{"id":14667,"date":"2015-02-07T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14667"},"modified":"2015-02-07T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:41:10","slug":"open-thread272015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/07\/open-thread272015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–2\/7\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 94.  I\u2019m feeling quite tired, so I\u2019ll try to be brief, so I can rest.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 5:26 (average 6:51).  To do it. click here<\/a>.  Hoe did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The Guardian has posted  an article<\/a> about FOX New’s embedding ISIS’s latest snuff film, unedited on their webpage:<\/p>\n

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Fox News has chosen to embed on its website the video of Islamic State burning a hostage to death, a move which makes them the only US media organisation to broadcast the video in full. <\/p>\n

The extremely graphic 22-minute video shows Muadh al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot, being set on fire and burned to death in a cage. Fox News did not post the videos of the killings of previous Isis hostages, and no other media company has hosted this video.Rick Nelson, a senior associate in homeland security and terrorism at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that posting the video actually empowers Isis. <\/p>\n

… \u201cThese groups need a platform, and this gives them a platform,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Malcolm Nance, the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideology thinktank and an expert on counter-terrorism and radical extremism told the Guardian that by posting the video Fox News was propagating \u201cexactly what Isis wants to propagate\u201d. <\/p>\n

…..<\/p>\n

\u201c[Fox News] are literally \u2013 literally \u2013 working for al-Qaida and Isis\u2019s media arm,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey might as well start sending them royalty checks.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Considering the extent to which both ISIL and the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise<\/em>, hate Obama, they are natural allies.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The reanimated corpse of Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical researcher who developed the first polio vaccine, rose from the grave Friday morning on what authorities believe is a mission to hunt down idiots.<\/p>\n

The zombie version of Salk, wearing a tattered white lab coat and looking \u201cincredibly angry\u201d according to one eyewitness, was seen advancing on the U.S. Capitol building at approximately 11 A.M.<\/p>\n

While Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, hid in the Senate cloakroom, armed security forces repelled the zombie virologist, who, seemingly unharmed, moved on in search of new prey.<\/p>\n

According to law enforcement, the reanimated Salk then stole a car and headed off in the direction of Trenton, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Dang Andy!! He should have persisted until he got Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot. Rand Paul is the idiot trifecta!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>On March 4th, the United States Supreme Court will hear a case that they should never have agreed to take, brought by an organization funded by the Kochtopus and raising issues which are completely bogus. If Chief Justice John Roberts has his way, they will rule on this bogus case and gut the Affordable Care Act. <\/p>\n

Here’s the kicker: Three of the four plaintiffs in the case aren’t even eligible to participate on the exchanges, rendering this case even more bogus than it was when they started it.<\/p>\n

As much as I hope the author is wrong about this, I fear she is spot-on.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Day 94.  I\u2019m feeling quite tired, so I\u2019ll try to be brief, so I can rest. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 5:26 (average 6:51).  To do it. click here.  Hoe did you do? Short Takes: From Daily Kos: The Guardian has posted  an article about FOX New’s embedding ISIS’s latest snuff film, unedited on […]<\/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-14667","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\/14667","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=14667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}