Updated: He died early this morning...and they still won't pay

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 4:48 AM PDT

2009/09/02 · 04:48

He was prudent, and smart, and planned ahead: he bought a long-term care policy, for himself and for his wife. And he made the payments for them, always on time, month after month, year after year.

She died long before she needed assisted living or a nursing home, so the insurance company won that bet and got to pocket the money. He spent the last year in a nursing home, and died without ever seeing a single dollar from his insurer.

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Friday August 07, 2009 · 12:49 PM PDT

2009/08/07 · 12:49

I dearly hope I'm not being unduly alarmist here, but given recent events, it's difficult for me to judge. So let me just pass along the report from Talking Points Memo:

Based on the news that health care events are edging into violence, an anti-health care reform protester in New Mexico named Scott Oskay is calling on his hundreds of online followers to bring firearms to town halls, and to 'badly hurt' SEIU and ACORN counter protesters

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Monday February 16, 2009 · 3:20 PM PST

2009/02/16 · 15:20

Tim Finin sent an alarming note across the Interesting-People list this morning. (And I've borrowed his "Subject" line, with the emphasis on your mine.)

CU's Consumerist has a post on a change in Facebook’s Terms of
Service agreement that became effective on 4 February: Facebook’s
New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your
Content. Forever."

It does not appear to me that this is an exaggeration.

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Presidential document 200900001 -- and a million more: Part 1

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Saturday January 31, 2009 · 10:16 AM PST

2009/01/31 · 10:16

The federal government churns out a LOT of documents every working day -- every branch, every agency, every office. The result is a blizzard of paper that's unwieldly and bulky and expensive...and now, at least in part, obsolete.

This month, over a million federal documents were published online -- full text, indexed, searchable, downloadable, reusable. And among that million is one document of particular interest: DCPD20090001.

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Thursday January 29, 2009 · 7:42 PM PST

2009/01/29 · 19:42

There's a front-page diary here at the moment entitled:Team Coleman Fakes Website Crash which in turn links to some interesting analysis by the fine folks at MN Publius.

Based on those observations, I'm going to argue that the Coleman technical people are either (a) lying or (b) incompetent. Or maybe (c) both.

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Saturday January 24, 2009 · 7:01 PM PST

2009/01/24 · 19:01

Kay Yow, women's basketball coach for North Carolina State University, died tonight, after a long, tenacious fight against cancer.

I could try to sum her up in numbers -- 66 years old, 737 wins, 11 Sweet 16 appearances, 34 seasons -- but none of those seem adequate to capture the most important things about her. Her age? Too young, much too young. Her records? Incredible achievements, but surpassed by victories not recorded in the statistics of college basketball.

Let me tell you a little bit about her.

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Thursday January 22, 2009 · 5:43 PM PST

2009/01/22 · 17:43

Yesterday, Russell Tice appeared on Countdown with Keith Olberman (video) (transcript) to talk about large-scale surveillance and data acquisition conducted during the Bush Administration. I wrote about it here, gimmeshelter wrote about it here, and mcjoan wrote about it here.

Tonight, Mr. Tice was back and was joined by James Risen of the NYT.

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Wednesday January 21, 2009 · 6:14 PM PST

2009/01/21 · 18:14

Russell Tice, former NSA analyst, is talking to Keith Olberman as I type this, providing some stunning revelations about the extent and nature of the Bush administration's domestic spying program. I'm going to need a transcript to get into all the details, but wanted to write this in order to try to clarify at least one or two technical details he brought up.

Those points aside, though, there are two big takeaways from this:

Domestic spying was pervasive -- far, far larger than anything we knew.

Domestic spying targeted specific known non-terrorist groups: e.g., journalists.

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Friday January 09, 2009 · 6:26 PM PST

2009/01/09 · 18:26

Oh, we know that this still leaves our state far behind perennial contenders such as Illinois and Louisiana when it comes to public corruption issues, but please consider this effort as our contribution.

Mayor Dixon was indicted on 12 counts today -- fraud, theft, misconduct -- you know, the usual laundry list associated with political figures who have their fingers in the till and consider themselves beyond the reach of prosecutors and grand juries.

Oops.

I'm not sure I have a particular favorite among the counts yet, but I think #6 --

Count 6 — Theft: Stealing gift cards worth more than $500 donated to Office of City Council President that she had solicited from Developer A for needy and underprivileged families in Baltimore, and using them for her own benefit, between Dec. 18, 2006, and Dec. 6, 2007.

-- has got to be a contender.

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Monday November 24, 2008 · 3:45 AM PST

2008/11/24 · 03:45

With the news that Citibank is apparently about to be handed a $300B gift from the taxpayers, following on the news that automakers' CEOs took private jets to Washington to beg for their bailout, following on the news that AIG's suits took expensive vacations while getting their bailout, I've decided that we need to attach one more condition to this largesse.

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 6:55 AM PST

2008/11/14 · 06:55

It seems that one of the next contestants in line for a federal bailout
will be the automobile industry. Years ago, I would have argued that we
should just let it fail, but I've changed my mind on that point -- and now
I don't think we can afford to let it fail. But I do think that we should
take this opportunity, rather than just handing it a bag of cash and our
best wishes, to prod it into the 21st century. So here's my (incomplete,
I'm sure) list of non-negotiable demands that should be attached.

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 5:37 PM PST

2008/11/06 · 17:37

I've been trying to keep up with the plethora of discussions about all the cabinet positions that will be filled in President Obama's administration. As a proud tree-hugger, I've been wondering why one particular name hasn't surfaced yet in any of the write-ups that I've seen.

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