{"id":11232,"date":"2013-09-29T01:07:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T08:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2013-09-29T01:07:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T08:07:27","slug":"open-thread9292013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/29\/open-thread9292013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/29\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 107.&#160; Yesterday\u2019s meeting was a good one, and I have enough Chinese food leftovers to feed me all day.&#160; We have a heavy wind and rain alert for today and tomorrow.&#160; I may just go out and bask in it.&#160; It\u2019s a slow news day, as the stories dominating the news are ones I\u2019ve already been hitting hard.&#160; How do you like today\u2019s cartoon?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:22 (average 6:17).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-09-29-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\/the-simplest-explanation-of-obamacare-ever\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>The Simplest Explanation Of Obamacare. Ever.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JZkk6ueZt-U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Overall, this is a good explanation that covers both ObamaCare&#8217;s strengths and weaknesses, which the strengths outweigh by a huge margin. I&#8217;m glad they are taxing tanning services. Not only does their UV radiation increase the risk of cancer, but also, at last Speaker John &quot;Agent Orange&quot; Boehner (R-OH) will finally pay a few pennies for his health care.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2013\/09\/fox-news-obama-in-plot-to-force-americans-to-live-longer.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a blockbuster documentary to be broadcast tonight, the Fox News Channel alleges that Obamacare is \u201clittle more than a thinly veiled scheme to force Americans to live longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The documentary, called \u201cThe Ugly Truth About Obamacare,\u201d claims that President Obama \u201cis cynically using the health-care law to achieve his true objective: raising the life expectancy of Americans without their consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn America, how long you live has always been your own business,\u201d says the documentary\u2019s narrator, Sean Hannity. \u201cUnder Obamacare, though, it\u2019s the government\u2019s business\u2014a government that wants you to live as long as humanly possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The documentary lays out a nightmare scenario of Americans being saddled with sky-high life expectancies for years to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I bet it&#8217;s a dirty Socialist Kenyan Muslim conspiracy to delay our angelic Banksters from getting eternal dividends from Republican Supply-side Jesus!! EEK!!!! \ud83d\ude09 (Republican Supply-side Jesus is the polar opposite of the real one.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/28\/us\/politics\/senate-is-expected-to-approve-budget-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Senate on Friday approved stopgap spending legislation to keep the federal government open without gutting President Obama\u2019s health care law, putting new pressure on Speaker John A. Boehner to find a way out of an impasse that had the government on a steady course to a shutdown at midnight Monday. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is proceeding exactly as I said it would. I think Boehner will puff-up, posture, threaten, bluster, maybe even allow a very short shutdown, spelunk, and go have a another drink. He knows a longer shutdown will hurt his party, and he still has the Debt Ceiling Limit as a fallback position for Republican terrorism and sedition.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"29Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"29Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/29Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 107.&#160; Yesterday\u2019s meeting was a good one, and I have enough Chinese food leftovers to feed me all day.&#160; We have a heavy wind and rain alert for today and tomorrow.&#160; I may just go out and bask in it.&#160; It\u2019s a slow news day, as the stories dominating the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/29\/open-thread9292013\/' 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-11232","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\/11232","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=11232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}