{"id":12990,"date":"2014-06-12T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12990"},"modified":"2014-06-12T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T07:02:37","slug":"open-thread6122014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/open-thread6122014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/12\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and trying to get as much rest as I can, because tomorrow is a physical therapy day.&#160; Because that is sure to involve pain, I may have little or nothing to post on Friday.&#160; Day 52.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:02 (average 4:58).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-06-12-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-before-and-after-aerial-images-are-going-to-be-preeeetty-freaky\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Here\u2019s a video that sorta shows what could happen to different cities as the tides rise. I get it; we don\u2019t know exactly what that world will actually look like after this goes down. I\u2019m guessing there will be levees, water pumps, sandbags, and other city-saving devices to protect the coasts for a little while. However, this artist wanted to make a point \u2014 an important point \u2014 about protecting what we\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xvdnhySsEYY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You can be sure that the 1% will allow is the exclusive use of inundated dwellings.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2014\/06\/hillary-considers-dropping-2016-bid-after-reading-one-star-reviews-on-amazon.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today that she is \u201cseriously considering\u201d not running for President in 2016 after reading an avalanche of scathing one-star reviews on Amazon for her new book, \u201cHard Choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Clinton said that she was \u201cshattered\u201d to discover that dozens of people had apparently purchased her book on its first day of publication, read all six hundred and fifty-six pages in one sitting, and judged the finished product so unsatisfactory that it only merited one star on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people all read my book cover to cover on the very first day it was published, so they must have really been looking forward to it,\u201d a shaken Clinton told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s devastating for me to think about how I must have let them down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">But Andy, we already knew it stunk, because you told us Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot refused to plagiarize it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/06\/10\/1305783\/-Guns-at-the-ballot-box-what-could-possibly-go-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Guns everywhere does mean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtok.com\/home\/headlines\/Alabama-Debating-Guns-in-Polling-Places--262244341.html?device=tablet\" target=\"_blank\">everywhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Montgomery, Alabama officials have mere weeks to sort out whether gun-toting voters should be allowed in polling places under a new state law. <\/p>\n<p>Differing interpretations of the new law became a problem in Tuesday&#8217;s primary after men showed up with guns in at least two precincts near Birmingham. Also, an east Alabama county first banned guns from polling places only to change the policy.<\/p>\n<p>A law enforcement leader in Shelby County says someone needs to sort out the confusion before the runoff election on July 15. Two armed voters tried to cast ballots there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Boy, I sure would hate to be a black voter in Alabama when a bunch of open carry nuts decide to show up with their high-powered rifles and Confederate T-shirts. Let me guess the response from the gun nuts: &quot;Hey &#8230; just exercising our rights! Wanna make something of it?&quot; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Bill Maher coined the term Ammosexual, did he nail it, or what?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0612Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0612Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/0612Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, and trying to get as much rest as I can, because tomorrow is a physical therapy day.&#160; Because that is sure to involve pain, I may have little or nothing to post on Friday.&#160; Day 52. 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