Is it me or does the one in the middle look like a slightly heavier version of Mooch?



So is this cutie on the right...man, woman?

As a critical deadline for signing up for insurance under President Obama’s health-care law approaches, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has emerged as a major target for the White House and outside groups.

A disproportionate number of LGBT Americans are uninsured and qualify for federal premium subsidies to help buy coverage, and the administration is intensifying its efforts to get them enrolled before the end of the year. There are several reasons for this disparity, among them that same-sex partners often don’t qualify as family members for employer-based insurance plans and that individuals sometimes lose coverage when they are fired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The White House on Tuesday will release an infographic on the Affordable Care Act’s benefits for the LGBT community. [...]

The group has held workshops in major cities such as Houston, New York and Philadelphia. On Thursday, for example, White House public engagement adviser Gautam Raghavan joined Joanne Grossi, a regional director for the Department of Health and Human Services, for a training session with health-care “navigators” in Philadelphia, as well as a town hall event. Both focused on the LGBT community.

Some of the pitches are decidedly less conventional. Wednesday Night Tea, a drag show in Shreveport, La., has started promoting the health-care law as part of its act. And Out2Enroll is launching a social media campaign this week that will have “naughty” elements as well as holiday cheer, according to Kellan Baker, associate director of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at CAP.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/h..._headlines

Good for them. I know you probably just want to laugh at them, but they're helping their community.

You are quite a bigot by the way.

(12-18-2013 12:50 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Good for them. I know you probably just want to laugh at them, but they're helping their community.

You are quite a bigot by the way.

Nothing wrong with this IMO....but....Anyone that thinks for a second that segment of the LGTB community will ever be embraced in America is delusional. These clowns make it harder..not easier for the larger community to gain any type of mainstream tolerance.

(12-18-2013 06:49 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(12-18-2013 12:50 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Good for them. I know you probably just want to laugh at them, but they're helping their community.

You are quite a bigot by the way.

Nothing wrong with this IMO....but....Anyone that thinks for a second that segment of the LGTB community will ever be embraced in America is delusional. These clowns make it harder..not easier for the larger community to gain any type of mainstream tolerance.

The fact that they lump everyone under the same acronym makes it harder for the larger community to gain any type of mainstream tolerance. A run-of-the-mill homosexual that has assimilated is not the same as a tranny asking for government paid sex changes.

(12-18-2013 12:50 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Good for them. I know you probably just want to laugh at them, but they're helping their community.

Only if you think promoting a destructive lifestyle is "helping". But then you're spiteful like that.

Quote:You are quite a bigot by the way.

Really?! And just what does that word mean, oh wise GWU grad?

Obamacare doesn't fix AIDS.

Why is it always a woman trapped in a hideous mans body?

(12-18-2013 08:40 AM)AngryAphid Wrote:  Why is it always a woman trapped in a hideous mans body?

Don't worry. It's just Pat.

(12-18-2013 12:50 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Good for them. I know you probably just want to laugh at them, but they're helping their community.

You'd do the blonde.

(12-18-2013 11:14 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(12-18-2013 12:50 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Good for them. I know you probably just want to laugh at them, but they're helping their community.

You'd do the blonde.

I have a feeling he'd rather be done by the thing on the right.

"A disproportionate number of LGBT Americans are uninsured and qualify for federal premium subsidies to help buy coverage, and the administration is intensifying its efforts to get them enrolled before the end of the year"

This is what bothers me the most about this. I honestly don't care if they try and "rally the group". What galls me is that the administration is focusing on this group to sign up "because they qualify for FEDERAL PREMIUM SUBSIDIES." "Hey guys, come on down - sign up for your "free" healthcare". Any taxpayer or person that is having to fully pay for their healthcare should be livid at this. All so Obumble can say "Look at al the people that signed up".

Hell, I'm surprised this administration hasn't started holding "Welfare/Food Stamp Fairs" instead of "Job Fairs". I guess that'll be next - gotta make more people beholden to the government.

It's using taxpayers dollars to buy votes. My god these guys are C'cksuckers.

(12-18-2013 11:32 AM)Crebman Wrote:  "A disproportionate number of LGBT Americans are uninsured and qualify for federal premium subsidies to help buy coverage, and the administration is intensifying its efforts to get them enrolled before the end of the year"

This is what bothers me the most about this. I honestly don't care if they try and "rally the group". What galls me is that the administration is focusing on this group to sign up "because they qualify for FEDERAL PREMIUM SUBSIDIES." "Hey guys, come on down - sign up for your "free" healthcare". Any taxpayer or person that is having to fully pay for their healthcare should be livid at this. All so Obumble can say "Look at al the people that signed up".

Hell, I'm surprised this administration hasn't started holding "Welfare/Food Stamp Fairs" instead of "Job Fairs". I guess that'll be next - gotta make more people beholden to the government.

It's using taxpayers dollars to buy votes. My god these guys are C'cksuckers.

Uhhhh, pretty sure they're already offering these. Not sure where I heard or saw this, but they were out amongst "target" groups at Wal-mart or at bus stops or something touting zerOcare and working hard to recruit.

No doubt these Acorn "volunteers" get paid by the sign up so they can swell the doles, whether the people signed up are legit or not, qualify or not.

You guys simply don't understand or don't care about the facts.

There is a sizeable subset of the LGBT community that isn't rich (especially the transgendered community, which faces massive hostility and discrimination - as can be evidenced by the insulting and childish OP). Many of these people do not have access to affordable health insurance. Lets also remember that even Gay males (who are supposedly better off - well the white ones at least) also face massive health insurance discrimination by companies that do not provide equal access to health care for the spouses of Gay Americans. The net result is that the LGBT community has a much lower level of health care access than do straight Americans. Many LGBT persons do not have access to family support as well.

It is far cheaper for our economy for these people to be covered by ACA than for them to be uninsured. Preventative care is cheaper than Emergency care. You'll be paying for it either way.

You know if Gay people could get health insurance through their employers for their families like straight people could, Gay people might not be so supportive of ACA/Obamacare. Something to think about when you're eating your bigoted Chicken sandwich or supporting businesses when they discriminate in employement benefits.

(12-18-2013 01:27 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  You guys simply don't understand or don't care about the facts.

There is a sizeable subset of the LGBT community that isn't rich (especially the transgendered community, which faces massive hostility and discrimination - as can be evidenced by the insulting and childish OP). Many of these people do not have access to affordable health insurance. Lets also remember that even Gay males (who are supposedly better off - well the white ones at least) also face massive health insurance discrimination by companies that do not provide equal access to health care for the spouses of Gay Americans. The net result is that the LGBT community has a much lower level of health care access than do straight Americans. Many LGBT persons do not have access to family support as well.

It is far cheaper for our economy for these people to be covered by ACA than for them to be uninsured. Preventative care is cheaper than Emergency care. You'll be paying for it either way.

You know if Gay people could get health insurance through their employers for their families like straight people could, Gay people might not be so supportive of ACA/Obamacare. Something to think about when you're eating your bigoted Chicken sandwich or supporting businesses when they discriminate in employement benefits.

What you call "discrimination", everyone else calls actuarial results, or to be short "fair."

It is cute how you use rhetoric as the sole appeal to your cause. Aristotle is certainly affirmed here.

I think it's funny.

(12-18-2013 01:27 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Something to think about when you're eating your bigoted Chicken sandwich.

This bigoted chicken? LOL

I like how the term bigot gets thrown around.

(12-18-2013 01:27 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  You guys simply don't understand or don't care about the facts.

There is a sizeable subset of the LGBT community that isn't rich (especially the transgendered community, which faces massive hostility and discrimination - as can be evidenced by the insulting and childish OP). Many of these people do not have access to affordable health insurance. Lets also remember that even Gay males (who are supposedly better off - well the white ones at least) also face massive health insurance discrimination by companies that do not provide equal access to health care for the spouses of Gay Americans. The net result is that the LGBT community has a much lower level of health care access than do straight Americans. Many LGBT persons do not have access to family support as well.

It is far cheaper for our economy for these people to be covered by ACA than for them to be uninsured. Preventative care is cheaper than Emergency care. You'll be paying for it either way.

You know if Gay people could get health insurance through their employers for their families like straight people could, Gay people might not be so supportive of ACA/Obamacare. Something to think about when you're eating your bigoted Chicken sandwich or supporting businesses when they discriminate in employement benefits.

Tom, I've never heard of an insurance company denying coverage to a gay spouse. And I'm kind of puzzled why you think insurance in the gay community would be affordable when it won't be for most of the country. Are you guys special or just hold crappy jobs that pay squat and now you qualify for subsidies? You're talking yourself into a hole there, Tom.

Also, AIDS is a legitimate threat to the gay population and I have no idea how much it costs to treat a person who has it, but risk is risk and the insurance companies will make you pay for that risk - in fact, they're making me pay for your risk.

You can treat AIDS the same way you can treat homosexuality, for under $1.

(12-18-2013 01:56 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(12-18-2013 01:27 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  You guys simply don't understand or don't care about the facts.

There is a sizeable subset of the LGBT community that isn't rich (especially the transgendered community, which faces massive hostility and discrimination - as can be evidenced by the insulting and childish OP). Many of these people do not have access to affordable health insurance. Lets also remember that even Gay males (who are supposedly better off - well the white ones at least) also face massive health insurance discrimination by companies that do not provide equal access to health care for the spouses of Gay Americans. The net result is that the LGBT community has a much lower level of health care access than do straight Americans. Many LGBT persons do not have access to family support as well.

It is far cheaper for our economy for these people to be covered by ACA than for them to be uninsured. Preventative care is cheaper than Emergency care. You'll be paying for it either way.

You know if Gay people could get health insurance through their employers for their families like straight people could, Gay people might not be so supportive of ACA/Obamacare. Something to think about when you're eating your bigoted Chicken sandwich or supporting businesses when they discriminate in employement benefits.

Tom, I've never heard of an insurance company denying coverage to a gay spouse. And I'm kind of puzzled why you think insurance in the gay community would be affordable when it won't be for most of the country. Are you guys special or just hold crappy jobs that pay squat and now you qualify for subsidies? You're talking yourself into a hole there, Tom.

Also, AIDS is a legitimate threat to the gay population and I have no idea how much it costs to treat a person who has it, but risk is risk and the insurance companies will make you pay for that risk - in fact, they're making me pay for your risk.

https://www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights_hiv-aid...ance-plan.

And I have to pay for your damn kids and your pregnant wife too.

Transgendered Americans are the poorest of the poor. They face staggering levels of employment discrimination. LGBT persons of color also tend to have poorer economic outcomes.