{"id":17586,"date":"2015-11-17T11:08:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17586"},"modified":"2015-11-17T11:08:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:08:18","slug":"on-the-edge11172015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/on-the-edge11172015\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Edge–11\/17\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a much better day.  I made four laps around the unit.  My previous high was one lap.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Washington Post<\/a> (<\/font>Thanks to Judi Angel {aka JL A} for bringing the issue to my attention.): <\/font>The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that it will review whether Virginia lawmakers improperly packed minority voters into one congressional district at the expense of their influence elsewhere in the state.<\/p>\n

The court will consider whether earlier court decisions that ruled the districts invalid were correct. A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia has twice invalidated the boundaries of a snake-like district that stretches<\/a> from Richmond southeast to Norfolk \u2014 and ordered lawmakers to redraw the election map. <\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s action represents a small victory for Virginia House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) and Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-James City), whose chambers would draw up the boundaries. Republicans had insisted on letting appeals play out before they abided by the order in case the high court intervened, as it did Friday. <\/p>\n

There are two downsides to this. The first is that the Republican Reich can disobey the District Court decision until SCOTUS decides, which could be as late as the first Monday in October. The Second is the fascist five Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD). This case is so obvious that I suspect SCROTUS will decide correctly but too late to implement the decision before the 2016 election.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Chris Whipple has written a story<\/a> at Politico offering a long teaser of the upcoming Showtime documentary The Spymasters<\/a>. He and two colleagues spent more than a hundred hours interviewing the 12 living CIA directors, with considerable focus on the 9\/11 attacks. Although the overall picture of failure by the administration to prevent the attacks has long been known, the story and documentary provide some added details. The key detail is that the warnings the Bush White House received from the CIA in the summer of 2001 were a lot more chilling than the infamous August 6 presidential daily brief<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Click through for more. Perhaps this is because both the Bush and Bin Laden families made a bundle by short selling the companies hardest hit financially. They did this through a wholly owned subsidiary of the Carlyle Group.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>On Sunday\u2019s edition of \u201cMeet the Press<\/a>,\u201d Jeb Bush said that it was time for the United States to go to war with ISIS, and to put together an international coalition to rout the jihadis from their strongholds in Syria and Iraq. \u201cWe should declare war and harness all of the power that the United States can bring to bear, both diplomatic and military of course, to be able to take out ISIS,\u201d Bush, who is trailing badly in the G.O.P. Presidential polls, said. \u201cWe have the capabilities of doing this, we just haven\u2019t shown the will.\u201d <\/p>\n

InsaniTEA! If Strike Three is elected, we’re out.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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

\"1117Cartoon\" <\/p>\n

Place your bets!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a much better day.  I made four laps around the unit.  My previous high was one lap. Short Takes: From Washington Post (Thanks to Judi Angel {aka JL A} for bringing the issue to my attention.): The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that it will review whether Virginia lawmakers improperly packed minority voters […]<\/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-17586","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\/17586","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=17586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}