{"id":12655,"date":"2014-05-01T00:32:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T07:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12655"},"modified":"2014-05-01T00:32:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T07:32:30","slug":"open-thread512014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/open-thread512014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/1\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, before leaving for my Urologist appointment.&#160; Because the temperature forecast for today is an unexpected 88\u00b0, I know I\u2019ll be in no shape to do anything when I get back.&#160; Day 10.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:57 (average 5:31).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-05-01-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\/how-bad-were-these-100000-kids-that-courts-had-them-sent-to-adult-prisons-the-reason-disgusts-me\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Am I crazy in thinking this is so <em>obviously<\/em> wrong? I really struggle to think how a person at any stage of this process is OK with sending a child to prison with adults.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NAJFWYFPgH0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This isn&#8217;t just crazy. It&#8217;s InsaniTEA.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2014\/04\/donald-sterling-apologizes.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling offered a \u201ctotal and remorseful\u201d apology for his racist comments today, telling reporters, \u201cOnce I saw that Donald Trump was defending me, I knew I had done something horribly wrong.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sterling acknowledged that he had turned a blind eye to a mountain of criticism from basketball luminaries and national leaders, but said that seeing Trump defend him on Fox News on Monday had left him \u201cshaken.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy!!! Talk about a bad hair day!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/04\/28\/1295118\/-Oklahoma-Gov-s-daughter-Performs-Fake-War-Dance-and-Calls-Natives-Sheep\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/eonm.org\" target=\"_blank\">Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry<\/a>, a group of Native parents and their allies from across the country were alerted to Oklahoma <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ok.gov\/governor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Mary Fallin<\/a>&#8216;s daughter, Christina Fallin&#8217;s latest gaff when her band Pink Pony announced via Facebook &quot;I heard Pink Piny [sic] was wearing full regalia tonight.&quot; Protestors led by Choctaw musician <a href=\"http:\/\/samanthacrain.com\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Crain<\/a> staged a protest at the <a href=\"http:\/\/normanmusicfestival.com\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Music Festival<\/a> in Oklahoma and Native American&#8217;s reaction via social media was outraged as Fallin wore a Native American-style fringed shawl with the word &quot;Sheep&quot; on the back and performed a fake war dance while her boyfriend Steven Battles ridiculed the protesters and flipped them off from the stage.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There it is! Republican family values are learned in Republican families.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0501CatPeeing\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0501CatPeeing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0501CatPeeing.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, before leaving for my Urologist appointment.&#160; Because the temperature forecast for today is an unexpected 88\u00b0, I know I\u2019ll be in no shape to do anything when I get back.&#160; Day 10. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 2:57 (average 5:31).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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