{"id":13835,"date":"2014-10-06T01:07:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T08:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13835"},"modified":"2014-10-06T01:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T08:07:50","slug":"open-thread1062014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/open-thread1062014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–10\/6\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 168.  I planned to slee3p late, but did not realize that the Portland marathon started at 7 AM two block from my home.  The runners didn\u2019t make much noise, as they passed under my window, but the hour of accompanying drums was a deal breaker for sleep.  I\u2019m waiting for services in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb to begin.  Tomorrow I have a routine CT scan that will take most of the day so there will probably be only a Personal Update on Tuesday.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:26 (average 5:50).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"1005-Broncos41-Cardinals20\"<\/p>\n

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

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>35,000 walrus just came ashore in northwest Alaska. Yes, 35,000. With three zeros. That’s an unprecedented number, and it’s all due to a lack of sea ice. The images are almost too unreal to believe.<\/p>\n

\"1006walruses\"<\/p>\n

They call this the "brink of catastrophe". I’d say catastrophe is here. Click through for more pics.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Eclectablog first brought us the story<\/a> of the lows to which Republicans will go to this election season: sending out a mailer telling voters to call a Democratic candidate’s dying mother to complain about Obamacare. Michigan’s traditional media has picked up the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The mailers, which were paid for by the Michigan Republican Party, urge voters to call John Fisher, a candidate for the 61st state House District, and "Tell him hard-working Michiganders are being hurt by Obamacare and the health care policies (Democrats) support." <\/p>\n

Fisher’s campaign acknowledged it had no issue with past Republican mailers that told voters to call him at his personal number, but the candidate said Republicans took it too far by directing citizens to call Fisher at his mother’s number. The number is registered under Fisher’s name, but is a direct line to his mother’s room at Tendercare Portage, where Isabel Kramb is currently receiving hospice care for congestive heart failure, said Fisher’s campaign manager David Topping. [\u2026]<\/p>\n

"To direct people to call a suffering woman who deserves peace and comfort is beyond the pale," Fisher said in a prepared statement. "Their lack of ethics and contempt for personal privacy is just another reason for people to question what\u2013or better, who\u2013the Republican Party stands for, so that they can make a wise decision at the ballot box on Nov. 4."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of the sliding scale of negativity, we have distasteful, sleazy, outrageous, evil, and lowest of all, Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Buzzfeed<\/a>: <\/font>When the light turns green and the person in front of you doesn\u2019t go.<\/p>\n

\"1006Hillary\"<\/p>\n

This is just one of 26 Hillary Clinton reactions to everyday situations. Click through for the other 25.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 168.  I planned to slee3p late, but did not realize that the Portland marathon started at 7 AM two block from my home.  The runners didn\u2019t make much noise, as they passed under my window, but the hour of accompanying drums was a deal breaker for sleep.  I\u2019m waiting for […]<\/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-13835","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\/13835","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=13835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}