{"id":11579,"date":"2013-11-04T00:20:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T08:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11579"},"modified":"2013-11-04T00:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T08:20:17","slug":"open-thread-1142013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/open-thread-1142013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/4\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.&#160; I did remember to fall back, and whem I did, I spent 4e5r minutes of that hour taking a cat nap.&#160; I\u2019m ready for more.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:12 (average 4:15).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-11-04-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.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/10\/28\/1251374\/-The-scariest-Republican-Halloween-costume-ever\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The scariest Republican Halloween costume ever<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1104HalloweenCostume\" 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=\"1104HalloweenCostume\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1104HalloweenCostume.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One could also go as a SNAP bill, an immigration bill, etc. ad infinitum.&#160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/up-with-steve-kornacki\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>How Virginia\u2019s races are playing out for GOP<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/EmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_up_6va_131102\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Terry McAuliffe would be my last choice as a Democratic candidate, but as Cuccinelli\u2019s fellow Republican said, Cuccinelli does not meet the standards to qualify as a mammal.&#160; So, go Terry!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/tea-party-and-right\/lies-nonsense-and-possible-psychotic-episodes-10-doozies-countrys-right-wing?paging=off&amp;current_page=1#bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Suzanne Somers is still an idiot, and the WSJ prints her error-ridden Obamacare hitjob anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Thighmaster spokeswoman Suzanne Somers has matured since her hit TV show days, her plumpers and politics have pretty much ossified. Her enlightened take on the Affordable Care Act appeared in the Wall Street Journal this week, concluding that it\u2019s \u201ca greater Ponzi scheme than that pulled off by Bernie Madoff.\u201d She wrote 535 hysterical words, in which Lenin came up in addition to Madoff, on the topic of this dreaded \u201csocialized medicine.\u201d By the next day, the Journal had published nearly a fifth as many words in corrections.<\/p>\n<p>But it did not correct the \u201cPonzi scheme\u201d assertion, which was based on flimsy anecdotes about relatives who had bad experiences with Canadian doctors, and how Somers is hearing on the news that everyone\u2019s premium is doubling and tripling. (Any guesses as to which so-called news channel she watches?)<\/p>\n<p>This piece of rocket science appeared in WSJ\u2019s &quot;The Experts&quot; section, which bills itself as \u201can exclusive group of industry, academic and cultural thought leaders who weigh in on the latest debates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will definitely be our go-to section for expert analysis henceforth.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is only the first of ten Republican doozies from last week alone. Click through for the other nine. Now the WSJ has always been conservative, but even in your wildest dreams, can you image that paper deeming Somers, an air-head who actually fits the blonde bimbo stereotype she played as Chrissy Snow, a health care expert?&#160;&#160; This would never have happened, before Rupert Murdoch started turning the WSJ into <em>Faux Print<\/em>, the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Jr.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1104Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1104Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1104Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.&#160; I did remember to fall back, and whem I did, I spent 4e5r minutes of that hour taking a cat nap.&#160; I\u2019m ready for more. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:12 (average 4:15).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From Daily Kos: The scariest Republican <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/open-thread-1142013\/' 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-11579","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\/11579","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=11579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}