{"id":14010,"date":"2014-10-31T00:40:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T07:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14010"},"modified":"2014-10-31T00:40:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T07:40:36","slug":"open-thread10312014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/31\/open-thread10312014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/31\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow day 193.&#160; It\u2019s very early in the morning, and I could not sleep because I feel so pissed off at Care2 that it took 22 attempts to upload an article.&#160; No doubt, I\u2019ll be exhausted when I return from my medical appointment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:11 (average 4:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-10-31-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\/she-says-4-words-at-the-very-beginning-and-thats-all-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>She Says 4 Words At The Very Beginning, And That&#8217;s All You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzMNoeDovFg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is right in line with what I was discussing in prison last week at the Victims Impact meeting. At the same time, the political party that considers bullying others their Constitutional right must be removed from all elected offices.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2014\/10\/28\/3585449\/court-allows-voter-suppression\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>On Tuesday, Judge Christopher Brasher of the Fulton County Superior Court denied a petition from civil rights advocates to force Georgia\u2019s Secretary of State to process an estimated <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2014\/10\/26\/3584582\/tens-of-thousands-of-missing-voter-registrations-could-sway-georgia-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">40,000 voter registrations<\/a> that have gone missing from the public database. <\/p>\n<p>Though early voting is well underway in the state, Judge Brasher called the lawsuit \u201cpremature,\u201d and said it was based on \u201cmerely set out suspicions and fears that the [state officials] will fail to carry out their mandatory duties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Angela Aldridge, an organizer with the group 9 to 5 Atlanta Working Women who has been working to register voters for several months, told ThinkProgress she was \u201cfurious\u201d when she learned of the outcome: \u201cThat impedes people\u2019s rights,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople need information before they go out to vote and they don\u2019t even know if they\u2019re registered or not. They were discouraged, upset, kind of frazzled, not really knowing what was going on. What can you even say to people who want to vote but possibly can\u2019t? They might get disengaged and say, \u2018Why vote? It doesn\u2019t matter.\u2019 It\u2019s really disheartening.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One Republican judge just stole the right to vote to 40,000 Americans.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/29\/prosecutors-wrestling-with-wall-streets-repeat-offenders\/\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>It would be the Wall Street equivalent of a parole violation: Just two years after avoiding prosecution for a variety of crimes, some of the world\u2019s biggest banks are suspected of having broken their promises to behave.<\/p>\n<p>A mixture of new issues and lingering problems could violate earlier settlements that imposed new practices and fines on the banks but stopped short of criminal charges, according to lawyers briefed on the cases. Prosecutors are exploring whether to strengthen the earlier deals, the lawyers said, or scrap them altogether and force the banks to plead guilty to a crime.<\/p>\n<p>That effort, unfolding separately from a number of well-known investigations into Wall Street, has ensnared several giant banks and consulting firms that until now were thought to be in the clear.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why is it that I&#8217;m not surprised? I&#8217;ll tell you. One of the biggest failings of the DOJ under Obama is that not one single Bankster is in prison. As long as they get away with their crimes with fines far smaller than their obscene profits, where is the incentive for them to stop? Perhaps if we treated these millionaires the way we treat poor people that rob a convenience store, we&#8217;d be better off.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1031Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1031Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1031Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow day 193.&#160; It\u2019s very early in the morning, and I could not sleep because I feel so pissed off at Care2 that it took 22 attempts to upload an article.&#160; No doubt, I\u2019ll be exhausted when I return from my medical appointment. 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