A friend & I were talking about the outdated cap today -- the cap that relieves the wealthiest amongst us from contribution after <what is it now> @110K.  That would be a nice "tax revision," one that could easily bring in more than any number of combo-gyrations?

You comment is beyond ridiculous, especially when you consider that you provided not one example of how Obama is whatever you say he is.  The fact that you think Moore is some sort of metric pretty much says all ones needs to know about your analytics.

The Chargers wore their Powder Blues on Monday, which is sort of a throwback, and their alternative uniform.

But the best throwbacks are without a doubt these, not to be confused with these, which will be worn this weekend, sans the helmet.  This year the NFL insists the team wear the same helmet all year, so when the throwbacks are worn, they can't use throwback helmets unless they use them the entire season.

So gone this year are the super cool iconic helmets like this, this, this, and this.

And it isn't to support SGK -

The helmets also will help to raise money for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, a charity that has raised $2.6 million for scientific research and programs associated with women's cancers. Its namesake, former North Carolina State women's basketball Kay Yow, succumbed to breast cancer in 2009.

After all, we islanders have repeatedly proved ourselves to be fully capable of some serious progressive social and scientific achievements, if anyone bothers to look beyond the oiled half-naked bodies adorning Waikiki beach.

Hawaii was the very first state in the country to legalize a woman's right to obtain an abortion, the first to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the first to guarantee workers' rights to collective bargaining and union representation in its state constitution.

The late Hawaii Congresswoman Patsy Takemoto Mink was the primary author of the landmark Title IX amendments to the 1972 Education Act, which formally guaranteed girls and women equal access to those educational opportunities then reserved almost exclusively to boys and men, and which were posthumously renamed "The Patsy Mink Act" in her honor in 2002. If you're a woman who graduated from law or medical school, or went to college on an athletic scholarship, you have her to thank for that chance.

The University of Hawaii's Institute for Biogenesis Research was the very first research institution in the entire world to successfully and repeatedly clone entire mammals from adult cells and tissues -- and not just females, but males, too. (On a more dubious note, UH was also where the carcinogenic chemical defoliant "Agent Orange" was first invented.)

The university's renowned Institute for Astronomy is also one of the world's high-tech pioneers and leaders in man's exploration of the heavens above. Its acclaimed Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, aka the East-West Center, was established in 1960 as the country's primary means for fostering and conducting intellectual and cultural exchange between Americans and the countries of Asia and the Pacific Rim, and many of its graduates have gone on to assume prominent leadership posts in their own countries.

And the so-called "Massachusetts model" of health care delivery, passed and signed into law with much fanfare in 2006 as something supposedly very innovative for our times, was actually based directly upon the provisions of the Hawaii Pre-Paid Health Care Act of 1975, which -- as you can probably guess by its name -- was enacted some three decades prior.

We're so much more than palm trees, beach boys and mai tais. Check us out sometime.

But will he have the eyeballs (none / 0) (#7)
by shoephone on Wed Oct 16, 2013 at 03:13:48 PM MDT

on whatever he publishes?

NYShooter: "I'll give credit where credit is due, but, the fact that the loser, an anti-knowledge, racist, scumbag was able to come within 7 percentage points of a majority in a Northeastern State doesn't give me reason to break out the champagne."

And I mean that quite sincerely. But to get directly to the point, by what criteria do you and Yman base your respective contentions that this "should have been a blowout landslide"?

I need to clarify my prior remarks with a more detailed explanation, at the obvious risk of sounding like a total partisan hack. Anyway, here goes. While I fully realize that our general tendency is to think of New Jersey as a "blue" state, the hard truth be told, the Garden State's political demographics aren't anything at all like Massachusetts, California or Hawaii, with regards to active and motivated Democratic-leaning electorates.

Further, there is still a significant conservative voting bloc in New Jersay, particularly the farther you get outside the Philadelphia-New York urban corridor. And as we should probably know all too well by now -- and seriously, shame on us if we still don't -- a sizable number of conservatives are remarkably ignorant and shockingly ill-informed.

Sorry to say, these yahoos also tend to show up at the polls more often than not, which means that in special elections, a determined and highly motivated minority bloc of voters can have an outsized effect of the subsequent results.

And even more sorry to say, there were also a good number of bigoted voters today who didn't know Steve Lonegan from the Easter Bunny and further, they really didn't give a rat's a$$. All they knew was that there's no way in hell they were EVER going to vote for that fa@@ot ni@@er mayor from Newark -- or for the well-heeled and sensitive Christianista who would never stoop to even think in such vile terms, that terribly misguided colored Sodomite.

I apologize if I've offended anyone here with my blunt language, but I think people should realize what Cory Booker and New Jersey Democrats were facing from Republicans in this campaign. I mean, this is a GOP that took to waving the phuquing Confederate battle flag at a rally the other day on the National Mall and outside the White House.

Let's be real here. There was actually a far greater chance that Democratic voter apathy could have cost Mayor Booker this special election, than there was ever a possibility that it was going to be a huge Democratic blowout. Nevertheless, as it turned out, this was a solid double-digit victory tonight for Mayor Booker.

And speaking for myself only as an activist and Democrat, I'm more than satisfied with the outcome, and I'll offer better than even odds that the U.S. Senator-elect is probably quite pleased with the results, too.

That aside, what should doubtless concern us all as Democrats, liberals and progressives about Lonegan's 43% share of the vote is this: In the year 2013, we still have a lot of work to do and a long way to go before we can lay claim to having finally cauterized bigotry's toxic wounds on our country's body politic.

CGI Federal's winning bid stretches back to 2007, when it was one of 16 companies to get certified on a $4 billion "indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity" contract for upgrading Medicare and Medicaid's systems. Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts -- GWACs, as they're affectionately known -- allow agencies to issue task orders to pre-vetted companies without going through the full procurement process, but also tend to lock out companies that didn't get on the bandwagon originally. According to USASpending.gov, CGI Federal got a total of $678 million for various services under the contract -- including the $93.7 million Healthcare.gov job, which CGI Federal won over three other companies in late 2011.

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The work on Healthcare.gov grew out of a contract for open-ended technology services first issued in 2007 with a place-holder value of $1,000. There were 31 bidders. An extension, awarded in September 2011 specifically to build Healthcare.gov, drew four bidders, the documents show, including CGI Federal.

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