{"id":17620,"date":"2015-11-19T15:02:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T23:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17620"},"modified":"2015-11-19T15:02:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T23:02:26","slug":"on-the-edge11192015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/on-the-edge11192015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge–11\/19\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

This will be my only post today.  I\u2019m taking it easy, because I\u2019m very tired.  Yesterday had it\u2019s high and low points.  It started well with me making three laps after breakfast.  After lunch the Occupational Therapist had me practice transfers from bed  to the portable commode and back.  That tired me out.  Then the Physical Therapist came and took me outside.  I took a lap around a circular path in an enclosed garden.  I enjoyed getting out and about, bur wheeling my fat ass and a heavy wheelchair uphill was excruciatingly difficult and exhausted me completely.  When I returned to my room, all the laxatives and stool softeners they have been giving me for Replicitis gave me acute Republicosis.  I made my third trip to the portable commode, since 2 AM.  However, I was so weak and tired that I almost fell, and pulled muscles in my good leg slightly.  Afterwards, I transferred back to bed.  I did not get up for supper, and had a special supper of binding foods.<\/font><\/p>\n

Today I feel much better, but my good leg is still sore, and my hands are very sore and stiff.  I did two  laps around the unit, and left the unit to go to an observation area, where I can see outside.  I took some pictures for you.  The surgical team removed the Xeroplast bandage from my donor site, which is almost healed.  After I returned to bed, a doctor came to put a stump shrinker on me.  It feels like I\u2019m getting electrical shocks on my nonexistent left foot.  I\u2019ll be getting up for lunch soon, and may have to finish this later.<\/font><\/p>\n

It\u2019s later.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a major foreign-policy announcement on Wednesday, the Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson unveiled a detailed plan to Google Syria.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Iowa, the retired neurosurgeon told an audience of supporters, \u201cAny responsible policy on Syria must begin with a fact-finding mission, and such a mission must begin with Googling.\u201d <\/p>\n

He said that \u201cGoogle holds the key\u201d to many questions about Syria. \u201cWhere is it? Who lives there? How many square miles is it? These are all things that have to be pinned down,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Carson, who leads several Republican Presidential polls, said that while his search for answers would start with Google, he would \u201cnot rule out\u201d seeking information at Wikipedia and beyond. \u201cNo Web site should be taken off the table at this time,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Sorry Andy. Interest in fact finding from anyone in the Clown Car, especially Uncle Token, is just not credible.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Okay so, here\u2019s the thing about Black Lives Matter (BLM):  When it comes to black people and the police, there is no question that the police act as judge, jury, and executioner. They kill with impunity. There is no accountability or redress. This is how it\u2019s been historically: The entire justice system appears to act in collusion with this, and structural racism (also known as white supremacy) has facilitated the ease of these attacks on a segment of the population that is a numerical minority. That is BLM\u2019s beef with law enforcement in a tiny nutshell. <\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s step outside of that nutshell for a moment. When you step outside of that lens, here is what you see: The police act as judge, jury and executioner with the population at large. They kill with impunity. There is no accountability. And the entire justice system appears to act in collusion with this. This horrible case out of Brunswick, Georgia, appears to bear this out. <\/p>\n

And when I say horrible, I mean horror-bull. <\/p>\n

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Click through for more disgusting details. Every community needs a Citizen Review Board with full investigative powers and the power to fire officers for cause.<\/font><\/p>\n

From PR Watch<\/a>: <\/font>The Center for Media and Democracy, a national watchdog group exposing corporate influence on democracy, has submitted evidence<\/a> to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman showing how Exxon Mobil has promoted climate change denial through the American Legislative Exchange Council<\/a> (ALEC). CMD believes this information is relevant to the landmark investigation into whether Exxon Mobil deceived its shareholders and the public about the impact that burning fossil fuels has on climate change.<\/p>\n

“Exxon Mobil has bankrolled ALEC for decades and has a seat on ALEC’s corporate board, as ALEC has plied legislators with disinformation and denial about climate change and pushed legislation and resolutions to block crucial federal and state efforts to address the climate crisis,” said Lisa Graves, Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice under both Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Janet Reno. <\/p>\n

CMD has identified at least $1,730,200 in funding from Exxon Mobil to ALEC between 1998 and 2014, based on publicly available disclosures, although the actual total is likely higher. CMD has documented Exxon funding for ALEC at least as early as 1981. <\/p>\n

This funding makes Exxon Mobil one of ALEC’s biggest financial supporters as ALEC has promoted legislation, resolutions, presentations, and publications seeking to stop efforts to address climate change, and has indoctrinated thousands of state legislators with the idea that “a great deal of scientific uncertainty” surrounds the science of climate change and that carbon emissions “may even be beneficial.” <\/p>\n

Schneiderman should file charges against both Exxon Mobil and ALEC, and prosecute them to extinction.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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

The view from the observation area:<\/font> <\/p>\n

\"1119EmmView\"<\/font> <\/p>\n

Me:<\/font> <\/p>\n

\"1119me\"<\/font> <\/p>\n

I ketched 2!!<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

\"1119Ketched2\"<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\n

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

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This will be my only post today.  I\u2019m taking it easy, because I\u2019m very tired.  Yesterday had it\u2019s high and low points.  It started well with me making three laps after breakfast.  After lunch the Occupational Therapist had me practice transfers from bed  to the portable commode and back.  That tired me out.  Then the […]<\/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-17620","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\/17620","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=17620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}