{"id":14741,"date":"2015-02-18T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14741"},"modified":"2015-02-18T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:05:15","slug":"open-thread2182015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/18\/open-thread2182015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–2\/18\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries.  I feel tired, but I did get enough sleep that I feel feline again.  Yesterday, I felt like a dawg<\/em>!  Tomorrow, I\u2019m taking my friend with cancer out to dinner.  It\u2019s a Mexican place known for Chile Verde, so I hope there are Republicans downwind.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:30 (average 5:31).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>In a time where people genuinely want to believe that racism is dead, reality has a way of smacking us all right in the face to remind us that it’s actually alive and well. Mississippi Judge Bill Weisenberger was seen and heard by five different witnesses, both white and black, striking a severely autistic African-American man and then yelling, "Run, n*gger, run" at him in 2014. <\/p>\n

Nine months later, a grand jury has indicted Judge Weisenberger, and charged him with "assault on a vulnerable adult."<\/a> Hate crime charges, which carry stiff federal sentencing, have yet to be filed.<\/p>\n

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Several additional allegations have surfaced against Weisenberger in the last year. He is accused of imposing an illegal DUI sentence against an African American in his courtroom. The Attorney General’s office said it could not confirm or deny whether it was investigating that matter, though District Attorney Michael Guest said it had turned the matter over to the AG’s office. <\/p>\n

Weisenberger also had a lawsuit filed against both him and the county in November. The attorney for Charles Plumpp said Weisenberger arrested and jailed her client, who is African American, on the nonexistence charge of "roaming livestock."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m surprised that this Republican is being brought to justice. Kudos to those Mississippians responsible.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama surely knew that his recent executive actions<\/a> to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation would run into trouble as soon as a 26-state lawsuit opposing the actions landed on the desk of Federal District Judge Andrew Hanen, of Brownsville, Tex.<\/p>\n

Judge Hanen \u2014 who last month invoked a biblical flood in describing illegal immigration into that community \u2014 has spoken out aggressively against Mr. Obama\u2019s immigration policy in the past, saying it \u201cendangers America\u201d and is \u201can open invitation to the most dangerous criminals in society.\u201d Indeed, his earlier opinions were the reason Republican governors and attorneys general pushed to get their suit into his district<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As expected, the judge on Monday night temporarily blocked<\/a> the first of several programs Mr. Obama announced in November to offer work permits and a three-year reprieve from deportation to more than four million immigrants who are parents of American citizens and who have no criminal record.<\/p>\n

That move \u2014 which Mr. Obama took only after years of failed efforts by Congress to pass any immigration reform \u2014 triggered the fury of congressional Republicans, who responded with threats of, among other things, impeachment proceedings<\/a>\u2026. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Judge Hanen is another small part of the damage done to this nation by Crawford Caligula. I pray his partisan decision will be overturned.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>In the wake of Dave Fahrenthold’s great piece about Scott Walker’s college years<\/a>, Democrats have begun to openly question the Wisconsin governor’s ability and readiness to be president, given that he doesn’t have a college degree.<\/p>\n

I disagree with those Democrats who say Walker is unfit to be President, because he does not have a college degree. A college degree measures neither intellect nor ability. 25% of Politics Plus readers have postgraduate degrees, and another 48% graduated college. My lack of a college degree has not impacted my ability to reason and communicate with well educated people. The Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan has proven himself unfit to be a washroom attendant, let alone President, because he is a Koch whore. His degree is irrelevant.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries.  I feel tired, but I did get enough sleep that I feel feline again.  Yesterday, I felt like a dawg!  Tomorrow, I\u2019m taking my friend with cancer out to dinner.  It\u2019s a Mexican place known for Chile Verde, so I hope there are Republicans downwind. Jig […]<\/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-14741","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\/14741","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=14741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}