{"id":17502,"date":"2015-11-14T14:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T22:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17502"},"modified":"2015-11-14T14:12:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T22:12:55","slug":"on-the-edge11142015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/14\/on-the-edge11142015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge–11\/14\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got back to bed after eating breakfast in a wheel chair and taking a hunting trip a around the unit.  I couldn\u2019t ketch one today either.  \"Smile    I\u2019m hoping OT comes today so I can mount the porcelain throne to Republicate.<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From KPTV<\/a>: <\/font>In a unanimous vote Thursday, the Portland City Council passed a resolution opposing any project that increases the transportation or storage of fossil fuels in Portland.<\/p>\n

Now, city workers will develop rules that move Portland away from projects that involve coal or oil. <\/p>\n

Furthermore they recently passed a measure banning explosive oil trains from the city. Oregon leads the way.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>That Ben Carson gets awfully creative with the truth is by now well established. Here’s one if his more interesting ones<\/a>, that Medicare and Medicaid fraud  is “huge\u2014half a trillion dollars.” Which is pretty much impossible, since total spending for the two programs is less than a trillion\u2014$980 billion last year, to be exact. But here’s a new wrinkle on that specific claim: Carson has some very personal experience<\/a> with Medicare fraud: his best friend and business partner has been convicted of it. <\/p>\n

The friend in question, indeed Carson’s best friend and business partner, is a Philadelphia-area oral surgeon, Alfonso Costa.  <\/p>\n

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Carson and Costa have long been tight. They vacation together, and Carson holidays at an Italian resort villa owned by Costa’s company. Costa is president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Ben Carson Scholars Fund, which awards $1,000 college scholarships to students who demonstrate good character and strong academics. And Costa’s real estate development firm helps to oversee a lucrative investment for Carson and his wife, one that last year netted the Carsons between $200,000 and $2 million, according to the GOP candidate’s financial disclosure forms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As much as a quarter of Carson’s $8 million-plus personal wealth is tied up in various real estate ventures with Costa. <\/p>\n

Why am I not surprised? If uncle Token weren’t a criminal, he wouldn’t be a Republican!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Paris area reeled Friday night from a shooting rampage<\/a>, explosions and mass hostage-taking that President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande<\/a> called an unprecedented terrorist attack on France. His government announced sharply increased border controls and heightened police powers as it mobilized the military in a national emergency. <\/p>\n

French television and news services quoted the police as saying that around 100 people had been killed at a concert site<\/a> where hostages had been held during a two-hour standoff with the police, and that perhaps dozens of others had been killed in apparently coordinated attacks<\/a> outside the country\u2019s main sports stadium and four other popular locations in the city. But estimates on the total number of dead varied. <\/p>\n

Witnesses on French television said the scene at the concert hall, which can seat as many as 1,500 people, was a massacre, describing how gunmen with automatic weapons shot bursts of bullets into the crowd. <\/p>\n

This is tragic. I’m sending thoughts and prayers to the survivors, the victims families, all who love them. However you connect with the infinite, please join me.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font> <\/p>\n

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I just got back to bed after eating breakfast in a wheel chair and taking a hunting trip a around the unit.  I couldn\u2019t ketch one today either.      I\u2019m hoping OT comes today so I can mount the porcelain throne to Republicate. Short Takes: From KPTV: In a unanimous vote Thursday, the Portland City […]<\/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-17502","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\/17502","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=17502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}