{"id":11339,"date":"2013-10-10T00:36:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T07:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11339"},"modified":"2013-10-10T00:36:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T07:36:55","slug":"open-thread10102013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/10\/open-thread10102013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/10\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite tired after yesterday\u2019s prison work.&#160; It was an excellent meeting.&#160; We discussed how letting go of control issues helps to enable empowerment.&#160; The guys really miss Critter, and I\u2019ve been thinking.&#160; Perhaps Politics Plus might donate our Critter to take his place.&#160; Jerry, are you doing anything for the next few years. ;-)&#160; Fantasy football players, check your lineups for the Thursday night game.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:29 (average 5:02).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-10-10-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\/a-senator-gets-mad-about-the-shutdown-and-starts-naming-names-about-time\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>A Senator Gets Mad About The Shutdown And Starts Naming Names. About Time.<\/p>\n<p>Since the media seems to think this whole thing is a bipartisan mess, I thought I&#8217;d get a second opinion.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JTxWMkW8s_c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She could not have nailed it more precisely. This democracy has already rejected the Republican War on America!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/10\/07\/1244837\/-The-Two-Words-All-Democrats-Must-Start-Using-Immediately\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Inadvertently or not, John Boehner showed the way out of the shutdown on a Sunday talk show yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to what he said on <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\/week-transcript-house-speaker-john-boehner\/story?id=20476180\" target=\"_blank\">This Week with George Stephanopoulos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>STEPHANOPOULOS: He has not, perhaps, but I take it from your answer that you&#8217;re not prepared to schedule a clean bill on government funding. <\/p>\n<p>BOEHNER: There are not the votes in the House to pass a clean CR.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 2 Word challenge that all Democrats must issue immediately :&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<h1><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">PROVE IT<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><span style=\"line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">I&#8217;ve got a big <\/font><\/span><span style=\"line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 24pt\"><strong>AMEN<\/strong><\/font><\/span><span style=\"line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> for that!<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"line-height: normal\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#53221466\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/span><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">New <em>Faux Noise<\/em> Host Displays just how fair and balanced they are.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc8685d3\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=53221466^0^90424&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc8685d3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=53221466^0^90424&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\">No surprise there!!Needless to say, <em>Faux Noise<\/em> is still the Republican Reichsministry of propaganda.<\/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\/10Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"10Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"10Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite tired after yesterday\u2019s prison work.&#160; 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