{"id":14185,"date":"2014-11-23T00:56:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T08:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14185"},"modified":"2014-11-23T00:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T08:56:40","slug":"open-thread11232014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/23\/open-thread11232014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–11\/23\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 18.  Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos will be worshiping at home with the Dolphins, and It will be televised here, so I\u2019ll be in deep religious meditation tomorrow afternoon.  While writing I\u2019m watching the Oregon vs. Colorado game.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 2:50 (average 4:38).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Mother Jones<\/a> (Hat-Tip Joanne Dixon): <\/font>…But when the economy stagnates and life gets harder, people get meaner. That’s just human nature. And the economy has been stagnating for the working class for well over a decade\u2014and then practically collapsing ever since 2008.<\/p>\n

So who does the WWC take out its anger on? Largely, the answer is the poor. In particular, the undeserving poor. Liberals may hate this distinction, but it doesn’t matter if we hate it. Lots of ordinary people make this distinction as a matter of simple common sense, and the WWC makes it more than any. That’s because they’re closer to it. For them, the poor aren’t merely a set of statistics or a cause to be championed. They’re the folks next door who don’t do a lick of work but somehow keep getting government checks paid for by their tax dollars. For a lot of members of the WWC, this is personal in a way it just isn’t for the kind of people who read this blog.<\/p>\n

And who is it that’s responsible for this infuriating flow of government money to the shiftless? Democrats. We fight to save food stamps. We fight for WIC. We fight for Medicaid expansion. We fight for Obamacare. We fight to move poor families into nearby housing…<\/p>\n

This guy makes a lot of sense, but to really get where he’s coming from, you’ll need to read the while thing. Click through please.  We need a way to convince working class whites that the poor are not the ones keeping them from thriving.  It\u2019s the super rich.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n

Stories like this make you look at the calendar to check the year. Yep, still 2014. And it is utterly embarrassing and shocking that anyone who holds these racist views are operating in any leadership role. Meet Kentucky’s Southeast Bullitt Fire Chief Julius Hatfield. After stopping to help accident victims, one white family and one black family, he was caught on video having a friendly good ol’ boy chat:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Video from a Bullitt County Sheriff’s deputy’s body camera shows Hatfield’s department responding to a car accident on I-65, south of the Clermont exit in September. <\/p>\n

"Well, I’ve got a family of four from Cincinnati, I got to do something with," the Bullitt County deputy said in the video.  <\/p>\n

Hatfield replied, "We ain’t taking no n—— here." Then he laughs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This Republican is a true representative of the "love" of Republican Supply-side Jesus (the polar opposite of the real Jesus).<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>House Republicans filed a long-threatened lawsuit Friday against the Obama administration over unilateral actions on the health care law that they say are abuses of the president\u2019s executive authority.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit \u2014 filed against the secretaries of Health and Human Services and the Treasury \u2014 focuses on two crucial aspects of the way the administration has put the Affordable Care Act into effect.<\/p>\n

The suit accuses the Obama administration of unlawfully postponing a requirement that larger employers offer health coverage to their full-time employees or pay penalties. (Larger companies are defined as those with 50 or more employees.)<\/p>\n

And just a couple days ago, I said they wouldn’t file this. Color me OOPS! \ud83d\ude41 This is truly an act of desperation, as this pure theatre to pacify the rabid racists to whom the Republican Party have sold out. They are doing it, because there is nothing they can do about Obama’s executive action on immigration.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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