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Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time you’re 70, you get a nice plan.

Insurance is, you’re 20 years old, you just graduated from college, and you start paying $15 a month for the rest of your life and by the time you’re 70, and you really need it, you’re still paying the same amount and that’s really insurance.

more sotty words from two"giants of Illogic"

you guys are clueless. Are cars covered under "Citizens United"??
Does car sign the insurance binder? Therefore,I truly believe it is the human who acquires and holds the car insurance, your alternative "facts" not withstanding.

requiring insurance to legally drive in all of the states as compared to the requirement for expansion of risk pools for ACA is what you seem to want to dismiss.

Go home and have another beignet with your Nehi.

It is like no one really wants to pay for full coverage for car insurance until there is an accident then you are glad you have insurance to pay for any medical cost and/or car replacement not to mention the other side if you at fault. And unlike car insurance under the current health care law, your premiums don't go up because you get sick or have a pre-existing condition. Conservative republicans want to change that.

I have been holding out hope that Mueller's investigation might bring at least some of his brood to justice, but this Slate article has me thinking twice.

Now I'm holding out hope that Drumpf steps up his consumption of red meat and french fries and continues screaming at the TV, and maybe he'll take care of the problem himself.

Oh by the way, Trump just threw Sessions under the bus. Apparently he didn't realize Sessions might be concerned about going to jail merely to shield Trump and his merry bunch of thieves from being exposed as collaborators with a foreign adversary and stealing from the tax payers. What a surprise.

US President Donald Trump's eldest son, son-in-law and ex-campaign manager are to testify before the Senate on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort will be questioned about their links to Russian officials.

Meanwhile, the president said he would not have named Jeff Sessions as attorney general if had he known he would recuse himself from the inquiry.

And unlike car insurance under the current health care law, your premiums don't go up because you get sick or have a pre-existing condition. Conservative republicans want to change that.

Personally I wish we could fix what is wrong with our current health insurance and work on getting "Medicaid for all" or universal health care.

Trump mentions in an interview that if Mueller looked into financial dealings that were not ostensibly Russia-related, Trump would see that as crossing the line. Mueller immediately expands the parameters of the investigation to include the broader financial dealings of the Trump family. I like this Mueller guy.

President Donald Trump reportedly has been asking his advisers about his ability to pardon family members and even himself, according to the Washington Post.

In a new bombshell report, the Post claims that Trump and his team have been looking into ways to “limit or undercut” special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his campaign and alleged ties to Russia.

Trump was reportedly frustrated to learn that Mueller’s investigation can go beyond just the Russia inquiry to explore his and his family’s financial dealings.

The Post reports that his team in the White House is looking into potential conflicts of interest that Mueller might have. Conflicts of interest are one of the potential avenues available for removing special counsel under the law.

Trump is also said to be especially concerned by the fact that Mueller could access several years of his tax returns.

An adviser close to Trump attempted to play down the pardoning questions telling the Post that he was simply expressing curiosity on the issue.

“This is not in the context of, ’I can’t wait to pardon myself,” the adviser reportedly said.

Among the reported conflicts the administration is considering are donations by several of Mueller’s prosecutors to Democratic candidates and an alleged disagreement about membership fees at one of Trump’s golf courses that Mueller was once a member of.


A spokesperson for Mueller told the post that there were no disputes about fees when Mueller left the club in 2011.

(Bloomberg) -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he has no intention of quitting, despite President Donald Trump excoriating him over his decision to recuse himself from the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

“We in this Department of Justice will continue every single day to work hard to serve the national interest, and we wholeheartedly join in the priorities of President Trump,” Sessions said in a news conference Thursday. “We love this job. We love this department, and I plan to continue to do so.”

A new report from the Wall Street Journal claims that former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort is being investigated for possible money laundering.

Manafort has previously been accused of taking off-the-books payments from Russla-linked politicians in Ukraine, and the New York Times reported this week that Manafort owed $17 million to Russia-linked sources just before joining the Trump campaign.

The Journal also reported that the Senate and House intelligence committees are also looking into potential money laundering by Manafort. In addition, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance are investigating several New York real estate deals involving Manafort as possible money-laundering cases.

On Wednesday, it was reported that Manafort, along with Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, have been asked to testify before the Senate judiciary committee in open session on July 26.

Manafort has not yet publicly responded to the request.

Financial records filed last year in the secretive tax haven of Cyprus, where Paul J. Manafort kept bank accounts during his years working in Ukraine and investing with a Russian oligarch, indicate that he had been in debt to pro-Russia interests by as much as $17 million before he joined Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign in March 2016.

The money appears to have been owed by shell companies connected to Mr. Manafort’s business activities in Ukraine when he worked as a consultant to the pro-Russia Party of Regions. The Cyprus documents obtained by The New York Times include audited financial statements for the companies, which were part of a complex web of more than a dozen entities that transferred millions of dollars among them in the form of loans, payments and fees.

STUDY BLOWS GREENHOUSE THEORY OUT OF THE WATER

A new scientific paper contends the entire foundation of the man-made global-warming theory – the assumption that greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere by trapping heat – is wrong.

If confirmed, the study’s findings would crush the entire “climate change” movement to restrict CO2 emissions, the authors assert.

The paper, published recently in the journal “Environment Pollution and Climate Change,” was written by Ned Nikolov, a Ph.D. in physical science, and Karl Zeller, retired Ph.D. research meteorologist.

The paper argues that concentrations of CO2 and other supposed “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere have virtually no effect on the earth’s temperature. They conclude the entire greenhouse gas theory is incorrect.

Instead, the earth’s “greenhouse” effect is a function of the sun and atmospheric pressure, which results from gravity and the mass of the atmosphere, rather than the amount of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and water vapor in the atmosphere.

The same is true for other planets and moons with a hard surface, the authors contend, pointing to the temperature and atmospheric data of various celestial bodies collected by NASA.

The real mechanisms that control the temperature of the planet, they say, are the sun’s energy and the air pressure of the atmosphere. The same applies to other celestial bodies, according to the scientists behind the paper.

“This was not a pre-conceived conclusion, but a result from an objective analysis of vetted NASA observations,” Nikolov said. For the first time, Nikolov said, there is now empirical evidence from NASA data that the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere is not caused by the trapping of heat, but by the force of atmospheric pressure.

So precise is the formula that, by using it, the authors were able to correctly predict the temperature of other celestial bodies not included in their original analysis.

The prevailing theory on the earth’s temperature is that heat from the sun enters the atmosphere, and then greenhouse gases such as CO2, methane and water vapor trap part of that energy by preventing it from escaping back into space.

That theory, which underpins the anthropogenic global-warming hypothesis and the climate models used by the United Nations, was first proposed and developed in the 19th century.

However, the experiments on which it was based involved glass boxes that retain heat by preventing the mixing of air inside the box with air outside the box.

The experiment is not analogous to what occurs in the real atmosphere, which does not have walls or a lid, according to Nikolov and Zeller.

In essence, what is commonly known as the atmospheric “greenhouse” effect is in fact a form of compression heating caused by total air pressure, the authors said, comparing the mechanics of it to the compression in a diesel engine that ignites the fuel.”

Professor Philip Lloyd with the Energy Institute at South Africa’s Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) also expressed support for the paper.

Lloyd, who was educated in nuclear physics at MIT and also served on the UN IPCC, noted that “slightly more than half of all climate scientists have just a bit of doubt about the ‘human-made carbon dioxide causes global warming’ hypothesis.”

“However, they face the question, if not carbon dioxide, what is it?” noted Lloyd, who was nominated by the UN IPCC in 2007 as part of the team to share the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.

“Nikolov and Zeller may have found the answer – the sun,” he said. “We have known for some time that solar activity and global temperatures are highly correlated, but correlation and cause are not the same. However, Nikolov has managed to link the two in what seems to be a scientifically sound manner.”

“Nikolov’s work is very interesting, and I think the underlying physics is sound,” he said.

“One of the reasons why many of us have doubts about the carbon dioxide hypothesis is that it, too, makes predictions, and many of those predictions have turned out to be wrong, so it is really nice to have something else we can test, rather than trying to tweak the carbon dioxide hypothesis to make it fit the facts better,” he concluded.