Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Maine Governor Refuses to Disburse Medicaid Payments -- Detroit Cops Jail Elderly Man Without Proper Warrants -- Russia Still Hacking Our Infrastructure



Ignoring the binding vote, Maine Gov. Paul LePage has refused to expand the Medicaid program, blasting it as a needless, budget-busting form of welfare. He vetoed five expansion bills before the issue made the ballot, plus a spending bill this month that provided about $60 million in funding for the first year. Earlier this month he went so far as to say he would go to jail “before I put the state in red ink” by adding at least 70,000 more low-income adults to the state’s Medicaid population of 264,000.
NYT


If I were a patient in Maine
and asking for healthcare in vain
because an old fink
is 'fraid of red ink
I'd try Christian Science for pain. 




Chrys Cline was picked up . . . by law enforcement in the Detroit area after officers checked his name and discovered he is wanted for missing court dates during the summer of 1989.
Washington Post

Cops have a long memory
when it comes to old felony.
No one's out of reach
for some ancient breach;
they're jugged in the blink of an eye.





Hackers working for Russia claimed “hundreds of victims” last year in a giant and long-running campaign that put them inside the control rooms of U.S. electric utilities where they could have caused blackouts, federal officials said. They said the campaign likely is continuing.
WSJ

The next time the power goes out
we'll know it's the Russian bear's snout
that's digging our grave
while Trump tries to save
his bromance with Putin, no doubt. 


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