{"id":12593,"date":"2014-04-20T01:01:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12593"},"modified":"2014-04-20T01:01:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T08:01:04","slug":"open-thread4202014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/20\/open-thread4202014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–4\/20\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and my COPD is flaring up, but the time being what it is, you get your annual visit from the Easter Cat. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 2:42 (average 5:17).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Before you go all, "But it’s their money!" I have one thing to say: This country’s entire infrastructure is what enabled these people to make the money they are now hiding away in other countries to avoid paying taxes on it. <\/p>\n

\"0420offshore\"<\/p>\n

How about a 120% penalty for offshoring?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n

Let’s superimpose that Karl Rove polling from earlier today<\/a> with the amount of money the Kochs have spent in those states. The number in parenthesis is the trendline from earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Arkansas
<\/strong>Pryor 39 (36)
Cotton 39 (42)<\/p>\n

Mark Pryor’s numbers went up, Cotton’s went down, and this is now the sixth poll in a row that doesn’t show Republicans winning a seat they’ve already pencilled in as their own. <\/p>\n

That rise in Pryor’s numbers, in Rove’s own polling, comes despite $2 million<\/a> (and counting) spent by the Kochs.<\/p>\n

Colorado<\/strong>
Udall 45 (45)
Gardner 43 (44)<\/p>\n

Mark Udall has kept steady despite at least $2 million in Koch attack ads (first buy<\/a>, second buy<\/a>).<\/p>\n

They can’t claim Democratic bias in polls from Rove Rat. Click through for more examples.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Channeling Mike Huckabee<\/a>, WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah [World Nut Daily delinked<\/em>] writes today that liberalism inevitably leads to \u201cthe end of freedom\u201d and \u201cdeath on a massive scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farah writes that he once \u201cswam in the cesspool\u201d of the progressive movement, and knows how it \u201cworks and why it is such an effective weapon of intimidation and coercion.\u201d<\/p>\n

He goes on to warn that universities have \u201cindoctrinated\u201d students into a \u201cvenomous, anti-American and anti-liberty ideology,\u201d arguing that academia is \u201credefining right and wrong\u201d in order to \u201cachieve a totalitarian state\u201d akin to Nazi Germany, Pol Pot\u2019s Cambodia and North Korea.<\/p>\n

If there was ever a case of projection, this is it!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0420Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and my COPD is flaring up, but the time being what it is, you get your annual visit from the Easter Cat. \ud83d\ude09 Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 2:42 (average 5:17).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From Upworthy: Before you go all, "But it’s […]<\/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-12593","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\/12593","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=12593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}