{"id":10638,"date":"2013-07-16T00:34:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T07:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10638"},"modified":"2013-07-16T00:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T07:34:32","slug":"open-thread7162013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/open-thread7162013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/16\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing early for day 31,and I just finished putting away groceries.  It\u2019s 96\u00b0 at my desk, and I am NOT a happy cat!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:15 (average 4:57).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The Nation<\/a>: <\/font>Media on the left, right and center have been fanning the flames of fear-mongering<\/a>, speculating that people\u2014and black people especially\u2014will take to the streets. That fear-mongering represents a deep white anxiety about black bodies on the streets, and echoes Zimmerman\u2019s fears: that black bodies on the street pose a public threat. But the real violence in those speculations, regardless of whether they prove to be true, is that it silences black anxiety. The anxiety that black men feel every time they walk outside the door\u2014and the anxiety their loved ones feel for them as well. That white anxiety serves to conceal the real public threat: that a black man is killed every twenty-eight hours by a cop or vigilante<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many of those cases, no doubt, are justified, but the frequency certainly indicates that many are not.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Committed capitalists don’t seem to recognize that people depend on each other, and that individual success is a result of collaborative effort, usually over a long period of time. The less free-market thinkers are regulated, the less they seem to care about others. They ignore the fact that America’s most productive eras were driven by progressive taxes that funded entrepreneurship in the middle class. And they fail to see the deficiencies in a system that relies solely on profit-making to the exclusion of social responsibility. <\/p>\n

Like the images of a dreaded disease, their beliefs might best be defined as obscene.<\/p>\n

What follows is a list of five big obscenities in today’s capitalism. Click through for an excellent read. However, the word should be spelled ObsceniTEAs.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 16th, expect a Senate showdown vote[Reich-wing delinked] on the confirmation of Richard Cordray to a full term as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (read a letter of support<\/a> from over 150 members of Americans for Financial Reform, including U.S. PIRG and state PIRGs). <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, however, consumer protection opponents continue to make stuff up, from saying again and again without justification that the CFPB is unaccountable to repeating their latest false claim: that its "creepy<\/a>" use of data equates it with the NSA.<\/p>\n

First, the CFPB is accountable to Congress and the American people. That question has been asked and answered<\/a>. Wall Street and other CFPB opponents simply don’t like the idea of an agency with the job of protecting consumers.<\/p>\n

When they block him, and they will, NUKE the Filibastards!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m writing early for day 31,and I just finished putting away groceries.  It\u2019s 96\u00b0 at my desk, and I am NOT a happy cat! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:15 (average 4:57).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From The Nation: Media on the left, right and center have […]<\/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-10638","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\/10638","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=10638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}