{"id":17317,"date":"2015-11-08T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T23:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17317"},"modified":"2015-11-08T15:22:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T23:22:34","slug":"on-the-edge1182015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/08\/on-the-edge1182015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge&ndash;11\/8\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m feeling pretty tired, because they&nbsp; woke me up at&nbsp; 2 AM to check my vitals.&nbsp; By the time I struggled to the edge of&nbsp; the bed to pee, I was too fully awake to go back to sleep.&nbsp; I finished the majority of the work needed to lo get the right software installed on my new computer.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2015\/11\/07\/scotus-damned-bobby-jindal-earthly-court-redefine-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politicus USA<\/a>: <\/font>Appearing yesterday at Kevin \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2012\/07\/05\/pastor-kill-gays-read-gay-friendly-bible.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kill the Gays<\/a>\u201d Swanson\u2019s Iowa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2015\/11\/03\/gop-candidates-speak-conference-hosted-pastor-supports-killing-gays.html\" target=\"_blank\">conference of haters<\/a>, Bobby Jindal joined Mike Huckabee in pretending neither the United States Constitution nor the Supreme Court exist, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NE4zFdm7rlc\" target=\"_blank\">by stating that<\/a> \u201cNo earthly court can change the definition of marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is about as wrong as a person can be, because United States Constitution. The Constitution is the law of the land of course, not the Bible. The Founding Fathers conveniently set it up that way because they liked the idea of freedom of religion. People like Jindal and Huckabee, to name just two, can\u2019t seem to get that through their heads.  <\/p>\n<p>Jindal was introduced by Swanson, who told his fellow haters,  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s acknowledge right now that Jesus Christ is king over the president of the United States, whether he recognizes it or not. Jesus Christ is king over the Supreme Court of the United States, whether they recognize it or not!\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Watch courtesy of Right Wing Watch:  <\/p>\n<h1><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#ff0000\">BARF BAG ALERT!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NE4zFdm7rlc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Booby J. and the Republican Reich demand that YOU undergo forced conversion to Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity and learn whom to hate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/carson-plummets-in-polls-amid-reports-he-did-not-stab-anyone\" target=\"_blank\">From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>New reports indicating that Ben Carson might not have actually stabbed anyone during his youth have sent the retired neurosurgeon plummeting in the latest Republican Presidential polls.<\/p>\n<p>Carson supporters, reeling from the news that their candidate\u2019s past might have been devoid of stabbing, have deserted his candidacy in droves, suggesting that Republican voters viewed Carson\u2019s stabbing as a key part of his r\u00e9sum\u00e9.  <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a recent University of Minnesota poll showed that a full third of Carson supporters singled out \u201chis stabbing experience\u201d as a top reason for supporting him for the nation\u2019s highest office.  <\/p>\n<p>In Iowa, where Carson was the front-runner before the non-stabbing bombshell hit, voters like Carol Foyler, of Des Moines, expressed dismay and disillusionment that the retired doctor might have fabricated his stabbing exploits to make himself more appealing to Republican voters.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy should tell Uncle Token not to worry about this. Republican voters will soon realize that, were Uncle Token not sufficiently criminal to quench their blood lust, he would not be allowed in the 2016 Clown Car Destruction Derby.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/11\/04\/1444611\/-Harry-Reid-joyfully-stings-Kochs-and-Morning-Joe\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Harry Reid continued fully enjoying the fact that he&#8217;s retiring after this term and had a few words on the Senate floor on one of his favorite subjects: The Koch brothers. Riffing off of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/11\/03\/1441771\/-Kochs-to-Scarborough-Sure-we-re-trying-to-buy-government-but-it-s-for-all-the-right-reasons\" target=\"_blank\">really pathetic<\/a> Morning Joe interview with the brothers, Reid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/11\/harry-reid-koch-brothers-215510#ixzz3qY4Coqp6\">went to town<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Putting on his media critic hat, the Nevada Democrat mocked Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for what he sarcastically called a &#8220;really tough&#8221; interview with the billionaire brothers earlier this week on their popular MSNBC morning talk show.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>As he launched his anti-Koch broadside, Reid read excerpts of the brothers&#8217; &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; interview on the Senate floor\u2014including Scarborough&#8217;s inquiry on whether the Kochs got their &#8220;graciousness&#8221; in philanthropy from their mother, or Brzezinski asking them who was the better brother. [\u2026]  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow. Those were some really tough questions asked by the host of &#8216;Morning Joe.&#8217; That&#8217;s sufficient journalism,&#8221; Reid said Wednesday morning from the Senate floor. &#8220;Those questions are so easy, they may even qualify them to moderate the next Republican presidential debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Note that this is the same Morning Joe that we recently discussed, because of his whining over (nonexistent) left wing media bias. What a hypocrite!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1108All3Strikes\" 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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1108All3Strikes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1108All3Strikes.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m feeling pretty tired, because they&nbsp; woke me up at&nbsp; 2 AM to check my vitals.&nbsp; By the time I struggled to the edge of&nbsp; the bed to pee, I was too fully awake to go back to sleep.&nbsp; I finished the majority of the work needed to lo get the right software installed on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/08\/on-the-edge1182015\/' 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-17317","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\/17317","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=17317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}