{"id":14294,"date":"2014-12-10T00:25:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T08:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14294"},"modified":"2014-12-10T00:25:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T08:25:29","slug":"open-thread12102014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/open-thread12102014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/10\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 35.&#160; I\u2019m still down.&#160; Today was a prison volunteer day.&#160; I felt unhappy that I could not go.&#160; Tomorrow is a grocery delivery day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 5:02 (average 5:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-12-10-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 from our own fantasy football league, <a href=\"http:\/\/lbf.league.fantasy.nfl.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"14Scores\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"14Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/14Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"14Standings\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"14Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/14Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats and kudos to Lynn for winning the regular season.&#160; Now come the playoffs.&#160; Will I be Monster Mashed by Patty Monster in the first round?<\/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\/12\/08\/1350239\/-Saturday-Night-Live-cut-Ferguson-skit-for-time-now-lives-forever-on-YouTube\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> clip below was &quot;cut for time&quot; from Saturday&#8217;s broadcast, but is going viral from their YouTube page.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mVzCih9RnWg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m guessing it was cut, because the network thought it too soon to find humor in recent events. I disagree. Humor is how we survive injustice, oppression and Republicans in office.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/fox-obama-seeks-advice-establishing-monarchy\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>President Barack Obama spent several hours on Monday in a closed-door Oval Office meeting seeking advice on how to establish a monarchy, Fox News reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fox, the President peppered his Oval Office guest with detailed questions about the mechanics of setting up a monarchy and was curious about the perks and powers that go along with it.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s guest advised him that establishing a monarchy would probably require rewriting or even replacing the Constitution, an option that Obama reportedly said would be \u201cdifficult, but doable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think Andy is overcome by <em>Faux Noise<\/em> projection. An American monarchy has already been established under King George I and his idiot son, King George II. The later replaced the Constitution with the &quot;Unilateral Executive&quot;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1210KingGeorge\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1210KingGeorge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1210KingGeorge.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/torture-report-reveals-cias-brutal-interrogation-tactics\/story\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>: <\/font>The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released an exhaustive and explosive report today on the CIA\u2019s interrogation practices, saying the agency repeatedly misled Americans and deeply mismanaged the program that was secretly put into place after the 9\/11 terror attacks. <\/p>\n<p>The controversial, five-year study by the committee, which was conducted after reviewing more than 6 million pages of internal CIA records, found that the interrogation techniques used on more than 100 detainees \u201cwere not effective\u201d and the management of the program \u201cwas inadequate and deeply flawed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The report also indicates the techniques used in the CIA program were \u201cfar more brutal\u201d than was relayed to lawmakers and the public. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shows that the CIA&#8217;s actions a decade ago are a stain on our value and on our history,&quot; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on the Senate floor. &quot;The release of this 500 page summary cannot remove that stain but it can and does say to our people and the world that America is big enough to admit when it&#8217;s wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes. Releasing this report is an important step to restore our values and show the world that we are in fact a just and lawful society.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for more information about how much more brutal Republican torture was than we were led to believe, and how the Republican Party opposes releasing even the heavily redacted summary. It did not go far enough, because it does not release the names of those who authorized and defended torture: Bush, <strong>Cheney<\/strong>, Rumsfeld, Libby, Gonzales, Yoo, etc.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1210Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1210Cartoon\" 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=\"1210Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1210Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">No wonder Republicans hate the UN.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 35.&#160; I\u2019m still down.&#160; Today was a prison volunteer day.&#160; I felt unhappy that I could not go.&#160; Tomorrow is a grocery delivery day. 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