{"id":14315,"date":"2014-12-16T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T08:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14315"},"modified":"2014-12-16T00:01:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T08:01:17","slug":"open-thread12162014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/16\/open-thread12162014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/16\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 42.&#160; I\u2019m still mostly down, but I have three articles, because it<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">\u2018s time to change the poll.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:07 (average 4:35).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-12-16-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.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/cheney-lead-torture-pride-march\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In an appearance on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d on Sunday, former Vice-President Dick Cheney told host Chuck Todd that he was \u201csick and tired of Americans being ashamed of our beautiful legacy of torture\u201d and that he was organizing the first \u201cNational Torture-Pride March\u201d to take place in Washington in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a chance for all of us torturers to say, \u2018Look at us, this is who we are,\u2019\u201d Cheney, who will be the Grand Marshall of the parade, said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;d love to attend Andy&#8217;s march \u2026 with a cattle prod.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/newsroom\/video-audio\/wall-street-wins-again\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Sen. Bernie Sanders discusses the omnibus appropriations bill on the Senate floor.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2bxWZ0cmcFw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As usual, Bernie is spot-on.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/government-politics\/article4493124.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Star<\/a>: <\/font>As he drops new hints about his 2016 intentions, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is appearing in South Carolina just weeks before a self-imposed deadline to decide whether he will run for president. <\/p>\n<p>Bush is scheduled to give Monday\u2019s commencement address at the University of South Carolina. It marks the Republican leader\u2019s second visit in three months to the state that will host the 2016 presidential primary season\u2019s first contest in the South. <\/p>\n<p>In a television interview aired on the eve of the South Carolina appearance, Bush expressed confidence that he \u201cwould be a good president,\u201d adding that he was in the process of writing an e-book about his time as governor that would come out in the spring.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Jeb claims that he would be a good President, he was merely proving that he is a Republican. He is lying. Jeb &quot;Strike Three&quot; Bush would be as bad as \u201cStrike One\u201d and \u201cStrike Two\u201d. He has the same owners.<\/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\/1216Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1216Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1216Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1216Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 42.&#160; I\u2019m still mostly down, but I have three articles, because it\u2018s time to change the poll. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:07 (average 4:35).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do. Short Takes: From The New Yorker: In an appearance on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/16\/open-thread12162014\/' 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-14315","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\/14315","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=14315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}