I don’t know if this affects anyone we might know, but even if not, it’s shameful. When sweeping health care cuts take effect Sunday, the parts of Illinois that stand to be hardest hit are the places where folks already are struggling to get by.City neighborhoods like Austin and Englewood, Humboldt Park and Pilsen. Inner-ring suburbs like Cicero. Rust-belt cities like Rockford. Whole swaths of rural Illinois. They’re areas where people make less, jobs are scarce and more rely on the government for help.Medicaid cutbacks mean hundreds of thousands will see health care benefits greatly curtailed, tens of thousands will…
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Link: Fortune: ATF Never Purposefully Let Guns Walk During Fast And Furious | TPMMuckraker Of course not Because that would be ridiculous, but easily used against them because the simple lie is more believable than the complex truth. Reality is often messy. There is no narrative structure. One day ahead of a House vote to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, a six month investigation by Fortune magazine found that Arizona-based agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives never purposefully allowed guns to “walk†during Operation Fast and Furious.
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SL9B: Opening Ceremony – Film and Speech http://t.co/uXWHGOXB via @wordpressdotcom # Jackson Street Books on #Yelp Love this small independent bookstore on the way to the coast in Hoquiam. Nice place, … http://t.co/aU8avamm # Hey @93XRT — that "metablock" ad you just ran on the stream was so annoying, I switched stations. # Powered by Twitter Tools
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I spend a lot of time listening to radio via WinAmp over headphones while goofing around on my computer at home. I happened to tune in to WBEZ and caught the last few minutes of an interview between CBC Q’s Jian Ghomeshi and somebody that sounded a lot like a very peevish David Sedaris. However, the conversation was all about the lack of manners shown by Americans in everyday life, and the voice and accent didn’t quite have the languid edginess of Sedaris’. How surprising to find that it was actually Fran Lebowitz speaking. She approves of cigarette smoking, but…
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The technical installation has finally concluded, and I now have data and phone in my office (but nothing to connect with, that’s later). The guys who delivered and assembled my desk got here at a little before 10am and they went a little over their time estimate as to how long it would take to assemble desk and chair, but they were done by a little after noon. After the desk guys left, Riley did a tour of inspection. He’ll be quite baffled by the pet gate that I’ll put at the top of the stairway, but at least I’ll…
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So far my install date is not changed, had to put off a dental appointment because it conflicted. Have the new computer base, not sure about other hardware.
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David @fallingrock set off about 8:30am on his 35 mile #TourdeCure ride with more than 200 other riders in his group. # Needs moar cowbell! #TourdeCure http://t.co/2mLHeJoJ # Congrats! RT @wilw Anne made a video of me and our friends when the @LAKings won the Stanley Cup: http://t.co/cfum7Jev # We're installing our vicar tonight at @StNickEpiscopal – no extra wiring or plumbing required! #Episcopalian # Dear Opressively Cheery Greety Whatchlookinfor Store Lady: Get out of my face, you are harshing my browse mellow. # I checked in at Newport Coffee House (1121 Half Day Rd) on #Yelp http://t.co/LBMizH9F # Powered…
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Next week is the "install date" for the furniture and phone/Internet for my work-from-home office. I had originally planned on the desk facing the window, but currently will have it face the wall with window on my right. It’s raining and thundering and lightninging right now and the window looks in the weather direction. I’ll enjoy watching it, as currently in my office building I look towards the other direction and can’t hear the rain on the roof or the thunder. It’s like we’re in a giant house washer right now; not looking forward to "spin dry!" Via: Flickr Title:…
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The more I read about the amount of money being spent and the disingenuous defense of Citizens United, the more I think that primaries and elections and polls won’t matter in the future, only dollars and nonsense. WASHINGTON — Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, whose net worth makes him one of the worlds richest men, is on a check-writing spree that will soon bring his total political contributions in this election cycle to at least $71 million, according to sources familiar with his spending. That money is spread across the spectrum of GOP super PACs, which are required to disclose donors,…
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— David’s riding in the "Tour de Cure"! Please visit his pledge page Via: Flickr Title: Team Gibbs Represent! #TourdeCure By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 10 Jun ’12, 11.19am CDT