{"id":11229,"date":"2013-09-28T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2013-09-28T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T07:29:09","slug":"open-thread9282012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/28\/open-thread9282012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/28\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 106, and I\u2019m about to leave to meet with a volunteer co-worker.&#160; That will take sufficient time from my day, that this will be tomorrow\u2019s only article.&#160; Fantasy football players, make sure your line-ups are ready for Sunday&#8217;s games.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:44 (average 5:24).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-09-28-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\/teaching-children-in-this-awful-way-is-like-helping-a-person-who-is-on-fire-by-drowning-them\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Teaching Children In This Awful Way Is Like Helping A Person Who Is On Fire By Drowning Them<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bo3KFUzyMUI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What GW Bush and the Republican Party did not tell us, when they touted BCLB, using Texas as an example, is that the success was rigged by pushing children who tested poorly, often Latino ESL kids, out of school.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/09\/24\/1241188\/-Popular-Science-Shuts-Down-Comments-on-its-Website\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A sign of the times: Popular Science, the 141-year-old publication that&#8217;s one of my favorites to pick up at airports for in-flight reading, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2013-09\/why-were-shutting-our-comments\" target=\"_blank\">shut off comments<\/a> on its website today. An important part of the decision was trolls and spambots, just like we struggle to keep in check through community moderation here at Daily Kos.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s something else, too, about how people yelling nonsense skews the discussion away from science. Away from fact. Away from their mission, which is to promote science. Away from reality.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"28Science-Skience\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"28Science-Skience\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/28Science-Skience.gif\" width=\"550\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans love skience and hate science.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#53118951\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#53118991\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">A Pair from Rachel Maddow<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc6d6936\" 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\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=53118951^0^417084&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc6d6936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=53118951^0^417084&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><\/font><\/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\">Republicans sure aren&#8217;t listening to Saint Ronnie Ray Gun today!! See? Yesterday I was telling you the truth about the absurd Republican wish list! I think <em>that kid<\/em> should never be allowed any control of anything again and thrown out of the House\u2026 and the Senate!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc67290f\" 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\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=53118991^0^371338&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc67290f\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=53118991^0^371338&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><\/font><\/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\">Steve is right about the difference between past posturing and today&#8217;s Republican terrorism. Two years ago, I supported the idea of a 14th Amendment solution. I understand Steve&#8217;s objections, and agree with them, so Obama should resist that alternative, unless Republicans actually cross the line. In Saint Ronnie&#8217;s day, the Republican leaders still had moral authority. Today they have only moral deficit, and that, so great that it makes our fiscal deficit seem like small change in comparison. That should bring you up to date on the Republican debt ceiling crisis.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"28Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"28Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/28Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans have suggested bringing this back as civilian punishment.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 106, and I\u2019m about to leave to meet with a volunteer co-worker.&#160; That will take sufficient time from my day, that this will be tomorrow\u2019s only article.&#160; Fantasy football players, make sure your line-ups are ready for Sunday&#8217;s games. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:44 (average 5:24).&#160; To do <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/28\/open-thread9282012-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-11229","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\/11229","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=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}