{"id":15232,"date":"2015-05-13T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15232"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:24:33","slug":"open-thread5132015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/open-thread5132015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/13\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On a scale of one to ten, I\u2019m swamped!!!!&#160; The O<sub>2<\/sub> people just left and I\u2019m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my groceries.&#160; Then I have to put them away, of course.&#160; Yesterday\u2019s community meeting was interesting.&#160; Our building energy efficiency program is doing well.&#160; Although marijuana will be legal here on 7\/1, it may not be brought into the building, because it receives federal funding,&#160; For me, that doesn\u2019t matter, and the smell has been in the hallway since the day I moved in, almost seventeen months ago, anyway.&#160; My friend with cancer is dealing with it very well and has a positive prognosis.&#160; My MRI is now scheduled for Monday.&#160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:23 (average 5:54).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-05-13-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:\/\/civic.moveon.org\/helpworkingfamilies\/share.html\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font><strong>10 Ideas to Save the Economy: Help Working Families<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one should have to choose between providing for their family and being a good parent.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bsVr9uU1p0E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the second in the series. Click through to <a href=\"http:\/\/civic.moveon.org\/helpworkingfamilies\/share.html\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a> to share it from there.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/scientists-earth-endangered-by-new-strain-of-fact-resistant-humans\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.<\/p>\n<p>The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,\u201d Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. \u201cAnd yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More worryingly, Logsdon said, \u201cAs facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information en route from the auditory nerve to the brain. \u201cThe normal functions of human consciousness have been completely nullified,\u201d Logsdon said\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy is close. There are actually two strains. For Republicitis, take Dulcolax. For Republicosis, take Immodium.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/13\/us\/politics\/jeb-bush-walks-back-iraq-war-comments.html?emc=edit_th_20150513&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=31876173&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Jeb Bush on Tuesday sought to arrest a chorus of criticism from Democrats and some conservatives after he told an interviewer that, knowing what history has since shown about intelligence failures, he still would have authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Calling in to Sean Hannity\u2019s syndicated radio show, Mr. Bush said he had misunderstood a question that one of Mr. Hannity\u2019s Fox News colleagues, Megyn Kelly, had asked him in an interview shown on Sunday and Monday nights.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Strike Three is so stupid that he can&#8217;t understand THAT question, it proves two things. First, he really is Crawford Caligula&#8217;s brother. Second, he&#8217;s too stupid to be President!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0513Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0513Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/0513Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a scale of one to ten, I\u2019m swamped!!!!&#160; The O2 people just left and I\u2019m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my groceries.&#160; Then I have to put them away, of course.&#160; Yesterday\u2019s community meeting was interesting.&#160; Our building energy efficiency program is doing well.&#160; Although marijuana will be legal here on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/open-thread5132015\/' 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-15232","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\/15232","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=15232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}