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On The Road Again

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Heading back down to LA. Traffic in the Bay area is a mess as a result of the BART strike, but we’ll be heading east, and it shouldn’t affect us. We’ll be back there this evening.

4 thoughts on “On The Road Again”

  1. If this is an open thread, “here’s one” (a post on your open thread).

    Instead of Mr. Obama having these people who would benefit from the PPACA (were the exchanges to work) lined up as human props, he should have done the full Hugo Chavez.

    He should have had all of his administrators (including Ms. Sebelius), contractors, and Web page coders at hand, and he should have started singling them out by name and started scolding them, much as Chavez had these meeting where he humilated people.

    You, over there! You are the project manager on the Healthcare.gov user interface! Stand up! (Secret Service agents go over and drag the guy up out of his seat). Healthcare.gov is not working! People cannot sign up. They need health care and they cannot get it. Why? Because of you. You have failed me, you have failed the People! Go! Leave! We don’t want to see you anymore (Secret Service drags man away).

  2. Brown deferred the AC Transit strike, but you probably weren’t in the part of the Bay Area that that would have affected. I was hoping for sympathy strikes from Cal Train, but I guess I’ll have to wait for those. Maybe the taxi drivers could go on strike as well, to protest the various ride-sharing aps.

    1. We were in Vallejo. Unfortunately, some present had a flight out of SFO at 9:30 AM. They left the house at 7, but didn’t make it in time, because the west 80 was so backed up through Berkeley. But we got out of town fine, through Concord/Walnut Creek, Dublin and Livermore.

  3. Looks like a future Obamacare story will be the spotty coverage and lack of competition in parts of the US. Apparently, New Hampshire only had one insurer on its market, for example,

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