{"id":11177,"date":"2013-09-21T00:47:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T07:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11177"},"modified":"2013-09-21T00:47:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T07:47:50","slug":"open-thread9212013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/open-thread9212013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/21\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 99, and hoping for some rest today as stuck on stupid neighbor and guitar man tag teamed my sleep yesterday.  The honcho from the company that owns the building and the agent from the county are meeting today, so hopefully I should know next week and may be able to move as soon as next month.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:22 (average 4:56).  It reminded me of Congress  :-(  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>Saying he was \u201csorry it had to come to this,\u201d Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said today that he was forming an \u201cindependent search committee\u201d to select a new Pope.<\/p>\n

The visibly upset jurist appeared at a press conference with the sole other member of the newly formed search committee, Justice Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n

Justice Scalia said he had \u201cno other alternative\u201d but to pick a new Pope himself after reading what he called a \u201cdisturbing\u201d interview with Pope Francis today: \u201cThe Pope said he doesn\u2019t want to speak out against abortion and gay marriage. Well, sorry, my friend, but that\u2019s the entire job description. You should have thought of that before you let them blow that white smoke in Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dang! Has Andy stopped satirizing and started reporting?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>MSNBC host Chuck Todd said Wednesday that when it comes to misinformation about the new federal health care law, don’t expect members of the media to correct the record. <\/p>\n

During a segment on "Morning Joe," former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) speculated that most opponents of the Affordable Care Act have been fed erroneous information about the law. Todd said that Republicans "have successfully messaged against it" but he disagrees with those who argue that the media should educate the public on the law. According to Todd, that’s President Barack Obama’s job.<\/p>\n

This is a host on the channel Republicans say is 100% librul<\/em>. Since when is informing the public, as to what is true and what isn’t, not the job of the fourth estate?  Hat-Tip to Patty for Credo\u2019s petition to NBC about Todd<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Ed Schultz reveals the Republican heart.<\/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

I’m pleased to report that not one single Democrat goose-stepped with the Republican Party’s War on the Poor. Every penny Democrats spend on hungry children is a penny Republicans can’t give to a billionaire. As for the Republican heart, there is none. In effect they are saying that to take away poor people’s subsistence will lead them to economic success, in the same way they seem to think that taking away their health care will lead them to good health. The bill passed the House.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 99, and hoping for some rest today as stuck on stupid neighbor and guitar man tag teamed my sleep yesterday.  The honcho from the company that owns the building and the agent from the county are meeting today, so hopefully I should know next week and may be able to […]<\/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-11177","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\/11177","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=11177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}