{"id":14655,"date":"2015-02-05T11:54:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14655"},"modified":"2015-02-05T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:54:30","slug":"open-thread252015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/open-thread252015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/5\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Day 92.&#160; My barber just called.&#160; She has the flu, so I\u2019m not getting my haircut until Monday.&#160; I\u2019m very grateful to her for not trying to work through it and infecting me.&#160; I\u2019m still feeling very tired, but I\u2019ll try to catch up on sleep, after I get my articles posted and uploaded.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:19 (average 4:08).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-02-05-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.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/02\/03\/1362030\/-Jon-Stewart-obliterates-Mike-Hucakbee-s-hypocritical-position-on-gay-marriage-with-the-Bible\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Jon Stewart masterfully used Mike Huckabee&#8217;s own words to make a broader point after Huckabee used the Bible to show the hypocrisy of those that oppose gay marriage. He first played a clip to lay the groundwork of Mike Huckabee&#8217;s general intolerance and head in the sand stance. Huckabee called women who use the f-bomb trashy after implying that women in the South and Midwest do not do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x2gbgpa\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>     <br \/><target a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x2gbgpa_mike-huckabee-s-marriage-position-challenged_news\" target=\"_blank\" =\"_BLANK\">Mike Huckabee&#8217;s marriage position challenged<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/ewillies\" target=\"_blank\">ewillies<\/a><\/i> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He sure doesn\u2019t know the same southern gals I knew in my youth! They just teamed the F-bomb with Y\u2019all!!&#160; Sadly, I don&#8217;t think Upchuck Huck has much of a chance to win the Republican nomination. Oh well, he probably wouldn&#8217;t legalize ownership of a Canadian anyway, despite my Biblical permission to do so. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prwatch.org\/news\/2015\/02\/12724\/walker-strikes-truth-wisconsin-idea-university-budget\" target=\"_blank\">PRWatch<\/a>: <\/font>In addition to unprecedented budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin (UW) system, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker struck &quot;the search for truth&quot; and the Wisconsin Idea from the university&#8217;s mission in his <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2015\/related\/proposals\/sb21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">executive budget bill<\/a> unveiled last night.<\/p>\n<p>First summed up by UW President Charles Van Hise in 1904, the Wisconsin Idea means that &quot;the borders of the University are the borders of the state.&quot; Van Hise declared that he would \u201cnever be content until the beneficent influence of the university reaches every family in the state\u201d and this has long been the core philosophy of the UW System, which has worked hard over the decades to generate programs that serve people and communities all over the state.<\/p>\n<p>Walker&#8217;s executive budget (see below) amends Sec. 1111 of the statutes to remove language specifying that the UW system has a public service mission to \u201cextend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campus&quot; and to &quot;serve and stimulate society.&quot; He strikes language ensuring that the mission of the UW is to extend &quot;training and public service designed to educate people and improve the human condition,&quot; as well as the language specifying that &quot;the search for truth&quot; is &quot;basic to every purpose of the system.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for much more on how the Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan is trying to destroy their university system.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/05\/us\/claims-against-saudis-cast-new-light-on-secret-pages-of-9-11-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A still-classified section of the investigation by congressional intelligence committees into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has taken on an almost mythic quality over the past 13 years \u2014 28 pages that examine crucial support given the hijackers and that by all accounts implicate prominent Saudis in financing terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/04\/us\/zacarias-moussaoui-calls-saudi-princes-patrons-of-al-qaeda.html\" target=\"_blank\">new claims by Zacarias Moussaoui<\/a>, a convicted former member of Al Qaeda, that he had high-level contact with officials of the Saudi Arabian government in the prelude to Sept. 11 have brought renewed attention to the inquiry\u2019s withheld findings, which lawmakers and relatives of those killed in the attacks have tried unsuccessfully to declassify.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is the right thing to do,\u201d said Representative Stephen F. Lynch, Democrat of Massachusetts and an author of a bipartisan resolution encouraging President Obama to declassify the section. \u201cLet\u2019s put it out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lynch and his allies have been joined by former Senator Bob Graham of Florida, who as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee was a leader of the inquiry. He has called for the release of the report\u2019s Part 4, which dealt with Saudi Arabia, since President George W. Bush ordered it classified when the rest of the report was released in December 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Graham has repeatedly said it shows that Saudi Arabia was complicit in the Sept. 11 attacks. \u201cThe 28 pages primarily relate to who financed 9\/11, and they point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier,\u201d Mr. Graham said last month as he pressed for the pages to be made public.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through. I fully agree that the pages should be made public, and have believed the Saudi&#8217;s were complicit, since September 2001. They helped arrange for the Bush family to make a ton of money from 9\/11, due to their joint involvement in the Carlyle Group. In addition GW ChickenHawk arranged a secret flight out of the country for Bandar Bush and his associates, before the FBI could question them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0205Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0205Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0205Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 92.&#160; My barber just called.&#160; She has the flu, so I\u2019m not getting my haircut until Monday.&#160; I\u2019m very grateful to her for not trying to work through it and infecting me.&#160; I\u2019m still feeling very tired, but I\u2019ll try to catch up on sleep, after I get my articles posted and uploaded. 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