And the storage facility sounds as if one could just move in there. Plentiful staff. Climate controlled units. Who needs an apartment?

What the site has told me is that, for now, I have to go to a different website to search for providers.  The good thing, I guess, is that if you enter the name of the provider, it brings up every plan that provider participates in.  You can also put in the name of a specific carrier to see if someone participates.

One result has been that conduct has been at times permitted in some circumstances which would have been forbidden under the older law, but police will still arrest and the city attorney sometimes charge for complete nudity, when there is a complaint.

There is a park in Seattle called Greenlake with a walking path of 2.8 miles and lots of lawn and sunbathing areas and other things such as tennis courts and boat rental shack, etc.

If someone (who is reasonably HWP, not sure if that matters . . .) wears a thong, how do you think it will be evaluated in terms of the law?  Some areas in the East Coast specifically forbid wearing them; others allow them . . . southern California areas that have an IE law usually allow them and at least one area, Huntington Beach I believe, wrote their law to specifically make clear that wearing thongs in public parks/beaches is permitted.

How do we think Seattle police and/or the city attorney and/or a jury would regard this, at this park?  On one hand, this very unusual to wear a thong at this park and there are people of all ages; on the other hand, the various other areas have mixed views on wearing it should be criminalized.  Any guesses and thoughts???

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A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an analysis of census data by The New York Times.

Because they live in states largely controlled by Republicans that have declined to participate in a vast expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, they are among the eight million Americans who are impoverished, uninsured and ineligible for help. The federal government will pay for the expansion through 2016 and no less than 90 percent of costs in later years.

Those excluded will be stranded without insurance, stuck between people with slightly higher incomes who will qualify for federal subsidies on the new health exchanges that went live this week, and those who are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid in its current form, which has income ceilings as low as $11 a day in some states.

People shopping for insurance on the health exchanges are already discovering this bitter twist.

"How can somebody in poverty not be eligible for subsidies?" an unemployed health care worker in Virginia asked through tears. The woman, who identified herself only as Robin L. because she does not want potential employers to know she is down on her luck, thought she had run into a computer problem when she went online Tuesday and learned she would not qualify.

What's a Citizen to Do?

I teach that there are only two conditions under which enlightened approach to negotiation or problem-solving are not possible. It is important to know when these conditions exist because it should inform your strategic choices when dealing with such folks. These are: 1) when the other party doesn't want the problem to be solved (i.e., when their very identity is tied to keeping the fight ongoing); and 2) when their definition of "winning" includes the other party "losing" (i.e., they seek to inflict harm or deny any satisfaction to the other). If either of these circumstances exists, a collaborative approach to problem solving is doomed to fail. I perceive both of these conditions to be at play in Washington and in many state legislatures right now. When these conditions apply, you have only two strategic choices -- to cave or to crush them.

Seems like it's time to crush them.  Does Obama and do the Democrats have the will?

US Capitol in Washington in lockdown after shots fired

(Reuters) - The U.S. Capitol was in lockdown on Thursday after gunshots were fired outside the building, injuring several people including a law enforcement officer, a Senate aide and a Capitol police officer said.

Fully 72 percent of Americans disapprove of shutting down the federal government over differences on the Affordable Care Act; just 25 percent approve of this action.

Republicans in Congress receive more of the blame for the shutdown: 44 percent of Americans blame them, while 35 percent put more blame on President Obama and the Democrats in Congress. These views are virtually the same as they were last week before the shutdown, when Americans were asked who they would blame if a shutdown occurred.

When the government shut down back in November 1995, 51 percent of Americans blamed the Republicans in Congress, while 28 blamed President Bill Clinton.

25% of the nation approves shutting down the government for a legally passed bill that was upheld by the SCOTUS, that is stunning.

This one I got today takes the cake:

Ive done nothing wrong.reliability. Do I assume that you will cooperate? At the minimum yousat down cross-legged and motioned to me. Sit. We must talk.singing our number?back. What are you playing at bastardacoj? I shouted; Humane torture

Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown

During the course of my presidency, I have bent over backwards to work with the Republican party and have purposely kept my rhetoric down. I think I'm pretty well known for being a calm guy. Sometimes people think I'm too calm.

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday he should not have used the word "enemies" to describe his political opponents...

"I think it's tempting not to negotiate with hostage-takers..."

I had a Packing app that I used for traveling for a while - it is basically a list maker, with the normal things you need on a trip pre-filled in. Stopped using it after the first couple of times. I'm guessing the moving apps are similar - just a big to-do list. They are of limited use unless they come with burly helpers.

You seem to have been doing my only moving tip - use the opportunity to purge all the old junk. The four weeks before I moved I had mountains of trash at the kerb every week.

If I can motivate myself, I am going to try to write something about the event. We shall see.

Of those who ended up featured in an appallingly hilarious clip on Kimmel's show, not a single one knew that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are one and the same thing. All but one of the interviewees expressed dislike for Obamacare and gave a variety of reasons for hating it -- it is socialist, it has holes in it, it forces everyone to buy into it, it is anti-American and, I'm not making this up -- it will lead to gun prohibition. They like the Affordable Care Act, however, because it is, well, affordable.

LATimes

The TL Kaffee Klatch Keyboard Kommandos version:

Current law doesn't allow families of dead soldiers to beat Westboro Baptist members to death with their own arms while they protest funerals, which is really a shame, but some enterprising members of society have found other avenues of reprisal. Following up on a group of satanists performing a gay ritual on Fred Phelps' mom's grave back in July, a "ridiculously sleazy" punk band from Sacramento has released a porn video shot on the Westboro Baptist Church lawn.

Topeka, KS - It was a nice sunny day just before noon in the small but well known city of Topeka when punk rock band, Get Shot! from California arrived at the Westboro Baptist Church to film their bass player, Laura Lush masturbat[ing] on their front lawn, completely naked.