{"id":18170,"date":"2015-12-07T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18170"},"modified":"2015-12-07T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T17:22:44","slug":"on-the-edge1272015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/on-the-edge1272015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge&ndash;12\/7\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Because I expect a very busy day today, preparing to return home on Wednesday, this is my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1206Broncos17-Chargers3\" 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=\"1206Broncos17-Chargers3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1206Broncos17-Chargers3.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/obama-speech-heavily-criticized-by-people-with-no-better-ideas\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Moments after its conclusion on Sunday night, President Obama\u2019s speech about combating ISIS came under heavy criticism from people with zero better ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s proposals, ranging from coalition air strikes against ISIS to beefing up intelligence about potential terrorists, were blasted for being \u201cnothing new,\u201d with the harshest criticism coming from people with nothing new.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was incredibly frustrated hearing the President say he would destroy ISIS,\u201d New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told CNN. \u201cISIS needs to be obliterated.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Texas Sen. Ted Cruz shared Christie\u2019s scathing assessment of Obama\u2019s speech. \u201cThe President seems to think that ISIS will go away just by us bombing them,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cIf I am President, I will bomb them so hard that will feel like they have been triple-bombed.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy is reporting straight news again. \ud83d\ude09<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NSKsnJVznNg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NSKsnJVznNg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click here for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/12\/6\/9857270\/obama-speech-address-transcript-san-bernardino-isis\" target=\"_blank\">transcript of Obama\u2019s speech<\/a>.&nbsp; Your thoughts?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/07\/world\/europe\/trust-and-money-at-core-of-crucial-paris-talks-on-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The international climate change negotiations entering their second and final week encompass a vast and complicated array of political, economic and legal questions. But at bottom, the talks boil down to two issues: trust and money.<\/p>\n<p>In this global forum, no one questions the established science that greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels are warming the planet \u2014 or that both developed and developing economies must all eventually lower their greenhouse emissions to stave off a future that could wreak havoc on the world\u2019s safety and economic stability.  <\/p>\n<p>In a major breakthrough, 184 governments have already submitted plans detailing how they will cut their domestic emissions after 2020.  <\/p>\n<p>Those pledges are expected to make up the core of a new accord, which could be signed next weekend. The agreement is also expected to require countries to return to the table at least once every 10 years with even more stringent emissions reduction pledges.  <\/p>\n<p>But can those governments be trusted to do what they say they will do?  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans are committing sedition to make the international community believe that the US cannot be trusted to keep our word.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1207Cartoon\" 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=\"1207Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1207Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\"><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">64 years later, the Republican Party is repeating the attack.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I expect a very busy day today, preparing to return home on Wednesday, this is my only article today. Religious Ecstasy: Short Takes: From The New Yorker: Moments after its conclusion on Sunday night, President Obama\u2019s speech about combating ISIS came under heavy criticism from people with zero better ideas. The President\u2019s proposals, ranging <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/on-the-edge1272015\/' 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-18170","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\/18170","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=18170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}