{"id":14098,"date":"2014-11-11T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14098"},"modified":"2014-11-11T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T08:02:00","slug":"open-thread11112014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/open-thread11112014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/11\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 6.&#160; I have a lot of housework to do today.&#160; I\u2019ve been procrastinating.&#160; Tomorrow would normally be a prison volunteer day, but the Activities section is closed for the holiday, so I can\u2019t go.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:48 (average 4:23).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-11-11-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.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/11\/08\/1343257\/-How-Native-Americans-Beat-the-Kochs-in-America-s-Most-Competitive-Congressional-District\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a> (Hat-Tip JL A): <\/font>How Native Americans Beat the Kochs in \u2018America\u2019s Most Competitive\u2019 Congressional District<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for an interesting grassroots success story.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/4-very-different-outfits-for-1-disgusting-question-but-my-heart-swells-when-she-gets-it-right\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>I hope we can all agree that it&#8217;s what&#8217;s on the inside, not the outside, that counts, right? So why are some people so determined to define someone&#8217;s sexual habits by their clothing \u2014 or at all, for that matter?!? In this video, vlogger Hannah Witton asks, &quot;Do I look like a slut?&quot; to show just how silly this question is.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I3bQLq9QGA4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree with her on every point but one. There is such a thing as a slut.&#160; Here\u2019s proof:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1111BBM\" 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=\"1111BBM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1111BBM.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/obama-orders-two-year-supply-crossword-puzzles\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Saying that he wanted the remainder of his second term to be as active as possible, President Obama announced on Friday that he had ordered a two-year supply of crossword puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>In signing an executive order for the puzzles, which range in difficulty from medium to advanced, the President laid out an ambitious plan to complete as many as thirty of them a day, for a total of ten thousand by the time he leaves the White House, in January, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The President said that he hoped that Republicans in Congress would support his plan for the puzzles, but added, \u201cI don\u2019t need their support. All I need is a pen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What Andy forgot to tell is that the Republican response will try to impeach him for such tyrannical behavior.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1111Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1111Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1111Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 6.&#160; I have a lot of housework to do today.&#160; I\u2019ve been procrastinating.&#160; Tomorrow would normally be a prison volunteer day, but the Activities section is closed for the holiday, so I can\u2019t go. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 2:48 (average 4:23).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/open-thread11112014\/' 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-14098","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\/14098","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=14098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}