{"id":11480,"date":"2013-10-24T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11480"},"modified":"2013-10-24T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T07:01:31","slug":"open-thread10242013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/24\/open-thread10242013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/24\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite pooped after yesterday\u2019s trip to the prison.&#160; One of my guys just received a release date in April.&#160; We discussed how to be come personally empowered one needs to let go od control.&#160; My guys never cease to amaze me.&#160; Tomorrow is a meeting with over 100 guys, so I\u2019m going to write and go to bed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:56 (average 5:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-10-24-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\/shes-worked-at-mcdonalds-for-10-years-she-asked-its-president-a-simple-question-then-cops-came\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>She&#8217;s Worked At McDonald&#8217;s For 10 Years. She Asked Its President A Simple Question. Then Cops Came.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TpePh4Cal58?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Nancy and all the other workers fighting to earn enough to feed themselves.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/10\/22\/1249531\/-OMG-Pope-says-ideological-Christians-as-a-serious-illness-within-the-Church\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Lordy, Lordy!!<\/p>\n<p>Is this Pope for real???<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/10\/21\/pope-francis-describes-ideological-christians-as-a-serious-illness-within-the-church\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Francis describes \u2018ideological Christians\u2019 as a \u2018serious illness\u2019 within the Church<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd when a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought\u2026 For this reason Jesus said to them: \u2018You have taken away the key of knowledge.\u2019 The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m really starting to like this Pope!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all-in\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Fact Checker debunks Faux Noise<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/EmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_3stern_131021\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I covered this a free cays ago, and this should flesh that out. Faux Noise is still the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda. Chris makes an excellent point about how the sheeple on display are just parroting the garbage Faux Noise has fed them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Note: MSNBC has changed their website, and the new system doe not provide me with a link to the actual video.&#160; The best I can<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> do is link to the show.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"24Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"24Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/24Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank you Labor!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite pooped after yesterday\u2019s trip to the prison.&#160; One of my guys just received a release date in April.&#160; We discussed how to be come personally empowered one needs to let go od control.&#160; My guys never cease to amaze me.&#160; Tomorrow is a meeting with over 100 guys, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/24\/open-thread10242013\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11480","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\/11480","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=11480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}