{"id":15142,"date":"2015-04-30T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15142"},"modified":"2015-04-30T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:36:17","slug":"open-thread4302015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/open-thread4302015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/30\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m still dealing with considerable pain, but not enough to shut me down completely.&#160; In addition, I\u2019m rewarding myself for writing with&#160; a kitty sun nap, as our high will be over 70\u00b0.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jig Zone Puzzle<\/font><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:55 (average 5:05). To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-04-30-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. 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\/5-things-to-kill-a-mockingbird-got-right-50-years-ago-that-still-ring-true-right-now\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>There&#8217;s something timeless about this American classic that America can&#8217;t seem to outgrow. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LsmvFsUmXDc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I first read <u>To Kill a Mocking Bird<\/u> in 1962. I was 12. I identified with it, because my father&#8217;s extreme racism was so offensive to me. It certainly has a message for today. Click through for five lessons that still apply.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/04\/27\/1380728\/-Nasty-Wingnut-Spoils-Kindergarten-Concert-With-Racist-Ranting\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Some nasty, malevolent wingnut took it on himself to spoil a kindergarten concert in Iowa by yelling &quot;USA! English Only!&quot; over and over when the concert was introduced first in English, and then by a Spanish translator to accommodate Spanish speaking toddlers and their parents.<\/p>\n<p>This occurred last week at the local Performing Arts Center in Perry, Iowa, about 40 miles Northwest of Des Moines, during a concert by Perry Elementary School students.&#160; The incident was caught on a <a href=\"http:\/\/theperrynews.com\/audience-boos-when-protester-disrupts-perry-kindergarten-concert-with-english-only-chant\/\" target=\"_blank\">12-second video<\/a> and provided to the <em>Perry News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZUAu7WRTJEQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They may mot know who this shameful racist is, but we&#8217;ve seen this TEAbuggery so much, that what he is, is clear. He is a Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2015\/04\/jon-stewart-knocks-down-anti-gay-marriage\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Let&#8217;s hope Jon Stewart was right when he said this about the oral arguments we heard this week on gay marriage in front of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>STEWART: Bottom line is this. If oral arguments have any impact on the final result, June&#8217;s going to be a nice time for a gay wedding.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen to that. Stewart started off his show this Wednesday by going after the wingnuts [<em>sic<\/em>] on the Supreme Court and former solicitor general of Michigan John Bursch, and the extremely lame arguments we heard from them against the issue of same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 520px; background-color: #000000\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:9084fedb-6a23-48c7-bf9b-58e0c92b7e7f\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"512\"><\/iframe>      <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; padding-top: 4px; padding-left: 4px; margin-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; background-color: #ffffff\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyshow.cc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show<\/a><\/b>         <br \/>Get More: <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyshow.cc.com\/full-episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyshow.cc.com\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Show Video Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now that Republicans have had their oral arguments, it&#8217;s time for them to get their anal arguments. Hold the KY. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0430Cartoon\" 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=\"0430Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0430Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still dealing with considerable pain, but not enough to shut me down completely.&#160; In addition, I\u2019m rewarding myself for writing with&#160; a kitty sun nap, as our high will be over 70\u00b0. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:55 (average 5:05). To do it, click here. How did you do? Short Takes: From Upworthy: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/open-thread4302015\/' 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-15142","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\/15142","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=15142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}