{"id":10685,"date":"2013-07-23T02:49:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T09:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2013-07-23T02:49:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T09:49:06","slug":"open-thread7232014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/23\/open-thread7232014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/23\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing for day 39, I\u2019m sad to report that the cool spell lasted just one day, but it has stayed cloudy today, so far, so maybe the weatherman will be wrong again.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:29 (average 5:42).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Opponents of Florida\u2019s Stand Your Ground law are attempting to mobilize support for a new law called Don\u2019t Shoot Me for Absolutely No Reason. <\/p>\n

The proposed law, which faces major opposition in the Florida legislature, would make it illegal for people in the state to shoot each other for no reason whatsoever. <\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the provisions of Don\u2019t Shoot Me for Absolutely No Reason, you will be required to have an actual reason for shooting someone,\u201d said a spokesman for the measure, Harland Dorrinson. \u201cThis will be a first in Florida.\u201d <\/p>\n

The controversial bill has already drawn the ire of the National Rifle Association, which issued a statement today saying that requiring someone to have a reason to shoot another person would violate the Second Amendment\u2026<\/p>\n

Andy’s Satire is almost too close to true to be humor.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Truthdig<\/a>: <\/font>It looks like The New York Times will have a major hole to fill for its coverage of the 2014 midterm elections. That\u2019s because election forecaster extraordinaire Nate Silver is reportedly packing up his FiveThirtyEight blog and taking it over to ESPN, according to the Times\u2019 Brian Stelter. The media reporter says he learned of Silver\u2019s departure from a source at the sports network. Stelter also reports that Silver informed the Times on Friday of his decision to leave. <\/p>\n

In addition to number-crunching and writing columns, Silver is expected to be a regular contributor on \u201cOlbermann,\u201d a new program hosted by former \u201cSportscenter\u201d anchor and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann that\u2019s set to debut on ESPN2 next month. He will also factor in ABC News\u2019 political coverage during election years. Both ESPN and ABC News are owned by Disney. <\/p>\n

That is a huge loss for the Times. In 2012, He was the only major prognosticator to out perform me. I missed one state in the Presidential race and one Senate race. He got them all!  On the plus side, I will sure listen to what he says about fantasy football!<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>House Takes 39th Vote on Obamacare.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Republicans will not be able to stop Obamacare no matter how many $millions of taxpayers dollars they waste on go-nowhere votes such as this. Voters need to remove them, because refusing to govern is anti-American sedition.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"23Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

Republicans probably want to reserve them for the 1% only.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing for day 39, I\u2019m sad to report that the cool spell lasted just one day, but it has stayed cloudy today, so far, so maybe the weatherman will be wrong again. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:29 (average 5:42).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From The New […]<\/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-10685","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\/10685","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=10685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}