{"id":13265,"date":"2014-07-20T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13265"},"modified":"2014-07-20T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T07:00:28","slug":"open-thread7202014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/20\/open-thread7202014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/20\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 90.  I\u2019m still quite sore.  I have exercises to do between times, but the walking between home and bus stops and office total over a mile, in addition to the workout, stresses the same muscle groups.  No pain no gain, and I must be gaining plenty.  I will be AWOL much of this week,. because Tuesday and Thursday are both prison volunteer days.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 2:35 (average 4:19).  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>Testing the political waters in Iowa today, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said that if he is elected President, he would bring the flow of illegal immigrants over the U.S.-Mexico border to a virtual standstill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are ways of keeping people from getting to where they want to go,\u201d Christie said, claiming that he was the only Republican hopeful with the hands-on experience necessary to fix the border crisis.<\/p>\n

The New Jersey governor was vague about how he would halt traffic over the border, but exuded confidence that he was the right man for the job.<\/p>\n

I’m sure PIGnocchio would not care any more for the people who die in that scenario than he does for the ones he killed on the off-ramp from the GW bridge.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Hmmm….<\/a><\/p>\n

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KELLY: OK. The controversy there is that some women abused that when it was allowed and would get a doctor to say, yes, her health requires a late term abortion. And then this happened in the case of Dr. Tiller, who wound up murdered, that he was providing late term abortions based on health concerns, when you had a viable fetus, a baby, growing in the third trimester. And no one really wants to return to those days, Patricia, do they?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well I must admit this is the first time I have heard this reasoning. <\/p>\n

You have to really have a twisted mind to come up with this type of perverted logic.<\/p>\n

Translation:<\/p>\n

Women who have late term abortions for health reasons endanger the lives of their physician, and if they keep doing it then that can only result in one thing. More dead physicians. Now you don’t want their blood on your hands, now do you?<\/p>\n

Here’s the voting rights version. Black people should not be allowed to vote, because, when they first began trying to exercise that right, racists murdered civil rights activists, and no one really wants to return to those days, do they? Talk about caving-in to criminal demands!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Bill Maher Rails Against Militarized Police Culture in Outstanding Monologue <\/p>\n