{"id":18108,"date":"2015-12-05T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18108"},"modified":"2015-12-05T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T17:58:00","slug":"on-the-edge1252015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/on-the-edge1252015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge–12\/5\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the hospital pulled a fast one on me.  Although they have told me that they will mot discharge me until my bed arrives later this month, my insurance decided that I can rent a bed, while waiting for my bed to arrive, so they are discharging me next week.  I\u2019m feeling a bit freaked, because there is so much I don\u2019t know how to do.  I\u2019m not confident that I\u2019m ready.  I may be intermittent over the next few days, as I attend to the details.  I\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A Missouri state representative has pre-filed a bill that would make it as difficult to buy a gun as it is to get an abortion. According to St. Louis Magazine<\/a>, Democratic State Rep. Stacey Newman\u2019s bill would \u201crequire anyone buying a gun to follow the restrictions required of women seeking abortions, including a 72-hour waiting period.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newman is a longtime advocate for common-sense gun laws, and also a pro-choice activist, which makes her a fish out of water in the predominantly right-wing-Republican Missouri legislature, where she is regularly subjected to jeers, sneers and outright insults. Still, she has courageously drafted House Bill 1397. <\/p>\n

Kudos to Stacey Newman! Click through for the details of her bill.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Only hours after news broke that a suspect in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., had a Muslim name, the well-practiced organizations that represent American Muslims to the broader public kicked into action, as they routinely do after each terrorist attack attributed to Muslim extremists. <\/p>\n

They issued news releases condemning the attacks as inhuman and un-Islamic, posted expressions of grief on Facebook and held news conferences in which Muslim leaders stood flanked by American flags alongside clergy of other faiths and law enforcement officials. <\/p>\n

\u201cGroups like ISIS and Al Qaeda,\u201d Salam al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said at a news conference<\/a> in Los Angeles on Thursday, \u201care trying to divide our society and to terrorize us. Our message to them is we will not be terrorized and we will not be intimidated,\u201d either by the terrorists or, he said, \u201cby hatemongers who exploit the fear and hysteria that results from incidents like this.\u201d <\/p>\n

But the message is apparently not getting through. Muslims and leaders of mosques across the United States say they are experiencing a wave of death threats, assaults and vandalism unlike anything they have experienced since the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. <\/p>\n

Authentic Muslims are not responsible for the terrorist acts of extremists , who twist Islam to suit their own hateful agendas, in the same way that authentic Christians are not responsible for the terrorist acts of Republicans, who twist Christianity to suit their own hateful agendas.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Cops Turn Off Body Cams Before Killing Man, Witnesses Watch Them Plant Gun and Drugs<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Witnesses say they watched in disbelief as cops killed a man, then planted a gun and drugs ‘within arms reach’ of his lifeless body. <\/p>\n

Click through. Another day, another murder committed by Republican racist police.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday the hospital pulled a fast one on me.  Although they have told me that they will mot discharge me until my bed arrives later this month, my insurance decided that I can rent a bed, while waiting for my bed to arrive, so they are discharging me next week.  I\u2019m feeling a bit freaked, […]<\/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-18108","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\/18108","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=18108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}