Nov 142013
 

I’m running way late today, because my interview wiped me out.  Actually it wasn’t the interview, but the 1 1/4 mile walk home from it.  It’s one of those weird downtown transit situations where the trip there is almost door to door direct, but the trip back would take two busses, save only 1/4 mile walking, and take twice as long.  Mostly it was a ton of paperwork, and it looks like it won’t be long now.  I need to catch sleep Thursday to get up early Friday, so a computer tech in Sweden can crawl around inside my computer to find out why Ad-aware 11 Pro did not install quite right.  Fantasy football players, make sure your lineups are set for Thursday night’s game.  I’m still improving slowly.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:49 (average 4:24).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: Update: The original blogger has pulled Hir post out of concern for legal issues.

Apparently the University of Nebraska Medical Center only provides care to straight white Cis Republicans.

Because sie* [transgender personal pronoun] told them sie was gender queer a transplant patient with a live kidney donor was denied care.

Up to that time Mika had yet to discuss sie’s trans status probably thinking it inconsequential. But after Mika revealed sie’s trans status the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s staff became more difficult.

Mika wrote on sie’s blog

"However, this is when I told them that I identify as Mika and prefer female pronouns. Everything seemed to be okay, except for a little confusion. Until they asked me what I do in my free time and I told them that I volunteer with non-profits to work towards equality for the LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual) community and I volunteer on political campaigns and plan to help out on the Obama campaign. That is when the Transplant Coordinator Nurse told me that they are Republicans. Everything changed."

That’s when the staff began having trouble addressing Mika with the proper pronouns.

and despite having a live donor waiting Mika was told Sie and the donor would have to submit to extended psychoanalysis before the transplant.

How very Republican it is to blatantly put the life of a human being at risk by denying hir care because of their own hatred of LGBT people.

From MSNBC: Chris Hayes covered Elizabeth Warren’s populism.

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I have little to add, except that I number myself in the Warren, Brown, Merkley, Grayson, Sanders (sort of) Democrats.

From Think Progress: Eighty-one percent of research universities say budget sequestration cuts are directly hampering their scientific research activities, according to a new survey released Monday…

…Specifically, the study found that 70 percent of the surveyed institutions had delayed research projects and were dealing with fewer federal grants for new research. Twenty-eight percent reported an inability to purchase research equipment and instrumentation, 19 percent had cancelled field and experimental work, and 38 percent had delayed it.

This is the legacy of the Republican Sequester: less research means less well educated students, fewer discoveries, and fewer jobs exploiting them.

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  17 Responses to “Open Thread–11/14/2013”

  1. 3:43 Pretty puzzling picture.

  2. Rest well to heal properly. Hopefully, you'll be moving soon. then, you'll have to set up your computer all over again. I don't envy you at all.

    Daily Kos ~ "That is when the Transplant Coordinator Nurse told me they were Republicans." So if you don't subscribe to their politics, you die. RepubliCare at work!

    MSNBC ~ It's no wonder Elizabeth Warren is so popular with the "commoners". she an the others you mentioned actually fight FOR us instead of constantly knocking us to the ground and then kicking us while we're down.

    Think Progress ~ I guess that means their "sequestration cuts" are working. The dumbing down of America will continue as part of their agenda.

    Cartoon ~ They didn't learn in 1995 so they did it again this year. Insanity = doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.

  3. I hope all went well at the interview TC – you are utterly, completely and amazingly heroic to walk one and a quarter miles with your horridly bad chest!!

    Re the Think Progress article – we all knew (except for the Repuglicons) that their obsession to remove any money at all from anyone who wasn't them would result in a brain drain as university staff had to go abroad to find jobs in order a) to eat and b) to continue their careers and their research.  The GOP/TP are guilty of sedition – America will be much the poorer without the academics.

    The University of Nebraska Medical Center should rename itself – for GOP/TP members only; disgusting.

    Hooray for Warren, Brown, Merkley, Grayson, Sanders – and all like them!

     

     

     

  4. Above all, TC, get well, be well, stay well.  And get help with the move when it happens.  Take care of yourself.

    4:35 I actually think pictures with reflections are on the easy side – but of course then my competition also benefits from that too LOL.

    Kos – Yes, I was appalled by Mika's story.  I hope sie makes it.  I don't know whether it bothers me more that the med pros are crazy or that they are hateful.  Well, Nebraska.  I wouldn't go for the surgery in Kansas, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Iowa either or anywhere in the south.  Trinidad, Colorado maybe?

    Warren – that's a good list of progressives.  There aren't many others, maybe, but there are others.  Gillibrand.  The amazing Al Franken.  I know that's not all.

    Sequester – These people!  Obviously nothing can get done before the 2014 elections, and I wish I were confident that the 2014 elections would change things in our favor, but frankly I am terrified.  I know that the 11/11 Daily Show has already been posted multiple places, but this segment:
    http://afpl.us/john-morse-on-the-daily-show/#comment-13
    really strikes home to me, and strikes fear in my heart.

  5. Judging by the stunt they pulled last month, Republicans haven't learned a damned thing since at least 1995. To quote a favorite blogger, "The stupid! It burns!" If only there were a cure . . ..

  6. 5:05

    How very Republican it is to blatantly put the life of a human being at risk by denying hir care because of their own hatred of LGBT people.

    Die Quickly…. sigh 👿

    "Bring back the Glass Steagall Act."

     

  7. I have an urgent personal issue to tend to between now and the end of November so I won't be around other than to perhaps quickly read the articles.  This issue will take all my time.  I will be on Care 2 only to do my click to donates.  Not to worry.  My mother and I are both fine.  I should be backin early December.  See you later.

    • Lynn, you will be hugely missed, and I trust I'm speaking for us all. 🙁

      Whatever it is, if I can help in any way, you know where to find me.

  8. Thanks everyone. 

    I hope this doesn't mean that Patty Monster will now be lurking and muttering "My precious!" 😉

    Patty, it's not just the computer.  It's the whole home network with two computers, a printer, an external hard drive, and a Roku system for wireless Netflix.  ARGH!

    Jo, I do and will have help with the move.

  9. Warren, Brown, and Sanders are my heroes.

    The Republican Sequester is just adding to the dumbing down of America.

    Cartoon:  And they keep being dumb! 

     

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