{"id":14444,"date":"2015-01-04T00:04:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T08:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2015-01-04T00:04:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T08:04:40","slug":"open-thread142015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/open-thread142015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/4\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 60.  Both today and tomorrow are high holy days in the Chur4ch of the Ellipsoid Orb, but my Broncos have Wildcard Week off, due to their superior play.  I\u2019m running late, because I actually slept seven hours in two installments, between 2 AM and Noon.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 4:08 (average 6:32).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Federal regulators are expected to vote next month on rules to govern how Internet service providers deal with the flow of content on their high-speed networks.<\/p>\n

The five-member Federal Communications Commission will consider then a proposal from Chairman Tom Wheeler on so-called net neutrality rules, agency spokeswoman Kim Hart said Friday. She was confirming reports in The Washington Post<\/a> and The Wall Street Journal on the planned timing of the vote. Details of the draft proposal weren’t disclosed.<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama has asked the FCC to put Internet service providers under the same rules as those imposed on telephone companies 80 years ago. The aim is to protect net neutrality, the concept that everyone with an Internet connection should have equal access to all legal content online, including video, music, email, photos, social networks and maps.<\/p>\n

Obama has this issue exactly right.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Baltimore Sun<\/a>: <\/font>It was a dead rat the detective found on his windshield of his Toyota Corolla on a fall morning, the corpse peeking out from under the windshield wiper \u2014 a sign, he thought, that his colleagues in the department saw him as a snitch.<\/p>\n

Detective Joseph Crystal had been in contact with prosecutors who eventually filed charges against his sergeant and another officer in connection with the beating of a drug suspect. The rat appeared a few weeks later.<\/p>\n

This officer must be praying that he does not need backup in the future. He knows his brother officers will hang him out to die, because he broke the code by failing to help cover up a fellow officer’s crime. This underlines the need for citizen review boards that protect the identity of officers who testify honestly.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Legislators in the 24 states where Republicans now hold total control plan to push a series of aggressive policy initiatives in the coming year aimed at limiting the power of the federal government and rekindling the culture wars.<\/p>\n

The unprecedented breadth of the Republican majority<\/a> \u2014 the party now controls 31 governorships and 68 of 98 partisan legislative chambers \u2014 all but guarantees a new tide of conservative laws. Republicans plan to launch a fresh assault on the Common Core<\/a> education standards, press abortion regulations<\/a>, cut personal and corporate income taxes and take up dozens of measures challenging the power of labor unions and the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n

No doubt I’ll have lots of issues about which to write in the coming year. I wish that were not so. Because of the thousands of victims they will kill and impoverish in the process.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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