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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / NHL open thread (lets go ahead & throw international hockey in here too)
« on: January 06, 2013, 04:10:45 PM »
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Weber vs. Groce
« on: January 04, 2013, 11:53:45 PM »
Today's ESPN college basketball podcast had Weber and Groce as their interviews back to back. oscar was oscar, he manages to talk about the exact same things in every single interview, its uncanny. But Groce's voice tho 
how in the hell does anyone listen to him, damn. I'd rather listen to Will read the phone book than listen to Groce say anything. He sounds like the dude from South Park with the voice box.
how in the hell does anyone listen to him, damn. I'd rather listen to Will read the phone book than listen to Groce say anything. He sounds like the dude from South Park with the voice box.
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Kansas State Football / So moving on to '13
« on: January 04, 2013, 01:20:25 PM »
http://www.big12sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=106181&SPID=13139&ATCLID=1522978&DB_OEM_ID=10410
Look at OU's schedule, this three game stretch 9/28, 10/5, 10/12
The SEC wins the NC every year because they never have elite teams with stretches like that
Look at OU's schedule, this three game stretch 9/28, 10/5, 10/12
The SEC wins the NC every year because they never have elite teams with stretches like that
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Farmers help a brotha out
« on: January 02, 2013, 06:44:54 PM »
So I was looking for info on the farm bill and I came upon this.
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/new-years-day-farm-bill-disappointing-0355.html
I really didn't feel like clicking 8 more links to get to the root of these people's beef. Are they pissed at the lack of incentives for "organic" farmers?
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/new-years-day-farm-bill-disappointing-0355.html
I really didn't feel like clicking 8 more links to get to the root of these people's beef. Are they pissed at the lack of incentives for "organic" farmers?
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Rankings thread, yeah I said it!
« on: December 24, 2012, 01:13:52 AM »
131
The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / SDs homeboy Huelskamp
« on: December 05, 2012, 08:25:15 PM »
LOL, you dumbasses (not you of course non dumbass SD) voted for him, will likely do the same in '14.
http://www.kansas.com/2012/12/04/2590852/boehner-ousts-huelskamp-from-agriculture.html#emlnl=Morning_Headlines_Newsletter
Boehner ousts Huelskamp from agriculture and budget committees
By Dan Voorhis
The Wichita Eagle
Republican leaders in the U.S. House kicked U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp off the House Agriculture and House Budget committees this week – a move that dismayed many in the state’s powerful agriculture sector.
In a statement on his congressional website, Huelskamp, R-Fowler, said he was given “limited explanation for his removal,” but that his “consistent, principled, and conservative votes have riled the GOP Establishment.”
House Speaker John Boehner, in the midst of critical budget negotiations over the “fiscal cliff,” removed other conservatives from their committee posts as well – Justin Amash of Michigan from the House budget committee, and Reps. Walter Jones of North Carolina and David Schweikert of Arizona from the House Financial Services Committee.
Reaction in Kansas was dismayed surprise.
On Friday, Huelskamp delivered a legislative update at the Kansas Livestock Association annual meeting in Wichita. On Tuesday, agriculture groups across Kansas were scrambling to find out more about the move and answer members’ calls and e-mails.
The verdict is that losing representation on the House Agriculture Committee is a blow to the state and its agricultural interests.
“It certainly puts our members and Kansas as one of the top ag states at a signficant disadvantage in setting federal policy,” said Aaron Popelka, vice president of legal and governmental affairs for the KLA.
“Having somebody from the Big First on House Ag has been extremely important and deserving because of the amount of wheat and agriculture that come from there,” said Justin Gilpin, CEO of the Kansas Wheat Commission.
A congressman from the First District, known as the Big First because it includes more than half the state, has helped shape federal farm policy on the House Agriculture Committee since at least the start of the 20th century and possibly since Kansas became a state in 1861, said Chapman Rackaway, an associate professor at Fort Hays State University.
Among the First District congressmen who have played big roles on the agriculture committee were Bob Dole, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran – all of whom ran successfully from the First District seat to the Senate.
Huelskamp is suffering the consequences of his particularly uncompromising form of conservatism in a body that really exists to make deals and balance competing interests, Rackaway said.
Not only did he vote against the agreement in the summer of 2011 to raise the government’s debt ceiling, but he opposed the budget blueprint written by his budget committee chairman Republican Paul Ryan.
In his statement on his website, Huelskamp said: “The GOP leadership might think they have silenced conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our conservative convictions. This is clearly a vindictive move, and a sure sign that the GOP Establishment cannot handle disagreement.”
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said Tuesday that the party’s steering committee made the decision “based on a range of factors.”
Rackaway noted that Huelskamp not only has failed to support positions of the GOP leadership, but he’s been abrasive in advancing his opinions, rubbing others the wrong way both personally and politically.
It’s a pattern that’s not new, Rackaway said. Huelskamp was removed from the Kansas Senate’s Ways and Means Committee when he served there. And reports of hard feelings between Boehner and Huelskamp started almost immediately after he reached Washington in early 2011.
“These negotiations over the fiscal cliff may have been the final straw, but this has been building up for two years,” Rackaway said. “Among folks in the know, there is not any great secret they don’t like each other on a personal level.”
The move is underscoring a divide in the Republican Party between tea party-supported conservatives and the House GOP leadership.
“This is a clear attempt on the part of Republican leadership to punish those in Washington who vote the way they promised their constituents they would — on principle — instead of mindlessly rubber-stamping trillion dollar deficits and the bankrupting of America,” said Matt Kibbe, president of the tea party group FreedomWorks.
All four of the lawmakers who lost their committee assignments voted against the summer 2011 deal negotiated between Republican leaders and President Barack Obama for extending the government’s ability to borrow money in exchange for $1 trillion in spending cuts and the promise of another $1 trillion in reduced deficits. Three of the four, the exception being Schweikert, voted against the Ryan-written GOP budget blueprint that the House passed last March.
Their removal from key committees with jurisdiction over the two issues was viewed by some as a signal to other Republican lawmakers to look favorably on whatever final deal Boehner and Obama put together to avert a "fiscal cliff" combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts in January.
http://www.kansas.com/2012/12/04/2590852/boehner-ousts-huelskamp-from-agriculture.html#emlnl=Morning_Headlines_Newsletter
Boehner ousts Huelskamp from agriculture and budget committees
By Dan Voorhis
The Wichita Eagle
Republican leaders in the U.S. House kicked U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp off the House Agriculture and House Budget committees this week – a move that dismayed many in the state’s powerful agriculture sector.
In a statement on his congressional website, Huelskamp, R-Fowler, said he was given “limited explanation for his removal,” but that his “consistent, principled, and conservative votes have riled the GOP Establishment.”
House Speaker John Boehner, in the midst of critical budget negotiations over the “fiscal cliff,” removed other conservatives from their committee posts as well – Justin Amash of Michigan from the House budget committee, and Reps. Walter Jones of North Carolina and David Schweikert of Arizona from the House Financial Services Committee.
Reaction in Kansas was dismayed surprise.
On Friday, Huelskamp delivered a legislative update at the Kansas Livestock Association annual meeting in Wichita. On Tuesday, agriculture groups across Kansas were scrambling to find out more about the move and answer members’ calls and e-mails.
The verdict is that losing representation on the House Agriculture Committee is a blow to the state and its agricultural interests.
“It certainly puts our members and Kansas as one of the top ag states at a signficant disadvantage in setting federal policy,” said Aaron Popelka, vice president of legal and governmental affairs for the KLA.
“Having somebody from the Big First on House Ag has been extremely important and deserving because of the amount of wheat and agriculture that come from there,” said Justin Gilpin, CEO of the Kansas Wheat Commission.
A congressman from the First District, known as the Big First because it includes more than half the state, has helped shape federal farm policy on the House Agriculture Committee since at least the start of the 20th century and possibly since Kansas became a state in 1861, said Chapman Rackaway, an associate professor at Fort Hays State University.
Among the First District congressmen who have played big roles on the agriculture committee were Bob Dole, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran – all of whom ran successfully from the First District seat to the Senate.
Huelskamp is suffering the consequences of his particularly uncompromising form of conservatism in a body that really exists to make deals and balance competing interests, Rackaway said.
Not only did he vote against the agreement in the summer of 2011 to raise the government’s debt ceiling, but he opposed the budget blueprint written by his budget committee chairman Republican Paul Ryan.
In his statement on his website, Huelskamp said: “The GOP leadership might think they have silenced conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our conservative convictions. This is clearly a vindictive move, and a sure sign that the GOP Establishment cannot handle disagreement.”
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said Tuesday that the party’s steering committee made the decision “based on a range of factors.”
Rackaway noted that Huelskamp not only has failed to support positions of the GOP leadership, but he’s been abrasive in advancing his opinions, rubbing others the wrong way both personally and politically.
It’s a pattern that’s not new, Rackaway said. Huelskamp was removed from the Kansas Senate’s Ways and Means Committee when he served there. And reports of hard feelings between Boehner and Huelskamp started almost immediately after he reached Washington in early 2011.
“These negotiations over the fiscal cliff may have been the final straw, but this has been building up for two years,” Rackaway said. “Among folks in the know, there is not any great secret they don’t like each other on a personal level.”
The move is underscoring a divide in the Republican Party between tea party-supported conservatives and the House GOP leadership.
“This is a clear attempt on the part of Republican leadership to punish those in Washington who vote the way they promised their constituents they would — on principle — instead of mindlessly rubber-stamping trillion dollar deficits and the bankrupting of America,” said Matt Kibbe, president of the tea party group FreedomWorks.
All four of the lawmakers who lost their committee assignments voted against the summer 2011 deal negotiated between Republican leaders and President Barack Obama for extending the government’s ability to borrow money in exchange for $1 trillion in spending cuts and the promise of another $1 trillion in reduced deficits. Three of the four, the exception being Schweikert, voted against the Ryan-written GOP budget blueprint that the House passed last March.
Their removal from key committees with jurisdiction over the two issues was viewed by some as a signal to other Republican lawmakers to look favorably on whatever final deal Boehner and Obama put together to avert a "fiscal cliff" combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts in January.
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / SEC/Big East Challenge
« on: November 25, 2012, 11:31:33 PM »
I'm going to assume that the SEC is going to dip out on the Big East after this season. If they do look at these potential matchups 
Kansas vs. Mizzou
K-State vs. USC
OSU vs. Pig Aggie
OU vs. Alabama
Baylor vs. Florida
UT vs. A&M
West Virginia vs. UK
Don't care about the other 3. I'm going to carpet bomb with media & the Big 12 offices with this tomorrow, I need this to happen.
Kansas vs. Mizzou
K-State vs. USC
OSU vs. Pig Aggie
OU vs. Alabama
Baylor vs. Florida
UT vs. A&M
West Virginia vs. UK
Don't care about the other 3. I'm going to carpet bomb with media & the Big 12 offices with this tomorrow, I need this to happen.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Central Iowa
« on: November 12, 2012, 04:36:00 PM »
So the elitest of elite pak'r groups, ICT Strut n' Cutters, is outsourcing talent to Boone, IA. I've purchased hip waiders and floating furniture. Who of you are in the DSM/Ames megaopolis want to learn how to pak like a champ today.
Floating Taco Pak'rs est. 11-14-12
Floating Taco Pak'rs est. 11-14-12
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Opening night everywhere
« on: November 10, 2012, 08:38:55 AM »
-Game in Germany had a weird feel, but nice job Kevin Ollie
-Turgeon has Maryland good already, god I hate him. Alex Len was awesome, I hope JO starts playing with his effort.
-Why didn't they play the aircraft carrier game below deck? They had the capability to build the court down there, certainly the condensation was an issue the day or two before too.
-Alabama is really hard to watch, weird that they hit a 3 point jump shot to win. Anthony Grant has done a good job of getting athletes, maybe he can find a couple of basketball players to supplement the talent?
-Turgeon has Maryland good already, god I hate him. Alex Len was awesome, I hope JO starts playing with his effort.
-Why didn't they play the aircraft carrier game below deck? They had the capability to build the court down there, certainly the condensation was an issue the day or two before too.
-Alabama is really hard to watch, weird that they hit a 3 point jump shot to win. Anthony Grant has done a good job of getting athletes, maybe he can find a couple of basketball players to supplement the talent?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Another example of the tea party ruining Kansas politics
« on: November 09, 2012, 08:02:12 AM »
Election officials told not to release names of provisional voters
By John Hanna
Associated Press
Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office told county election officials Thursday that they shouldn’t release the names of Kansas voters who cast provisional ballots, a directive that came a day after one of Kobach’s critics began pursuing such a list in hopes of averting a narrow election loss.
The memo from Kobach’s office said the information “is not public record” and suggested that releasing the names would violate federal law. But one county clerk, who provided a copy of the memo to the Associated Press, said the federal law has been in place for almost a decade and that he and other officials have assumed they can release the information.
Rep. Ann Mah, D-Topeka, said Thursday that she’s seeking a list of people who voted with provisional ballots, which are cast when poll workers aren’t sure whether someone is eligible to vote at a particular site. Those ballots are set aside for review.
Mah, one of Kobach’s most vocal critics in the Legislature, said she and other Democrats want to contact those voters to help them correct any problems so their ballots will be counted.
Unofficial election results show Mah trailing her Republican opponent, Ken Corbet, by 27 votes out of more than 10,600 ballots cast, with provisional ballots yet to be counted. Corbet currently has 5,330 votes, compared with 5,303 for Mah.
Mah won a majority in Shawnee County, which includes the bulk of her legislative district, and she hopes to pick up more votes through provisional ballots there. She has requested a list of provisional ballot voters in that county, as well as similar lists from neighboring Douglas and Osage counties.
“It’s interesting that after all these years of releasing those names, they come up with a statute that says they can’t,” Mah said. “It’s been a common practice for years, and it’s never been a problem.”
Mah has criticized a state law championed by Kobach, a Republican, that requires voters to show photo identification at the polls. Campaign finance records show that Prairie Fire, a political action committee set up by Kobach, spent $3,123 on a mailing supporting Corbet only four days before Tuesday’s election.
“I’m just trying to make sure that every vote that should be counted is counted,” Mah said. “It’s a big hill to climb. The odds are not in my favor, but I’ve got nothing to lose.”
Kobach did not immediately return telephone messages seeking comment.
The memo from his office, with the electronic signature of his elections chief Brad Bryant, quotes a federal law that states: “Access to information about an individual provisional ballot shall be restricted to the individual who cast the ballot.”
The memo added that the secretary of state’s office “also has received these requests, and we are denying them.”
So not only is this dude changing laws on the fly to directly suppress votes, but he as the person in the state charged with overseeing elections, set up a SuperPAC to support a candidate in one of the elections he is supposed to be watching over. Where the eff is the federal government here? How could this possibly be legal?
By John Hanna
Associated Press
Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office told county election officials Thursday that they shouldn’t release the names of Kansas voters who cast provisional ballots, a directive that came a day after one of Kobach’s critics began pursuing such a list in hopes of averting a narrow election loss.
The memo from Kobach’s office said the information “is not public record” and suggested that releasing the names would violate federal law. But one county clerk, who provided a copy of the memo to the Associated Press, said the federal law has been in place for almost a decade and that he and other officials have assumed they can release the information.
Rep. Ann Mah, D-Topeka, said Thursday that she’s seeking a list of people who voted with provisional ballots, which are cast when poll workers aren’t sure whether someone is eligible to vote at a particular site. Those ballots are set aside for review.
Mah, one of Kobach’s most vocal critics in the Legislature, said she and other Democrats want to contact those voters to help them correct any problems so their ballots will be counted.
Unofficial election results show Mah trailing her Republican opponent, Ken Corbet, by 27 votes out of more than 10,600 ballots cast, with provisional ballots yet to be counted. Corbet currently has 5,330 votes, compared with 5,303 for Mah.
Mah won a majority in Shawnee County, which includes the bulk of her legislative district, and she hopes to pick up more votes through provisional ballots there. She has requested a list of provisional ballot voters in that county, as well as similar lists from neighboring Douglas and Osage counties.
“It’s interesting that after all these years of releasing those names, they come up with a statute that says they can’t,” Mah said. “It’s been a common practice for years, and it’s never been a problem.”
Mah has criticized a state law championed by Kobach, a Republican, that requires voters to show photo identification at the polls. Campaign finance records show that Prairie Fire, a political action committee set up by Kobach, spent $3,123 on a mailing supporting Corbet only four days before Tuesday’s election.
“I’m just trying to make sure that every vote that should be counted is counted,” Mah said. “It’s a big hill to climb. The odds are not in my favor, but I’ve got nothing to lose.”
Kobach did not immediately return telephone messages seeking comment.
The memo from his office, with the electronic signature of his elections chief Brad Bryant, quotes a federal law that states: “Access to information about an individual provisional ballot shall be restricted to the individual who cast the ballot.”
The memo added that the secretary of state’s office “also has received these requests, and we are denying them.”
So not only is this dude changing laws on the fly to directly suppress votes, but he as the person in the state charged with overseeing elections, set up a SuperPAC to support a candidate in one of the elections he is supposed to be watching over. Where the eff is the federal government here? How could this possibly be legal?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / P.O.E. PartisanPolitics Over Everything
« on: November 09, 2012, 07:43:01 AM »
http://www.kansas.com/2012/11/08/2561344/brownback-kansas-wont-partner.html#storylink=newsletter
Brownback: Kansas won’t partner with federal government on health insurance exchange
BY BRENT D. WISTROM
Eagle Topeka bureau
TOPEKA – Gov. Sam Brownback said Thursday his administration won’t partner with the federal government to set up a health insurance exchange called for by the federal health insurance overhaul.
That means Kansans who don’t have health insurance probably will use a federally created exchange, or health insurance market, to compare and buy plans.
Brownback had put off his decision about a state-federal partnership until after the election. Last year, he sent back a $31 million federal grant that would have helped the state set up an exchange.
“Kansans feel Obamacare is an overreach by Washington and have rejected the state’s participation in this federal program,” Brownback said in a news release Thursday. “My administration will not partner with the federal government to create a state-federal partnership insurance exchange because we will not benefit from it and implementing it could cost Kansas taxpayers millions of dollars.”
The Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare, requires people to have some form of health insurance coverage. Part of the act allows states to use federal money to create a state-tailored exchange that suits its needs.
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger created a grant application that would have moved the state forward with a federal partnership on the exchange. But she needed support from Brownback.
States have to notify Washington by next Friday if they are setting up health exchanges. It became clear that the federal health care law probably won’t be repealed when President Obama was reelected Tuesday.
“Our job at the insurance department was to be prepared with exchange information, and we were,” Praeger said in a prepared statement. “The governor has made his decision.”
Open enrollment for exchange plans is scheduled to start Oct. 1, 2013, and coverage will be effective Jan. 1, 2014.
In all, more than 30 million uninsured people nationwide are expected to gain coverage under the law. About half will get private insurance through the exchanges, with most receiving government help to pay premiums. Others could be served through Medicaid.
The concept behind requiring everyone to have health insurance is that people now pay a hidden tax through their insurance and hospital bills because hospitals have to serve people without insurance. When those people don’t pay, the expenses get folded into the bills of people who have insurance.
In 2010, Kansas accepted a $1 million planning grant for an exchange. When Brownback took office, he repositioned the state in opposition to the Affordable Care Act and sent back money intended to create a state-specific exchange. Praeger, a moderate Republican, created work groups to find ways to set up an exchange to prepare the state while awaiting a decision by Brownback on whether to create a local exchange.
States that opt for a state-federal partnership can manage their exchanges and offer consumer assistance. The federal Health and Human Services Department will to run exchanges in states that aren't ready or willing to create their own exchanges.
Americans for Prosperity, which hammered Democrats and moderate Republicans this year for not fighting harder against Obamacare, immediately applauded Brownback’s decision.
“Establishment of a government exchange would increase taxes on businesses and raise insurance premiums on hardworking Kansans,” Derrick Sontag, AFP’s Kansas director, said in a prepared statement. “President Obama wants states to believe they have flexibility to control their exchange when in reality, the federal government has to approve of significant changes sought by the state. This type of federal government control is being rejected by the Governor, and AFP calls on the 2013 Kansas Legislature to take the same position.”
Wichita Democratic Rep. Nile Dillmore said the governor is throwing the interests of Kansans under the bus to spite what is now the law of the land.
“Why would he give up a Kansas-based exchange for a federal government exchange?” he asked. “I thought he was the governor who said the federal government can’t do anything right. Now he’s going to turn it over to the federal government?”
Dillmore said he’s not surprised by the move, given Brownback’s rejection last year of $31.5 million in federal money to create a Kansas-specific exchange.
“Now he’s going to use the rationale that it’s going to cost money to do it?” Dillmore said. “It’s not a very rational approach, in my opinion.”
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia are on track to set up their own exchanges, while 10 have decided not to do so. The federal government could end up running the show in half or more of the states.
The states on track include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia. Not setting up exchanges are Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Missouri and Kansas joined the list Thursday.
A recent AP poll found that 63 percent of Americans want states to run the exchanges, with 32 percent favoring federal control.
Reach Brent Wistrom at 785-296-3006 or [email protected]. Contributing: the Associated Press
© 2012 Wichita Eagle and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.kansas.com
:faceplam:
I'm out, like literally leaving
Brownback: Kansas won’t partner with federal government on health insurance exchange
BY BRENT D. WISTROM
Eagle Topeka bureau
TOPEKA – Gov. Sam Brownback said Thursday his administration won’t partner with the federal government to set up a health insurance exchange called for by the federal health insurance overhaul.
That means Kansans who don’t have health insurance probably will use a federally created exchange, or health insurance market, to compare and buy plans.
Brownback had put off his decision about a state-federal partnership until after the election. Last year, he sent back a $31 million federal grant that would have helped the state set up an exchange.
“Kansans feel Obamacare is an overreach by Washington and have rejected the state’s participation in this federal program,” Brownback said in a news release Thursday. “My administration will not partner with the federal government to create a state-federal partnership insurance exchange because we will not benefit from it and implementing it could cost Kansas taxpayers millions of dollars.”
The Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare, requires people to have some form of health insurance coverage. Part of the act allows states to use federal money to create a state-tailored exchange that suits its needs.
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger created a grant application that would have moved the state forward with a federal partnership on the exchange. But she needed support from Brownback.
States have to notify Washington by next Friday if they are setting up health exchanges. It became clear that the federal health care law probably won’t be repealed when President Obama was reelected Tuesday.
“Our job at the insurance department was to be prepared with exchange information, and we were,” Praeger said in a prepared statement. “The governor has made his decision.”
Open enrollment for exchange plans is scheduled to start Oct. 1, 2013, and coverage will be effective Jan. 1, 2014.
In all, more than 30 million uninsured people nationwide are expected to gain coverage under the law. About half will get private insurance through the exchanges, with most receiving government help to pay premiums. Others could be served through Medicaid.
The concept behind requiring everyone to have health insurance is that people now pay a hidden tax through their insurance and hospital bills because hospitals have to serve people without insurance. When those people don’t pay, the expenses get folded into the bills of people who have insurance.
In 2010, Kansas accepted a $1 million planning grant for an exchange. When Brownback took office, he repositioned the state in opposition to the Affordable Care Act and sent back money intended to create a state-specific exchange. Praeger, a moderate Republican, created work groups to find ways to set up an exchange to prepare the state while awaiting a decision by Brownback on whether to create a local exchange.
States that opt for a state-federal partnership can manage their exchanges and offer consumer assistance. The federal Health and Human Services Department will to run exchanges in states that aren't ready or willing to create their own exchanges.
Americans for Prosperity, which hammered Democrats and moderate Republicans this year for not fighting harder against Obamacare, immediately applauded Brownback’s decision.
“Establishment of a government exchange would increase taxes on businesses and raise insurance premiums on hardworking Kansans,” Derrick Sontag, AFP’s Kansas director, said in a prepared statement. “President Obama wants states to believe they have flexibility to control their exchange when in reality, the federal government has to approve of significant changes sought by the state. This type of federal government control is being rejected by the Governor, and AFP calls on the 2013 Kansas Legislature to take the same position.”
Wichita Democratic Rep. Nile Dillmore said the governor is throwing the interests of Kansans under the bus to spite what is now the law of the land.
“Why would he give up a Kansas-based exchange for a federal government exchange?” he asked. “I thought he was the governor who said the federal government can’t do anything right. Now he’s going to turn it over to the federal government?”
Dillmore said he’s not surprised by the move, given Brownback’s rejection last year of $31.5 million in federal money to create a Kansas-specific exchange.
“Now he’s going to use the rationale that it’s going to cost money to do it?” Dillmore said. “It’s not a very rational approach, in my opinion.”
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia are on track to set up their own exchanges, while 10 have decided not to do so. The federal government could end up running the show in half or more of the states.
The states on track include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia. Not setting up exchanges are Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Missouri and Kansas joined the list Thursday.
A recent AP poll found that 63 percent of Americans want states to run the exchanges, with 32 percent favoring federal control.
Reach Brent Wistrom at 785-296-3006 or [email protected]. Contributing: the Associated Press
© 2012 Wichita Eagle and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.kansas.com
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I'm out, like literally leaving
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Landmark night for civil rights
« on: November 07, 2012, 12:24:25 AM »
Grats to Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, & Washington 
I'm still not a fan of having civil rights up to popular vote, but tonight I'm a little less cynical.
BTW how could Minnesota vote for this and Michele Bachmann? Well she'll win an election but may lose her husband. She may no longer be a beard.
I'm still not a fan of having civil rights up to popular vote, but tonight I'm a little less cynical.
BTW how could Minnesota vote for this and Michele Bachmann? Well she'll win an election but may lose her husband. She may no longer be a beard.
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Kansas State Football / So Allen Chapman...
« on: November 04, 2012, 10:24:09 PM »
What's the verdict, did he have a good game or not? On one hand he had three picks and a TD, but if Gundy just kept calling slants for Charlie Moore he would have had 400 yards receiving. Is this the worst performance for a Big 12 POW ever?
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Liars (ticket thread that may or may not be a Frank thread)
« on: October 22, 2012, 10:23:51 AM »
http://www.kstatesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/101812aaa.html
Not surprisingly the talk of the season ticket sales being "about the same if not better than last year" was a complete lie. We haven't had conference mini-packs for sale since the Huggins season and those were made available right away not in October when season ticket sales are obviously lagging. Pretty obvious that we won't have a season sell out this year.
Not surprisingly the talk of the season ticket sales being "about the same if not better than last year" was a complete lie. We haven't had conference mini-packs for sale since the Huggins season and those were made available right away not in October when season ticket sales are obviously lagging. Pretty obvious that we won't have a season sell out this year.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Indiana Fever
« on: October 21, 2012, 09:35:13 PM »
2012 WNBA Champions
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Kansas State Football / Rhodes freaks out and foams at the mouth again while breaking down KSU "talent"
« on: October 15, 2012, 12:02:35 AM »
O' dude doesn't think much of AB2, Hubert, Baby Lockett, TT, Malone Island, and the rest of the #4 elite cats
likely luked
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"He's an All-American in my book," Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads, who is working on his own rebuilding miracle in Ames, said of Klein. "He doesn't get the attention because he's not as flashy and doesn't put up the gaudy numbers that some of the other college football players do, but he has a 6-0 football team that is ranked in the top five in the country. They can play with anybody in the country with arguably less talent on the field than everybody in the top 10, if not everybody in the top 15."http://www.foxsportskansascity.com/10/13/12/Kansas-State-earns-huge-road-win/landing_kstate.html?blockID=804259&feedID=5128
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Essentially Flyertalk / Karmas a bitch
« on: October 13, 2012, 01:16:19 AM »
http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web
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Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit's role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women.
I am OK with that.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Ogemaw yep Ogemaw County Michigan
« on: September 27, 2012, 11:50:49 AM »
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« on: September 16, 2012, 12:18:00 AM »
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The game may still be in progress, but (barring a UNT miracle comeback) you'll have more to celebrate than just a Wildcat victory.
Between the 3rd and 4th Quarter, I texted Jesse Robinson to make sure he made his unofficial visit since I did not see him during pre-game.
As usual, Jesse responded quickly telling me he not only was currently at the game, but that he has also made a commitment to Kansas State.
We'll have more to come on this development tomorrow or Monday hopefully! Great news for Charlie Dickey and this staff.
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Really because his twitter says differently...
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Wallace according to Crabby's RT Jesse says " I did not commit to K-State!"
What gives?
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Jesus I miss Rob.
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The game may still be in progress, but (barring a UNT miracle comeback) you'll have more to celebrate than just a Wildcat victory.
Between the 3rd and 4th Quarter, I texted Jesse Robinson to make sure he made his unofficial visit since I did not see him during pre-game.
As usual, Jesse responded quickly telling me he not only was currently at the game, but that he has also made a commitment to Kansas State.
We'll have more to come on this development tomorrow or Monday hopefully! Great news for Charlie Dickey and this staff.
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Really because his twitter says differently...
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Wallace according to Crabby's RT Jesse says " I did not commit to K-State!"
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Currie really hates basketball (WHAT NOW CAPTAIN CRAP?)
« on: August 31, 2012, 08:22:52 PM »
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/31/3790621/fox-sports-kc-will-not-carry-k.html
Does this jackass have any idea how many people don't have access to Kansas 22 or Metro Sports?
Does this jackass have any idea how many people don't have access to Kansas 22 or Metro Sports?
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Kansas State Football / ND legend calls for MCMW reminded Mondays at ND aren't allowed opinions
« on: August 30, 2012, 08:20:51 AM »http://tracking.si.com/2012/08/30/allen-pinkett-notre-dame-needs-criminals/
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Essentially Flyertalk / Which one of you gave this guy money?
« on: July 06, 2012, 08:27:37 PM »
http://www.kansas.com/2012/07/06/2399425/owner-shuts-down-website-of-johnson.html#disqus_thread
Don't care if Luked, I get about three hours of internet time a week.
Don't care if Luked, I get about three hours of internet time a week.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Triple Crown?
« on: May 19, 2012, 05:24:53 PM »
I certainly will have another, that was a great race.
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / oscar Weber already realizes that his program is fragile
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He absolutely is not trying to schedule WichitaState.
Weber says there's no reasonfor a school like K-State to be in a game like that. It's high-risk, low-reward.
Said he's more likely to schedulemajor-conference schools. He used Florida as an example of the games he'd like to play. Healso noted that when he was at SIU he thought everyone should play them, but changed as soon as he was on the other side of things.
Again, you can read the full Weber interview in this month's Powercat Illustrated.
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Next time you talk to him you should ask him if he feels this way why in the world did he play other state schools from Illinois his last 3 years there.
He played not one but at least two in state mid majors in each of his last three years. It seems good guy oscar is a little dishonest.
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I'd love to know what he deems differentaboutK-State and theBig 12thathescheduledthesegames at Illinois but feels thathecan't here. I'm also interested in how this is spun by those who think Weber can do no wrong.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Mayweather/Cotto
« on: May 05, 2012, 10:22:20 PM »
Someone post a link to the stream and lets do this bitch