{"id":12343,"date":"2014-03-12T00:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T07:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12343"},"modified":"2014-03-12T00:38:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T07:38:06","slug":"open-thread3122014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/open-thread3122014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/12\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and I\u2019m feeling most unhappy, because my bad leg acted up, and I could not go for my volunteer meeting in prison, because I cannot handle the stairs today.&#160; The one plus is that I\u2019m here to write for you.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 5:02 (average 7:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-03-12-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\/never-before-have-i-laughed-so-hard-at-one-guys-non-attempt-to-save-the-planet\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>We all know the rainforest is being destroyed. Heck, the entire planet&#8217;s in distress! But is there really anything we can do about it? Actually, yes. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3iIkOi3srLo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can&#8217;t speak for or against the credibility of &quot;rainforest certified&quot;, so I leave that to those of you who are in the know, but I love this ad for them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/03\/10\/1283593\/-Arizona-governor-s-office-worked-on-religious-liberty-bill-language-before-veto\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The extent to which Arizona governor Jan Brewer&#8217;s office worked with legislators to tweak the language of &quot;religious liberty&quot; bill SB 1062 shows, according to Arizona governor Jan Brewer&#8217;s office, nothing at all. To the rest of us it&#8217;s another reminder of just how close Arizona&#8217;s newest legislative fiasco came to <a href=\"http:\/\/azcapitoltimes.com\/news\/2014\/03\/10\/sb1062-az-jan-brewers-office-negotiated-changes-before-veto\/#ixzz2vaMxQR00\" target=\"_blank\">becoming a state reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Documents obtained by Capitol Media Services show gubernatorial counsel Joe Sciarrotta and adviser Michael Hunter met with staffers from the Center for Arizona Policy as early as January about the legislation. The documents, mainly e-mail exchanges before and after meetings, show the alterations made in the legislation at the behest of the Brewer advisers. [&#8230;] <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the intent of the meetings, the purpose of the meetings, was to thoroughly vet the language, address their concerns, and make changes in the language pursuant to their concerns,\u201d [CAP President Cathi Herrod] said. She said her organization addressed every concern raised by Hunter and Sciarrotta with the idea that this year\u2019s version would not meet the same fate as a similar bill Brewer vetoed last year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There it is. The Brewerstan Death Angel, vetoed this bill only because the Republican Party could not get away with it. Her claim to object to the content was a lie, because it was content that she had helped to formulate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/11\/opinion\/the-democrats-stand-up-to-the-kochs.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Democrats have for too long been passive in the face of the vast amounts of corporate money, most of it secret, that are being spent to evict them from office and dismantle their policies. By far the largest voice in many of this year\u2019s political races, for example, has been that of the Koch brothers, who have spent tens of millions of dollars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2014\/feb\/26\/advocacy-group-stirs-michigan-senate-race-ad-f\/\">peddling phony stories<\/a> about the impact of health care reform, all in order to put Republicans in control of the Senate after the November elections.<\/p>\n<p>Now Democrats are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/new-democratic-strategy-goes-after-koch-brothers.html\">starting to fight back<\/a>, deciding they should at least try to counter the tycoons with some low-cost speech of their own. Democrats may never have the same resources at their disposal \u2014 no party should \u2014 but they can use their political pulpits to stand up for a few basic principles, including the importance of widespread health-insurance coverage, environmental protection and safety-net programs.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Corporations are NOT people!! Money is NOT speech!! Therefore, we must use people to trump corporations and speech to trump money!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0312Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0312Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/0312Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and I\u2019m feeling most unhappy, because my bad leg acted up, and I could not go for my volunteer meeting in prison, because I cannot handle the stairs today.&#160; The one plus is that I\u2019m here to write for you. 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