{"id":11690,"date":"2013-11-21T00:28:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T08:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11690"},"modified":"2013-11-21T00:28:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T08:28:04","slug":"open-thread11212013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/21\/open-thread11212013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/21\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and hurrying to get this, tomorrow\u2019s only article, done before going for my eligibility interview for point-to-point disability transit.&#160; Unless things change, moving day is 12\/11, and the movers I\u2019m hiring will do most of the work.&#160; Financially I won\u2019t be hit overly hard by this, because I have been delaying gratification on things I wanted, and at times needed, for a couple of years to bury money in my kitty box to make this happen.&#160; Fantasy football players, don\u2019t forget to be set 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\u2019s took me 3:53 (average 4:58).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-11-21-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.upworthy.com\/whats-it-really-like-to-be-transgender-raw-answers-to-the-questions-youve-been-too-nervous-to-ask\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>:&#160; <\/font>What&#8217;s It Really Like To Be Transgender? Raw Answers To The Questions You&#8217;ve Been Too Nervous To Ask<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hbNYQzDtpq0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Johnnyboyxo. Sie has a more authentic sense of self than any Republican hatemonger.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/video.msnbc.msn.com\/rachel-maddow\/53606054\/#53607334\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans abandon the facts to bash Obama.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc7649de\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=53607334^0^333934&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc7649de\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=53607334^0^333934&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\">Rachel can call it Obama Derangement Syndrome, but I&#8217;ll call it the hypocrisy of TEAbuggery. Obama may have omitted God, but it must have been edited into the Gettysburg address, because the earliest versions also omit it.&#160; Republicans, however, omit God from Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/20\/us\/politics\/senate-democrats-consider-move-to-curb-filibusters.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, is prepared to move forward with a vote that could severely limit the minority party\u2019s ability to filibuster presidential nominees, possibly as early as this week, Democrats said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Exasperated with the refusal of Senate Republicans to confirm many of President Obama\u2019s nominees, Mr. Reid has been speaking individually with members of his caucus to gauge whether there is enough support to change filibuster rules. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On at least three previous occasions the Senate votes to Nuke the Republican Filibastards have been there. The last time Republicans withdrew the filibuster on several nominees, including the head of the CFPB. 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