{"id":10101,"date":"2013-03-09T02:10:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10101"},"modified":"2013-03-09T02:10:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T10:10:16","slug":"open-thread392013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/09\/open-thread392013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/9\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don\u2019t know why, but my COPD was very severe yesterday and I\u2019ve only had about an hour\u2019s sleep because of it.&#160; I\u2019m going to reply to comments, post this and go to bed.&#160; Hopefully I\u2019ll be rested tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:57 (average 4:43).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-03-09-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/there-are-17000-of-these-now-what-if-there-was-zero\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>There Are 17,000 Of These Now. What If There Was Zero?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2doFTYLK2q8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Nukes in silos are like Republicans in office. Every one is one too many.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/09\/us\/politics\/filibuster-stirs-a-new-battle-on-us-judges.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A fresh feud over federal judgeships has again begun to agitate the Senate, with Republicans so far blocking President Obama from filling any of the four vacancies on the nation\u2019s most prestigious and important appeals court\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;If Republicans were to continue to steadfastly block a series of appeals court nominees, Democrats say they might then have justification to revisit Senate rules and claim new power to thwart filibusters. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the so called nuclear option. It has never been used before. Nuke the filibastards!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/03\/08\/17239505-gop-tries-to-block-obama-from-meeting-pledge-on-us-terror-trials\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>: <\/font>Republicans have lashed out against the Obama administration\u2019s decision to bring a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden to New York City for trial, a high-profile move that would help the president follow through on one of his earliest campaign pledges.<\/p>\n<p>One of the unmet promises from President Barack Obama\u2019s first term involved closing the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and bringing suspects to the continental United States for trial.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Article Three courts have successfully convicted dozens of terrorists. Military tribunals have convicted only 5. Gitmo should be closed and would have been were it not for Congressional cowards.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"9Cartoon\" alt=\"9Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/9Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In 2012, Republicans copied the threats.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know why, but my COPD was very severe yesterday and I\u2019ve only had about an hour\u2019s sleep because of it.&#160; I\u2019m going to reply to comments, post this and go to bed.&#160; Hopefully I\u2019ll be rested tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:57 (average 4:43).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/09\/open-thread392013\/' 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-10101","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\/10101","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=10101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}