{"id":16979,"date":"2015-10-28T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16979"},"modified":"2015-10-28T21:23:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T04:23:56","slug":"on-the-edge10292015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/on-the-edge10292015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge&ndash;10\/28\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hi gang.&nbsp; Here&rsquo;s the latest.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m in a wheelchair and have taken my first spin around the hallways to chase nurses.&nbsp; I am amazed that using one is so much more difficult than it was the last time I was in a wheelchair.&nbsp; It was 63 years ago.&nbsp; My surgery is scheduled for 9:00 AM Monday at the burn unit at Legacy Emmanuel Burn Center on N. Gantbein.&nbsp;&nbsp; They do not know whether I will stay there, return here or go somewhere else.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s very frustrating.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/10\/26\/1439239\/-Ben-Carson-says-he-USED-to-be-a-homicidal-maniac\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;As a teenager, I would go after people with rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers. And, of course, many people know the story when I was 14 and I tried to stab someone.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait&#8230; What?!?!?!<\/p>\n<p>Lest you think I am quoting him out of context, behold:<\/p>\n<p>We already had a president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.all-creatures.org\/aip\/nl-3nov2000-frogs.html\" target=\"_blank\">with a history of torturing animals<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegehumor.com\/post\/52867\/this-is-so-funny\" target=\"_blank\">attacking people<\/a>.&nbsp; That didn&#39;t end well.&nbsp; Now we are supposed to believe a guy who went after people with rocks, bricks, baseball bats and hammers&#8230; is who we want to put in a position where they control real deadly force?<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The video in the original is different from this. to suc<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dm3mt275RVY?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The only reason I would hold Uncle Token to account for teenage behavior is that he still exhibits, daily, the absolute, concrete thinking that leads to such behavior.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1029Vibra\" border=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1029Vibra.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"1029Vibra\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi gang.&nbsp; Here&rsquo;s the latest.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m in a wheelchair and have taken my first spin around the hallways to chase nurses.&nbsp; I am amazed that using one is so much more difficult than it was the last time I was in a wheelchair.&nbsp; It was 63 years ago.&nbsp; My surgery is scheduled for 9:00 AM <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/on-the-edge10292015\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}