{"id":17820,"date":"2015-11-28T10:51:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T18:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17820"},"modified":"2015-11-28T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T18:51:46","slug":"on-the-edge11282015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/28\/on-the-edge11282015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge–11\/28\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday OT worked with me on how to take a shower.  I didn’t mind too much. \"Winking  Then PT had me walking with my prosthetic leg.  Today I plan a lazy day, except for whatever OT and PT have in mind.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Carolyn Bouchard, a diabetic with a slowly healing shoulder fracture, hurried to see her doctor after Matt Bevin was elected governor<\/a> here this month.<\/p>\n

Ms. Bouchard, 60, said she was sick of politics and had not bothered voting. But she knew enough about Mr. Bevin, a conservative Republican who rails against the Affordable Care Act, to be nervous about the Medicaid coverage she gained under the law last year. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018Before my insurance changes, I\u2019d better go in,\u2019 \u201d she said as she waited at Family Health Centers, a community clinic here. <\/p>\n

Over the last few years, Kentucky captured the nation\u2019s attention as the only Southern state to wholly embrace the health care law, most significantly by expanding Medicaid<\/a> in 2014 to cover an additional 425,000 people so far. Now, with Mr. Bevin promising<\/a> to \u201crepeal the expansion as it currently exists,\u201d Kentucky may become a laboratory for the kind of rollback that the law\u2019s opponents have so far only dreamed of. <\/p>\n

I feel sorry for the people of Kentucky, but not for Ms. Bouchard. People who don’t bother to vote deserve the deprivations that Republican rule invariably brings.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From NBC New York<\/a>: <\/font>Even before the deadly standoff at a Colorado Planned Parenthood was over, messages of support poured in for the health care provider, which itself released a message that was defiant in the face of violence. <\/p>\n

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted “Today and every day, we #StandWithPP” after shooting broke out at the health center in Colorado Springs, in which police said a gunman killed three people and wounded nine before giving himself up at about 7 p.m. ET. <\/p>\n

Supermodel Chrissy Teigen asked her million Twitter followers to follow her lead and donate to the organization<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It wasn’t immediately clear if Planned Parenthood was the target of an attack or if gunfire erupted there for another reason. Authorities repeatedly said Friday it was too early to determine a motive or whether the shooter had any connection to Planned Parenthood. <\/p>\n

“We don’t have any information on this individual’s mentality, or his ideas or ideology,” Colorado Springs Police Lt. Catherine Buckley said. <\/p>\n

But Planned Parenthood has been attacked before \u2014 a clinic was set on fire this year in Washington State \u2013 and has long been the subject of protests for providing women with access to abortions. <\/p>\n

The head of Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains released a statement<\/a> on the national organization’s website Friday afternoon saying that the group will never stop doing its work. <\/p>\n

I’m sure I’ll have more to say about this when more information is available. In the meantime, like Bernie and Hillary, I stand with Planned Parenthood. I’d bet that the perpetrator comes from the pseudo-Christian version of the Daesh: the rabid Republican base.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>:<\/font>The white supremacists who showed up to a Black Lives Matter protest Monday night in Minneapolis and shot five African-American participants were not there just by coincidence. <\/p>\n

As more facts emerge in the case, it\u2019s now beginning to appear that not only was the attack a carefully planned attempt to disrupt the demonstration, but the men who participated in the shootings had been radicalized in the course of conversing on websites and in chatrooms where racist and other far-right extremist ideology flourishes. Indeed, the men began networking in real life as a result of their Internet hatemongering. <\/p>\n

See the Republicans hate! Hate! Hate!! Hate!!! Barf Bag Alert!!!!<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\n