{"id":15244,"date":"2015-05-15T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15244"},"modified":"2015-05-15T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:21:23","slug":"open-thread5152015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/open-thread5152015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/15\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today is so busy that I must remain as brief as possible.&#160; TGIF Hugs!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:11 (average 5:02).&#160; To do it, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-05-15-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">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:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2015\/05\/14\/jon-stewart-fox-news-poor-shaming-is-easily-pro\/203647\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Jon Stewart: Fox News&#8217; Poor-Shaming Is &quot;Easily Provable And Decidedly True&quot;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Stewart On Fox&#8217;s Denial: How &quot;Removed From Reality Is Fox&#8217;s Perception Of Their Own Coverage On Poverty?&quot;<\/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:45398c15-3937-4c26-9ced-aaa263602007\" 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\">Is it any wonder that people who depend on the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda know less that people with no access to TV news.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/civic.moveon.org\/expandsocialsecurity\/share.html\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font><strong>10 Ideas to Save the Economy: Expand Social Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/chC61TSzdME?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen to Scrap the Cap!! This is the third video in the series. Please click through to <a href=\"http:\/\/civic.moveon.org\/expandsocialsecurity\/share.html\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>, and share it from there.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/bush-says-iraq-question-unimportant-since-he-clearly-will-never-be-president\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>After several days of controversy over whether he would have authorized an invasion of Iraq, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said on Thursday that the question was unimportant since it is now painfully clear that he will never be President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I can understand people wanting to know where I stand on this Iraq business if I actually had a chance of being elected,\u201d he told an audience in Arizona. \u201cBut since I\u2019ve pretty much pissed that away, what\u2019s the point, really?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bush urged those who sought out his opinion on policy matters to take a look at how poorly his campaign is going \u201cand get a reality check about the odds of me ever being President, which are hovering in the vicinity of zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">May Andy be speaking prophetically!<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0515Cartoon\" 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=\"0515Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/0515Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is so busy that I must remain as brief as possible.&#160; TGIF Hugs! 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