{"id":14512,"date":"2015-01-15T01:46:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T09:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14512"},"modified":"2015-01-15T01:46:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T09:46:40","slug":"open-thread1152014-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/15\/open-thread1152014-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/15\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 71.  Yesterday\u2019s group in prison went very well.  Our CoDA group doubled in size, so I have some new guys that I had never met before.  We discussed making lists of people we have harmed and the importance of authenticity in our willingness to make amends.  Many fear this process, because people have a tendency to guilt trip ourselves.  However, done truly, it works to free us from self-crippling guilt.  It\u2019s now late evening.  I\u2019ve had some sleep but need more, as I had to be up for Store to Door to deliver groceries and put them away, so I\u2019m more than ready for more sleep.  This is tomorrow\u2019s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 5:24 (average 5:25).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The Albuquerque PD has shot another victim and this time its one of their department’s own officers working undercover. The circumstances surrounding this latest shooting have yet to be released.<\/p>\n

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$60 meth bust led to shooting of officer<\/a><\/p>\n

By Ryan Boetel<\/p>\n

It was an undercover operation to bust two men for selling $60 worth of methamphetamine, but things didn\u2019t go as planned.<\/p>\n

An Albuquerque police lieutenant shot a fellow officer who was working undercover in a McDonald\u2019s parking lot near Central and Tramway just before noon Friday.<\/p>\n

Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden said Saturday the male officer remained in critical condition at University of New Mexico Hospital. He is in the intensive care unit and has undergone multiple surgeries.<\/p>\n

Vester went into a room at the motel and came back to the vehicle with the meth, according to the complaint. <\/p>\n

Garcia then drove to the McDonald\u2019s nearby and gave the bust signal. It was then that the shooting took place. Witnesses said they heard around five shots. Police said the officer was shot multiple times, but the exact number wasn\u2019t known<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the shooting, the car doors where Bailey and Vester were sitting were open, but police haven\u2019t released details about any perceived threat or why the lieutenant opened fire. The complaint makes no mention of the suspects having a gun at the scene<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Albuquerque PD were notorious for police who abuse their power, even back in the 1970s, when I used to go there on business. If you believe that it is really not known how many times police shot their fellow officer, talk to me about buying my glacier in Miami. I\u2019m selling it for just a few $million.  They can’t use all their standard lies in this case, unless they knew he was undercover and thought he’d been talking to IA or DOJ.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>To choose a jury in the trial of the man charged with killing 12 people<\/a> in a packed Colorado movie theater, court officials mailed notices to 9,000 people in suburban Arapahoe County, casting such a wide net that residents ran about a one-in-50 chance of being tapped as potential jurors. An uncle, a father, husbands and friends of people who work in the prosecutor\u2019s office received jury summonses. So did 12 people who are slated to be prosecution witnesses.<\/p>\n

The numbers speak to the huge scale of a murder trial set to begin next week, more than two and a half years after a gunman sprayed bullets into a crowd of people at a midnight screening of the Batman movie \u201cThe Dark Knight Rises.\u201d<\/p>\n

The defendant, James E. Holmes, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. After multiple delays, Colorado is bracing for the start of his trial, one of the most complicated and emotionally wrenching judicial proceedings the state has faced.<\/p>\n

Isn’t a shame that the NRA and the Republican party are not codefendants in this case?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>The president’s a busy guy, so he only had three and a half minutes to explain what’s up. Here’s what you need to know:<\/p>\n

Growing up, we all hear rumors about magical places.<\/p>\n

Fantastic places. Places where the Internet actually works well. Where you can download a movie in under a minute. Where your Wi-Fi doesn’t stop working for no apparent reason whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Maybe you read about them in storybooks. Maybe your friends whispered about them to you on the playground. Maybe your grandma told you old tales about them as she tucked you in at night. But as you grew older, more and more people told you that it was all made up, a myth for children. Those places didn’t really exist. Can you believe we all thought they did? And you nodded and laughed about how silly it all sounded in retrospect. But secretly, deep down, you always believed. <\/p>\n

Well, those places are real. There are places that have reliable, fantastic, extremely zippy Internet!<\/p>\n