{"id":13547,"date":"2014-08-27T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T07:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13547"},"modified":"2014-08-27T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T07:28:11","slug":"open-thread8272014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/open-thread8272014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/27\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 128.&#160; I\u2019ve been behind the curve all day, and news subjects that I have covered fairly thoroughly continue to dominate the news.&#160; Safeway delivered groceries, and I unpacked and stowed them all.&#160; It\u2019s now evening and this is tomorrow\u2019s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:03 (average 4:14).&#160; To do it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-08-27-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=unKwsam7vIc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>POLICE BODY-CAMS Reduce Force Complaints Enormously &#8211; Chris Hayes<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/unKwsam7vIc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In my opinion, all police should be required to wear body cams and use pistols that can not be fired by anyone other than the owner. If we have the money to provide police with military hardware, we have the money for this instead.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2014\/08\/25\/3475566\/speaker-boehners-lawyer-is-charging-the-american-taxpayer-500-an-hour-to-sue-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Last January, a Washington attorney named David Rivkin co-authored an article in Politico Magazine that laid out a legal theory that Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) now plans to use to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2014\/07\/10\/3459057\/house-republicans-will-sue-obama-because-hes-not-implementing-obamacare-fast-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\">sue President Obama because the president is not implementing Obamacare fast enough<\/a>. Yet, as ThinkProgress laid out shortly after Boehner announced that he would file the lawsuit, Rivkin\u2019s legal theory rests upon \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2014\/07\/14\/3459627\/the-false-statement-of-fact-that-forms-the-backbone-of-john-boehners-anti-obama-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\">a glaring misrepresentation of a recent Supreme Court decision that undermines much of the basis for this lawsuit.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Boehner decided to hire Rivkin to represent the GOP-led House in its suit against the president. Rivkin\u2019s price? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/congress\/house-hires-lawyer-for-obama-lawsuit-20140825\" target=\"_blank\">$500 an hour, all charged to the American taxpayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If taxpayers have to fund this travesty, we should have the privilege of countersuing Agent Orange personally for reimbursement of those costs and the costs of defending against his frivolous suit.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=boNK-S1pHdY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Rachel Maddow &#8211; Immigration fears prominent in GOP primary<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/boNK-S1pHdY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If I were to put a title on this Republican primary, I&#8217;d call it <strong><em>Sphincterama in Brewerstan<\/em><\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0827Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0827Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0827Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Will Drill Baby Dingbat, aka Bloody Bullseye Barbie, crawl out of the woodwork?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 128.&#160; I\u2019ve been behind the curve all day, and news subjects that I have covered fairly thoroughly continue to dominate the news.&#160; Safeway delivered groceries, and I unpacked and stowed them all.&#160; It\u2019s now evening and this is tomorrow\u2019s only article. 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