{"id":10493,"date":"2013-06-22T02:44:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T09:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10493"},"modified":"2013-06-22T02:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T09:44:40","slug":"open-thread6222013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/22\/open-thread6222013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/22\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Going into day 8, I\u2019m having a major problem with my patches.&#160; Can anyone tell me how to make the damn things stay lit? :-(&#160; We\u2019ve has comments from a right-wing celebrity and his militia.&#160; You may want to revisit <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/free-the-atf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free the ATF!<\/a><font style=\"font-weight: normal\"><\/font>.&#160; <font color=\"#0000ff\">Please remember the rule that here, we treat those with opposing views with respect.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:07 (average 4:25).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-06-22-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We still have room for&#160; two more players in our lefty league.&#160; For more info. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/play-fantasy-football-with-lefties-3\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/story?section=news\/local\/south_bay&amp;id=9146472\">KGO-TV<\/a>: <\/font>A gathering of liberal bloggers and activists is drawing some big name politicians to San Jose this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L8sbqlkAg4Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ll have Jeff\u2019s video, when I can find it. Once again, Oregon leads the way!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/306991-momentum-shifts-in-senate-immigration-debate\">The Hill<\/a>: <\/font>Momentum has shifted in the battle over immigration reform, putting Senate Democrats in a position to pass a bipartisan bill with well over 60 votes. <\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers predicted Thursday that as many as 15 Republicans could vote for comprehensive immigration reform legislation, putting the bill\u2019s sponsors in striking distance of their 70-vote goal.<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s sponsors scored a victory Thursday when they announced a deal with Republican Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.) and John Hoeven (N.D.) to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/306739-reports-senators-reach-tentative-deal-on-border-security-\" target=\"_blank\">double the number of border patrol agents<\/a> to 40,000. The compromise also mandates the construction of 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border and an increased deployment of surveillance technology.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Since border crossing has equalized in recent years (zero net change), doubling the border agents is a waste of money. After his failure yesterday, I doubt that Boehner will put anything forward in the House without support from a majority of Republicans.&#160; Also, what about those politeness terrorists to the north? \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/06\/21\/howard-dean-open-to-another-presidential-run\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Former Vermont governor Howard Dean, who in 2004 lost his bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee, says he\u2019ll consider another run for president in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Dean \u2014 an outspoken liberal \u2014 told CNN\u2019s Peter Hamby that he will run if other candidates aren\u2019t addressing the issues that are important to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not driven by my own ambition,\u201d Dean said. \u201cWhat I am driven by is pushing the country in a direction that it desperately needs to be pushed, pushing other politicians who aren\u2019t quite as frank as I am who need to be more candid with the American people about what needs to happen. I am not trying to hedge. It\u2019s a hard job running. It\u2019s really tough. I am doing a lot of things I really enjoy. But you should never say never in this business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How interesting! I&#8217;m more confident that Hillary could win the General, but Dean&#8217;s policies align more closely with my own. If he runs, I will probably support him early, knowing that he has little chance to get the nomination, and in spite of reservations about Hillary, would support her in general election over any Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"22Cartoon\" alt=\"22Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/22Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going into day 8, I\u2019m having a major problem with my patches.&#160; Can anyone tell me how to make the damn things stay lit? :-(&#160; We\u2019ve has comments from a right-wing celebrity and his militia.&#160; You may want to revisit Free the ATF!.&#160; Please remember the rule that here, we treat those with opposing views <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/22\/open-thread6222013\/' 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-10493","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\/10493","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=10493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}