Yesterday OT worked with me on how to take a shower. I didn’t mind too much. 
Then PT had me walking with my prosthetic leg. Today I plan a lazy day, except for whatever OT and PT have in mind.
Short Takes:
From NY Times: Carolyn Bouchard, a diabetic with a slowly healing shoulder fracture, hurried to see her doctor after Matt Bevin was elected governor here this month.
Ms. Bouchard, 60, said she was sick of politics and had not bothered voting. But she knew enough about Mr. Bevin, a conservative Republican who rails against the Affordable Care Act, to be nervous about the Medicaid coverage she gained under the law last year.
“I thought, ‘Before my insurance changes, I’d better go in,’ ” she said as she waited at Family Health Centers, a community clinic here.
Over the last few years, Kentucky captured the nation’s attention as the only Southern state to wholly embrace the health care law, most significantly by expanding Medicaid in 2014 to cover an additional 425,000 people so far. Now, with Mr. Bevin promising to “repeal the expansion as it currently exists,” Kentucky may become a laboratory for the kind of rollback that the law’s opponents have so far only dreamed of.
I feel sorry for the people of Kentucky, but not for Ms. Bouchard. People who don’t bother to vote deserve the deprivations that Republican rule invariably brings.
From NBC New York: Even before the deadly standoff at a Colorado Planned Parenthood was over, messages of support poured in for the health care provider, which itself released a message that was defiant in the face of violence.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted “Today and every day, we #StandWithPP” after shooting broke out at the health center in Colorado Springs, in which police said a gunman killed three people and wounded nine before giving himself up at about 7 p.m. ET.
Supermodel Chrissy Teigen asked her million Twitter followers to follow her lead and donate to the organization.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Planned Parenthood was the target of an attack or if gunfire erupted there for another reason. Authorities repeatedly said Friday it was too early to determine a motive or whether the shooter had any connection to Planned Parenthood.
“We don’t have any information on this individual’s mentality, or his ideas or ideology,” Colorado Springs Police Lt. Catherine Buckley said.
But Planned Parenthood has been attacked before — a clinic was set on fire this year in Washington State – and has long been the subject of protests for providing women with access to abortions.
The head of Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains released a statement on the national organization’s website Friday afternoon saying that the group will never stop doing its work.
I’m sure I’ll have more to say about this when more information is available. In the meantime, like Bernie and Hillary, I stand with Planned Parenthood. I’d bet that the perpetrator comes from the pseudo-Christian version of the Daesh: the rabid Republican base.
From Alternet:The white supremacists who showed up to a Black Lives Matter protest Monday night in Minneapolis and shot five African-American participants were not there just by coincidence.
As more facts emerge in the case, it’s now beginning to appear that not only was the attack a carefully planned attempt to disrupt the demonstration, but the men who participated in the shootings had been radicalized in the course of conversing on websites and in chatrooms where racist and other far-right extremist ideology flourishes. Indeed, the men began networking in real life as a result of their Internet hatemongering.
See the Republicans hate! Hate! Hate!! Hate!!! Barf Bag Alert!!!!
The safety of the American people is far more threatened by Republican Party terrorism than it is by the Daesh.
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NBC: Please se my Care 2 petition about having congress call out the domestic terrorists attacking PP as a Christian based jihad, using the very same tactics as ISIS:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/181/691/652/call-on-congress-to-out-the-christian-jihadists/
Even if this putz was not motivated by right-wingnut Christianity, others have been, and it is NOT enough for congress, and others to say "Our thoughts and prayers are with you," and then go about with business as usual!
White supremacists are doing very similar things, have been for centuries, often with blessings from the pseudo-Christians, in cloth, or not!
Thanks, Mitch
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
Signed!
Thanks for providing one of the faces harmed by GOP proposals to get rid of ACA while also, perhaps, one whose voting style explains choices against self interest.
The beginnings of the backstory of the suspect in Colorado Springs are emerging:
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/5-things-know-about-robert-lewis-dear-planned-pare/npXzS/
One report mentioned a twig cross on the wall in his isolated cabin before he moved to Colorado. Yet it describes the life of a loner seemingly unlikely to spend time connecting on the web or following news. A past DV charge indicates some past family or cohabitation of some kind. Police have located a home in Colorado which may tell more of a story of why than his prior life seems to. I find myself wondering, given his age, whether the VA might have failed him, or other shredded safety nets given the description of that cabin. In any event, he's emerging as someone who might not have passed muster on mental health grounds for gun ownership if we had such requirements.
I've been following the Minneapolis story with Joanne–it is a more progressive political place than many and the protesters have stayed there round the clock in freezing tempertures and include some of the less radical reputation organizations (e.g., NAACP). The mayor and the governor initiated requests for state and federal investigations pretty quickly. It is truly frightening that a group believed they had the right mask themselves and incite violence to make a bad situation worse. Also disturbing the reports of racism associated with leadership in the local police union…when did this become OK and seemingly safe again?
All examples of how the public in the US are at greater risk from home-grown situations than any foreign terrorists.
Sorry about your sandwich…
Petition regarding the white supremacists in Minneapolis:
http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/president-obama-white-supremacist-violence-minneapolis/?t=1&akid=5097.354286.AsfL_W
From Colorado Public Radio: http://www.cpr.org/news/npr-story/planned-parenthood-shooting-suspect-robert-lewis-dear-appear-court-monday
Color of Change petition signed, thanks.
You are welcome–thanks for the link
Sounds like the ladies are keeping you very busy, TomCat, and that's all good. If you fancy one have a catnap on me, you sure deserve one on a lazy day.
NY Times: I couldn't agree more, TomCat. Apparently Carolyn Bouchard was quite aware of Matt Bevin's dastardly plan to repeal the expansion Medicaid if he was elected governor, so the least she could have done was to go vote for another candidate in her own interest. This "learned helplessness" (psychological term *) is quite endemic in Kentucky, and I hope it clears when people understand that "politics" affects everyone's life and it affects it in a negative way if it's these politics are of the Republican sort and you're part of the 90%. Let's hope they get the message in time for the 2016 presidential elections.|
* Learned helplessness occurs when an animal is repeatedly subjected to an aversive stimulus that it cannot escape. Eventually, the animal will stop trying to avoid the stimulus and behave as if it is utterly helpless to change the situation. Even when opportunities to escape are presented, this learned helplessness will prevent any action.
NBC New York: All the news I get from the internet says it's still unclear what the shooter's motives are but its hard to believe that this isn't a preliminary but correct assessment of the situation: "A series of videos attempting to discredit Planned Parenthood ignited a wave of threats, arson and protests against the medical clinics and culminated in a deadly shooting in Colorado, pro-choice activists believe." from nydailynews.com. A pro-lifer with a gun, killing innocent people who just happen to be present in aa PP-building and the police that comes to their aid, how toxic has American society become. And Republicans bear the brunt of the responsibility for with their love of guns, hypocritical zealotry, shameless fabrication of videos full of lies and insinuations and PP-hearings that were worse than the inquisition. Die Kristalnacht came to mind.
Alternet: And more than 30 States refuse to allow Syrian refugees because there MIGHT be a Da'esh terrorist among them? While they KNOW they have right wing extremists inside their borders. Ah yes, America the hypocrite…
NYTimes: How fortunate that Mr. Osborne that he got medical care that he needed. Everyone needs to get out and Vote!
We need look no further than our town(s), and states where hatred brews, and lives are lost by violence.
** Link: with media. News from Minneapolis:
http://live.mprnews.org/Event/Protesters_in_Minneapolis_join_Eric_Garner_demonstrations
Signed both petitions, Thanks Mitch and JL for them.
Cartoon: Just the visual of that sandwich, makes me gag. No more turkey for me. LOL.
Sounds like a lazy day for you, hopefully, pretty soon you'll be a pro at OT/PT. Enjoy your evening.
Thanks, Tom.
I see Carly Fiorina needing to do a great "Out, out damn spot!" for the blood on her hands.
She gathered the kindling, poured gasoline on it and lit the match with her utter and provable mendacities against Planned Parenthood.
I had the same reaction. Like Lady MacBeth's, that blood will not wash off so easily.
Unpatriotic,, Un-Christian = GOP
I hope you got your lazy day!
NY Times: People like her are the reason we got Bevins for governor, too lazy to vote. We had an exceptionally low voter turnout for this election. Apparently, nothing has come of the petition asking for a recount of votes. One person who was interviewed by the Lexington Herald Leader is in Bouchard's position, likely to lose her insurance, yet she voted for Bevin. Her reason? She said "I am a diehard Republican." In my book only a diehard idiot would have done this.
NBC New York: I heard tonight on CBS news that he was shouting "no more baby parts" as he shot. Thanks Fiorino and others for your lies about Planned Parenthood!
alternet: Sad and disgusting. All the anti everything good rhetoric coming from the Republicans is encouraging idiots like these.
Cartoon: You know I loved this one.
NY Times — There are too many "Carolyn Bouchards" in the world. Don't vote but don't understand the consequences of that decision. I wonder if she has seen the light yet? One thing, I wonder how she voted previously . . . against her own interests?
NBC New York — I too stand with Planned Parenthood and have signed a number of petitions to that effect. What Dear's rationale was at the time is yet to be seen. Condolences to the families of those murdered and prayers for the survivors and families.
Alternet — His final word "Stay white." Despicable! "The safety of the American people is far more threatened by Republican Party terrorism than it is by the Daesh." — So, so true!
Cartoon — I suggest that's a rancid sandwich! It'll give you republicitis just looking at it.
Signed Mitch's petition previously and the Colour of Change just now.
Thanks all! Hugs!!