{"id":11193,"date":"2013-09-23T03:01:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T10:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11193"},"modified":"2013-09-23T03:01:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T10:01:17","slug":"open-thread9232013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/23\/open-thread9232013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/23\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 101, and getting my arse kicked un fantasy football, but it\u2019s still early.  It ain\u2019t over \u2018till the fat TomCat purrrs!!  Update: Not even Garfield can save me on this one. \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:13 (average 5:14).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Last Friday MSNBC Ed Schultz had a town hall in Alabama. He wanted to go to the deep South and talk directly to the people. He complained about the right-wing talking heads using a narrative of dependency as well as race bating to create a level of angst within the white community. One wonders if he expected to have two women in the audience with prescient stories that put it all in a microcosm.<\/p>\n

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Not all Republicans are racist, but most racists are Republican, because the party has opened its doors and put out the welcome mat for hate mongers.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>He\u2019s back. Steve \u201ccantaloupe calves\u201d King opines some more on undocumented immigrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saying irresponsible, racist things about immigrants is Iowa Tea Party Rep. Steve King\u2019s brand, and he continues to hone and promote it. At a recent anti-immigration rally in Omaha, he out and out called \u201cillegal immigrants\u201d a murderous mob. King recounted to the already-converted-to-hate audience a conversation he had recently with INS agent Mike Cutler at a congressional hearing. \u201cHow many Americans have died at the hands of illegal immigrants? What\u2019s the price Americans are paying for an open door policy?\u201d King asked Cutler.<\/p>\n

To which, King claims Cutler helpfully replied: \u201c\u2018I don\u2019t know the answer to that, but I can tell you it will be in multiples of the victims of September 11th."<\/p>\n

Good at math King, randomly multiplied 9\/11\u2019s death toll of about 3,000 by four and told the hate rally that 12,000 murders were likely committed by these out-of-control immigrants, who would be crashing planes into our buildings if they could, but sometimes just have to settle for raping and murdering us.<\/p>\n

This is just one of seven vile statements made by prominent Republicans in the last week alone. Click through for the other six. I must admit surprise, however, that King was actually able to multiply 3,000 by 4.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NRDC,org<\/a>: <\/font>It\u2019s less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal-fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.<\/p>\n

In fact\u2014using the official U.S. government estimates of health and environmental costs from burning fossil fuels\u2014the study shows it\u2019s cheaper to replace a typical existing coal-fired power plant with a wind turbine than to keep the old plant running. And new electricity generation from wind could be more economically efficient than natural gas.<\/p>\n

The study confirms what I recently posted about<\/font> the effects of allowing the fossil fuel industry to externalize the costs of their harm to people and the environment<\/a>. This subsidy of suffering must end!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 101, and getting my arse kicked un fantasy football, but it\u2019s still early.  It ain\u2019t over \u2018till the fat TomCat purrrs!!  Update: Not even Garfield can save me on this one. \ud83d\ude41 Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:13 (average 5:14).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? […]<\/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-11193","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\/11193","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=11193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}