{"id":13873,"date":"2014-10-12T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13873"},"modified":"2014-10-12T00:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T07:03:21","slug":"open-thread10122014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/12\/open-thread10122014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/12\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 174.&#160; <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s late evening, and I\u2019m usually not watching this late, but a it\u2019s been one of those days that everything gets done but not at it\u2019s normal time.&#160; That\u2019s partly because od volunteer work, and partly because I took tine out to watch the Oregon Ducks Californicate UCLA.&#160; Tomorrow is a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid orb, and my Broncos service will be televised here at 10:00 AM.&#160; May the holy Orb bless them with stinger missiles.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:44 (average 4:23).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-10-12-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\/they-took-a-camera-to-a-remote-area-in-greenland-and-what-they-recorded-is-simply-terrifying\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font><em>This is a special Upworthy series about encouraging action on climate change. Made Possible by Planet Victory. <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/sponsored\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.<\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just wait till 4:10 to find out why this amazing footage is so very scary. (Hint: climate change.)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hC3VTgIPoGU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You can&#8217;t argue with that, except the Republicans so anyway.&#160; They claim, lamely, that they&#8217;re not scientists.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/10\/09\/1335430\/-Walmart-heirs-working-to-kill-affordable-rooftop-solar-power\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Walmart is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/11\/14\/1255528\/-Walmart-s-green-energy-claims-mask-climate-pollution-at-oil-company-levels\" target=\"_blank\">an environmental disaster<\/a>, despite its claim to be moving toward renewable energy. But Walmart&#8217;s majority stockholders, the Walton family, are going above and beyond, actively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilsr.org\/walton-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">working against rooftop solar power<\/a>, according to a new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. <\/p>\n<p>The Waltons&#8217; anti-solar efforts fall into two categories. Since 2010, they&#8217;ve given at least $4.5 million in donations to organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council [ALEC] and Americans for Prosperity [Koch] that are trying to weaken clean energy policies at the state level. These donations are part of a widespread corporate attack on policies that allow homeowners to use rooftop solar panels not just to power their own houses, but to sell excess solar power to utility companies. These utility companies might not be against solar power, but they&#8217;re definitely against losing business to household-level solar. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thou shalt not Wal-Fart!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/11\/us\/politics\/ads-paid-for-by-secret-money-flood-the-midterm-elections.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>More than half of the general election advertising aired by outside groups in the battle for control of Congress has come from organizations that disclose little or nothing about their donors, a flood of secret money that is now at the center of a debate over the line between free speech and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The advertising, which has overwhelmingly benefited Republican candidates, is largely paid for by nonprofit groups and trade associations, some of which are established with the purpose of shielding wealthy individuals and corporations that contribute.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What is now happening is exactly want the Fascist Five Injustices at SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD) said would NOT happen when they illegally legislated that even foreign Corporate money may drown out human speech. <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Get Out the VOTE!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1012Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1012Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1012Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 174.&#160; It\u2019s late evening, and I\u2019m usually not watching this late, but a it\u2019s been one of those days that everything gets done but not at it\u2019s normal time.&#160; That\u2019s partly because od volunteer work, and partly because I took tine out to watch the Oregon Ducks Californicate UCLA.&#160; Tomorrow <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/12\/open-thread10122014\/' 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-13873","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\/13873","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=13873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}