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Lisi has a lengthy record of interaction with police including convictions for threatening and assaulting women. He has acted as an occasional driver and security guard for the mayor, showing up the morning the crack video scandal broke and shadowing the mayor as reporters sought comment.

Surely this….

At the National Institutes of Health, nearly three-quarters of the staff was furloughed. One result: director Francis Collins said about 200 patients who otherwise would be admitted to the NIH Clinical Center into clinical trials each week will be turned away. This includes about 30 children, most of them cancer patients, he said.

THE FREEEEDOM!!!!!!!!!! to die

This is all about stopping a law that increases taxes on rich people and reduces subsidies to private insurers in Medicare in order to help low-income Americans buy health insurance. That’s it. That’s why the Republican Party might shut down the government and default on the debt.

Ezra Klein: Don’t forget what the shutdown really is about (via kateoplis)

an amendment they rammed through in the dark of night added language that would give bosses the power to decide whether women who work for them should have access to birth control through their health care coverage

Provisions like these are a back door to allow employers to selectively turn off health care services at the “advice” of insurance firms; saving the employer money while being able to claim that they are following the law. Nothing really about moral objections; just an easy way to reduce costs be claiming moral objections.

Also ‘folk-rock’ is back as ‘alternative’. gimme a break.

Iggy Pop; yeah I aggree