{"id":11858,"date":"2013-12-26T00:36:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T08:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2013-12-26T00:36:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T08:36:27","slug":"open-thread12262013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/26\/open-thread12262013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–12\/26\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, early on Christmas morning, because there will be no time later in the day, if I don\u2019t get it done now. No matter what your faith, I hope your Christmas has been everything you hoped it would be.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:42 (average 5:33).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Bill Moyers<\/a>: <\/font>BillMoyers.com\u2019s Most Popular Segments of 2013<\/p>\n

Click through for an incredibly good collection of video clips.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) spent the Senate\u2019s last day in session in 2013 in the hospital due to what doctors diagnosed as exhaustion.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reid is a hard worker, but how ironic is it that he was fatigued by presiding over half of what has been the least productive year of Congress in history<\/a>?<\/p>\n

In the first of its two years the 113th Congress passed fewer than 60 bills, far less than the 395 passed by what President Harry Truman called<\/a> the \u201cDo Nothing Congress\u201d of 1947.<\/p>\n

It’s less than the 90 bills passed in 2011, when a Republican takeover of the House [Faux Noise delinked<\/em>] left a divided Congress that set the previous mark for dysfunction.<\/p>\n

Poor Harry! Having to swing those ObamaBalls is really hard! \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

From Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>It was a big year for bigots of all stripes, but particularly for anti-LGBT bigots. The U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision to strike down 1996\u2032s federal anti-LGBT statute \u2014 the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) \u2014 and declare California\u2019s Proposition 8 unconstitutional inspired America\u2019s anti-LGBT jerkwads to a whole new level of hateful excellence.<\/p>\n

This year, they proclaimed that \u201ctraditional marriage\u201d is in danger and that the LGBT shock troops are going to force everyone to get same sex married. They declared that Christians are going to be rounded up and put into camps (if only!) and that the future will be nothing more than a fabulous Gucci jackboot stamping on a human face\u2026forever.<\/p>\n

Here are Raw Story\u2019s nominees for the Top Five anti-LGBT assholes of the year, as well as some mitigating factors about each one and our proposed punishments for each offender.<\/p>\n

Click through for a thoroughly disgusting collection of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian hate mongers.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, early on Christmas morning, because there will be no time later in the day, if I don\u2019t get it done now. No matter what your faith, I hope your Christmas has been everything you hoped it would be. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:42 (average 5:33).  To do it, click […]<\/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-11858","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\/11858","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=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}