{"id":17919,"date":"2015-12-01T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17919"},"modified":"2015-12-01T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:47:31","slug":"on-the-edge1212015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/on-the-edge1212015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge–12\/1\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another month has arrived,  and I\u2019m enjoying the thought that the next time I begin a month, I will do so from home.  Yesterday George and walked the furthest we have to date.  Today, the plan is learning to get back up after a fall.  I received a care package from Judi today.  Somehow I get the feeling my blood sugar might become a bit elevated!! \"Smile<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Calling criticism of her misrepresentations about Planned Parenthood \u201ctypical left-wing tactics,\u201d the Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said, on Sunday, \u201cI will not be bullied into telling the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Appearing on \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. denied that spreading misinformation about Planned Parenthood was \u201cin any way incendiary,\u201d but added, \u201cWhat is truly incendiary is demanding that someone who is seeking the highest office in the land stop lying.\u201d <\/p>\n

Fiorina noted that many of her rivals for the Republican nomination\u2014including Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Ted Cruz\u2014had successfully used lying as a key element of their campaign strategies. \u201cAll I am trying to do is level the playing field,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Andy is spot-on about Crazy Carly!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Once again, the people who watch Fox News are demonstrating their appalling lack of decency and, ironically in this case, respect for human life. News reports about an active shooter situation at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs are still somewhat vague as to the shooter’s motives and the status of victims. There are confirmed reports of police officers wounded by gunfire, and citizens are virtually trapped in nearby shops as they await a conclusion. <\/p>\n

In the heat of this live crisis the Fox News website is hosting some of the most nauseating responses imaginable. [Faux Noise delinked<\/em>].  They run the gamut of hateful rhetoric from anti-choice extremism (“Too bad the abortion doctor and the nursing staff weren’t all killed.”) to overt racism (“I know this isn’t PC….but n***gers are just plain bad news.”). Never mind that there is little information about the shooter or his motives (he has been identified in one report as a white male), the Fox News audience is focused entirely on their inbred hostilities toward minorities, women, and President Obama, whom some are accusing of setting this up. <\/p>\n

\"1201FauxComments\" <\/p>\n

This typifies today’s Republican Party!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Muslim Cab Driver Shot by Passenger Ranting About ISIS Terrorists<\/strong> <\/p>\n

A bizarre conversation in a cab leads to tragic violence. <\/p>\n

Click through for the whole story. Here we have another example of Republican terrorism.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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Another month has arrived,  and I\u2019m enjoying the thought that the next time I begin a month, I will do so from home.  Yesterday George and walked the furthest we have to date.  Today, the plan is learning to get back up after a fall.  I received a care package from Judi today.  Somehow I […]<\/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-17919","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\/17919","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=17919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}