what a morning !
 

twenty three

"Syrup on table before pancakes."

Unless your an aussie ;)

I'm having a better run of it. Went out to Hardee's, got a big coffee, & a bacon/cheese biscuit, which I CAN eat if I take it slow. Lauriann & Kim are fixin' to go to this tres HUMONGOUS community yard sale at the city park. so I'll be left to my own devices for awhile. It's 65 here, may storm later on, but for now, it's about as fine as frog hair here. No offense, Osmoid....(grin)

None taken, Sandy... frog hair is about as fine as it gets! :D

As for Dave's post, give me a minute, I need a fresh hat. Now where did I put the Reynold's wrap...

I'd love to understand what the hell this thread is about. Just a bit too many inside jokes, methinks. Oh, well, there's other threads where conspiracies are really, really, "No, I'm not kidding about this", real.

So would the rest of us. :o

If you figure out its meaning could you please tell all of us ?

One thought instantly came to mind when I saw this kinda thread....

"I Love YaBB 1 Gold!"

Ahhhh....memories :D

Tim ! Glad t'see ya here ! Been wonderin' where you were...

Floatin' around here and there making my rounds on all the boards as time allows.....

Welcome Kam.

Three posts in four years, not bad Sir :D - happy 65th birthday anyway. ;)

I like the original post Grumpy Sir, it's demanding... in a way...

;-)

I left work this morning anxious to get home, only to discover that home, this morning, sucks too.

Dave

I woke up to Huell Howser reporting from the top of Half Dome. Everything looks downhill from here.

The end of the month approaches and puts a drag on my morning.

My mornings are just fine, bit of work in the shop today maybe. Yesterday I got out the golf cart and watered the three new spruce trees. Yes there is a lot to be said for retirement.

Where's the frog?http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/ima...eenbouncer.gif

I just this morning got a call from my health insurance company. The lady wanted to talk about my preventive medical check-ups, the company launches such crap at least one time a year.

It is of course not lovingkindess what they have in mind, they try to prevent themselves of avoidable costs.

I told her that all my check-ups are up to date and that I avoid life risks as far as possible. And I told her that my regular sexlife is a very good prostate cancer prevention. I wish I could have seen her face when I remarked that. She stumbled: "Oh yes...sure...that's...that's fine...for you..." :D

The same procedure, the same blabla next year... :mad:

Nice morning!

I just can't wait until we Americans are subjected to the same. I'm sure they will have a checkbox to record that you were obstinant/sarcastic in your response. Helps them track and sort out who's deserving of care.
I wonder how much she makes doing these phone interviews?
Supposedly, the folks who will advise us which plan to sign up for will be making $48/hr.

No more red meat for you.:rolleyes:

Everything you said is wrong.

Well shit, I should be a politician then.

The funny thing is back home no one ever phoned me to remind me about check-ups, that was up to me or the family doctor. All they did was pay for them.

However, our German health insurance companies are incredibly rich although they have to spent a bunch of bucks for paying hospital costs, check-up costs, medical costs, treatment etc.

But actually they pay only a little share of the medicine costs which is often so expensive what makes it difficult for let's say pensioners with little money. And when they have to use an expensive medicine (or even several) for a longer period, like my mother, it is quite often (not for mom) a real financial burden. We pay high premiums and they refuse to pay the medicine, that sucks.

But this is a reason apart from the high monthly premium we have to pay, that those companies are such wealthy. A bit annoying for them is that the life expectancy of the insured increase more and more due to the contemporary high technology treatment methods.

I am really dying to see Obamacare...

;-)

That insurance companies are wealthy does't mean they pay lots of money to low-level phone workers, unless their activities are a profit center. Now if the government was paying them extra $ for everybody they convinced to get preventative checkups, the callers might be on commission....

Your wealthy insurance companies sound analogous to our wealthy airlines, when their ticket prices were regulated by the government. That regulation ended here, eventually. Most think it great in that prices fell sharply, though service levels fell as well....

The $48/hr figure for ACA navigators was the top of the initial salary estimate released, of $20 to $48/hr. As you'd expect in lean budget times, the lower end of the range predominates. This salary reporting gadget says the average wage for ACA navigators in the city of Indianapolis is $39,000 on a yearly basis, less than $20.00/hr; http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Aca+...anapolis%2C+IN

I also plugged Baltimore, MD into it and got $49,000 on the higher-cost east coast. The $48/hr salary would translate into about $100,000 a year. BTW, the ACA navigators, by law, cannot take any money from insurance companies. They are employed by non-profits.

I checked it via google - some 20 euros/hour for the phone workers of a German health insurance company.

$48/hour? No shit? Where do I apply? Sounds like big government is far more generous than you guys!:);)

Speaking of the airlines, we're getting new harder, flatter, more skinny from front-to-back seats now. Allows airlines to cram in a couple more rows.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopo...at-squeeze.jpg

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1486440

So based on that, you agree that the client-level navigator you speak to will be making about $20/hr, not $48/hr, right?

From the OP's link-

"The agency is expecting to provide federal exchange navigator organization grants for 264 organizations, with each organization employing an average of seven "caseworkers," or staff navigators."

So, for each organization, you've got an average of 7 people at the $20/hr level. I didn't see anything detailing the ratio of mid-level, and executive level. If this were a business endeavor, you'd likely have 40 or more caseworkers under a single mid-level manager and competition would whittle down the profit and therefore the number of fat cats at the top.

What a morning! October 17th! :D

Time to listen to Frank Zappa's bootleg album "The Day The Earth Stood Still"

:rolleyes:


Well well well... as we say in Germany: "Es wird nichts so heiss gegessen wie es gekocht wird." "Nothing is eaten as hot as it has been cooked."

Guten morgen, Chris. Der Teetrinker Gans wird gekocht.:D

It's still October 16th here in California.:)

Ahhh Bob... :) :) :)

Another German saying (>> shutdown): "Aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben!" "Postponed but not solved!" The translation destroys the pun/rhyme of the saying.

Postponed in a sense, yes but the opposition will be loath to revisit this battle. Once bitten, twice shy.;) The good news is that the adults in the Republican party are tired of the childish and immature tirades and miscalculations of the Tea drinkers.

Hopefully we won't be seeing any more of these self destructive games for a long time.

What is the similarity of Bobabode and New York? Both never sleep!

The Kindergarten part of the Republican party damaged the reputation of the political America all over the world, according to the latest German News comments. American correspondent Linda Crane named it a blamage.

Oh, I'm sure somebody will dream up something stupid before long.:(