{"id":13617,"date":"2014-09-06T00:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T07:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13617"},"modified":"2014-09-06T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T07:04:26","slug":"open-thread962014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/06\/open-thread962014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/6\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 138.&#160; Last night I fell asleep while meditating on the Holy Ellipsoid Orb on the Day of Blessed Illumination Return.&#160; As penance I shall have to watch <em>Faux Noise<\/em>.&#160; Woe is me!! :-(&#160; I leave for physical therapy shortly, and I\u2019m writing now, so I will have this Open Thread to post.&#160; The next few days will be busy.&#160; Sunday is a Holy day.&#160; Monday is a Holy night.&#160; Tuesday is a prison volunteer day.&#160; I need to complete the dreaded chore between now and then, because <em>nekkid<\/em> is not included in the volunteer dress code.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:57 (average 4:38).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-09-06-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\/its-not-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-but-watching-this-made-that-song-come-to-mind\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>There are 45,000 wildfires per year in the southeastern U.S. alone, and since 2000, we&#8217;ve had eight of the worst years for wildfires. Now, of course, it&#8217;s not just climate change that&#8217;s causing this, but after you watch this video, you&#8217;ll understand reason number gazillion for us needing to do something about what&#8217;s happening to our planet. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hDsNq-rVplE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Since Republicans represent the polluters that exacerbate this problem, they must be removed from office. <strong>Get out the vote!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/05\/us\/bob-mcdonnell-maureen-mcdonnell-virginia-verdict.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his wife, Maureen, were convicted of corruption in federal court on Thursday, after a trial that shattered the political career of the onetime Republican star and peeled back the couple\u2019s private life to the bone.<\/p>\n<p>As he was pronounced guilty on 11 counts of conspiracy, bribery and extortion, Mr. McDonnell covered his face with his hands and his head fell nearly to the defense table. His wife, convicted on nine counts, looked straight ahead. There were sobs from the seats behind them where their five adult children and other family members sat.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Isn&#8217;t it ironic that this Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian hypocrite, who campaigned on the sanctity of his family, tried to save his own cowardly butt by trashing his wife. May he be probed with his own internal ultrasound wand!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/tea-party-and-right\/10-most-inhumane-laws-courtesy-southern-republicans?paging=off&amp;current_page=1#bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">AlterNet<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Obscene Device Laws in Alabama and Sandy Springs, Georgia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sale of sex toys is legal in most of the U.S.: any local politician who tried to outlaw the sale of vibrators in Seattle, Philadelphia or Los Angeles would be laughed out of office. But parts of the Bible Belt still have so-called \u201cobscene device\u201d laws, including Alabama (where the sale of sex toys was outlawed in 1998 and Christian fundamentalists continue to defend that law). Texas had a ban on the sale of sex toys, but it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/78479\/sex_toys_are_finally_legal_in_texas\" target=\"_blank\">rendered unenforceable<\/a> when a 5th Circuit ruling declared the law unconstitutional in 2008. In Sandy Springs, Georgia, a city ordinance has stated, in effect, that one needs a doctor\u2019s prescription to acquire a sex toy. In May, a local woman named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/20\/georgia-sex-toy-ban_n_5357114.html\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Davenport<\/a> filed a lawsuit against the city of Sandy Springs on the grounds that the law was unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bubba Bagger knows that, if a gal has a toy, she has no reason to mate with him. This is just one of ten Inhumane Republican Laws. Click through for the other nine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0906CartoonTCPhysio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0906CartoonTCPhysio\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0906CartoonTCPhysio\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0906CartoonTCPhysio_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 138.&#160; Last night I fell asleep while meditating on the Holy Ellipsoid Orb on the Day of Blessed Illumination Return.&#160; As penance I shall have to watch Faux Noise.&#160; Woe is me!! :-(&#160; I leave for physical therapy shortly, and I\u2019m writing now, so I will have this Open Thread <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/06\/open-thread962014\/' 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-13617","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\/13617","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=13617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}