{"id":12738,"date":"2014-05-11T00:19:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T07:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12738"},"modified":"2014-05-11T00:19:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T07:19:48","slug":"open-thread5112014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/11\/open-thread5112014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/11\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.  My Air conditioner arrived last night.  I spent this morning cleaning and preparing the area where it will be installed, so I got a late start on research.  They will install it on Monday or Tuesday, and that\u2019s just in time, because Wednesday is forecast to be a another unseasonal scorcher.  Day 20.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 2:39 (average 4:45).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Family Research Council President Tony Perkins implied today that Christians who support gay rights don\u2019t have the same religious rights as conservative Christians because \u201ctrue religious freedom\u201d only applies to \u201corthodox religious viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, a group of North Carolina ministers and same-sex couples, along with the United Church of Christ denomination, filed a lawsuit challenging<\/a> North Carolina\u2019s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

The clergy argue that because of a law that makes it a misdemeanor for a member of the clergy to perform a marriage ceremony without a state license, the same-sex marriage ban violates the religious rights of clergy who wish to perform such ceremonies.<\/p>\n

When a caller on Monday\u2019s edition of \u201cWashington Watch\u201d [pseudo-Christians delinked<\/em>] asked Perkins about his views on the case, Perkins replied that the ministers don\u2019t have the same religious rights as others because they aren\u2019t real Christians and therefore aren\u2019t protected by the \u201ctrue religious freedoms\u201d given to Christians<\/strong>. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n

There you have it straight from the horse’s ass’s mouth. Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians hold that the freedom of religion guaranteed in the First Amendment is for them only.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Of course there was going to be opposition to creating the first national women’s history museum. Now close your eyes and ask yourself this question\u2014who do you suppose had the dumbest opposition to such a thing?<\/a><\/p>\n

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"I rise today in opposition to this bill, because I believe ultimately this museum that will be built on the National Mall, on federal land, will enshrine the radical feminist movement that stands against the pro-life movement, the pro-family movement, and pro-traditional marriage movement," [Rep. Michele Bachmann] said on the House floor Wednesday ahead of a vote on the bill.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh yeah, that’s the stuff. That’s why we’re gonna miss Michele Bachmann when she’s gone. <\/p>\n

When Batshit B is gone, we shall have lost a wondrous source of material for humor. But I can live with the loss. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Millions of unemployed Americans who have fruitlessly been looking for work for months are determined that Congress get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi, a new poll indicates. <\/p>\n

According to the survey, job-seeking Americans hope that Congress will eventually do something about job creation, but they are adamant that it hold new hearings about Benghazi first. <\/p>\n

By a wide majority, respondents to the poll \u201cstrongly agreed\u201d with the statement \u201cI would really like to find a job, but not if it in any way distracts Congress from my No. 1 concern: finding out what really happened in Benghazi.\u201d <\/p>\n

The problem here is that Republicans will think Andy is serious.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.  My Air conditioner arrived last night.  I spent this morning cleaning and preparing the area where it will be installed, so I got a late start on research.  They will install it on Monday or Tuesday, and that\u2019s just in time, because Wednesday is forecast to be a another unseasonal scorcher.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738","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=12738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}