Re-elected!
My thanks to the members of the New York Local of the National Writers Union for electing me to a third term as delegate, and thanks especially to NWU President Emeritus Jonathan Tasini, NWU Advisory Board members Mary Kay Blakely and Luis Rodriguez, and investigative journalist Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and the Members First committee for endorsing me. I'll do my best to represent the interests of the freelance writers who make up the union's largest local at the Delegates Assembly in September, and throughout the year. This year's Delegates Assembly will be held at Circus Circus in Las Vegas, a union hotel.
Restored
The Empire State Building Towercam started working again this morning, although it didn't seem so at first because it was so foggy you couldn't see anything. At the moment I'm using the Towercam to watch the Carnival cruise ships Pride and Legend, both of which are scheduled to depart New York at 5 p.m.
Rejected
More news on the health insurance front: got a note from our insurance company yesterday advising that all my claims are being held up while they determine whether I am:
a) a child subject to a child-custody agreement that might require someone else to pay for my medical care
b) eligible for Medicare
The answer to both of those questions can be easily determined by looking at my birthdate. I am 50 years old, which means I'm in that middle period of life, too old to be covered under a child-custody agreement, but not old enough for Medicare.
Reply and request
Senators Jon Corzine (D-New Jersey, and our neighbor) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) have responded to the petition circulated by Moveon.org and signed by more than 380,000 Americans calling for an independent commission to investigate "whether the Bush Administration manipulated and distorted evidence to take the country to war in Iraq." Sens. Corzine and Stabenow report that "very soon, probably today or tomorrow, the Senate will vote on whether to create an independent commission to investigate the President's possible deception. The vote will come in the form of an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill, which is being debated now." They are asking people to contact their senators about this right away.
No rubber duckies have shown up along the Hudson waterfront so far. No weapons of mass destruction, either.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:14 PM
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