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Obamacare vs. The Affordable Care Act

A CNBC poll found that 46 percent of Americans oppose Obamacare, while only 37 percent oppose the Affordable Care Act.

Jimmy Kimmel sent his Q&A crew out into the streets to find out what the American public think about the “two plans” and the healthcare debate.

Not only do people have different opinions about Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act (they’re the same thing!) they often disagree with one or the other in name and then like most everything the law provides when you break it down.

Or as Kimmel says, “It’s just the opposite of a McNugget.”

HT @stealingsand

“Then shut it down”

Every time talk of a government shutdown happens I want to go back and watch these episodes of West Wing… (and usually I do.)

I’ll be waiting to see President Bartlet take a walk from the White House to the Capital and show Congress what’s up.

In 1961, the US almost detonated two nuclear bombs over North Carolina by accident

And then there’s this…

On January 23rd, 1961, the United States almost nuked itself by accident. On that day, according to a recently unclassified document obtained by The Guardian, the US Air Force mistakenly dropped a pair of hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro, North Carolina…

If the bombs had gone off, the carnage would have reached into Baltimore, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and New York city. “Yeah, it would have been bad news — in spades,” Parker F. Jones, then supervisor of nuclear weapons safety at the Sandia National Laboratories, writes in the formerly-secret document. “One simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe!”