{"id":11212,"date":"2013-09-26T02:35:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2013-09-26T02:35:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:35:47","slug":"open-thread9262013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/open-thread9262013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/26\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for Thursday, day 104, and while not yet well, I am somewhat better.&#160; There has been a stomach flu going around here, and I evidently have it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:11 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-09-26-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/what-we-ignore-as-part-of-war-one-soldier-puts-front-and-center-in-his-medal-of-honor-address\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Imagine using the biggest speech of your life to talk about your deepest inner struggles. That&#8217;s exactly what the soldier here does as he&#8217;s given the Medal of Honor. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZDBQ83xAqVU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Party is thanking this hero and other victims of PTSD by threatening to shut down their benefits with a shutdown or debt default. This is how the Republican Party supports the troops, this and to offer them as cannon fodder.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2013\/09\/republicans-warn-iranian-president-against-shaking-obamas-hand.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Republican leaders warned the newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that they would frown on his shaking hands with President Obama at the United Nations today, saying that any embrace of Obama would signal that Iran was not serious about abandoning extremism. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome President Rouhani\u2019s moderate rhetoric,\u201d said Senator Rand Paul (R-Ken.). \u201cBut those words are rendered hollow if he is willing to shake the hand of a notorious extremist.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a man who has enslaved his people, saddling them with a health-care law not of their choosing,\u201d said Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.). \u201cThe President of Iran should think twice before shaking hands with a man like that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sounded a warning of his own: \u201cIf the President of Iran wants to give the world the impression that he cares about human rights, he should be careful about cozying up to a despot who has continually tried to take away his people\u2019s assault rifles.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sometimes Andy worries me over giving Republicans new ideas to adopt.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#53099452\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>A &quot;Rand&quot; by any other name\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc3db4df\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"launch=53099452^0^156924&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc3db4df\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=53099452^0^156924&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"height: 13px; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; font-weight: normal !important; color: #5799db !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"height: 13px; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; font-weight: normal !important; color: #5799db !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"height: 13px; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; font-weight: normal !important; color: #5799db !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! That is so rich that you could fertilize your veggies with it!!. Rachel should have entitled the segment, &quot;BS by any other name.&quot; The PAC should change their name to: &quot;Stand with Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot&quot;!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"26Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"26Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/26Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for Thursday, day 104, and while not yet well, I am somewhat better.&#160; There has been a stomach flu going around here, and I evidently have it. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:11 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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