{"id":13109,"date":"2014-06-29T00:09:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13109"},"modified":"2014-06-29T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:09:53","slug":"open-thread6292014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/29\/open-thread6292014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/29\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 69, an especially problematic number.  I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and am feeling tired, but well enough to blog.  The Republicosis is under control, and now I need to catch up on sleep missed because of it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:32 (average 4:47).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>In their fervor to ensure that the least amongst their citizens keep getting kicked in the teeth, the Republicans of Virginia have stooped to breaking and entering an executive office in order to block Medicaid expansion.<\/p>\n

There is a time limit between delivery of documents and the Governor’s need to authorize them. So the Republican House Speaker William J. Howell authorized security to illegally enter the Governor’s office during a holiday break to ensure the clock started ticking before the Governor even knew the bill was delivered.<\/p>\n

Is there anything the Republicans won’t do to harm the 47%?<\/p>\n

No, there isn’t.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>After announcing, on Thursday, that it would seek $500 million to help \u201ctrain and equip appropriately vetted elements of the moderate Syrian armed opposition,\u201d the White House today posted the following Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form:<\/p>\n

Welcome to the United States\u2019 Moderate Syrian Rebel Vetting Process. To see if you qualify for $500 million in American weapons, please choose an answer to the following questions: <\/p>\n

As a Syrian rebel, I think the word or phrase that best describes me is<\/strong>:
A) Moderate
B) Very moderate
C) Crazy moderate
D) Other <\/p>\n

I became a Syrian rebel because I believe in<\/strong>:
A) Truth
B) Justice
C) The American Way
D) Creating an Islamic caliphate <\/p>\n

If I were given a highly lethal automatic weapon by the United States, I would<\/strong>:
A) Only kill exactly the people that the United States wanted me to kill
B) Try to kill the right people, with the caveat that I have never used an automatic weapon before
C) Kill people only after submitting them to a rigorous vetting process
D) Immediately let the weapon fall into the wrong hands <\/p>\n

LOL Andy! Click through. There are three more questions. Moderate Syrian rebels are like moderate Republicans in Congress. There’s a rumor that one exists.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Sources have confirmed that attorney Mark Mayfield has died of an apparent suicide.<\/p>\n

Mayfield, vice chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party, and is one of the three men charged with conspiring with Clayton Kelly to photograph U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s bedridden wife in her nursing home and create a political video against Cochran.<\/p>\n

Mark Mayfield of Ridgeland, an attorney and state and local tea party leader, was arrested last month along with Richard Sager, a Laurel elementary school P.E. teacher and high school soccer coach. Police said they also charged John Beachman Mary of Hattiesburg, but he was not taken into custody because of "extensive medical conditions." All face felony conspiracy charges.<\/p>\n

It seldom happens but fore once a Republican murdered a guilty person with his gun, instead of an innocent one.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Day 69, an especially problematic number.  I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and am feeling tired, but well enough to blog.  The Republicosis is under control, and now I need to catch up on sleep missed because of it. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:32 (average 4:47).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? […]<\/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-13109","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\/13109","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=13109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}