes, partly with the help of the overtones of /sarc & actual comments of value from here. It's a hint but a hint is all I need to fill in some gaps.

eat-work-drink-sleep, works for me.

I'll do something else when I get bored of just this but TV won't be a part of it.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:13 | 4489281 Dr. Venkman
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Go long Shiba Inu's.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:14 | 4489288 the not so migh...
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Release the Wombats

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:14 | 4489290 TrustbutVerify
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The scary thing is that there are still those that still stick with Obama even as they see how disasterous his presidency has been.  They simply refuse to admit to the debacle that has unfolded in front of them - and Obamacare is only part of the implosion. 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:36 | 4489436 thamnosma
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That group is a HUGE number.  I know some of them.   I think they would still support Obama from their FEMA cells.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:01 | 4489540 KickIce
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There's an entire mob that thinks government is the answer to everything.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:18 | 4489297 Doubleguns
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So this is what it means by "going full retard".

 

Should never go full retard.

 

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=going+full+retard&FORM=VIRE7#view=de...

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:29 | 4489380 pods
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I thought hot chocolate boy was full retard.

This must be full retard +1.

pods

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:16 | 4489299 order66
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The best thing about Obamacare is that it allowed my health insurance company to cancel my policy so that they could charge me DOUBLE what I was paying.

USA!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:29 | 4489382 ihatecats
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and the worst thing about it??,,,it exists.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:36 | 4489439 thamnosma
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Apparently that was the point.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:17 | 4489300 QQQBall
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wonder how much that cost?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:18 | 4489306 Chuck Knoblauch
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Michelle and the kids can get health care now!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:18 | 4489314 dexter_morgan
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Mooochelle.........squatchy

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:18 | 4489309 anefarious1
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You guys are just racist because you don't want to pay the "Shared Responslbity Payment" April 1st, April Fools' Day, is when you offically cross into the twilight zone ie. pay a tax just to exist. What's wrong with that? Obama says its only fair.

By the way...get your Obamacare fine amount here:

http://obamacarefee.com

You may be shocked to find it is super high, not the $95 the media has repeated over and over.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:33 | 4489413 dexter_morgan
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single person making 50K would be $400 by my calc. Barbie says Math is hard, so the yutes won't know the difference.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:18 | 4489311 Seasmoke
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Nothing beats that Richard Simmons video ... I still shower twice a day since watching that 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 15:00 | 4490249 Blano
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LOL

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:18 | 4489315 El Vaquero
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I would say that I could do a better job of selling this, but no matter how much gold spray paint I put on this turd, it would still smell like a turd.  The best course of action is to let it dry up and decompose. 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:28 | 4489362 Colonel Klink
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Best course of action would be to put it in a paper bag, place it on the Whitehouse steps, set it on fire, and ring the doorbell.

They have to stomp on it to find out what's inside.  Just like Piglosi said.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:41 | 4489830 Big Corked Boots
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Dehydrated turds are a source of renewable energy. They're green, provided you don't eat too many Oreo cookies.

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:19 | 4489318 Tracerfan
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You can't make this crap up!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 15:31 | 4490398 Tall Tom
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Well it is only evidential that it was made up...

 

It is beyond my comprehension that these people are paid for making it up.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:19 | 4489319 nonclaim
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Should use this one http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/704928-doge

... but going head down.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:19 | 4489320 Bryan
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This is how people try to reach and speak to our young adults now?  No wonder America is screwed.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:53 | 4489543 Bryan
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Here, I'll help the lame marketing gurus at Obamacare reach out to our yutes:

"I can haz helth ishurance?"

"I didn't need Obamacare, until I took an arrow to the knee"

"What does the Gox say?"  (sorry, not Obamacare, but still funny)

"Don't be Ermahgerd, get your Obamabirthcontrol today!"

"If you have a fever, the prescription is not more cowbell, it's Obamacare!"

"The ACA prevents YOU from being a victim of an epic FAIL!"

"Hey, if U mad bro, you need some health insurance."

"When Chuck Norris finishes lifting pianos with his teeth, he logs into ObamaDental for his next whitening visit."

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 14:41 | 4490138 James-Morrison
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The utes are waiting for a better deal.

How about:

Enroll in Obamacare and your premiums will also apply toward your student debt!

It's a 2-fer. That's something to really woof about.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:19 | 4489321 jmcadg
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Can we have Cooper Black for the next retarded campaign?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:20 | 4489326 BGO
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Apparently the same people who built the Bananacare website are also in charge of marketing.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:21 | 4489329 jmcadg
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I hadn't got past the awful font. I've just read it. Is the copy writer a spanner or on holiday. Very benefits? My arse.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:24 | 4489331 Mercury
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HHS is getting you used to the idea that under Obamacare you will be

 

                  Treated like dog.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:35 | 4489427 oddjob
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I just bought 2 of these http://ttasurgery.com/

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:44 | 4489467 Mercury
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Back in the dark ages I had the option of replacing one of my ACLs with a pig ligament, Goretx or part of one of my own tendons. I went with #3 and for the most part it's gone about as well as I could have hoped for. A friend had a heart valve replaced with a pig's when he was in his 30's though. So far, so good...

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 21:13 | 4499328 MeelionDollerBogus
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A friend of mine had his heart valve replaced with a plastic one. He needs bloodthinners forever to ensure he doesn't die of a clot. Does your friend have similar worries or does a biologic valve escape this fate?

The thinners are a scary risk: if something else goes wrong you won't stop bleeding & it's game over. Very real risk. I knew someone who had an aneurysm & because of the blood thinners it was game over.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:23 | 4489334 halfawake
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I am lifted up by the comments on FB... most of them are effectively G-rated ZH posts. Thank goodness, is an awaking possible?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 15:20 | 4490332 El Vaquero
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An awakening is happening.  I was listening to a radio show the other night, and this is on a very "conservative" station that competes for the most listeners in my area, mind you, and they were talking about what is tradationally earthy hippy stuff.  Growing your own food, houses off of the grid, etc...  The host said "My wife wants to do this for the environment.  Whatever.  I want to do it to not have any dependancy on the government." 

 

Even two years ago, this would have been completely unthinkable.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:26 | 4489348 Van Halen
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"First it was frat bros, then it was sluts, then it was Richard Simmons. Now, that the doge meme has arrived, Obamacare marketing desperation has just sunk to unfathomable lows."

 

No, this isn't near as bad as the horrorshow the Richard Simmons thing was. Covered California and everyone involved in that mess should be incarcerated or institutionalized. Be warned, if you go to look at this that you will see what no amount of brain bleach can clean from your mind.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:38 | 4489456 thamnosma
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I'll take your word for it.  Best to not pollute my mind any more than it already is.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:26 | 4489349 RevRex
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But but but Bush did the same thing......

 

 

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:26 | 4489351 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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I take solace in knowing all these I can haz cheesburger cat memes and doge dog memes are clogging up NSA database storage space and probably significantly slowing down the time it takes to search and sort all that information in the first place. Just keep posting them meme's with keywords in them so they can't ignore them in their searches.

If it was me I'd start a whole code system using nothing but cat memes on social media to communicate sensitive information. Drive them up a wall with sensory overload of idiotic cat memes to the point their brains turn to mush being exposed to inane stupidity over and over and over and over and over....

 

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 21:08 | 4499304 MeelionDollerBogus
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I already do. It's amazing what you can get away with when you realize graphic searching everything is impossibru.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:26 | 4489354 q99x2
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There are so few of the globalists when everyone gets pissed I can't see how they will survive.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 21:06 | 4499295 MeelionDollerBogus
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Easy.

Most people have no idea who they are or that there even are globalists.

Of the few who do understand, few know what all their names & faces are. Even I sure as well fucking don't and I'd like to know, but I figure planning my own escape & survival is more important than making a hitlist so you can scratch me off too.

See how easy that is? It's not just a problem, it's a problem of choosing your own suicide, or at least lack of preps for your own future, to end theirs.

They know this.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:26 | 4489355 ihatecats
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barrycare bitchez!!!!!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:27 | 4489357 MrVincent
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Every commercial I have seen for Obamacare is aimed at young people. I should sue for age discrimination.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:43 | 4489482 swmnguy
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That's because young people are the ones who aren't buying insurance, and the dopes trying to maintain the current health care finance system realize they have to have young people, who don't need health care, funding health care for everyone who does need it, or it will cost too much for anyone to be able to pay it.  The problem is, of course, the dopes haven't figured out that the young people aren't buying it because they don't have enough money to pay for it.  The dopes themselves never went through the broke-young-adult phase of development because when you grow up in, let's just say, Greenwich Connecticut, go to all the "right" prep schools, get insider-deal scholarships to Ivy League schools, and go straight into government when your daddy writes a big check to Rep. Dickweed, you never have to pay for anything and you're never broke.  These hothouse roses can't fathom that they are the tiny minority.  They really think twenty-somethings are spending all their money on beer, dope, smartphones and online gaming, and could afford health insurance if they just focused on priorities.  These dopes aren't making $12.50/hr., 29.5 hrs./wk., while paying off $50k in student loans, and they can't imagine what it's like.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:28 | 4489368 PubliusTacitus
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indicating he thinks in broken English

 

 

 

No, the text was provided by Kathy Sibelius.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:28 | 4489371 Rising Sun
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Hey Barry, your wife is fucking cunt!!!!!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:34 | 4489424 dexter_morgan
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squatchy

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:27 | 4489757 Cpl Hicks
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Is the "fucking" an adjective or a verb?

Either way she's our First Wookie.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 14:08 | 4489954 Comte d'herblay
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Need a translation:

Is this a typo or is Muchelle TheBamster a lesbian?

Otherwise, what else is "it" for?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:28 | 4489373 Downtoolong
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Goofy animal pics always seem to win us over. But, we’ll know the Obamacare marketers have reached the bottom of the emotional grab bag when they bring on cute babies doing all sorts of crazy adult like things. You know, like signing their parents up for Obamacare and trading their college fund on eTrade.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:35 | 4489429 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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There are a lot of studies to back that up also. It has been an advertising staple for decades. Tony the Tiger, Joe Camel, etc. Cute animal people can identify with makes it easier to get them to accept what the animal is selling not the advertiser.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 21:00 | 4499270 MeelionDollerBogus
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But Joe Camel assures me I can eat 10 packs a day and smoke one each with a bacon-burger wrapped in beer-suds deep-fried in place.

Joe Camel wouldn't lie to me.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:28 | 4489375 Skin666
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Much wow

 

This is too funny!

 

The cracks in the facade are widening

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:21 | 4489717 Cpl Hicks
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If only!

Barry happy

Me not so

When this over?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 16:51 | 4490462 Tall Tom
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Asshole aching

No K-Y

Loses load

Then over

Hemmoroids

See Doctor

Obamacare

Ass rape NOT covered

 

 

 

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 20:57 | 4499265 MeelionDollerBogus
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You can't spell slaughter without laughter!

And you can't spell potemkin without pot.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:30 | 4489385 22winmag
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People know what's coming and what they must do. Crap like this only reinforces it.

 

The recent all time record gun and ammo sales are not for duck hunting and plinking beer cans.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:56 | 4489567 machineh
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AMMO: “Much affordable,” “Many kind” and “So personal defense.”

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:02 | 4489597 dexter_morgan
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dup

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:02 | 4489598 dexter_morgan
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ammo - not much as affordable as it used to be before POS prez

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 15:03 | 4490257 machineh
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So I lied ... just like Obammy did.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:08 | 4489646 seek
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add "NO 22LR" to that

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:31 | 4489392 NoWayJose
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Unfortunately, this is the level of education that the graduates of our multi-cultural schools have fallen to - but hey, at least they tried...

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 20:55 | 4499254 MeelionDollerBogus
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LOL for multicultural.

I'm from Canada. WE are multicultural. USA? Not a fucking chance.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:33 | 4489411 Chuck Knoblauch
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Michelle, wife to the Queen, had this to say on the new ad campaign -

 

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

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:34 | 4489420 dexter_morgan
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Moochelle..... squatchy

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:35 | 4489421 RevRex
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Obama Maff Explained

 

Obama + Reggie Love = ??????

====> +     (__O__) =  Sasha and Malia Farrakhan!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:36 | 4489444 swmnguy
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The whole problem with health care finance in this country hasn't changed in the 25 years since I started paying attention to it.  Health care coverage (hand in hand with actual health care, though they aren't the same thing) costs more money than a growing number of people and employers can afford to pay.  That's the issue.  I phrased it very carefully because every vested interest likes to shade things slightly differently to obscure the fundamental nature of the problem.  Those profiting greatly from the current fee-for-services model always say, "But American health care is the best in the world!  Look at all the Sheikhs and rich Canadians who go to the Mayo Clinic!"  Employees bitch that their boss is making them pay more of the premium.  Insurance companies say they're barely making any money at all.  Plastic Surgeons say if they can't make enough money to buy a golf course and dabble in real estate investment, they'll quit practicing, and "You'll all be sorry when I'm DEAD!"

Whatever.  The problem is that a growing number of Americans can't afford to pay $500/mo. for a $5000 deductible policy for their family that is also 60% coverage between the deductible and the out-of-pocket maximum, which is about $11,000.  In other words, Little Johnny falls off his bike and breaks his arm, they pay $11,000.  And the next month, they still have to pay the $500 premium again.  They can't do it.  That's the problem.

Making doggie-meme posters, hiring Richard Simmons, even making people pay fines; none of these things address the fact that people can't pay money they don't have.

Of course employers will cut employees to 29.5 hrs., or give them a one-time $500 spiff to go buy their own coverage.  When I was an employee, I was usually the only one who realized I was getting a 25% - 40% additional compensation in the form of HMO-style family health coverage.  Everyone else was bitching about paying $200/mo., with not the slightest clue that the boss was kicking in another $800/mo.

This ACA bullshit is a transitional phase.  Business wanted out of the business of providing health insurance.  It hasn't made sense since the end of WWII price and wage controls.  But consumers would absolutely freak out if they had any idea what this shit costs.  So we go through the transition to a national single-payer universal insurance program, which is what every business except Medical, Pharma and Insurance wants.  Once we demonstrate that people just can't afford to buy individual private insurance policies at this price level, and the system is in visible danger of collapse, then the next step will become politically viable.  I still guess it will take a Republican President to enact it, and that move will be one of the most popular domestic US policy moves in our lifetime; a "job-saver," a "bailout for the middle-class;" I'm sure they'll have all kinds of ways to sell it.

I'm not saying I'm in favor of "Medicare for All Americans."  I'd prefer to get costs back to where people pay a fair price for the treatment they need, and we don't spend millions keeping dead people on machines until their families process their grief, and people get charged $10,000 for 2 stitches when a piece of tape would probably do, etc.  But we're not going to do that.  We'll bail out the medical finance industry, just like we've put every other part of the finance industry on the government ledger.  More of the merger of corporate and state power, red/blue puppet show notwithstanding in the least.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:05 | 4489623 kw2012
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The reason healthcare keeps going up is that the government keeps slashing what percentage of the actual bill it will pay.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:15 | 4489685 swmnguy
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That's part of it.  I think the bulk of it, though, is that 90% of the time people go for health care, they don't really need anything.  But they're customers, all lined up and ready to fleece.  My kids are teenagers now.  When they were little and got a mild virus, we kept them home, in bed, and poured soup and water through them, and they were bouncing off the walls in 48 hrs.  My parents, my wife's mom, and all the helicopter mommies we knew kept saying, "Take them to Urgent Care!  What if they have Dengue Fever or Whatthefuckitis?"  Saved ourselves thousands of dollars.  Of course it helped that we have family members in the medical industry who told us that no, there isn't anything to do for minor virus illnesses except prevent dehydration.  And most injuries require rest and immobilization, like duct tape and the couch; not x-rays, MRI's, overnight observation, and whatever else makes a twisted ankle cost $15k.  And when my grandmother lost consciousness after a series of strokes when she was 86?  She was not "pining for the fjords."  She was DEAD, though it took my early Baby Boomer mother, raised on Disney in the 1950s, six months to figure that out so the poor old lady's body was hooked up to machines for several million dollars until my mother realized that Bambi's mom wasn't coming back.

It sure as hell isn't the cost of malpractice settlements, which are about 0.5% of medical expenditures and would be greatly reduced by measures that control and eliminate malpractice, like surgical checklists to make sure we're about to cut off the correct limb but surgeons despise because deities like themselves with 8-figure net worth don't need no stinking checklists.

In medical care, as with so many things in our lives today, we need a massive cultural adjustment.  Starting with the realization that the US in 1946 - 1970 was the aberration, not everything that went before or came after.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 14:54 | 4490217 James-Morrison
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+1 for "Whatthefuckitis".

I caught that when my insurance was cancelled in November.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 15:35 | 4490390 swmnguy
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I know what you mean.  I've had my insurance cancelled 4 times since I started buying it myself on the individual market in 2004.  Not enough people in that particular pool, is the usual excuse.  Each time I have to move to a higher deductible to keep the coverages and premium in the same range.  The next wrinkle will be that I have to pay for chemical dependency coverage (My current policy is grandfathered in and doesn't include that).  Next will be that I won't be able to keep my current "100%" policy, which means my deductible is the same as my out-of-pocket maximum.  The plans I see on the Minnesota insurance website that have comparable coverage (well, with the addition of Chem Dep, of course) at similar premiums and deductibles are all 60% or 70% policies, so no coverage until $5000 deductible is met, then I pay 40% or 30% of the remaining balance until I've paid about $11,000 total.  See how they get ya?  I'm feeling a bit feverish.  Must be "Whatthefuckitis."  Though the TV commercials say if I've got WTF, I should ask my doctor if Doucheola is right for me.  Otherwise, the only known cure is a radical cashectomy.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 20:52 | 4499240 MeelionDollerBogus
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+1 meelion for radical cashectomy.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 20:51 | 4499233 MeelionDollerBogus
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+ 1 beeelyun for epic win on duct-tape & couch.

Sorry about Bambi's mom but reality is reality & nothing is gained by denying it and you just knew better, nothing to be ashamed of. We have our time, then it's over.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:23 | 4489731 mendigo
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Spoken like a true dependant personality.

The reason costs go up is because the government keeps subsidizing it.

The costs will only be controlled when we are forced to say : gee doc thats more than i have to spend and grab our coat and walk out of the office and live with the consequences

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:17 | 4489696 mendigo
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Word. Except

The net result is the young and healthy cannot and will not pay the high price of insurance on which they would be unlikely to collect. So they will simply pay the tax instead. So the healthcare industry gets a boost either way. Party on

 

This bs about the dog only serves to distract from this is a further step away from individual responsibility and in the direction of the subjugation of the working class by turning them into recipients of government aid. Land of the dependant and controlled.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 20:47 | 4499214 MeelionDollerBogus
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I probably haven't paid $500 to healthcare in an entire year much less a month. To do that per month is insane to us Canadians.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:44 | 4489448 F.A. Hayek
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Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:38 | 4489455 F.A. Hayek
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Hooked on ebonics worked for me!

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:41 | 4489470 Ayn Rand
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Sad part is that for the white house people, this IS how they speak.

It's over folks, inmates have taken over the asylem

Nurse Kratchet are you listening?

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:41 | 4489471 Ayn Rand
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Sad part is that for the white house people, this IS how they speak.

It's over folks, inmates have taken over the asylem

Nurse Kratchet are you listening?

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:41 | 4489474 Debt Slave
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Doggie propaganda. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over. Where do I sign up?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:44 | 4489491 swmnguy
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Now that's Doggie-Style you can believe in!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:43 | 4489487 roadhazard
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 The repubican dog, John Boehner sez, "We need something different".

LOL, I love it when a repubican plan comes together.

 

 

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:46 | 4489513 Whoa Dammit
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Going to the dogs.

Forward!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:53 | 4489525 monad
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Next up: lolcats, followed by titties

2 anorexic young Barbies getting sun by the pool. A shadow eclipses them. Pan in Jaws soundtrack as a 8000kg behemoth rolls by on its medical mobility scooter, with the electric motor on the scooter whining and skipping like its going to burn up as it intermittently quits, struggling to drag the beast out of frame. After the drooling, grunting, panting, wheezing eclipse passes,

Skank A: OMG, thats so gross.

Skank B: Ugh. If I ever end up like that, puleeeeze just shoot me. 

Voice over by Professor Utonium providing PHYSICAL FITNESS INSTRUCTIONS to the tv zombie hordes. 

~Cartoon version for the junior manchurian candidates.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:50 | 4489531 GooseShtepping Moron
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I've never heard of this meme before, but I thought "Doge" was the honorific title used for the chieftain of an Italian city-state, as in Bellini's The Doge of Venice. It shows an absence of class and education to use it as a slanted homonym for "dog," if that's what's going on. To me, this anti-intellectual pandering would just be a major turnoff, defeating the purpose of the ad campaign.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 19:15 | 4491757 Village-idiot
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I thought the same thing; it must be my education. I was in school many years ago (graduated High School in 1966).

But after thinking about it for awhile, I'm thinking that doge is an illiterate's spelling of the word "doggie".

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:53 | 4489545 Itchy and Scratchy
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Very dogmatic if u ask me!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:57 | 4489571 irie1029
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This is the most f'd up administration in the history of the world.  Just this AM I saw a stupid exercise ad with Obummer and Biteme.  Can those clowns stoop any lower?  Really sickens me on how far this country has fallen in the last 30 years.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:04 | 4489617 Inbetween is pain
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While this is a very fucked up administration Bush still takes the cake for being the most fucked up.  Losing Afgahanastan and starting an uncessary war in Iraq and destabilizing the entire region are just three of his major accomplishments.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:19 | 4489704 dexter_morgan
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Yeah, Bath House has only droned innocents, brought drone use to the US, bought up all our ammo, fucked up the economy more than it already was, is a bigger bankster cocksucker than Bush, which is hard to be, run guns to Mexico and got people killed, BENGHAZI, tramples the 1st, 2nd, 4th amendments regularly, not gotten us OUT of any military involments while the spectre of more increases, etc., etc. etc.

So, yeah, I guess he still has a ways to go in some peoples eyes,

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 20:40 | 4499181 MeelionDollerBogus
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President Fooled-me-twice & President Bathhouse are simply taking orders from above. Bush Sr. is CIA and above him are the banksters & international cabal-members. They are calling the shots.

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:05 | 4489622 RevRex
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but but but Bush did the same thing and both parties are the same.

 

I often wonder what Libertarians thought when Ron Paul said voting Libertarian was stupid, and a waste of a vote.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:02 | 4489600 Duc888
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It's

A

tax 

 

 

ok?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:45 | 4489849 semperfi
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more - its total control of you

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:08 | 4489608 RevRex
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oops

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:05 | 4489628 stevegee58
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Oh stop.  Who doesn't just loooooooooooove doge puppies?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:08 | 4489647 monad
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Help! Help! I'm stuck on the couch and I can't get up! I'm out of cheeze whiz! Somebody help me! Heeelp! 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:13 | 4489675 paint it red ca...
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Obamacare, my God.

The NY ad men can't even polish this turd.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:17 | 4489698 ConManipulation
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FUCK YOU OBAMA, AND FUCK EVERYONE AROUND YOU, TOO. 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 14:07 | 4489705 Tenshin Headache
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Here I thought they were using language that would reach their base. Never thought it was about the dog thinking until I read this post. LOL

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:20 | 4489710 Ariadne
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There's a point where they dumb it down so much that all the brighter children and even some of the normies figure out they're being screwed. Children have something these bozos don't: plenty of time to figure out how to use their limited resources against a superior force thats in a hurry. Bwaha ahaha ahahahaha

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:24 | 4489736 Infinite QE
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Which does bring up an interesting concept. Since a large portion of the Obummer support camp is the lesbian/gay agenda folk, who have pets as their `kids', shouldn't Obummercare be extended to these pets?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 18:26 | 4491490 Nick Jihad
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If they can't get enough young adults to sign up, that will be the next step - mandatory, "affordable" health insurance for your pets. Don't let the IRS find out about Fluffy.

Sat, 03/01/2014 - 00:00 | 4492578 Kprime
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only till they're 26.

Sat, 03/01/2014 - 08:03 | 4492941 grekko
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If you sign up your dog, can you claim them as a dependent on your 1040?

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 19:52 | 4499019 MeelionDollerBogus
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pretty sure that's not the large support. The large support is the idiots who still think voting matters. There's plenty on the decepti-conned side too but I think a few more of them are waking up first. Not enough to make a difference: the entire left/right paradigm is a puppet-show for children & imbeciles.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:24 | 4489740 TPTB_r_TBTF
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That ad might work for users of DogeCoin which uses that breed as its mascot.

http://dogecoin.com/

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:26 | 4489751 alangreedspank
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Many waste, so fraud, much money stuffed brown paper bags, wow!

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:35 | 4489786 Bastiat
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Doggy Care Poster:

A male dog mounting another.  The one on top is Obamacare.

"Your gonna feel a little pressure."

 

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 15:46 | 4490442 lakecity55
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How about Backdoor Barry on top of the dog?

I mean, it would not seem weird for him. The newest rumor has him leaving Reggie for Mr Ed!

"Protect Your Pets from VD. Get O-Care and a free Dog Collar, just like the collar Vlad gave Bath House."

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:42 | 4489841 Hooter Shaker
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How long before we are forced to carry health insurance on our dogs?  

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:51 | 4489871 bdub2
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Did comrad Boris write the copy for this ad?

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 13:53 | 4489891 Intoxicologist
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Any self-respecting dog would shit all over this ad.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 15:41 | 4490437 lakecity55
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i printed it and laid it on top of the dog's puppy pad.

now all i have to do is wait and make a video.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 15:52 | 4490470 Intoxicologist
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I showed it to my dog.  He went outside and puked.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 16:00 | 4490496 akak
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So sorry, IRS, my doge ate my ObamaCare application.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 16:22 | 4490670 Intoxicologist
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"If you can wait 24 hours, I can retrieve and resubmit it."

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 14:07 | 4489948 Intoxicologist
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Actually, the picture should be of a dog scooting his arse across a carpet.

".gov healthcare lodged in there"

"Ow!"

"Very irritating"

"No money left for kibble"

Sucks healthcare.gov

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 14:14 | 4489984 noless
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No fucking way.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 14:17 | 4489994 noless
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not enough wow.

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 14:17 | 4489992 robertocarlos
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If you could include all your pets in your Obamacare coverage then the number of new signings would be through the roof. I think they have a winner. HH's calfs are disqualified due to rule 131.b

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 14:32 | 4490086 RealityCheque
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Thats racist against dogs. Or something

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