{"id":12325,"date":"2014-03-09T00:22:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T08:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12325"},"modified":"2014-03-09T00:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T08:22:02","slug":"open-thread392014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/09\/open-thread392014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/9\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and am feeling a bit spacey having napped after finishing my research.&#160; I have a lot of housework on tap for today and tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:35 (average 4:59).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-03-09-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\/jon-stewart-slays-the-food-stamp-fraud-dragon-in-one-hilarious-clip\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Every six months to a year, the Fox &quot;News&quot; crew gets around to attacking the poor, those on food stamps, and others not like them because, you know, hate and stuff. And the results, after Jon Stewart slices them up and serves them raw with his own special verbal jiujitsu sauce, are deliciously hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed.html?eid=tsn_ceoj20zywgyaqng99q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"512\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jon sure has a handle on the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/03\/06\/1282678\/-The-GOP-s-problem-with-non-white-voters-in-one-awesome-picture\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The GOP&#8217;s problem with non-white voters, in one awesome picture<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0309CPACMinorityOutreach\" 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=\"0309CPACMinorityOutreach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/0309CPACMinorityOutreach.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the audience for the Minority Outreach Panel at CPUKE.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/cafe\/civil-rights-filibuster-could-have-chilling-effect-on-tomorrow-s-lawyers\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>On November 27, 1770, John Adams began the most important trial of his legal career. His clients were eight British soldiers who, when confronted by an angry gathering of Boston patriots, fired into the crowd, killing five. The soldiers were accused of murder and threatened with the death penalty. Adams was a patriot, openly and adamantly opposed to British occupation of the colonies, with no love of the British army. He took the case, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/national-security\/john-adams-and-boston-massacre\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a> \u201cone of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country,\u201d because in this nation, even before its founding, every accused criminal is entitled to zealous legal defense.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, the Senate blocked the confirmation of Debo Adegbile President Obama\u2019s nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Every Senate Republican voted against Adegbile\u2019s nomination. They were <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/senate-democrats-torpedo-obama-s-top-civil-rights-nominee?utm_content=buffer3897e&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">joined<\/a> by eight Democrats: Senators Casey, Coons, Donnelly, Heitkamp, Manchin, Pryor, and Walsh. The main charge against Adegbile is that, during the ten years he worked with the NAACP, he worked on a brief that successfully commuted the death sentence given to Mumia Abu-Jamal, a man convicted of murdering a police officer thirty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Casey said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/senate-democrats-torpedo-obama-s-top-civil-rights-nominee\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> explaining his vote: \u201cI respect that our system of law ensures the right of all citizens to legal representation no matter how heinous the crime.\u201d It is difficult if not impossible to reconcile this statement with his vote against Mr. Adegbile. The right of every citizen to competent legal representation simply cannot survive in a climate where politicians punish lawyers for the acts of their worst, most despised clients.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If one of the DINOs is yours, give them an earful!&#160; I could not have said this better. 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