{"id":13853,"date":"2014-10-09T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T07:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13853"},"modified":"2014-10-09T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T07:01:03","slug":"open-thread1092014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/09\/open-thread1092014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–10\/9\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 171.  Store to Door is coming with groceries, and I have lots of cleaning to do to prepare.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:44 (average 5:28).  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>An Ohio man has become infected with misinformation about the Ebola virus through casual contact with cable news, the Centers for Disease Control has confirmed.<\/p>\n

Tracy Klugian, thirty-one, briefly came into contact with alarmist Ebola hearsay during a visit to the Akron-Canton airport, where a CNN report about Ebola was showing on one of the televisions in the airport bar. \u201cMr. Klugian is believed to have been exposed to cable news for no more than ten minutes, but long enough to become infected,\u201d a spokesman for the C.D.C. said. \u201cWithin an hour, he was showing signs of believing that an Ebola outbreak in the United States was inevitable and unstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once Klugian\u2019s condition was apparent, the Ohio man was rushed to a public library and given a seventh-grade biology textbook, at which point he \u201cstarted to stabilize,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

Andy has a point. It’s a good thing the man was not exposed to the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise<\/em>. His brain would not have survived long enough to reach the library emergency room.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Ellen Bogan was rolling down U.S. 27 in Union County, Indiana when she was pulled over for a traffic violation. The state trooper let her off with a warning, but not before asking some bizarrely unprofessional questions:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Did she have a home church? <\/p>\n

Did she accept Jesus Christ as her savior?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ellen said she felt helpless to leave the traffic stop, even after the warning had been issued:<\/p>\n

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"The police officer is representing the government … so that means, as a representative, this person, while on duty, while engaged in official action, is basically overstepping and is trying to establish religion." <\/p>\n

Bogan, who lives in Huntington, said Hamilton asked her about her faith multiple times during the traffic stop. Because he was a trooper and his police car was still parked behind hers, she said she felt she could not leave or refuse questioning.<\/p>\n

"The whole time, his lights were on," Bogan said. "I had no reason to believe I could just pull away at that point, even though I had my warning."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian abused his authority, violated her Constitutional rights, and should be criminally indicted and blacklisted from service as a police officer everywhere.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Just weeks before elections that will decide control of the Senate and crucial governors\u2019 races, a cascade of court rulings about voting rules, issued by judges with an increasingly partisan edge, are sowing confusion and changing voting procedures with the potential to affect outcomes in some states.<\/p>\n

Last week, a day before voting was scheduled to begin in Ohio, the United States Supreme Court split, 5 to 4, to uphold a cut in early voting in the state by one week<\/a>; the five Republican appointees voted in favor and the four Democratic appointees against. Cases from North Carolina and Wisconsin are also before the court, with decisions expected shortly, while others are proceeding in Texas and Arkansas.<\/p>\n

The legal fights are over laws that Republican-led state governments passed in recent years to more tightly regulate voting, in the name of preventing fraud.<\/p>\n

Since virtually all actual documented cases of so-called voter fraud have been Republicans getting caught while trying to prove they could get away with it, it is clear that the Republican courts, especially SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD) are helping their fellow fascists. Note how the Fascist Five Injustices used the Gay Marriage non-decision to distract us from their efforts to help the Republican Party steal elections. Get Out the VOTE!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 171.  Store to Door is coming with groceries, and I have lots of cleaning to do to prepare. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:44 (average 5:28).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From The New Yorker: An Ohio man has become infected with misinformation […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853","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=13853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}