{"id":14027,"date":"2014-11-03T00:02:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T08:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14027"},"modified":"2014-11-03T00:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T08:02:38","slug":"open-thread1132014-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/open-thread1132014-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/3\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 196.&#160; It\u2019s early in the morning, and I invested my fall back hour wisely.&#160; ZZZZzzzz!&#160; Hopefully I can catch up now, because I have no major outside commitments until I pick up my coat on Thursday {furiously knocking on wood}.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:22 (average 4:54).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-11-03-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1102-Broncos21-Patriots43\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1102-Broncos21-Patriots43\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1102-Broncos21-Patriots43.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Who knows what might have happened, had I not been Seachickened. \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/10\/31\/1340696\/-40kg-Of-Cocaine-Found-On-Mitch-McConnell-s-Father-In-Law-s-Boat\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>James Chao, father of Mitch McConnell\u2019s wife Elaine, has a lot of questions to answer after 40 kilograms of cocaine (about $6.7 million worth) was found on the Ping May, a ship owned by the Foremost Group, a company James Chao founded and led to a tidy fortune. But was that fortune built on honest movement of legitimate bulk trade goods, or has Mr. Chao been trading in less than legal goods? <\/p>\n<p>The cocaine, found in 40 separate packages, was discovered during a routine inspection hidden among a load of coal bound for Europe from the port of Santa Marta, Columbia onboard the Ping May, one of 15 ships Foremost currently operates, with another 8 under construction. The final destination for the ship was to be the Netherlands, likely one of the port cities surrounding Amsterdam. It is known that the Ping May has been witnessed at the port of Zaanstad, one of these cities, in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Foremost Group is the source of most of Senator McConnell\u2019s fortune through gifts and inheritance from his in-laws. It is a shadowy corporation, utilizing a complex scheme of shell companies to skip out on millions in taxes annually.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">So that explains the horrid appearance of Bought Bitch Mitch&#8217;s nose! And I thought he was just Repugly!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/bill-maher-democrats-obama-2014\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Bill Maher ripped into Democratic candidates on his HBO show Friday night for distancing themselves from President Barack Obama and their own achievements on the 2014 campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BE287v2n6Qc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He said the same things I&#8217;ve been saying for months, with one key difference. He&#8217;s funnier.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueoregon.com\/2014\/10\/orsen-kochs-drop-200k-against-merkley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Oregon<\/a>: <\/font>Even as Monica Wehby circles the drain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/morningscore\/1014\/morningscore15898.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Koch Brothers can&#8217;t resist one more parting shot before they slither away<\/a>, via their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Future_Fund\" target=\"_blank\">American Future Fund<\/a>. AFF is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2013\/12\/american-future-fund-draws-nearly-all-revenues-from-two-koch-linked-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\">bankrolled by the Koch boys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two have dropped $200k on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3JP0OORopLw\" target=\"_blank\">new anti-Merkley ad<\/a>, because apparently they can&#8217;t think of anything nice to say about Monica Wehby. Not that I can blame them for that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same old recycled crap they&#8217;ve been dealing out all over the country.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My own Senator is the one race I&#8217;m not worried about. Come Wednesday morning all my personal representatives will be progressive Democrats. Why? I and thousands more like me earned it<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cartoon<\/font><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1103Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1103Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1103Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 196.&#160; It\u2019s early in the morning, and I invested my fall back hour wisely.&#160; ZZZZzzzz!&#160; Hopefully I can catch up now, because I have no major outside commitments until I pick up my coat on Thursday {furiously knocking on wood}. 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