{"id":19436,"date":"2016-01-26T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T21:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19436"},"modified":"2016-01-26T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T21:15:14","slug":"open-thread1262016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/26\/open-thread1262016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/26\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I finally found a way to exchange my sharps.  I cannot use the Metro facility, because it is hazardous for people in wheelchairs.  The Lift bus won\u2019t wait for me.  Fortunately I found a private company that actually costs less than Metro, and they come right to my door.  Jeannie (shower-aide), just left, so I\u2019m a perfumed pussycat with shiny fur again.   Arvilla (PT) will be here within the hour.  She\u2019ll set-up my quad cane and work me out,  Tomorrow I hope to do part of the dreaded task, while Tracey (OT) checks me for safety.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 3:28 (average 5:32).  To do it click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The most hated man in America just gave another reason to be hated. As you know, there is a medical crisis going on in Michigan with every child in Flint potentially poisoned with lead<\/a>. People, especially the poor, are still desperate for clean water. Ted Cruz has entered to do the Christian thing and donate\u2014 <\/p>\n

But only for those<\/a> who work in ultra-right wing, fake pregnancy \u201ccrisis\u201d centers.<\/p>\n

Likely, none of Ted\u2019s water donation will get to the children who actually need the water<\/a>. That would require working with a real charity, like the Red Cross. Instead, Ted’s campaign is coordinating water donations through Flint Right to Life only to be delivered to the ideologically-aligned wingnuts who work at these awful anti-abortion centers.<\/p>\n

For those who don\u2019t know, pregnancy "crisis" centers are places run by pro-life extremists, which are designed to fool women into thinking they are actual medical facilities. Instead, pregnant woman are bombarded with fake information in an attempt to trick them out of having an abortion. The people who work at these centers have no qualms about lying, instilling fear, or encouraging women in abusive relationships to stay put<\/a> as long as there is no abortion.<\/p>\n

It should be no surprise that, even in so-called charity, Uranus Inspector, however you spell it, acts just like a Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>On Saturday, the Times reported<\/a> that the former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg \u201chas instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this year\u2019s presidential race.\u201d From one perspective, that isn\u2019t too surprising. The former mayor has long been eyeing a possible run at the White House, and there has been a lot of speculation about his intentions in 2016. Last week, a well-connected New York Republican told me that he thought Bloomberg would jump in if Donald Trump won the G.O.P. nomination.<\/p>\n

While third party candidates on the left hurt progressives and only help elect Republicans, right-wing third party candidates are a blessing to America. They help elect Democrats.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Nationwide blowback targeting Muslim places of worship has now reached South Milwaukee, Wisconsin–where a group calling itself the Christian Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) is aggressively opposing the construction of a new mosque.<\/p>\n

The religious facility–Masjid Al-Hudad–does not require prior approval from the city and has already acquired<\/a> the property on which it will be built.<\/p>\n

But that is not stopping the far-right, Christian fundamentalist group CCLU from mobilizing fierce opposition, including at a Common Council meeting last Tuesday.<\/p>\n

At the public meeting, CCLU member Bob Braun issued an unclear–but highly alarming–warning. "There’s going to be, I predict, bloodshed one of these years coming up," he said, according to<\/a> local media.<\/p>\n

Here we have one more in the long list of examples of Republican domestic terrorism.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"0126Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

Vulture Capitalism is the Republican way!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I finally found a way to exchange my sharps.  I cannot use the Metro facility, because it is hazardous for people in wheelchairs.  The Lift bus won\u2019t wait for me.  Fortunately I found a private company that actually costs less than Metro, and they come right to my door.  Jeannie (shower-aide), just left, so […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19436","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=19436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}