{"id":11315,"date":"2013-10-07T00:11:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T07:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11315"},"modified":"2013-10-07T23:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T06:54:00","slug":"open-thread1062013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/open-thread1062013-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/7\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&rsquo;m writing for tomorrow and rushing to get done in time to meditate on my Bronco&rsquo;s worship in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&rsquo;s took me 3:32 (average 5:03).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-10-07-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1006-Broncos51-Cowboys48\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1006-Broncos51-Cowboys48.jpg\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"1006-Broncos51-Cowboys48\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/10\/03\/1243743\/-Republican-idea-of-compromise-summarized-perfectly-in-one-tweet\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a> (Hat-Tip Nameless): <\/font>Republican idea of compromise summarized perfectly in one tweet<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7Compromise\" border=\"0\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/7Compromise.png\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"7Compromise\" width=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Does that nail it, or what?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/06\/opinion\/sunday\/the-supreme-court-returns.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday, even as the landmark rulings of last term continue to reverberate. The court has agreed to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/case-files\/terms\/ot2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than 50 cases so far<\/a> on disputes both familiar and fresh: from affirmative action and freedom of speech, to campaign finance and the president&rsquo;s power to make recess appointments.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tome to stock up on barf bags and blood pressure meds. Just like in Poltergeist, judicial venereal disease, aka SCROTUS, is ba-a-a-a-a-a-ck!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#53200493\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Rosetta Stone of TEAbuggery<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc7f2655\" target=\"_blank\" width=\"592\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=53200493^0^362062&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"launch=53200493^0^362062&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" height=\"346\" name=\"msnbc7f2655\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"592\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/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 href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" style=\"height: 13px; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; font-weight: normal !important; color: #5799db !important; text-decoration: none !important\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"height: 13px; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; font-weight: normal !important; color: #5799db !important; text-decoration: none !important\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"height: 13px; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; font-weight: normal !important; color: #5799db !important; text-decoration: none !important\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When the Rosetta Stone of a movement centers around Christine &quot;I am not a witch&quot; O&#39;Dingbat, that movement is completely off the deep end! As for the Republican legislators, who fear being TEAbuggered, putting theirs jobs on the line to represent your constituents and convincing them to vote in primaries to protect them from the Baggers is their job.&nbsp; Representing only a minority, because they fear fear them is simple incompetence.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/7Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/7Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"7Cartoon\" width=\"654\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m writing for tomorrow and rushing to get done in time to meditate on my Bronco&rsquo;s worship in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&rsquo;s took me 3:32 (average 5:03).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Religious Ecstasy: Short Takes: From Daily Kos (Hat-Tip Nameless): Republican idea of compromise <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/open-thread1062013-2\/' 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-11315","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\/11315","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=11315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}