{"id":15091,"date":"2015-04-21T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15091"},"modified":"2015-04-21T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:09:09","slug":"open-thread4212015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/21\/open-thread4212015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/21\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m still quite tired after doing the dreaded task and another noisy night, but I did get some daytime sleep yesterday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:06 (average 4:58).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-04-21-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\/04\/17\/1378287\/-Pat-Robertson-Big-Daddy-s-home-Wham\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Notoriously addled butt munch Pat Robertson took a question today from a woman worried about her 11-year-old son who &quot;started listening to music that speaks of the &#8216;beast within&#8217; and the &#8216;infection in people.&#8217;&quot; Consequently, his behavior has this poor woman &quot;to the point of me giving up trying to parent him.&quot; Thank goodness she took her concern to that master oracle of parenting advice, good ol&#8217; Pat.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RCECu4yHGgI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Robertson remains the poster boy for Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity (the exact opposite of authentic Christianity).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/hillary-promises-to-get-everyday-americans-foreign-money\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Delivering a stirring populist message at a campaign appearance in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton vowed that as President she would help everyday Americans obtain large cash payments from foreign governments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike a lot of everyday Americans, many of you are struggling to pay your bills,\u201d she told an audience here. \u201cAs President, I will work tirelessly to help you make ends meet\u2014by getting foreign governments to pay you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn cold, hard cash,\u201d she added, to a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Growing emotional, the former Secretary of State spoke of the \u201ctransformative power of foreign money,\u201d calling it \u201cnothing short of magical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy is back to satire for a change. The people behind the foreign money meme have a repeatedly demonstrated resume as liars.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/richest-001-percent-americans-gave-42-percent-political-donations-2012\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Forget the top one percent, the top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdpac.com\/blog\/the-1-percent-of-the-1-percent\" target=\"_blank\">0.01 percent of Americans<\/a> gave nearly 42 percent of all political donation dollars in the 2012 election cycle. Just over 30,000 individuals contributed nearly half of all money. It is no coincidence that this proportion has increased steadily as economic inequality has increased. In 1990 when I was born, the figure was just under 13 percent. If we expanded the scope to the full one percent, you can be damn sure they gave the overwhelming majority of dollars in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And don\u2019t forget that this does not even include the $billions more in secret donations to bogus Republican 501(c)4 organizations.<\/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\/04\/0421Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0421Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0421Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0421Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still quite tired after doing the dreaded task and another noisy night, but I did get some daytime sleep yesterday. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:06 (average 4:58).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From Daily Kos: Notoriously addled butt munch Pat Robertson took a question today from <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/21\/open-thread4212015\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091","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=15091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}