{"id":14194,"date":"2014-11-24T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14194"},"modified":"2014-11-24T09:56:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T17:56:01","slug":"open-thread11242014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/open-thread11242014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/24\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&rsquo;m writing for tomorrow, day 19.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s early in the morning, and I plan to finish in time for some intense meditation on the Holy Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; I may be scarce next week as I have a very busy schedule.&nbsp; Store to Door is closed for Thanksgiving week, so I have a grocery delivery coming from Safeway tomorrow, and I&rsquo;ll have to stow and put them away.&nbsp; Tuesday is a prison volunteer day.&nbsp; Wednesday and Thursday I&rsquo;ll be cooking up a storm, so I&rsquo;m not sure how much content I&rsquo;ll be able to deliver.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&rsquo;s took me 3:05 (average 5:01).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-11-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1123-Bronco39-Dolphins36\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1123-Bronco39-Dolphins36.jpg\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" title=\"1123-Bronco39-Dolphins36\" width=\"700\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Was that a nail-biter or what!&nbsp; Wooo Hooo! \ud83d\ude00<\/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\/the-3-of-them-needed-to-see-it-in-person-and-the-fact-that-it-was-beautiful-made-it-even-worse\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>These guys went across the world because there&#39;s a natural wonder that needs saving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gFunNhXPFFk?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Upworthy, but nothing is as clickable and shareable as a cat video. Nevertheless, I&#39;d be honored to bring you more #reefreels.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/kobach-ethnic-cleansing-possible-if-hispanics-become-us-majority\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a leader in the anti-immigrant movement, said during his Sunday radio program [<em>fascist delinked<\/em>] that it&rsquo;s possible that a Hispanic majority in the U.S. could conduct an &ldquo;ethnic cleansing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kobach made his remarks in response to a caller who asked, &ldquo;What happens, if you know your history, when one culture or one race or one religion overwhelms another culture or race?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Claiming that immigrant rights groups are &ldquo;calling for the return of the Spanish territory, which could be almost half of the United States,&rdquo; the caller warned, &ldquo;When one race or culture overwhelms another culture, they run them out or they kill them. And it&rsquo;s a bigger issue than just being Democrats. And they know in numbers, once the numbers are so bad, they can pretty much do whatever they want to do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#39;s the Audio. <\/font><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/177840884&amp;color=ff5500\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kobitch is employing projection. If what he were saying about ethnic cleansing were true, there would be no Anglo communities in Mexico or other Latin American countries when Latino people took over. On the other hand, Republicans are the ones who love to threaten and employ violence when they don&#39;t get their way.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/23\/us\/climate-change-threatens-to-strip-the-identity-of-glacier-national-park.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. &mdash; What will they call this place once the glaciers are gone?<\/p>\n<p>A century ago, this sweep of mountains on the Canadian border boasted some 150 ice sheets, many of them scores of feet thick, plastered across summits and tucked into rocky fissures high above parabolic valleys. Today, perhaps 25 survive.<\/p>\n<p>In 30 years, there may be none.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrmsc.usgs.gov\/repeatphoto\/\" target=\"_blank\">A warming climate is melting Glacier&rsquo;s glaciers<\/a>, an icy retreat that promises to change not just tourists&rsquo; vistas, but also the mountains and everything around them.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I found some appropriate video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlOf7kp8kIY?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I visited Glacier National Park in 1961. I remember my amazement at walking on glaciers in August and my awe at their number and immensity. It&#39;s a personal sorrow that most of the places, were I walked on glaciers, are now completely ice free.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1124Cartoon\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1124Cartoon.jpg\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"1124Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m writing for tomorrow, day 19.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s early in the morning, and I plan to finish in time for some intense meditation on the Holy Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; I may be scarce next week as I have a very busy schedule.&nbsp; Store to Door is closed for Thanksgiving week, so I have a grocery delivery coming <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/open-thread11242014\/' 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-14194","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\/14194","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=14194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}