{"id":11110,"date":"2013-09-13T01:37:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T08:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2013-09-13T01:37:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T08:37:30","slug":"open-thread9132013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/open-thread9132013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/13\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 91, and this is tomorrow\u2019s only article.  The temperature at my desk<\/font> will top 100\u00b0 today, tomorrow and Saturday, so color me miserable.  Tomorrow id Friday, the 13th, so although I am Caucasian, I will still be your honorary black cat.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"FridayThe13th\"<\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:09 (average 4:29).  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>Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) was harshly critical today of President Obama\u2019s nationally televised address about Syria this week, telling CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer, \u201cThe President\u2019s decision to think before attacking another country flies in the face of American foreign policy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States of America has been involved in countless armed conflicts since this great nation was founded,\u201d Mr. McCain said. \u201cMany of those would never have happened if we\u2019d stopped to think about them first. Sadly, the President seems not to have learned this lesson of history.\u201d <\/p>\n

Calling the President \u201can Ivy League law professor who never met a thought he didn\u2019t like,\u201d Mr. McCain said that he was urging Mr. Obama \u201cto please take thinking off the table.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

Andy’s satire has captured McConJob’s very soul!<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Rachel Maddow on complexity of Mideast problems.<\/p>\n

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

As complex as the problems are, Republican solutions are simple. Whatever Obama is for, they are against it, even when they said they were for it yesterday. That is not governance. It is sabotage and sedition. Crowley made a lot of sense.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer yesterday tied together the closure of an Oregon bakery that refused to serve gay customers who were trying to find a wedding cake and the rapidly-collapsing story of an Air Force officer who insists he was punished by a superior over his views on gay marriage. Fischer said that the two accounts were proof of growing anti-Christian persecution in Obama\u2019s America.<\/font><\/p>\n