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<\/p>\nYesterday, I got an email that Al Franken is hosting the Daily Show this week. If you are a regular viewer, you probably already know that. If not, you will have missed a show by now, but they probably can be streamed through The Daily Show’s YouTube channel – if not in full, at the very least highlights (and the guest was only Lindsay Graham anyway). You’re welcome. I also got confirmation to visit Virgil Sunday.<\/p>\n
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Steve Schmidt – Donald Trump: innocent until proven guilty<\/a> Pro Publica – This Georgia County Spent $1 Million to Avoid Paying for One Employee\u2019s Gender-Affirming Care<\/a> Food For Thought<\/p>\n Funny thing about choice and freedom: You have freedom to choose not to try to take away freedom from someone else over something they did not choose. pic.twitter.com\/2Wvj0leJMw<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) March 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nQuote – I am saying these things because I am about to make an important point \u2014 and I want to remind people of my bonafides to make it on the eve of Donald Trump\u2019s long-overdue arrest. Donald Trump is innocent. Let me say it again. Donald Trump is innocent until proven guilty. This moment requires restraint from Donald Trump\u2019s fiercest and most committed antagonists, of which I am certainly one. This moment requires Trump\u2019s most ferocious opponents to be better than his most committed fanatics. This moment requires those of us who despise Trump the most to be the loudest voices for his constitutional rights to due process.
\nClick through for full article<\/a>. It is extremely easy to forget this point of law, particularly when the defendant in question is someone you despise, and even more so if you feel that you already have evidence. This reminder is coming from someone who is in both those categories, and is therefore, I believe particularly compelling.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – When a sheriff\u2019s deputy in Georgia\u2019s Houston County sought surgery as part of her gender transition, local officials refused to change the department\u2019s health insurance plan to cover it, citing cost as the primary reason. In the years that followed, the central Georgia county paid a private law firm nearly $1.2 million to fight Sgt. Anna Lange in federal court \u2014 far more than it would have cost the county to offer such coverage to all of its 1,500 health plan members, according to expert analyses…. In 2016, the county\u2019s insurance administrator recommended changing the policy to align with a new federal nondiscrimination rule. But Houston County leaders said no.
\nClick through for sad story<\/a>. It’s nearly always cheaper to do the right thing. Seriously, if an insurance administrator suggests spending money, you can take it to the bank that that spending is going to save you money in the long run.<\/p>\n\n