{"id":14579,"date":"2015-01-25T00:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T08:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14579"},"modified":"2015-01-25T00:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T08:34:35","slug":"open-thread1252015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/25\/open-thread1252015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/25\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 81.&#160; Yesterday I spent almost the entire day in bed.&#160; I\u2019m still quite worn, but not so much that I can\u2019t write.&#160; I am running somewhat late, because we had a beautiful sunny day today with a 60\u00b0 high, and as we cats often do, I could not resist basking in the sun for a bit.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:26 (average 5:49).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-01-25-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.upworthy.com\/the-martin-luther-king-quotes-youve-never-heard-because-they-shatter-the-sterilized-version-of-him\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>This MLK greatest hits album doesn&#8217;t actually exist *yet*, but it&#8217;s a pretty damned good idea. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MJmcpZaKmdM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen to this. &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/remembering-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Vietnam<\/a>&quot; is a speech everyone should have heard more than once.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/24\/us\/politics\/jorge-ramos-tv-voice-of-latino-voters-sends-shiver-through-gop.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Jorge Ramos, the Univision and Fusion television anchor who is often called the Walter Cronkite of Latino America, was in his suburban Miami broadcast studio when he all but pounced on the chairman of the Republican Party, Reince Priebus, who was appearing from Washington. The Republicans\u2019 immigration policy is \u201cdeportations, deportations, deportations,\u201d Mr. Ramos said. \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Priebus, who stared out from multiple screens in a control room here looking as if he would rather have been doing anything but talking to Mr. Ramos, insisted it was not so. But Mr. Ramos would not have it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message,\u201d he retorted, \u201cis anti-immigrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It appears that making the official Latino Republican Response to the SOTU the opposite of the of the official Pig Nuts Republican Response didn&#8217;t work.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/six-weeks-paid-leave-opposed-people-thirty-three-weeks-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama\u2019s proposal to give workers six weeks of paid leave is meeting strong opposition from a group of people who annually receive thirty-three weeks of paid leave\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The opponents of paid leave, who show up for work a hundred and thirty-seven days per year and receive paid leave for the other two hundred and twenty-eight, were baffled by other moments in the President\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>For example, they were confused by Obama\u2019s challenge to try to survive on a full-time job that pays fifteen thousand dollars, since they all currently hold a part-time job that pays a hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang it Andy!! I do news commentary. You do comedy. You&#8217;re in MY turf AGAIN!! \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0125Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0125Cartoon\" 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=\"0125Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0125Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 81.&#160; Yesterday I spent almost the entire day in bed.&#160; I\u2019m still quite worn, but not so much that I can\u2019t write.&#160; I am running somewhat late, because we had a beautiful sunny day today with a 60\u00b0 high, and as we cats often do, I could not resist basking <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/25\/open-thread1252015\/' 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-14579","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\/14579","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=14579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}