{"id":12482,"date":"2014-04-02T02:18:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T09:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12482"},"modified":"2014-04-02T02:18:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T09:18:04","slug":"open-thread422014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/02\/open-thread422014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/2\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and I spent the entire morning collecting the data for the Monthly Report.&#160; I still have errands to run.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:03 (average 4:56).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-04-02-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\/it-could-have-been-the-31st-state-to-lose-instead-its-young-people-turned-a-national-trend-around-cg1-5c-2\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>It begins at 1:28 when a bunch of young go-getters band together to battle a nationwide stigma. We learn about a neat strategy to get people to vote \u2014 called a \u201cdorm storm\u201d \u2014 at 4:58. At 9:05, she considers what&#8217;s at stake if they lose the battle. And, yup, the moment you were waiting for happens at 10:02. Keep your tissues handy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and they call millennials lazy. Pffft.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OavrOkgAeko?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We need more kids like those!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2014\/03\/sheldon-adelson-says-no-republican-candidate-worth-buying.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The casino billionaire and Republican kingmaker Sheldon Adelson met several 2016 G.O.P. candidates available for purchase over the weekend, but decided to buy none of them, Adelson confirmed today. <\/p>\n<p>After hearing speeches by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and several others who were for sale, Mr. Adelson concluded that none of them are worth owning. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to spend millions on another loser,\u201d said Adelson, who purchased both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in 2012. <\/p>\n<p>The casino magnate was scathing in his assessment of the candidates he declined to buy, calling them \u201ca third-rate grab bag of has-beens and dimwits.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Funny as Andy is with his satire, you can be sure Adelson will buy at least one of them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/cia-misled-on-interrogation-program-senate-report-says\/2014\/03\/31\/eb75a82a-b8dd-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years \u2014 concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact surrendered before they were subjected to harsh techniques.<\/p>\n<p>The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use \u2014 and later tried to defend \u2014 excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed the document. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CIA described [its program] repeatedly both to the Department of Justice and eventually to Congress as getting unique, otherwise unobtainable intelligence that helped disrupt terrorist plots and save thousands of lives,\u201d said one U.S. official briefed on the report. \u201cWas that actually true? The answer is no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current and former U.S. officials who described the report spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue and because the document remains classified. The 6,300-page report includes what officials described as damning new disclosures about a sprawling network of secret detention facilities, or \u201cblack sites,\u201d that was dismantled by President Obama in 2009. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I trust you probably knew this. Now we know that we know. Soon what we know will be officially public. Thank God Obama kept his word and tore it down.&#160; Click through.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0402Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0402Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/0402Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and I spent the entire morning collecting the data for the Monthly Report.&#160; I still have errands to run. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:03 (average 4:56).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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