{"id":10423,"date":"2013-06-13T01:23:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T08:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10423"},"modified":"2013-06-13T01:23:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T08:23:30","slug":"open-thread6132012-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/open-thread6132012-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/13\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing early again, because I want to do so, and since I slept well last night, I\u2019m actually doing so without a struggle.  That\u2019s sure refreshing for a change.  Today\u2019s Short Takes are all MSNBC videos, and I hope you find them as interesting and informative as I did.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:35 (average 4:44).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Why the Surveillance State Must Be Undone<\/font><\/p>\n

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As I have said before, secret power virtually guarantees abuse, and history proves it. That means that it will be used on all who wish to restore government observance of our Constitutional rights. We have been down this road before, and we must install a road block.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Welcome scandals for a change!<\/font><\/p>\n

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There is one basic difference between these Republicans and most of the rest. These got caught receiving their payoffs from the 1%, where most get away with it.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>One of the reasons why the 1% could not allow Kennedy to live.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Am I the only one that misses Chet Huntley? The 1% depends on keeping different elements of our culture fearful and hateful of each other. Kennedy was a threat to class warfare, and we are still battling to overcome racism and the economic subjugation that attends it. Yes we do know whose side Jack Kennedy would have been on, making him an enemy of InsaniTEA.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m writing early again, because I want to do so, and since I slept well last night, I\u2019m actually doing so without a struggle.  That\u2019s sure refreshing for a change.  Today\u2019s Short Takes are all MSNBC videos, and I hope you find them as interesting and informative as I did. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took […]<\/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-10423","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\/10423","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=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}