{"id":11447,"date":"2013-10-20T00:33:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T07:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11447"},"modified":"2013-10-20T00:33:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T07:33:05","slug":"open-thread10202013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/open-thread10202013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/20\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and am still quite pooped.&#160; Last night it was Stuck on Stupid\u2019s turn.&#160; He\u2019s hard of hearing so he yells.&#160; Instead of yelling into the phone at home, he took it into the hall outside my door.&#160; When confronted he was apologized, but the damage was done.&#160; In a few days he\u2019ll forget all about it and do it again.&#160; Argh!&#160; Fantasy football players, check your lineups.&#160; I\u2019m making today a light day with just one other article to try to get some rest as I have prison volunteer days on both Tuesday and Thursday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:11 (average 5:31).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-10-20-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=\"http:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/video\/congressional-pac-dollars-used-to-employ-family-members\" target=\"_blank\">CREW<\/a>: <\/font>Congressional PAC dollars used to employ family members<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sy-fgIrZoRc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to CREW! This should not be happening!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2013\/10\/cruz-plans-to-read-affordable-care-act.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Now that the government shutdown is over, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) plans to read the Affordable Care Act, he told reporters today. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely been on my must-read list for a while now,\u201d Sen. Cruz said of the law often referred to as Obamacare. \u201cThings have just been so hectic around here lately, I couldn\u2019t get to it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Texas Senator said that he started reading the law this morning and observed, \u201cSo far, it\u2019s pretty dry.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The real irony here is that, if he actually did read the ACA, he would likely be the first US Senator or Representative to have done so.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/the-dirty-little-secret-that-fast-food-companies-dont-want-you-to-know?c=upw1\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>The Dirty Little Secret That Fast-Food Companies Don&#8217;t Want You To Know<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20fastfood\" 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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"20fastfood\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20fastfood.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is just one more example of welfare for the rich. We&#8217;re feeding rich people&#8217;s employees, so they don&#8217;t have to pay them enough to eat.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"20Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and am still quite pooped.&#160; Last night it was Stuck on Stupid\u2019s turn.&#160; He\u2019s hard of hearing so he yells.&#160; Instead of yelling into the phone at home, he took it into the hall outside my door.&#160; When confronted he was apologized, but the damage was done.&#160; In a few days <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/open-thread10202013\/' 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-11447","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\/11447","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=11447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}