{"id":12599,"date":"2014-04-21T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2014-04-21T00:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T07:00:54","slug":"open-thread4212014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/21\/open-thread4212014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/21\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling a bit groggy after wrapping myself around a generous portion of chili beef, rice and veggies casserole, topped with melted cheese.&#160; I got some bad news last night.&#160; The group controlling the prison Activities area on Tuesday maxed out their guest list, so I was bumped from my CoDA.&#160; Once I have my volunteer card, that will no longer happen.&#160; Please don\u2019t expect much tomorrow.&#160; I have a Urologist appointment.&#160; I\u2019m not sick.&#160; I have to go in to fill the cup and get an exam, because he changed my meds in February.&#160; The process will kill half the day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:52 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-04-21-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\/the-most-honest-and-awful-corporate-ad-i-have-ever-laid-my-eyes-on-no-they-arent-drunk-i-swear\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>In this delightful satirical look at a corporate PSA, some energy executives tell us what they are REALLY thinking. YAY! <\/p>\n<p>Just FYI, this uses language that is not safe for work. Also, as I mentioned in the first sentence, this is actually satire, not a real company. Real companies would just keep pretending none of this is true.<\/p>\n<p>So in case you didn&#8217;t see the other sentences, I&#8217;d like to make clear that this is satire. Also, satire warning.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tqXzAUaTUSc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang!! Australia has imported Republicans!! \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/04\/18\/1292892\/-Fox-s-Dana-Perino-Calls-President-Obama-a-Jerk\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Dana Perino on Fox News&#8217; The Five:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/198932\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Without getting into the infinite list of times that <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, has done exactly what they are accusing Obama of doing, calling him a jerk is just the only argument they can make, because he&#8217;s right. Perhaps they might like some cheese with their whine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/20\/us\/politics\/republicans-see-political-wedge-in-common-core.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The health care law may be Republicans\u2019 favorite weapon against Democrats this year, but there is another issue roiling their party and shaping the establishment-versus-grass-roots divide ahead of the 2016 presidential primaries: the Common Core.<\/p>\n<p>A once little-known set of national educational standards introduced in 44 states and the District of Columbia with the overwhelming support of Republican governors, the Common Core has incited intense resistance on the right and prompted some in the party to reverse field and join colleagues who believe it will lead to a federal takeover of schools.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives denounce it as \u201cObamacore,\u201d in what has become a surefire applause line for potential presidential hopefuls. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Without Common Core, children in Republican controlled states will get to learn Dinosaur Riding 101, Racism 102, Homophobia 103, Misogyny 104, TEAbuggery 105, and little more.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0421Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0421Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/0421Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling a bit groggy after wrapping myself around a generous portion of chili beef, rice and veggies casserole, topped with melted cheese.&#160; I got some bad news last night.&#160; The group controlling the prison Activities area on Tuesday maxed out their guest list, so I was bumped from my CoDA.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/21\/open-thread4212014\/' 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-12599","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\/12599","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=12599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}