Indiana Governor First To Sign Abortion Ban Post-Roe. Time for a serious economic boycott of All Things Indiana:
The law’s passage came just three days after voters in Kansas, another conservative Midwestern state, overwhelmingly rejected an amendment that would have stripped abortion rights protections from their State Constitution, a result seen nationally as a sign of unease with abortion bans. And it came despite some Indiana Republicans opposing the measure for going too far, and others voting no because of its exceptions.
The ‘Medicare Advantage’ Scam. A must-read, especially if, like me, you enjoy watching those old shows on MeTV. If you want the Full Monty, here it is. BTW, guess what? As a state pensioner, I was just notified that Delaware will be switching us to a, wait for it, Medicare Advantage plan starting in January. The same Part C stuff that Joe Namath and JJ Walker incessantly hawk on Perry Mason. Maybe someone from the State of Delaware, like, perhaps, the Insurance Commissioner, should do a little reading this weekend? At least in order to avoid being scammed? Or preventing us from being scammed?
Memo To Chris Coons: The Photo Op Should Have Been Just The Beginning. Yes, I’m talking about the Coons-Flake Bro-Fest that preceded the blatant non-investigation into Judge Kavanaugh. Coons took oodles of credit for ‘negotiating’ this bipartisan breakthrough. A ‘special moment’. It would be pointless to ask why the fuck he stopped there. The photo ops are and have been the point all along. Give Susan Collins and her, wait for it, ‘ilk’, the cover they needed. Following through? Up to the journalists, I guess. Which doesn’t much matter when someone is ensconced on the Supreme Court for life.
Who Invented Bitcoin? Is it Satoshi Nakamoto? Is it Craig Wright? Are they the same person? Is it–someone else, perhaps Q? Nobody knows. The fascinating particulars:
The Crypto Open Patent Alliance (Copa), a non-profit that supports cryptocurrencies, is seeking a high court declaration that Wright is not the author of the white paper. Its case claims that Wright forged evidence produced to support his assertion that he is Satoshi. Wright, who denies Copa’s claims, failed in an attempt to have the case struck out last year.
The case was closely watched in the expectation that if Wright lost he would have had to move those bitcoins – seen as the sword-in-the-stone test that would prove Satoshi’s true identity. Those coins are now worth $25bn (£21bn) at the current price of about $23,000 and sit on the bitcoin blockchain, a decentralised ledger that records all bitcoin transactions.
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