{"id":10354,"date":"2013-05-26T05:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T12:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10354"},"modified":"2013-05-26T05:20:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T12:20:04","slug":"open-thread5262013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/26\/open-thread5262013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/26\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I slept poorly, and when I finally did sleep, I slept through most of my research time, so this article is all I have today.  Hopefully tomorrow will be better.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s tool me 4:27 (average 4:46).  To do it. click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>It’s been another week of the insane, inane, and outright offensive. Here’s your top ten: <\/p>\n

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  1. Pennsylvania governor can’t find any Latinos to work for him<\/strong>. Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) told a Spanish-language newspaper this week that  he didn’t have any Latinos working for him<\/a>. There are approximately 18,000 Latinos just in the Harrisburg, PA area alone. <\/li>\n
  2. Pennsylvania governor remembers single Latino who works for him<\/strong>. A day after saying he didn’t have any Latinos working for him,  Corbett suddenly remembered<\/a> a single Latino appointee working in his administration. <\/li>\n
  3. Conservatives freak out over Boy Scouts decision to admit gays<\/strong>. Here’s the ten best conservative freak-outs<\/a> over the group’s decision to admit gay scouts while maintaining a ban on gay leaders. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    …<\/p>\n

    Click Through for the rest of the ten craziest things Republicans did last week.<\/font><\/p>\n

    From Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>Notorious Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio engaged in racial profiling and violated drivers’ constitutional rights, a federal district court ruled on Friday\u2026<\/p>\n

    \u2026"Singling people out for traffic stops and detentions because they are Latino is unconstitutional and just plain un-American. Let this be a warning to any agency trying to enforce the ‘show me your papers’ provision of SB 1070 and similar laws \u2014 there is no exception in the Constitution for immigration enforcement," said Wang.<\/p>\n

    "Today’s decision vindicates the rights of Latinos in Maricopa County who’ve been terrorized by discriminatory MCSO practices and have had their communities torn apart," added Dan Pochoda, legal director of the ACLU of Arizona. "The court recognized that racial profiling within the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is a pervasive and widespread problem that can only be addressed through substantive, meaningful changes to eradicate this egregious practice and begin rebuilding public trust."<\/p>\n

    It could not have happened to a more deserving goose-stepper.<\/font><\/p>\n

    From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Writing in Thursday’s Washington Post, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell provides evidence<\/a> that he says substantiates his assertion that President Barack Obama is responsible for a "culture of intimidation" that "goes well beyond one agency or a few rogue employees." <\/p>\n

    For example, McConnell says:<\/p>\n

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    The president\u2019s lawyers circulated a draft executive order in 2011 that would have required anyone bidding for a government contract to disclose political donations. The message was clear: If you want a government contract, be careful which causes or candidates you support because the White House will know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Yep, you read that right. According to Mitch McConnell, requiring firms that do business with the government to publicly disclose how much political cash they’ve given to the politicians from whom they seek contracts and special treatment is all about intimidating companies into silence. Of course, that was not the idea at all. The real idea<\/a> was to let the public know whether companies that made anonymous political contributions were getting special treatment from the government. <\/p>\n

    Leave it to Bought Bitch Mitch to twist reality into InsaniTEA. McConnell is certainly intimidated, but he’s really afraid of being primaried by a Bagger.<\/font><\/p>\n

    Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

    \"26Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Yesterday I slept poorly, and when I finally did sleep, I slept through most of my research time, so this article is all I have today.  Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s tool me 4:27 (average 4:46).  To do it. click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From Alternet: It’s been […]<\/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-10354","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\/10354","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=10354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}