{"id":12093,"date":"2014-01-30T00:24:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T08:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12093"},"modified":"2014-01-30T00:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T08:24:39","slug":"open-thread1302014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/30\/open-thread1302014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/30\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and I\u2019m feeling pretty tired from staying up late to watch the SOTU speech and the assorted responses for tomorrow\u2019s piece on that sublet.&#160; Unfortunately I have to stay up now for my first Store to Door delivery.      <br \/><strong><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>J<\/strong><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>ig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:45 (average 5:25).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-01-30-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>My oxygen<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">About my Oxygen, I have two different rigs. The first is my concentrator, which I use at home, primarily when I&#8217;m sleeping. I don&#8217;t need oxygen when at rest, except for sleeping. It concentrates Oxygen already in the room. The other is a portable, which I use when away from home. It feeds my oxygen from a small tank in metered puffs. I turn it on when walking, climbing stairs and catching my breath. My provider, which I have to use because of my Medicare plan, delivers six full tanks at a time and picks up the empties. If I get a dud, they do not charge for it, but the two times it has happened, it was the last tank, and it was a prison volunteer day. If I had plugged it in last Thursday, when I returned from prison, I could have gotten a replacement on Monday. I did not, because I was tired. So I really have nobody to blame but myself.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2014\/01\/29-1\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) is making national headlines on Wednesday after he physically threatened a television reporter from NY1 News, telling journalist Michael Scotto that he would &quot;break him in half&quot; and &quot;throw [him] of this fucking balcony&quot; after getting angry when asked a question he said was not up for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QbpxVO-mnYU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To threaten violence, when called to account for criminal behavior, is a thoroughly Republican reaction!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/01\/28\/1273177\/-House-Republicans-vote-to-ban-abortion-coverage-that-s-not-in-Obamacare\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Rebranding be damned. Nothing is going to stop the Republicans from continuing their War on Women and their obsession with abortion. Add their obsession with Obamacare, and you have today&#8217;s massive waste of time and taxpayer dollars: the &quot;No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act.&quot; It passed today, 227-188\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And no, there is no taxpayer funding for abortion coverage in Obamacare. House Blue Dogs and Senate ConservaDems made sure of that back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, just like 99 percent of the bills the House passes\u2014mostly focused on Obamacare repeal or abortion\u2014won&#8217;t even make it to the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s just a big lie to pass a bill to solve a problem that does not exist.&#160; When Republicans say government is the problem, sometimes they are right, but only because of the way they govern.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2014\/01\/obamas-call-to-end-tragedies-angers-pro-tragedy-wing-in-congress.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama\u2019s call during his State of the Union address to \u201cstop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans\u201d received a frosty response from the pro-tragedy wing in Congress last night.<\/p>\n<p>After Mr. Obama made his controversial stopping-tragedies remark, prominent pro-tragedy members of Congress looked on in stony silence, refusing to applaud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was offensive and inappropriate,\u201d said Sen. David Vitter (R-Louisiana). \u201cIf the President wants co\u00f6peration from Congress, he should refrain from his divisive and inflammatory anti-tragedy rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pro-tragedy lobby is among the most powerful in Washington, spending millions annually to defeat politicians who oppose tragedies.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL Andy! Republicans love tragedies. First they deny aid to all but the favored few, and then, after they cave-in, they get to steal the relief funds. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0130Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0130Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0130Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Could the culprits have been Republican Supply-side pseudo-Hindus?&#160; Seriously, there are parallels here.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and I\u2019m feeling pretty tired from staying up late to watch the SOTU speech and the assorted responses for tomorrow\u2019s piece on that sublet.&#160; Unfortunately I have to stay up now for my first Store to Door delivery. 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