{"id":14058,"date":"2014-11-05T00:10:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T08:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14058"},"modified":"2014-11-05T00:10:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T08:10:40","slug":"open-thread1152014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/open-thread1152014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/5\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 198.&#160; I have no idea what tomorrow will bring, but I suspect that the wait will not be over.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:52 (average 6:02).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-11-05-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the latest news from our own <a href=\"http:\/\/lbf.league.fantasy.nfl.com\" target=\"_blank\">fantasy football league<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"9Scores\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"9Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/9Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"9Standings\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"9Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/9Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tied with the Bigfoot!!<\/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\/takei-says-1-word-before-colbert-disintegrates-him-its-a-big-one\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>I beamed in to &quot;The Colbert Report&quot; to deliver a message to citizens of the galaxy. I\u2019ve always wanted Stephen Colbert to take me out, and he did. It was transportive, literally. Hope you enjoy this piece, which ties &quot;Star Trek: TOS&quot; to the upcoming midterm elections. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 520px; background-color: #000000\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:colbertnation.com:da9f7868-3edf-494c-a871-434b30102752\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"512\"><\/iframe>      <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; padding-top: 4px; padding-left: 4px; margin-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; background-color: #ffffff\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/thecolbertreport.cc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Colbert Report<\/a><\/b>         <br \/>Get More: <a href=\"http:\/\/thecolbertreport.cc.com\/full-episodes\" target=\"_blank\">Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecolbertreport\" target=\"_blank\">The Colbert Report on Facebook<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/thecolbertreport.cc.com\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Video Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LMAO! Also\u2026 Amen!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/mcconnell-campaign-rocked-photo-showing-science-book\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The re\u00eblection [sic]campaign of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) went into a tailspin on Monday with the emergence of a leaked photograph showing the Senator reading what appears to be an advanced science text.<\/p>\n<p>The picture, which appeared on the gossip site TMZ, shows a visibly absorbed McConnell reading a scholarly volume entitled, \u201cThe Man-Made Causes of Global Warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For McConnell, who has repeatedly punctuated his public statements on climate change with the claim that he is \u201cnot a scientist,\u201d the scandalous photo threatens to torpedo his re\u00eblection bid.<\/p>\n<p>In the hours since the image was leaked, McConnell has plummeted between five and seven points in statewide polls as voters demanded to know what he was doing with the type of book only a scientist would read.<\/p>\n<p>Swinging into damage-control mode, McConnell appeared at a hastily called press conference in Lexington and offered a terse denial. \u201cIt is true that I was holding the book, and that the book was open. But I was not reading the book,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What Andy isn&#8217;t telling us is whether or not he had the book upside down. Of course he wasn&#8217;t reading it. Bought Bitch Mitch is as capable of understanding science as Crawford Caligula was of understanding <u>My Pet Goat<\/u>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/11\/03\/1341356\/-Sarah-Palin-goes-off-the-deep-end-yet-a-freaking-gain\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Sarah Palin took to Facebook again to declare how terrible Barack Obama is and how opposed he is to moms and apple pies and the flag but mostly moms. Apparently she&#8217;s of the opinion that Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/11\/idiot-sarah-palin-wrote-a-bunch-of-stupid-words-about-some-idiotic-thing-for-some-moronic-reason-again\/#.VFd60QPIA-U.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">saying this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, someone, usually mom, leaves the workplace to stay home with the kids, which then leaves her earning a lower wage for the rest of her life as a result. And that\u2019s not a choice we want Americans to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; was an attack on motherhood, because Obama wanting better pay for mothers that return to the workforce is, um &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>You know what? I have no clue. That&#8217;s the thing about Actual Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, she has the Gohmertian quality of being able to spout a thirty foot high geyser of words without ever once getting to a recognizable point.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bloody Bullseye Barbie, aka Drill Baby Dingbat,&#160; is at it again. Would it be too much to hope that she tops the Republican ticket in 2016?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1105Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1105Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1105Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 198.&#160; I have no idea what tomorrow will bring, but I suspect that the wait will not be over. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:52 (average 6:02).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Fantasy Football Report: Here\u2019s the latest news from our own fantasy football league. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/open-thread1152014\/' 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-14058","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\/14058","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=14058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}