{"id":12196,"date":"2014-02-15T01:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T09:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12196"},"modified":"2014-02-15T01:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T09:12:56","slug":"open-thread2152014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/15\/open-thread2152014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/15\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite tired after going out to run errands and doing a bunch of volunteer paperwork, so I\u2019m going to limit myself to just this article today.&#160; I hope you are all staying warm and safe.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:07 (average 4:55).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-02-15-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\/she-wants-to-be-treated-like-any-other-widow-but-one-letter-on-her-id-is-making-it-impossible\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>In a 2004 ceremony in Orange County, N.Y., Robina Asti, a World War II veteran and pilot, married her longtime sweetheart, Norwood Patton. After Norwood passed away in 2012, Robina applied for survivor&#8217;s benefits, and a terrible thing happened. Listen to her story.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qdiD78cZALY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In my opinion, she should have been accorded the same treatment that any other widow would have received.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A-EcsZEnLls\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Plans to beat Boehner on Minimum Wage &amp; Immigration &#8211; Rachel Maddow <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-EcsZEnLls?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I see this as a lose-lose scenario for Republicans. If Democrats get the required number of signatures, we the people win. However, I think that getting twenty eight Republicans to sign it, without being able to use Agent Orange (Boehner) as cover, is not likely. Nevertheless, we get to put all Republicans who refuse to sign it on front street. When we make Republicans demonstrate who they really are to voters, they lose.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2014\/02\/a-letter-from-comcast-and-time-warner-cable.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Dear subscribers,<\/p>\n<p>Today, it was announced that Comcast is joining forces with Time Warner Cable in a friendly acquisition worth $45 billion. As we could have expected, many people are wondering what this transaction will mean to the service that you, our subscribers, will enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>We know that all of your comments, however mean-spirited some of them may have been, have come from a good place: genuine concern about what this merger will mean for your future cable service. At Comcast\/Time Warner, we care deeply about those concerns, and, to help allay them, here are some answers to the Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.s) we have received since the merger was announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How will the merger affect the price of my cable service?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: There is no clear answer to that. But we will be introducing financing options, roughly similar to those that enabled you to attend college.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Once again Andy&#8217;s satire is virtually true. Click through for the rest. The deal should not be allowed to go through because of antitrust laws.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:       <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0215Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0215Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0215Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite tired after going out to run errands and doing a bunch of volunteer paperwork, so I\u2019m going to limit myself to just this article today.&#160; I hope you are all staying warm and safe. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:07 (average 4:55).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/15\/open-thread2152014\/' 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-12196","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\/12196","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=12196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}