{"id":17941,"date":"2015-12-02T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17941"},"modified":"2015-12-02T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:40:05","slug":"on-the-edge1222015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/on-the-edge1222015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge&ndash;12\/2\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I worked on recovering from a fall, both with and without George.&nbsp; Other than a mat-skinned knee, I was no worse for the wear, but I did learn that, when it happens in real life, I will have an easier time, if I remove George before trying to recover.&nbsp; Today, I think I\u2019ll be working on how to instruct a bystander to help me, if I have been pitched out of a wheelchair.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/11\/30\/1455437\/-This-is-how-Fox-News-create-ignorant-viewers\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>We often get upset at Fox News viewers for the alternate state of reality they generally live in. We shouldn\u2019t be. It is our civic duty to first understand how it is possible for them to see the world so differently than those who accept information from various sources.<\/p>\n<p>The video below is a classic example of how Fox News encourages one to allow themselves to be willfully ignorant. This is not restricted to conservative right-wing people, but to us all. To be clear, many Americans do very little reading of consequence and get most of their information from the mainstream broadcast media or the right-wing broadcast media like Fox News.  <\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x3g9ixs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x3g9ixs_this-is-how-fox-news-create-ignorant-viewers_news\" target=\"_blank\">This is how Fox News create ignorant viewers<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/ewillies\" target=\"_blank\">ewillies<\/a><\/i> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We already know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/21\/fox-news-viewers-less-informed-people-fairleigh-dickinson_n_1106305.html\" target=\"_blank\">people, who get their infoganda from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, are more poorly informed than people , who have no media access<\/a>.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/john-cassidy\/cop21-a-potluck-dinner-in-paris\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Now that the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/blog\/live\/2015\/nov\/30\/paris-climate-summit-world-leaders-meet-for-opening-day-live\">under way<\/a> in Paris, two main issues arise: Will an agreement to reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere be reached? And, if so, will it do any good? The answer to the first question is: almost certainly. The answer to the second question is: some, but not enough.  <\/p>\n<p>The good news is that, after more than twenty years of trying, the nations of the world are finally closing in on a deal that has the backing of all the major polluters. This much was clear from Monday\u2019s opening ceremony, which attracted a host of global leaders. If politicians like President Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi didn\u2019t think a positive outcome was likely, they wouldn\u2019t have made the trip.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is always possible that the negotiations, which are scheduled to last for nearly two weeks, will break down, as they did in 2009, when a similar meeting was held in Copenhagen. For at least two reasons, though, that seems unlikely.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for an extensive explanation. I hope that the agreement is something upon which we can build, before it is too late.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/02\/us\/politics\/as-obama-pushes-climate-deal-republicans-move-to-block-emissions-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Hours after President Obama pledged Tuesday in Paris that the United States would be in the vanguard of nations seeking a global response to climate change, Congress approved two measures aimed at undercutting him.  <\/p>\n<p>In a provocative message to more than 100 leaders that the American president does not have the full support of his government on climate policy, the House passed resolutions, already approved by the Senate, to scuttle Environmental Protection Agency rules that would significantly cut heat-trapping carbon emissions from existing and future coal-fired power plants.  <\/p>\n<p>The House votes \u2014 by 242 to 180 and 235 to 188, mostly along party lines \u2014 expanded to a global level the already profound gulf between Mr. Obama and the Republican-controlled Congress on domestic issues, demonstrating that the United States was hardly unified on the issue of climate change even as the president and other leaders sought to project solidarity.  <\/p>\n<p>The measures will be sent to the White House, where Mr. Obama has said he will veto them.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans, by trying to sabotage Obama&#8217;s rightful authority, are committing sedition, not just against the US, but against the entire world.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1202Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1202Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1202Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1202Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\"><\/a><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Compared to today&#8217;s Republicans, McCarthy was almost liberal.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I worked on recovering from a fall, both with and without George.&nbsp; Other than a mat-skinned knee, I was no worse for the wear, but I did learn that, when it happens in real life, I will have an easier time, if I remove George before trying to recover.&nbsp; Today, I think I\u2019ll be <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/on-the-edge1222015\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-17941","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\/17941","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=17941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}