{"id":13073,"date":"2014-06-24T00:51:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T07:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13073"},"modified":"2014-06-24T00:51:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T07:51:23","slug":"open-thread6242014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/open-thread6242014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/24\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Day 64.&#160; I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.&#160; The woman I pay to help mw with housekeeping called yesterday to say she could not come today, but could yesterday.&#160; Cool!&#160; But a lot of the work she he4lps me with are things that require two people, like cleaning behind the kitchen counter, so it became a work day for me too.&#160; I\u2019m more than a little tired, but the major cleaning is all done for another couple of months.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:39 (average 4:40).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-06-24-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\/watching-a-black-woman-smile-in-the-face-of-racism-is-pure-delight-then-she-goes-in-for-the-hug\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Mo Asumang is a German TV host and filmmaker, and what she pulls off in this video is amazing. Not only does Mo speak with groups of people who claim to hate her (which she does with grace and compassion), but she actually gets a few of them to let down their guard and reveal they might just have a heart. It&#8217;s fascinating to witness and probably the one and only context in which you can root for a racist \u2014 to stop being racist!<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jiTXnKEyecg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! Republicans are exporting TEAbuggery to Europe! She has the heart of a saint to put up with those Republican racists.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/23\/us\/politics\/mccarthy-says-he-would-let-export-import-bank-expire.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Representative Kevin McCarthy, the next House majority leader, said Sunday that he would allow the Export-Import Bank of the United States to expire when its authority was up for reauthorization in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>In his first national television interview since being elected Thursday to be the No. 2 Republican in the House, Mr. McCarthy, of California, said Congress had decided in a previous vote that the bank, responsible for supporting American exports, should be phased out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest problems of government is they go and take hard-earned money so others do things that the private sector can do,\u201d he said on \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d [<em>Faux Noise delinked<\/em>] \u201cThat\u2019s what the Ex-Im Bank does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He&#8217;s starting to show his true colors. Exports create jobs here. He is favoring vulture capitalists, who send our jobs elsewhere.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/06\/cop-killed-no-knock-raid-when-resident\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>A police officer suffered fatal injuries while performing a pre-dawn no-knock raid on a local residence to search for drugs. Several officers were shot by a resident as they tried to enter an apartment through a ground-level window under the cover of darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Charles \u201cChuck\u201d Dinwiddie, an 18-year veteran of the department \u2014 died two days after being shot on Friday morning. Approximately 5:30 a.m. on May 9th, the Killeen Police Department sent its SWAT team to execute a surprise raid on a middle-aged couple because they allegedly possessed substances without government permission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dinwiddie and several other SWAT agents snuck up to a window and tried to breach it to gain entry<\/strong>. The commotion caused one of residents to fire on the unidentified intruders, and Dinwiddie was struck in the face. Three others were shot; 2 were shot in the armor and 1 was shot in the thigh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Oh, and you guessed it: No drugs were found. Is the shooter a bad guy? I have no idea. But because this is Texas, and the guy who shot the cop is black (<a href=\"http:\/\/thelibertarianrepublic.com\/texas-man-wont-prosecuted-killing-cop-knock-raid\/#axzz35O0uMI3z\" target=\"_blank\">unlike this guy<\/a>), I imagine prosecutors will tie themselves in knots to get him. [<em>emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Texas has a &quot;stand your ground\u201d law, but apparently it does not count for a black man with no drugs, who shoots an unidentified cop breaking-in in the middle of the night. 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