{"id":12997,"date":"2014-06-13T00:07:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12997"},"modified":"2014-06-13T00:07:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T07:07:11","slug":"open-thread6132014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/open-thread6132014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/13\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite tired.  Physical therapy was tiring and painful, and every time I\u2019ve gotten to sleep, I\u2019ve gotten a phone call.  Day 53.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:05 (average 4:43).  To do it. click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a development that few had thought possible, Republicans in the Seventh District of Virginia on Tuesday night found an even bigger tool than Rep. Eric Cantor to represent them in the United States Congress.<\/p>\n

Apparently deciding that Cantor was insufficiently heartless to represent their district, Republicans turned out to the polls to elect David Brat, a man whose political views \u201cborder on sociopathy,\u201d according to exit-poll responses from voters who supported him.<\/p>\n

During his concession speech, Rep. Cantor reflected on the mistakes that might have led to his defeat: \u201cShould I have cut more school-lunch programs for poor children? Perhaps. Should I have cast more votes to screw over disaster victims? Definitely. Should I have not said the thing about treating children of immigrants like human beings? Man, do I wish I could take that one back. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, but at the end of the day I was just too damn empathic for this district.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andy\u2019s satire rings completely true.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>No one would argue that learning disabilities don’t exist or shouldn’t be diagnosed, but let’s take a step back to see what happens to some kids who get that label.<\/p>\n

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This picture truly IS worth a thousand words.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>After only one day Fox News has already eliminated coverage of the Tea Party Cop Killers in Las Vegas who went on a murderous rampage Sunday. On Monday, Fox’s primetime programs (Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Sean Hannity) were silent on the subject except for four sentences on Kelly’s show.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday morning’s edition of Fox & Friends, the curvy couch potatoes failed to mention Jerad Miller and his wife Amanda. Later, on Happening Now, Fox ignored the story entirely. Outnumbered also declined to report on the Millers, despite having guest co-host "doctor" Keith Ablow who has psychoanalyzed every criminal<\/a>, politician, and other public figure this century (without ever examining, or even meeting, any of them)…<\/p>\n

…Fox has replaced the Sunday massacre with older stories about the Bergdahl prisoner swap, the Veterans Administration, and Hillary Clinton’s book release and presidential aspirations. The producers and editors at Fox News have never been shy about reporting acts of alleged terrorism, even before any evidence has emerged. But for this story they have refused to even refer to the crime as terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are some obvious reasons why Fox would skew their reporting and ultimately remove this story from their news coverage. And all of them represent biases that are a long-standing part of what can be called the Fox News Creed: Racism, Guns, Anti-Government, and Tea Party.<\/p>\n

Is it any surprise that the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, is not covering an act of terrorism committed by a Republican designated patriot? If the sheeple found out, it could be very, very BA-A-A-A-A-AD!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite tired.  Physical therapy was tiring and painful, and every time I\u2019ve gotten to sleep, I\u2019ve gotten a phone call.  Day 53. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:05 (average 4:43).  To do it. click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From The New Yorker: In a development […]<\/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-12997","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\/12997","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=12997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}