{"id":10397,"date":"2013-06-07T00:07:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T07:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2013-06-07T00:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T07:07:14","slug":"open-thread672013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/open-thread672013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/7\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday, from the perspective of when I will post this, was another hot one, but I\u2019m beating it by doing my research in the morning and writing the articles in the afternoon.&#160; The \u201cbreezeway\u201d has super-heated to 99\u00b0 at 3:00 PM, put heat exhaustion is not yet sufficient to keep me from writing.&#160; Late tonight, I\u2019ll fill in the puzzle times and post it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:33 (average 5:33).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-06-07-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\/youll-never-guess-what-30000-moveon-members-did-after-hurricane-katrina\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>You&#8217;ll Never Guess What 30,000 MoveOn Members Did After Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrg5SG9OyWw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is what Democrats did, when Republicans were using the disaster to make New Orleans a white city. It shows what matters to whom.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/john-amato\/how-bill-oreilly-gets-last-word\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks &amp; Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Ever wonder why Bill O&#8217;Reilly gets the drop on many of his guests on The Factor? Sure, he&#8217;s a talented TV show host, but even he needs an advantage. Joe Muto describes BIllo&#8217;s typical details Billo typical work day in his new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0525953957\/crooksandliar-20\/ref=nosim\/\">&quot;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/05\/29\/i_was_a_liberal_mole_at_fox_news_from_bill_oreilly_to_roger_ailes_heres_all_the_inside_dope\/\" target=\"_blank\">An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal&#8217;s Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media&quot;<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I know many people often cite BIll&#8217;s editing of each segment which would always give him the upper hand, but knowing what your guest is going to say before he or she says it is not playing it fair and balanced, Billy. Your show is rigged, period.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is it any wonder that I call him Bill O&#8217;Lielly?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/erik-rush-muslim-immigrants-will-be-obamas-cutthroat-foot-soldiers-incite-chaos-will-necessi\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>WorldNetDaily columnist Erik Rush is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/wnd-floats-armed-resistance-obama-administration\" target=\"_blank\">reiterating his case for armed resistance<\/a> against the Obama administration today, calling for a revolution [terrorist delinked]to topple President Obama just as colonists rebelled against King George III.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rush, Obama is creating a government of \u201cabsolute despotism\u201d and along with Attorney General Eric Holder is trying to \u201censlave the people.\u201d Rush asks: \u201cIs this not an identical situation to that in which America\u2019s founders found themselves \u2013 and which they became willing to fight to overcome?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He argues that Obama is trying to \u201cimport\u201d Muslims, whom he claim are part of a \u201cretrograde cult of oppression and death,\u201d into the U.S. and turn them into \u201cObama\u2019s cutthroat foot soldiers\u201d who might be \u201cmobilized to rise up, paralyze America with widespread terror attacks, and incite the chaos that will necessitate martial law and an end to our free society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How Republican!! Lies, projection, hate, terrorism, bigotry, pseudo-Christianity, TEAbuggery and sedition, all in one brief statement!!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"7Cartoon\" alt=\"7Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/7Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, from the perspective of when I will post this, was another hot one, but I\u2019m beating it by doing my research in the morning and writing the articles in the afternoon.&#160; The \u201cbreezeway\u201d has super-heated to 99\u00b0 at 3:00 PM, put heat exhaustion is not yet sufficient to keep me from writing.&#160; Late tonight, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/open-thread672013\/' 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-10397","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\/10397","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=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}