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Is Congress going through the ordeal of trying to enact health-care reform only to have one of the main pillars -- requiring individuals to obtain insurance -- declared unconstitutional? An interesting debate for a constitutional law seminar. In the real world, not a big worry.
Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
The corporate ties between insurers and media companies
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Action Alert: Olympia Single Payer Action (OSPA) meeting
Single Payer meeting Sunday, Nov 29
Olympia Single Payer Action (OSPA) meeting:
Sunday, Nov 29, at 11:30 AM
Mixx 96 Meeting room at 119 Washington Street NE
(SW corner of State and Washington Street)Please join us as we pursue the best strategies for achieving meaningful health care reform: affordable, quality health care for ALL.
The more they tell us to give up, the harder we work.
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Black Friday (4)
C-list round up: Ellen of the Tenth on Thanksgiving history I didn't know; White Collar Crime has round-ups I really should follow more often; and "Um, unemployment?" As Joe Bageant remarks:
Black Friday (3)
This series of stories -- a trip through the epicenters of the American recession -- from Reuters is actually pretty good, once you cut through the journamalism. (Click the map for each story in the series.)
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Black Friday (2)
Well, let's hope the celebrities who put all their money into Dubai World don't lose it all, or, worse, thinking they'll lose it all, spark a panic. It's certainly our duty to prevent that. (One imagines the calls: "Don't you know who I am?") Felix Salmon has a nice post, with a chart, and makes this point:
Black Friday (1)
I hate the very term "Black Friday," since it's one of those "traditions" of unknown origin doubtless invented by marketing weasels to encroach on Thanksgiving, which has remained resolutely non-monetized, or at least non-commercial, certainly compared to Xmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Money Day.... I mean, the very idea is that right after Thanksgiving, maybe at 3 in the morning, we're supposed to line up outside the closest big box store, pushing and shoving, and consume. Duty NOW NOW NOW! It's disgusting.
Salad for 3
mixed salad greens, grown locally
mixed fresh herbs [parsley, dill, whatever], grown locally
one or two satsumas, grown locally
pecan halves, grown locally
green onions, chopped
fresh cranberries
put a handful of greens on each salad plate
toss some of the herbs on top of the greens
add chopped onions
arrange satsuma sections on top of greens
add just enough cranberries for color
top with pecan halves
drizzle with olive oil and white wine vinegar
[dried cranberries can be substituted for fresh, and sesame or walnut oil can be substituted for olive oil]
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Stan Freberg: Why the Thanksgiving Turkey (and the United States of America)
Inspired by Susie, here's another "LP" we were listening to at about the same time as "Alice's Restaurant."
Heck, here's the whole album:
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Answer: Because Versailles sucks
That's a headline, and answer, I expect to keep using for some time. This time, it's occasioned by these two posts from Paul Krugman:
[T]he Fed expects unemployment to come down only very gradually — over 9 percent at the end of 2010, over 8 percent at the end of 2011, around 7 percent at the end of 2012. Inflation, meanwhile is expected to remain consistently below the Fed’s target.
Disastrously high unemployment, persisting years into the future, combined with inflation consistently below the Fed’s 2 percent target (and I’d argue both that the prediction is too high and that the target is too low).
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