I just got back to bed after eating breakfast in a wheel chair and taking a hunting trip a around the unit. I couldn’t ketch one today either. 
I’m hoping OT comes today so I can mount the porcelain throne to Republicate.
Short Takes:
From KPTV: In a unanimous vote Thursday, the Portland City Council passed a resolution opposing any project that increases the transportation or storage of fossil fuels in Portland.
Now, city workers will develop rules that move Portland away from projects that involve coal or oil.
Furthermore they recently passed a measure banning explosive oil trains from the city. Oregon leads the way.
From Daily Kos: That Ben Carson gets awfully creative with the truth is by now well established. Here’s one if his more interesting ones, that Medicare and Medicaid fraud is “huge—half a trillion dollars.” Which is pretty much impossible, since total spending for the two programs is less than a trillion—$980 billion last year, to be exact. But here’s a new wrinkle on that specific claim: Carson has some very personal experience with Medicare fraud: his best friend and business partner has been convicted of it.
The friend in question, indeed Carson’s best friend and business partner, is a Philadelphia-area oral surgeon, Alfonso Costa.
Carson and Costa have long been tight. They vacation together, and Carson holidays at an Italian resort villa owned by Costa’s company. Costa is president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Ben Carson Scholars Fund, which awards $1,000 college scholarships to students who demonstrate good character and strong academics. And Costa’s real estate development firm helps to oversee a lucrative investment for Carson and his wife, one that last year netted the Carsons between $200,000 and $2 million, according to the GOP candidate’s financial disclosure forms.
As much as a quarter of Carson’s $8 million-plus personal wealth is tied up in various real estate ventures with Costa.
Why am I not surprised? If uncle Token weren’t a criminal, he wouldn’t be a Republican!
From NY Times: The Paris area reeled Friday night from a shooting rampage, explosions and mass hostage-taking that President François Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack on France. His government announced sharply increased border controls and heightened police powers as it mobilized the military in a national emergency.
French television and news services quoted the police as saying that around 100 people had been killed at a concert site where hostages had been held during a two-hour standoff with the police, and that perhaps dozens of others had been killed in apparently coordinated attacks outside the country’s main sports stadium and four other popular locations in the city. But estimates on the total number of dead varied.
Witnesses on French television said the scene at the concert hall, which can seat as many as 1,500 people, was a massacre, describing how gunmen with automatic weapons shot bursts of bullets into the crowd.
This is tragic. I’m sending thoughts and prayers to the survivors, the victims families, all who love them. However you connect with the infinite, please join me.
Cartoon:
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KTPV: Kudos to Oregon. I hope more states adopt this!
Daily Kos: WoW! If anybody else had done the 'sneaky snake dance' they'd be in prison, with a long sentence.
NYer: Unbelievable, horrific, and so very, very sad. The Daily Kos wrote an article today,
"I am So Thankful to have Obama in the White House Today". The link is here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/14/1449883/-I-Am-So-Thankful-To-Have-Obama-In-The-White-House-Today
I have a heavy heart for the people of France, such a tragedy.
You sound like you're on the rebound…glad to read that you are out and about in your unit. Take good care, and Thanks, TC.
Thanks for the DK link, very insightful post.
I have joined you TC–tragic.
Carson and Costa are not a team to inspire trust.
Portland deserves major kudos.
I hope your OT is in time for you, too.
KPTV – Good for Portland! Yes, Oregon leads the way.
DKos – And he doesn't even have the elementary smarts to pick an area he isn't pesonally profiting from. /good Gad. Well, it does shed light on how smart you have to be , or not, to be a brain surgeon. Someone in a medical school pointed out you can teach ANYBODY to do a procedure. I know there are some really smart doctors (and various levels of nurses) out there, it's just that he isn't one of them.
NYTimes – You are joined.
Cartoon – Yup. 🙂
Don't cha know, TC. Men do the hunting but women do the catching.
Que Dieu Bénisse Tous en France
(God Bless All in France)
KPTV — Could you send some of that backbone and determination noth of the 49th please? There are plans afloat to increse the size of the Delta coalport. Likewise though, there are also petitions and protests against it. From what I understand, some of the coal travelling by train to the coalport would be US coal.
Daily Kos — Carson is the "do what I say, not what I do" guy. He is the poster boy for projection and creative commentary.
NY Times — Indeed, there are candles lit all over France and one in my den in memory of those killed and their families, to the survivors, and the country as a whole.
Cartoon — Ain't that the truth!
To republicate, or not republicate, that is the question: Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer The aches and pains of outrageous gas, Or to take kaopectate against a sea of nausea, And by opposing, end it.
Hope the nurse arrived quickly!
I hope OT came, wish I were as witty as Lynn!
KPTV: Good for Portland and Oregon! Still thinking about moving west.
Daily Kos: Not surprised that he is involved with a crook. He has told so many lies about himself that he cannot remember what he has said. I feel sorry for anyone who had him for a surgeon.
NY Times: Yet another senseless tragedy. Sometimes it seems our world is imploding. I fear for the future of my granddaughter.
Cartoon: Love it.
Sounds like you're getting the hang of riding your wheel chair, TomCat. Soon the nurses need to barricade themselves for a peaceful moment, I suspect. It's good to hear Republicating is cheering you up too. Happy hunting.
KPTV: Three cheers for Oregon, it's indeed leading the way!
Daily Kos: If journalists would put some effort to it, they would find a lot more going on in Ben Carson's life that can't stand the light of day, I'm sure. His close liaison with friend and business partner Costa who has been convicted for Medicare fraud is only the top of the iceberg. Carson's immense stupidity will be his downfall: every time he lies or makes up some numbers like this trillion dollar Medicare/Medicaid fraud that far surpasses its total expenditure, people will start fact checking and then digging to make his lies even more atrocious. I just hope he is digging his grave really fast, because his inane assertions are hard to listen to.
NY Times: This terrorist attack has keeping all of us here in Europe in it's grip over the weekend, as you may understand, because not only was the bloodbath horrific, but the disgusting hate emanating from the Right in France and elsewhere in Europe, drowning out the grief of the bereaved and the efforts to stand in unison against terrorism, is equally disgusting.
Thanks all. Lousy day. Hugs