{"id":13860,"date":"2014-10-10T00:42:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T07:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13860"},"modified":"2014-10-10T00:42:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T07:42:53","slug":"open-thread10102014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/open-thread10102014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/10\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 172.&#160; I took an hour of sun-basking this afternoon.&#160; Before long there will be only Oregon liquid sunshine.&#160; It\u2019s as minor Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos\u2019 service is not until Sunday, but tonight\u2019s game should be a good one.&#160; It\u2019s almost nap time.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:14 (average 5:00).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-10-10-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\/a-little-girl-waved-at-him-he-didnt-wave-back-because-shes-gay-his-dad-responded-appropriately\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>G. Yamazawa takes you back to his childhood to share an important lesson he learned.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-cYjUCudbA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Very well said by an authentic Buddhist!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/tea-party-and-right\/top-10-craziest-right-wing-reactions-expanding-marriage-equality\" target=\"_blank\">AlterNet<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Gay Marriage Will Of Course Lead To Polygamy<\/strong>: Right-wing radio host and activist Erick Erickson predicted [<em>Wing-nut delinked<\/em>] that \u201call the people now saying polygamy is different from gay marriage will be polygamy\u2019s chief advocates within the decade.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Isn&#8217;t it ironic that the people actually practicing polygamy are part of the Republican fringe? This is just one of ten crazy Republican Responses to expanding marriage equality. Click through for the other nine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/republican-senators-government-shutdown-fight-obamacare-risk-corridors\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Republican senators are calling on House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to attach spending limits to an Obamacare program in a bill that must pass in the lame-duck session to keep the federal government open.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy carries echoes of the 2013 government shutdown fight waged by the GOP over defunding Obamacare, although with smaller ambitions this time.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen conservative senators, led by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), wrote a letter to Boehner on Wednesday calling on him to use the continuing resolution \u2014 which must be enacted by Dec. 11 to avert a shutdown \u2014 to prohibit &quot;unappropriated and unauthorized funds&quot; under a market stability mechanism in Obamacare known as <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/rubio-obamacare-risk-corridors\" target=\"_blank\">risk corridors<\/a>. The program collects funds from insurers who enroll healthier patients and pays insurers who enroll sicker patients.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even though some will try to appear reasonable and conciliatory for the election, you know that after the voting is done Republicans will still be seditious saboteurs.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: (<strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong>)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1010Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1010Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1010Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 172.&#160; I took an hour of sun-basking this afternoon.&#160; Before long there will be only Oregon liquid sunshine.&#160; It\u2019s as minor Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos\u2019 service is not until Sunday, but tonight\u2019s game should be a good one.&#160; It\u2019s almost nap time. 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