{"id":16071,"date":"2009-10-22T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-22-october-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-10-22T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T00:01:10","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-22-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-22-october-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 22 October 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/10\/just-tax.html\">Just Tax<\/a> &#8211; Well said, on all counts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/22\/ahip-enemy-reform\/\">AHIP\u2019s Two-Faced Campaign Unravels: No \u2018Comfort To The Enemy\u2019 Vs. \u2018Committed  To Bipartisan Health Reform\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Darn those pesky people reporting on what your lobbyists are saying!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/call-heads-maine\">The Call Heads To Maine<\/a> &#8211; Wow!  Not only does he call them evil, but he&#8217;s trying to appropriate the &#8220;Stonewall&#8221; image.  Nice!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5387109\/skinny-toddlers-also-cant-get-insurance\">Skinny Toddlers Also Can&#8217;t Get Insurance? [Pre-existing Conditions]<\/a> &#8211; The answer, of course, is simple: don&#8217;t be too big, don&#8217;t be too small, and never go to the doctor on the off chance it might lead to your having &#8220;a pre-existing condition.&#8221;  Huzzah  for the Greatest Health Care System in the World!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/kotaku\/full\/~3\/uGCS4wKSI4I\/best-buy-doing-the-buy-2-get-1-free-thing-too\">Best Buy Doing The Buy 2, Get 1 Free Thing Too [Deals]<\/a> &#8211; Hmmmm &#8230; someone might be getting some Wii games for Christmas &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/10\/22\/the-hypocrisy-over-the-pro-life-day-of-silent-solidarity\/\">The Hypocrisy Over the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Political stunts and activism in schools for me, but not for thee.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/failblog\/~3\/sv-xRxSkJzE\/\">Father Fail<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Sure you can make it up to me, Honey &#8212; you are now officially on night-time baby duty until &#8230; ah &#8230; let&#8217;s make it 2012.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dealnews.com\/325605.html\">Windows 7 upgrades for nonprofit organizations: Professional for $8,  Enterprise for $9<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t have 501(c)(3) status, but I do have a .org domain &#8230; does that count?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/10\/22\/costco-upgrade-three-computers-to-windows-7-home-premium-for-135\/\">Costco: Upgrade three computers to Windows 7 Home Premium for $135<\/a> &#8211; Noting to self (if we didn&#8217;t get our free upgrade stuff done right).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/10\/22\/windows-startup-and-shutdown-sounds-through-the-ages\/\">Windows startup and shutdown sounds through the ages<\/a> &#8211; I always loved that Win95 startup sound.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/40yearoldatheist.com\/be-a-grown-up-responsible-member-of-society-get-h1n1-vaccinated\/2009\/10\/\">Be A Grown-Up, Responsible Member of Society: Get H1N1 Vaccinated<\/a> &#8211; I might just post the link to this next time I run across someone who gets the vapors over vaccination.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/wondermark\/~3\/bt4Azgpm-uw\/\">My wedding poster, trailer, and epic cake<\/a> &#8211; The poster is great, the trailer is fabulous, and the cake is FOUR FLAVORS OF <b>AWESOME<\/b>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/health-care\/pelosis-office-we-have-no-problem-with-obamas-leadership-on-public-option\/\">Pelosi\u2019s Office: We Got No Problem With Obama\u2019s Public Option Leadership<\/a> &#8211; If the Senate Democrats don&#8217;t go with a public option, it won&#8217;t be because of Obama.  It will be because of the Senate Democrats.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/health-care\/public-strongly-supports-dem-effort-to-open-insurance-industry-to-competition\/\">Public Strongly Supports Dem Effort To Open Insurance Industry To  Competition<\/a> &#8211; Reaping the public opinion whirlwind.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/22\/gibbs-cheney-afghanistan\/\">Gibbs Responds to Cheney: He \u2018Seems To Have Forgotten His Role In The Last  Seven Years Of Afghanistan\u2019<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Fuzzy math&#8221; indeed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/22\/twitter-connecticut-gop\/\">After Twitter shuts down GOP accounts impersonating Dems, party complains of  \u2018free speech\u2019 infringements.<\/a> &#8211; Ah, the party of Virtue and Family Values:  &#8220;Identity fraud is free speech, and the Dems are just jealous we thought of it first.&#8221;  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/huckabee-who-needs-fema-when-we-have-salvation-army\">Huckabee: Who Needs FEMA When We Have The Salvation Army?<\/a> &#8211; (1) I don&#8217;t think that FEMA prevents the Salvation Army and many charitable organizations from assisting in disasters.  (2) If he&#8217;s suggesting that the Federal Government simply sign checks over to the Salvation Army to provide disaster relief, I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d have no constitutional hesitation at having it sign over checks to evangelical Islamic relief agencies, too. Or &#8230; maybe not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/santorum-obamas-mission-destroy-family-and-church\">Santorum: Obama&#8217;s Mission is to Destroy The Family and The Church<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Listen, and understand. That Obama is out there. It can&#8217;t be bargained with. It can&#8217;t be reasoned with. It doesn&#8217;t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until the Family and the Church are dead.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/22\/grayson-grills-broun-constitution\/\">Rep. Alan Grayson Grills Republican Congressman On Constitutionality Of  Anti-ACORN Crusade<\/a> &#8211; Nicely put.  I&#8217;d say that cutting off funding for a particular, named organization, based on criminal allegations not confirmed in court does, indeed, rise to being a Bill of Attainder.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/22\/malkin-off-the-record\/\">Malkin: The content of Obama\u2019s off-the-record meeting with liberal  journalists \u2018ought to be disclosed.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Off the record meetings for me, but not for thee.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Just Tax &#8211; Well said, on all counts. AHIP\u2019s Two-Faced Campaign Unravels: No \u2018Comfort To The Enemy\u2019 Vs. \u2018Committed To Bipartisan Health Reform\u2019 &#8211; Darn those pesky people reporting on what your lobbyists are saying! The Call Heads To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-22-october-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 22 October 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30198,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/romney-backs-the-pre-existing-conditions-on-pre-existing-conditions.html","url_meta":{"origin":16071,"position":0},"title":"Romney backs the pre-existing conditions on Pre-Existing Conditions","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Sep-12 11:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"The law long supported people not being denied new group insurance because of pre-existing conditions as long as, within a limited time frame, they had previously been insured by group coverage -- going between jobs, for example, or moving, or changing coverage plans from an employer.Which is all just jolly,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133408,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/06\/pre-aca-pre-existing-conditions.html","url_meta":{"origin":16071,"position":1},"title":"Pre-ACA Pre-Existing Conditions","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-May-17 9:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"The AHCA doesn't actually define (or limit) pre-existing conditions that states can opt out of. The list below was gleaned from lists of pre-existing conditions used before the ACA was passed to exclude folk from getting insurance, shuffling them into a (limited space, high-premium) high risk pool, jacking up premiums\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17%2B-%2B1imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17%2B-%2B1imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17%2B-%2B1imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":30488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/05\/romneys-sick-joke-about-being-sick-and-getting-insurance.html","url_meta":{"origin":16071,"position":2},"title":"Romney&#39;s Sick Joke (about Being Sick and Getting Insurance)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Oct-12 8:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Krugman takes Romney to righteous task for misleading debate viewers, once again, on what his \"plan\" would do regarding pre-existing conditions.'What Mr. Romney actually proposes is that Americans with pre-existing conditions who already have health coverage be allowed to keep that coverage even if they lose their job \u2014 as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29107,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/protecting-the-health-insurance-companies.html","url_meta":{"origin":16071,"position":3},"title":"Protecting the Health Insurance Companies","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Aug-12 10:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Two observations on Rep. 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