{"id":10179,"date":"2013-03-30T01:07:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10179"},"modified":"2013-03-30T01:07:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T08:07:06","slug":"open-thread3302013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/30\/open-thread3302013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/30\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My back still hurts like hell, but it\u2019s nowhere near as bad as it was yesterday.&#160; If I keep recovering at the same rate, I\u2019ll be back soon.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday\u2019s took me 4:32 (average 5:22).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-03-29-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; Today\u2019s took me 4:11 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-03-30-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\/how-many-times-did-you-need-to-hear-the-word-yes-before-you-did-this\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>How Many Times Did You Need To Hear The Word &#8216;Yes&#8217; Before You Did This?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G2nsGtd7y3c\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That really puts it into perspective, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2013\/03\/bitter-scalia-leaves-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2013\/03\/scalia-furious-he-has-to-hear-about-gay-couples-all-week.html\" target=\"_blank\">Justice Antonin Scalia<\/a> dropped a bombshell on the Supreme Court today, announcing his decision to resign from the Court \u201ceffective immediately\u201d and leave the United States forever.<\/p>\n<p>Calling this week \u201cby far the worst week of my life,\u201d Justice Scalia lashed out at his fellow-Justices and the nation, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t want to live in a sick, sick country that thinks the way this country apparently thinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice Scalia said that he had considered fleeing to Canada, \u201cbut they not only have gay marriage but also national health care, which is almost as evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the fact that nations around the world recognizing same-sex marriage are \u201cfalling like deviant dominoes\u201d would not deter him from leaving the United States: \u201cThere are plenty of other countries that still feel the way I do. I\u2019ll move to Iran if I have to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course this is satire, but resigning the Court and leaving the US is the greatest gift he could possibly give America.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/john-amato\/jon-stewart-roasts-rupert-murdoch-over\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Jon Stewart roasts Rupert Murdoch over his bid to buy the LA Times. Murdoch already had a chance at the news publishing business with his News of The World rag, which blew up in his face over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/13\/world\/europe\/uk-phone-hacking-arrests\" target=\"_blank\">criminal activities and now new arrests<\/a>. So why would he be given a special waiver to buy the storied newspaper?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"+id+\" width=\"600\" height=\"486\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/get\/flashplayer\/current\/swflash.cab\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MjY5NjgtNjc3MTA?color=003366\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed target=\"_blank\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MjY5NjgtNjc3MTA?color=003366\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"600\" height=\"486\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" name=\"clembedMjY5NjgtNjc3MTA\" align=\"middle\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" target=\"_blank\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Murdoch, owner of the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, and the formerly respectable Wall Street Journal, deserves a waiver\u2026 to his FCC license!<\/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=\"30Cartoon\" alt=\"30Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/30Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot is so blatantly ignorant that the highly acclaimed poet he quoted to court Latinos, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pablo_Neruda#Communism\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Neruda, was an avowed Communist<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My back still hurts like hell, but it\u2019s nowhere near as bad as it was yesterday.&#160; If I keep recovering at the same rate, I\u2019ll be back soon. 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