{"id":13063,"date":"2014-06-22T02:06:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13063"},"modified":"2014-06-22T02:09:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T09:09:20","slug":"open-thread622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/open-thread622\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/22\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Day 62.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m writing for tomorrow, and this is the only article, because I&rsquo;m worn out.&nbsp; Why?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TCLaundry\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TCLaundry.jpg\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"TCLaundry\" width=\"650\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s took me 3:06 (average 4:25).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-06-22-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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\/he-didnt-reveal-a-truth-about-himself-until-he-was-almost-70-then-his-career-really-took-off\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>I&#39;ve lived over seven decades, through a World War where we were put in camps because of our race to playing the Asian helmsman of the Enterprise, from the blossoming of the Stonewall riots to today, where we help carry the banner for marriage equality. Here is my story. I&#39;m living proof that &quot;It Got Better.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oWL3xmjhC3c?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don&#39;t beam him up, Scotty. Her has a lot more living to do!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2014\/06\/in-rare-consensus-sunnis-shiites-tell-cheney-to-shut-up.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a development that offers a faint glimmer of hope for Iraq, both Sunnis and Shiites are finding common ground in the view that former Vice-President Dick Cheney seriously needs to shut up.<\/p>\n<p>In the days following the publication, this week, of a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece about Iraq that Cheney wrote with his daughter Liz, hatred of the former Vice-President has, to the surprise of many, become the first thing that Sunnis and Shiites have agreed upon in centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi observers in recent days have reported seeing both Sunnis and Shiites reading the Cheneys&rsquo; op-ed then tearing it to shreds in a rage.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How about a Sunni v. Shia shoe-throwing contest with ChickenHawk as the target? It sure beats killing each other!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/06\/former-pa-health-employees-we-were-told\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/pennsylvania\/2014\/06\/19\/former-state-health-employees-say-they-were-silenced-on-drilling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania, land of ethical giants!<\/a> Nice corrupt little relationship the Corbett administration has with the fracking industry, don&#39;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Two retirees from the Pennsylvania Department of Health say its employees were silenced on the issue of Marcellus Shale drilling.<\/p>\n<p>One veteran employee says she was instructed not to return phone calls from residents who expressed health concerns about natural gas development.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were absolutely not allowed to talk to them,&rdquo; said Tammi Stuck, who worked as a community health nurse in Fayette County for nearly 36 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JTw3NwvXfx0?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When the facts and Republican propaganda disagree, health officials will lose their jobs unless they shut the frack up!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0622Cartoon\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/0622Cartoon.jpg\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"0622Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 62.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m writing for tomorrow, and this is the only article, because I&rsquo;m worn out.&nbsp; Why? Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#39;s took me 3:06 (average 4:25).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short Takes: From Upworthy: I&#39;ve lived over seven decades, through a World War where we were put in camps because <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/open-thread622\/' 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-13063","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\/13063","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=13063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}