Today I plan to dress in human clothes and explore the public areas on the first floor of the hospital. Of course, that assumes that PT and or OT does not get here first and exhaust me.
Continuing much later, I did explore. Then the prosthetic people came. Surprise!! New leg tomorrow. Then PT came and worked me. Then OT came and worked me. I’m exhausted.
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Warning: Proprietors are not responsible for reader aneurisms caused by the following sentence.
Sarah Palin takes to Facebook to say Jesus likes guns. [Dingbat delinked]
JESUS WOULD FIGHT FOR OUR SECOND AMENDMENT
Taking concrete defense measures (ie. arming ourselves) away from the good guys? Yeah… that… we don’t want that. As this hilarious parody says, “…it will really suck when only the bad guys have guns.”
Let us not forget that Bloody Bullseye Barbie is the Republican who painted a bullseye on Gabby Giffords’ HQ shortly before she was shot. Jesus would take a coil of rope to drive out Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, today’s Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes and money Lenders.
From NY Times: Planned Parenthood sued Texas officials in federal court in Austin on Monday, seeking to block the state from cutting off its Medicaid funding, the latest in a series of lawsuits it has filed against Republican-led states after the controversy over its use of fetal tissue.
Texas and a handful of other states — including Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana — have moved to eliminate Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood amid the controversy. Secretly recorded videos that were released starting in July purported to show Planned Parenthood officials trying to illegally profit from the sale of aborted fetal tissue and discussing the issue with abortion opponents who posed as representatives of a biomedical firm.
Planned Parenthood said that the videos were deceptively edited and that the group did not do anything illegal or unethical. Its officials said the state’s decision to eliminate the group’s Medicaid funding, set to take effect as early as Dec. 8, was politically motivated and without merit.
The nonprofit organization’s lawsuit alleges that Texas violated federal law and the so-called Medicaid freedom of choice provision, which allows those enrolled in Medicaid to seek services from a qualified provider of their choice. The lawsuit also accuses Texas officials of singling out Planned Parenthood for “unfavorable treatment without adequate justification,” a violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.
The author is sacrificing truth for balance. The tapes were “edited”. Planned Parented makes tissue donations only with the consent of the patients. Reimbursements to Planned Parenthood only covered the cost of making the tissue donations, but there was never profit. As of 10/15, Planned Parenthood makes tissue donations with no reimbursement whatsoever. The Republican War on Women is still with us.
From Alternet: It’s that time of year again. Time for stuffing one’s face with delicious food while re-connecting with drunk aunts, racist uncles, and disappointed parents. Luckily, since 1981 the folks at Butterball have had a hotline for tips on cooking turkey to make the holidays run just a little smoother. Late Show host Stephen Colbert decided to take this goodwill and troll the hotline because, why not?
Why don’t we leave the poor Turkeys alone. Instead, lets stuff and roast Republicans!!
Cartoon:
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Thanks for Colbert. Glad you were up to your exploration and prothesis portion of plans is proving so speedy!
Why is Palin even worth mentioning by the media any more?
PP's case sounds filled with merit-I hope they prevail.
Yup–morphing from origins that does not increase function and ability to survive/function is devolution.
Well, that must have been fun. Human clothes and exploring! Of course you are exhausted now, but hopefully at least SOME of getting there was fun.
DKos – She is the only Barbie worse than Hello Barbie – the doll that spies on your kid, sending conversations to Mattel so they can target her (we'll assume it's a her) for other products. I am NOT making this up. Hello Barbie got my vote for the TOADY award from the CCFC, beating out the Bratz selfie stick (for your little Kardashian) and the – I forget the name – but it's like a drone you can send aroung the neighborhood to spy. Of course that was just my vote. Voting is still going on, feel free to jump in. http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/action/2015-toady-awards
NY Times – The Republican War on Women will always be with us. I wish PP all the best in cleaning off this disgucting slime. Of course, as we know from President Obama's birth certificate, there are some people who will believe anything forever, regardless of evidence.
AlterNet – One restaurant here is building turduckhens that you can take home and roast yourself. Stuffed with andouille sausage. A heart attack or stroke in the making. Compared to that, a tofurkey would sound pretty good, if I weren't allergic to soy. I'm planning lamb chops myself.
The biggest problem, it seems to me, is that in the holidays we may be thrown together with Republican relatives. However, this year, not one but two organizations are making available survival guides to help us talk with them. One is from the Democratic Party: http://www.yourrepublicanuncle.com/ The other is from Media Matters, which asked in advance what we little people wanted included and updated in order to give it to us: http://action.mediamatters.org/thanksgiving-survival-guide-2015 Good luck, everyone.
Daily Kos — Sister Sarah really does need a good dictionary so that she can look up the term "good guys". She definitely does not qualify! It amazes me that anyone takes her seriously! She is . . . oh never mind, my BP is going up!
NY Times — I hope that PP kicks some Texas butt, big time! The War on Women never stopped!
Alternet — The only turkey I want to roast is a Republican turkey . . . tough, tasteless, and useless! We have already roasted a Harper turkey!
Cartoon — Devolved indeed!
Real clothes! Will that affect your ability to catch a nurse? Those hospital gowns with their open backs can be quite an enticement.
Glad you were able to get out and see more of the world.
I got here late, so I will get to the rest of it tomorrow, but Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman ("Go and convert Jews, as the Rapture is right around the corne!r") seem to be copmeting to grab the Bonzo Bozo prize right out of Dr. Ben's hands!
So HAPPY to hear you got a spin around the facility in REAL human clothing! That must've felt weird after all the time in a hospital gown. I have had extended stays in the hospital, not as long as you have, and getting in to clothes to go out in the public felt like crap! I thought I would love it, but it just made me more sore and cranky after all the fuss to get in and out of them! And then to be man-handled for PT and OT AND the prosthetic bunch had to be VERY tiring for you! Bless your heart!
Glad there was a warning before I read that Frozen Barbie post! She is REALLY stretching it to try to be relavent in this election! Bah! What does she think she is? A Kardashian?
Great video of Stephen Colbert! Loved it ALWAYS!
Hope you are resting well!!
Pretty much proves that the "Looney Tunes" Barrel for Rethuglicans is a bottomless pit.
Glad you got to go exploring.
Daily Kos: She can probably see Jesus from her back yard, too.
NY Times: I hope Planned Parenthood wins. That video has done them so much damage, and no retraction has been made. I know people who insist to me that it was not edited, and they firmly believe that.
Alternet: Colbert is always so funny. My sister is cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year, woo hoo. I have been doing that job for 50 years, having missed it only twice. She is not happy.
Sorry I'm late, got company coming in for a few days here. Bring it on. 😉
DK: I also believe, that if Sarah Palin asked Jesus real nice like, he'd tell her to 'shut up' too.
NYT: Hope PP wins big!!
AlterNet: Colbert is hilarious!
*Joanne, definitely looking up your links. I think I'm going to need it. SNL did a skit on Thanksgiving dinner.
Link here:
"A Thanksgiving Miracle"
http://www.someecards.com/entertainment/music/adele-instagram-snl-reaction/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2zyjbH9zzA
TC, so glad to read of you getting your new prosthetic. Now, you'll have a chance to up your traveling the halls, and helping the nurses. lol. Take care, and have a good day, Thanks, TC.
Thanks all. Hugs. Rushing in anticipation of a very busy day.
Wow, things are going fast, TomCat. Back in your civies, exploring your surroundings, a new leg tomorrow and both the PT and OT working you… Do you get the impression they're trying to get rid of you as fast as possible 😉
Daily Kos: Well, we hadn't heard from Palin for a while and she was slipping into oblivion, so she had to come up with 'a good one'. You know I don't know all that much about the bible, but I was under the impression Jesus was a pacifist, but bible-thumper Palin would know better of course: he loves guns and would fight – with one?- for his right to defend himself. And Trump will certainly agree with her and add that if Jesus had a gun back then, he wouldn't have died on the cross. Sorry, getting blasphemous perhaps, but evangelical Palin drives even me crazy with her drivel.
NY Times: So PP has finally decided to sue Texas officials, excellent. The longer they leave it, the further the lies spread; there's just no other way of stopping them. Thank you for the additional information on tissue donations, TomCat, it's very sad that the NY Times felt compelled to muck around with the truth for the sake of balance where there was no balance to be found.
Alternet: No Thanksgiving for me, but thanks for the Stephen Corbet videos any way, I thoroughly enjoyed them!
Cartoon: Yup.