- The Nelson abortion provision in the Senate bill isn't status quo, goes beyond Hyde, and is very likely to end most abortion coverage in a few years, when at present, the vast majority of private plans cover it.
- The reason why the Nelson language is indeed such a big deal is that, like the Stupak language, any federal money is assumed to taint the entire plan, requiring that separate checks be written for abortion riders on plans that have even a single enrollee getting federal subsidies to purchase insurance. It's expensive to insurance companies in administrative costs and stigmatizing to individuals.
- Republicans are children, part the 374th. Bad tempered, grandstanding, overgrown children.
- Britain will open a new executive space agency that will direct separate efforts outside the European Space Agency.
- Google has shut down its Chinese website after refusing to cooperate any longer with government censorship laws following hacker attacks traced to Chinese universities that targeted the gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents and compromised proprietary source code.
- With retail not expected to come back until 2012, more mall stores are expected to close, which sounds likely to have a knock-on effect on sales in other stores as shops go empty.
- I heard this song the other day and it reminded me that, being varnish season again (you know, the season when you can leave the windows open so the air in your place doesn't become flammable,) it's coming time to drag out the sanity-saving hobbies. Bones in syndication only goes so far.
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