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    klmekaroJeff Ihaza
    4/05/16 11:53pm

    This argument pretty much begins and ends at this lady sitting in a freaking Starbucks. If you are so hard up, a can of Folgers will take you several months for the cost of a cup of Starbucks.

    I mean seriously. Sitting in Starbucks on a laptop. You have plenty of money for healthcare. Drop the laptop and drop the Starbucks habit and it will be AMAZING how much you can afford.

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      ConnieHawkinsesHawkConnieklmekaro
      4/06/16 12:05am

      Rick Scott’s (and the Tea Party that endorses him) argument for denying access to Medicaid for thousands of children and their parents in the name of fiscal responsibility and small gubmint pretty much begins and ends at his stealing billions from taxpayers while perpetrating the biggest Medicare fraud in history.

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      You might be wrong.klmekaro
      4/06/16 12:08am

      Ah yes, because it’s completely reasonable for people to just not have a computer anymore so that they can afford healthcare. Makes sense! Not like anyone would need both.

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    Oliver St. John-MolluscJeff Ihaza
    4/05/16 11:39pm

    I love her dismissing the PR flack who tries to contain the situation. Perfect. Don’t give them an inch.

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      KumfinemeeOliver St. John-Mollusc
      4/05/16 11:51pm

      I loved that. I’m not talking to you.

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      LarsOliver St. John-Mollusc
      4/05/16 11:54pm

      She brought the Boomsauce. And this is how reptiles like Rick Scott should always be treated in public. They should feel ashamed, they should feel belittled, and they should feel threatened.

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    ╰( ´◔ ω ◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeJeff Ihaza
    4/05/16 11:39pm

    That’s exactly how I would expect one of those wifi mooching, table hogging, unpaying customers to act.

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      Masshole James╰( ´◔ ω ◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      4/05/16 11:43pm
      GIF
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      gawkophile╰( ´◔ ω ◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      4/05/16 11:44pm

      Seriously, left ear-unrecognized symbol-nutsack-unrecognized symbol-right ear? Seriously?

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    youtoo123Jeff Ihaza
    4/05/16 11:36pm

    Bro you just jacked that from the comment section on previous article 30 min ago. gawker will rage. take me out the greys too while at it

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesyoutoo123
      4/05/16 11:42pm

      I’ll take you out. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe that poster sent this in. If not, he needs to credit that member with this post.

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      gawkophileGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      4/05/16 11:59pm

      You don’t have perma-ungreying power though, do you?

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    gawkophileJeff Ihaza
    4/06/16 12:08am

    Totally unrelated, but where else am I going to ask? (There should be a different mark for rhetoricals.)

    Does everyone use Chrome for Gawker/Kinja on PC? I’m a Firefox diehard, and Kinja just can’t Firefox lately. I never tried PC Chrome here, because Kinja sucks on mobile Chrome on Android as well. I’ve been fooling around with Edge (over it, but the markup stuff is fun) and Kinja sucks on it, too. I’m not about to use IE, and I don’t even have Opera installed anymore. And I know it’s not that everyone uses Safari, because Kotaku.

    Tell me things, internet!

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      gawkophilegawkophile
      4/06/16 12:24am

      Now I’m noticing the Chrome Kinja issue - it keeps duplicating the fuck out of posts.

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      splodeyhemispheregawkophile
      4/06/16 12:33am

      I have no issues with using Chrome (beta) on Mac OS X, and Ubuntu. This is how I’m commenting, here.

      I suggest trying Chrome again, but turning off all extensions, first. I have, in the past, picked up malware Chrome extensions that would screw with browsing by hijacking clicks to inject referral links.

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    BrandomJeff Ihaza
    4/06/16 12:05am

    From the linked article:

    But the bill, signed into law late last week by Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R), is even more drastic than it appeared at first blush. The Orlando Sentinel reported over the weekend:

    The law, which takes effect July 1, requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, requires annual licensure inspections for clinics and bans the purchase, sell or transfer of fetal remains. The law upgrades the failure to properly dispose of fetal tissue from a second-degree misdemeanor to a first-degree misdemeanor.

    Now, I’m pro-choice, pro-woman, pro-all the good stuff, but the outrage expressed in the MSNBC article, calling the bill “drastic”? I don't see it from their excerpt:

    1. “...requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital” — Maybe not a bad idea in case something goes wrong? And, who would want to have a procedure like abortion from a doctor who doesn’t even have hospital admitting privs?

    2. “...requires annual licensure inspections for clinics” — What’s wrong with inspections of medical clinics?

    3. And as for the transfer & sale of fetuses, well, you choose your battles. I’m willing to give that one up cos it’s kinda iffy anyway.

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      You might be wrong.Brandom
      4/06/16 12:10am

      I don’t think you understand what admitting privileges means. Licensure inspections are on par with the kind of inspections you get when you’re buying a house, not something that would need to take place annually. Nobody is selling fetuses.

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      lobster9Brandom
      4/06/16 12:38am

      Some of these simple sounding laws can be specifically engineered to shut down individual clinics. I know it’s lame to recommend an outside source, but the ‘Last Week Tonight’ piece on Abortion a while back was pretty good at illustrating how a little bit of innocent sounding red tape can make abortions unavailable in a wide area.

      For example, the local hospital rule might make it possible for a religious hospital to effectively shutdown nearby abortion clinics because they can simply refuse admitting privileges to the doctor. Even though a scenario where the doctor would NEED such privileges is unlikely, or completely non existent.

      (The above example may not be true, and I don’t know the details of this bill. I’m just trying to illustrate that some abortion regulation in the recent past has existed solely to fabricate an effective-ban.)

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    los yipesJeff Ihaza
    4/05/16 11:33pm

    You know she’s yelling the truth because he physically can’t stand to hear it. We need more heroes like Cara Jennings.

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      kinjslostmyaccountlos yipes
      4/05/16 11:36pm

      Someone buying Starbucks and typing on her laptop sounds like someone who has to rely on Medicare.

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      Chain-Chomp2los yipes
      4/05/16 11:39pm

      Like everywhere these assholes go they should be greeted by people like this.

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    ArkJeff Ihaza
    4/05/16 11:46pm

    Florida Woman Defends Starbucks from Crocodile

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      PoodletimeArk
      4/06/16 12:21am

      Most non-Florida-esque “Florida Man” entry ever. Women like her could pull that place out of the Dumpster yet!

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      thebullfrogPoodletime
      4/06/16 1:27am

      I, as both a male and a resident of Florida, endorse this heartily.

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    LastScene86Jeff Ihaza
    4/05/16 11:35pm
    GIF
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      sdtony42Jeff Ihaza
      4/05/16 11:38pm

      Whoever is running against Rick Scott in the next election should turn this video into an attack ad!

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        GeorgeGeoffersonLivessdtony42
        4/05/16 11:41pm

        There is no more elections for these tea party governors elected in 2010 with the exception of maybe governor’s of Wisconsin and Iowa, who I believe don’t have term limits.

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        LanderlandGeorgeGeoffersonLives
        4/06/16 12:23am

        Rick Scott was reelected in 2014. So Florida is stuck with him until 2018 I think.

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