Tommy Christopher: Like your health care plan? You don’t know sh*t

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Now that the president’s promise that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan” has been exposed as a lie, the White House and its messengers are rolling out a new line: maybe you really don’t like your existing plan as much as you think you do. Business Insider’s Josh Barro recently wrote that “there are a lot of health plans that Americans shouldn’t be able to keep,” so that cancellation notice in the mail is good news.

Yesterday, Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher sent out a similar message in response to a CBS News report on Dianne Barrette, a 56-year-old woman who claimed her plan was increasing from $54 a month to $591 a month. An increase of more than 10 times certainly seems drastic, but as Christopher notes, Barrette’s $54 policy “barely qualifies as insurance.” In fact, it’s “junk insurance,” writes Christopher, and “Dianne Barrette has no idea what her plan covers.”

“It’s entirely possible that now-healthy Dianne is ‘happy’ with this plan, but the whole idea behind the Affordable Care Act is that the rest of us are not happy having to pick up the tab if Dianne gets a disease, has an accident, or otherwise needs to go to the hospital,” writes Christopher. Odd: we thought the whole idea was to insure the uninsured, while allowing the insured to keep their plans and doctors.

PJ Media editor David Steinberg stood up for the “CBS lady.”

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You know who’s the country’s foremost expert on health insurance? Barack Obama.

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Got that? If you like your plan and received a cancellation notice, you’re better off. You don’t know it yet, but you are.

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That’s the next logical step, right? In the meantime, it’s time to stop worrying and love your cancellation notice. It’s for your own good.

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Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/10/29/tommy-christopher-like-your-health-care-plan-you-dont-know-sht/

Minor League Baseball Team To Hold “Brian Williams’ Pants-On-Fire Night”

The Akron RubberDucks, a Double-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, will host a themed night mocking the recently suspended NBC News anchor.

1. The Akron RubberDucks, the Cleveland Indians’ Double-A affiliate team, have announced they will hold a “Brian Williams’ Pants-on-Fire Night” night on April 27th, which happens to be National Tell a Story Day.

2. The team says fans will be treated to “lie-detector testing, giveaway suspenders, and more.”


Other activities will include “a between-inning chance for fans to audition to be the next television news anchor on the video board, with the fan-voted winner’s video sent to NBC” and “On-field contests, including ‘To Tell the Truth’ and ‘Two Truths & a Brian Williams,'” also known as “Two Truths and a Lie.”

3. The RubberDucks are also seeking a fan named Brian Williams to throw out the first pitch, read “tall tales,” and offer up a pair of pants to be lit aflame in a “‘pants on fire’ ceremony.”

4. Earlier this week, NBC News announced Brian Williams–of NBC Nightly News, not an Akron-based baseball fan–will be suspended for six months without pay after it was revealed he “misremembered” an incident that took place in Iraq in 2003.

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5. By the time the RubberDucks hold their Brian Williams-themed night, he will be over two months into his suspension.


Will the suspension still be relevant at the end of April? It seems the RubberDucks are taking that bet. But as Don Van Natta Jr. of ESPN said on Tuesday:

Six months in 24-hour news-cycle time is 42 years.

— DVNJr (@Don Van Natta Jr.)

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/lindseyadler/minor-league-baseball-team-to-hold-brian-williams-pants-on-f

Everyone Is Talking About Jim Carrey’s Speech. In Just 1 Minute, He Absolutely NAILS Life.

In an emotional commencement address at Maharishi University in Iowa last month, comedy actor Jim Carrey dropped his usually goofy persona to give some solid, real-world advice to college graduates. In this 61 second clip below taken from his speech, Jim tells the students a poignant story of how his late father inspired him to follow his dreams and to take a chance on doing what he loved and advised the students not to ‘play it safe’.

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What an inspirational sentence; “You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.” Source: Maharishi University / You can watch the full speech here. Share Jim Carrey’s inspirational words with your friends below.

Read more: http://viralnova.com/jim-carrey-speech/

‘The excuses are coming!’ Obama invokes Paul Revere in NSA speech

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During his opening remarks today about NSA surveillance, President Obama mentioned Paul Revere as a positive example of spying:

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Important points of order:

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Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/01/17/the-excuses-are-coming-the-excuses-are-coming-obama-invokes-paul-revere-in-nsaspeech/

What These Guys Did To A Billboard Is The Best Prank You’ll See Today.

Remember that time those two guys wore a GoPro and scaled the Shanghai Tower? With the video that basically gave you acrophobia (which is an extreme or irrational fear of heights)? Well, they survived, and they’re back for more building-scaling shenanigans. 

Vadim Makorov and Vitaliy Raskalov made names for themselves by climbing to enormous heights, without harnesses, and taking amazing videos and photos. Most recently, they climbed a skyscraper in the middle of Hong Kong, along with two friends, and not only that, but they also managed to make a little edit to the billboard at the top, creating a nice message for the people below. Check out the video they made. 

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Some of our favorite highlights: 

On top of the billboard

Hacking into the billboard. Note the graffiti.

The team’s logo over Hong Kong

Rooftop selfies.

The billboard’s message to the people below.

If you want to see more climbing of large things, check out their website. 

Read more: http://viralnova.com/whats-up-hong-kong/

Brave Lady Ventures Over A Busy Mexican Highway To Rescue A Hurt Puppy.

Superheroes is almost certainly not real… but heroes do exist. A brave Mexican girl could not remain idly by whenever she saw your dog in big trouble at the side of a highway in Mexico City. He was poorly hurt and merely seconds away from becoming fatally struck by a speeding automobile.

View as she fearlessly ventures into visitors to get to the dog. She’s amazing:

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The poor puppy had in fact been hit by a vehicle, but he was so injured he could not muster up the power to get from the road. Thankfully, now the dog is recovering in an animal housing. Once he is healed, the shelter will make an effort to place him in a loving home.

Share this brave and kind female’s work of heroism with your pals below.

Find out more: http://viralnova.com/road-dog-rescue/