{"id":15136,"date":"2015-04-29T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15136"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:03:32","slug":"open-thread11292015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/open-thread11292015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/29\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m still feeling considerable pain and can barely walk, but I have to be up waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries, so here are a couple quick articles.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:27 (average 4:16).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-04-29-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\/an-11-year-old-ate-a-burger-with-a-surprise-ingredient-it-was-fatal-but-ok-according-to-the-fda\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>But there&#8217;s a four-letter acronym that allows food companies to pretty much add what they want to foods without FDA interference. It&#8217;s known as &quot;GRAS&quot; and refers to food additives &quot;generally regarded as safe.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Horrifyingly, this practice has allegedly led to at least one death \u2014 that of 11-year-old Miles Bengco, whose story is featured after the video below. He thought he was eating just a burger, but his family didn&#8217;t know it had an additive related to fungi in it, something they otherwise would have avoided given his preexisting respiratory problems. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yvvvPTksIJ4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This loophole clearly needs to be closed, but Republicans stand in the way. Click through for detail on how this corporate criminals murdered Miles Bengco.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/04\/25\/1380296\/-GoFundMe-Cancels-Sweet-Cakes-By-Melissa-Fundraising-Campaign\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Sweet Cakes By Melissa is the Oregon bakery whose owners refused to bake a same-sex couple&#8217;s wedding cake. The couple took the owners to court and won the case. Oregon is one of the states that provides civil rights protections for gay folks. The judge in the case has proposed a settlement of $135K. So, a GoFundMe account was set up to help raise the funds. However, now GoFundMe has cancelled the account. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/davidbadash\/gofundme_cancels_sweet_cakes_by_melissa_fundraising_campaign_bakers_blame_satan\" target=\"_blank\">The New Civil Rights Movement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Friday, after nearly two years in court, an Oregon judge recommended Aaron and Melissa Klein be fined $135,000 for discriminating against a same-sex couple. The Kleins, who own Sweet Cakes by Melissa, had refused to bake a wedding cake for the couple. <\/p>\n<p>On their Facebook page yesterday, the Kleins posted a link to a GoFundMe fundraising campaign set up for them. In just four hours it had reached over $20,000. It quickly increased to a reported $109,000 before GoFundMe canceled it.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>GoFundMe says it does not allow money to be raised on their site for people who have been found to be in violation of the law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And you say I don&#8217;t bring you <strong>GOOD<\/strong> news. \ud83d\ude42<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/ruth-bader-ginsburg-asks-someone-to-wake-her-when-scalia-stops-talking\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>As Justice Antonin Scalia weighed in on same-sex marriage at the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg interrupted the proceedings by announcing, \u201cSomeone wake me up when he stops talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was stunned silence in the courtroom after the pronouncement by Justice Ginsburg, who had been visibly nodding off during Scalia\u2019s remarks, her head jerking upward violently at various junctures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, it\u2019s not like he\u2019s going to say anything on this subject that I haven\u2019t heard him say nine zillion times before,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m gonna get me some shut-eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy should also note that is she had chosen to sleep until Injustice &quot;Teabag&quot; Thomas actually says something, she would sleep through her own funeral.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0429Cartoon\" 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=\"0429Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0429Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still feeling considerable pain and can barely walk, but I have to be up waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries, so here are a couple quick articles. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:27 (average 4:16).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From Upworthy: But there&#8217;s a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/open-thread11292015\/' 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-15136","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\/15136","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=15136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}