{"id":11363,"date":"2013-10-13T00:04:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T07:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11363"},"modified":"2013-10-14T00:03:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T07:03:55","slug":"open-thread10132013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/open-thread10132013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–10\/13\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m writing for tomorrow, a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos will be meditating with Jacksonville, and it will not be televised here. \ud83d\ude41  I offer condolences to Adrian Peterson and his family.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:03 (average 4:40).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped monitoring mercury contamination in the Everglades and testing water after the recent floods in Colorado.<\/p>\n

An $8 billion space telescope, the largest in the world, waits to be tested at minus-400 degrees Fahrenheit in a closed government facility in suburban Maryland, facing the possibility of costly delays.<\/p>\n

Many of the half a million federal workers whose paychecks on Friday showed half of what they normally earn fretted about how to juggle bills and put off major purchases.<\/p>\n

These are just three of the many harmful effects of the Republican Shutdown, and three of the reasons that every Republican in office is one Republican too many. Click through for more.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>The so-called Values Voters Summit<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong>: Ed interviews a waste of skin, a Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian. Note how this jerk equates Vulture Capitalism with Christianity. What is it these Republicans value? They value death, hunger, suffering, deprivation and the rejection of everything the real Jesus valued. This clip was the inspiration for today's cartoon.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Despite hundreds of thousands of wrongful foreclosures uncovered by investigators, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Mary Kissel claimed that “there hasn’t been a single homeowner<\/a> who has been identified who was foreclosed on who shouldn’t have been foreclosed on” in a Friday appearance on Fox Business.<\/p>\n

The reality of the situation is far different, with $1.4 trillion worth of mortgages being rendered legally unenforceable<\/a> by the paperwork abuses that were so common during and after the subprime mortgage boom. Foreclosures based on shoddy or forged documents have become commonplace<\/a> since the financial crisis. These aren’t faceless numbers, either, as reporters have indeed identified individual homeowners who were wronged.<\/p>\n

Since Murdoch took over the WSJ, its character has changed so greatly that it needs to be renamed to Faux Print<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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I’m writing for tomorrow, a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos will be meditating with Jacksonville, and it will not be televised here. \ud83d\ude41  I offer condolences to Adrian Peterson and his family. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:03 (average 4:40).  To do it, click here.  How did you […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363","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=11363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}