Loganotron

Funnnnny Shit:

A few more Key of Awesome parodies after the jump

Whoa. Beautiful artistic video depicting the mathematics in nature. Best if watched in hi-rez on full screen.

Best Single Ladies parody ever!

Caption: President Barack Obama’s signature on the health insurance reform bill at the White House, March 23, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

via The White House on Flickr

Wow.

Caption: Senator Clinton congratulating Barack Obama on the passage of health care legislation before a meeting in the Situation Room.

via

How does health care reform play out? Who does it affect? When does it take effect? Here’s a great chronological list of the changes. Some pretty impressive immediate changes. (Source, WaPo)

2010
- Sets up a high-risk health insurance pool to provide affordable coverage for uninsured people with medical problems.
- Starting six months after enactment, requires all health insurance plans to maintain dependent coverage for children until they turn 26; prohibits insurers from denying coverage to children because of pre-existing health problems.
- Bars insurance companies from putting lifetime dollar limits on coverage, and canceling policies except for fraud.
- Provides tax credits to help small businesses with up to 25 employees get and keep coverage for their employees.
- Begins narrowing the Medicare prescription coverage gap by providing a $250 rebate to seniors in the gap, which starts this year once they have spent $2,830. It would be fully closed by 2020.
- Reduces projected Medicare payments to hospitals, home health agencies, nursing homes, hospices and other providers.
- Imposes 10 percent sales tax on indoor tanning.

2011
- Creates a voluntary long-term care insurance program to provide a modest cash benefit helping disabled people stay in their homes, or cover nursing home costs. Benefits can begin five years after people start paying a fee for the coverage.
- Provides Medicare recipients in the prescription coverage gap with a 50 percent discount on brand name drugs; begins phasing in additional drug discounts to close the gap by 2020.
- Provides 10 percent Medicare bonus to primary care doctors and general surgeons practicing in underserved areas, such as inner cities and rural communities; improves preventive coverage.
- Freezes payments to Medicare Advantage plans, the first step in reducing payments to the private insurers who serve about one-fourth of seniors. The reductions would be phased in over three to seven years.
- Boosts funding for community health centers, which provide basic care for many low-income and uninsured people.
- Requires employers to report the value of health care benefits on employees’ W-2 tax statements.
- Imposes $2.3 billion annual fee on drugmakers, increasing over time.

2012
- Sets up program to create nonprofit insurance co-ops that would compete with commercial insurers.
- Initiates Medicare payment reforms by encouraging hospitals and doctors to band together in quality-driven “accountable care organizations” along the lines of the Mayo Clinic. Sets up a pilot program to test more efficient ways of paying hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and other providers who care for Medicare patients from admission through discharge. Successful experiments would be widely adopted.
- Penalizes hospitals with high rates of preventable readmissions by reducing Medicare payments.
Keep reading for 2013 and beyond

Gregging: The act of pursuing straight men, as a gay man.

A homosexual saw a handsome straight man walking by and follows along trying to get into the “friend zone” only so that when they go on an overnight trip he can jump on that mans ass!

Guys best friend: Dude, he is so gregging on you right now

via Miami Levi

A-maz-ing.

This caption cracked me the fuck up (see below the pics):

Via The Economist:

Some critics argue that the global record of land surface temperature over the 20th century could be to some extent corrupted by heat from towns and other factors. There is a clear warming, though, if a lesser one, in two other records made independently; that of the temperature of the oceans’ surface waters and of the night time air temperature over the oceans. While the larger warming over land could in part reflect some error of procedure, though that is not proven, the trends all have the same shape.

I’m soooo digging Hyper Crush’s album “The Arcade.”

Via Democratic Strategist:

“So at 10:43 EDT, the 216th vote was cast for the Senate’s health care bill, which means, no matter what happens on the reconciliation bill later tonight in the House or later in the year in the Senate, the largest health reform legislation since the enactment of Medicare in 1965. The final vote was 219-212, or three votes more than the minimum necessary.”

That bill will immediately go to President Obama’s desk for his signature. A few minutes after the original bill passed, the House passed the bill containing “fixes” that will then go to the Senate via reconciliation. The Senate says they have the 51 votes necessary to pass that bill and send it to President Obama.

Two words: FUCK YEAH!

Kellan Lutz made a surprise appearance on Ellen’s show to promote the DVD release of New Moon. The audience proceeded to have mini-orgasms and soak their panties every time Kellan spoke. (And of course, half of the audience was made up of gay men soaking their panties too!)

Btw, I’m digging his new hair style. Much prefer it to the shorter look. Also, check out the part from 0:59 to 1:10. Hello, major bulge action! Hot…

via WGB