By golly, Jim! I’m beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!
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Bevin won by a country mile in Eastern Kentucky, where most of the state’s Obamacare and Medicaid expansion beneficiaries live. About half a million Kentuckians stand to lose their health insurance if Bevin follows through on his campaign promise to end Medicaid expansion and close Kynect; Conway managed to get less than half a million votes in total.
We explain that we’ve gone through every possible solution and we can’t figure out the problem. Especially because the on-set monitors, to us, look just like the edit bay monitors. At this point, after two days of this, something finally dawns on the director.
“Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that I’m wearing sunglasses on set when I look at the monitor?”
Since 1979, when the Reagan era ushered in our current age of American inequality, average annual earnings of the bottom 90 percent have increased by 16.7 percent; average annual earnings of the top 1 percent have increased by 149.4 percent; and average annual earnings of the top 0.1 percent have increased by 324.4 percent. It is not just that the rich have more money than the rest of us; their income is also growing much faster than the income of most people.
Is that part of your celebration every year?
No. [laughs] There’s no religious holiday of LRH’s birthday.That was something I actually found on Scientology.org, that there were a handful of religious holidays including his birthday.
Yeah, the special occasions which are anniversaries of things, but then they’ll basically like, on LRH’s brithday, there’ll be an event where they talk about the things that’ve happened in the past year. On the anniversary of Dianetics, they’ll talk about, you know, what countries are now having places that deliver Dianetics. So there’s stuff like that, where it’s just sort of like updates on what’s happening in the world, but nothing really more than that.