{"id":11303,"date":"2013-10-06T01:33:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T08:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11303"},"modified":"2013-10-06T01:33:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T08:33:51","slug":"open-thread1062013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/06\/open-thread1062013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/6\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and working on a sleep deficit because Guitar Man decided to be Bongo Man.&#160; Argh!&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are meditating with Dallas, but I don\u2019t know whether it will be televised here.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:55 (average 5:16).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-10-06-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\/tsa-announces-new-screening-program-comedian-has-hilarious-helpful-suggestions-3\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>TSA Announces New Screening Program. Comedian Has Hilarious, Helpful Suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qIBlmD3-KtY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Funny, but enlightening. For airport security, Sikh and ye shall find. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/05\/opinion\/raffling-off-assault-rifles.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Republican Party of Rhode Island is attracting well-deserved scorn for its plan to raise money <a href=\"http:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/breaking-news\/content\/20131001-r.i.-gop-under-fire-for-gun-raffle-even-in-own-ranks.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday<\/a> by raffling an AR-15-style assault rifle \u2014 the same sort of modified military weapon used last December in the Newtown school massacre in neighboring Connecticut. <\/p>\n<p>The rifle is the main prize at the state Republican Party\u2019s \u201c2nd Amendment celebration\u201d at a rod and gun club in West Greenwich \u2014 \u201ca family day at the range full of targets, food, prizes and fun,\u201d but truly devoid of even rudimentary sensitivity to the carnage inflicted on Americans from weapons devised not for sport but for the battlefield. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With Republicans, some things just never change.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#53191070\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Democrats sue to stop Republican election theft in VA.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc4950b7\" 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=53191070^0^229096&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc4950b7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=53191070^0^229096&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\">If somebody is going to purge voter rolls, the time to do it is NOT a month before an election. I bet a dollar against a donut that there were not a hell of a lot of white faces in that purge list.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"6Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"6Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/6Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Judge Republican intent accordingly.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and working on a sleep deficit because Guitar Man decided to be Bongo Man.&#160; Argh!&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are meditating with Dallas, but I don\u2019t know whether it will be televised here. 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