{"id":15279,"date":"2015-05-20T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15279"},"modified":"2015-05-20T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:42:35","slug":"open-thread5202015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/open-thread5202015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/20\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course I\u2019m still buried with work to do.  I\u2019m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries.  Tomorrow I have an appointment to get my MRI results.  It\u2019s with my doctor that moved across town, so I\u2019ll be gone most of the day.  Expect a Personal Update at most.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 2:39 (average 5:13).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>: (all Kos to save me time)<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Bill O’Reilly is a terrible, dumb, vicious, hypocrite. Now you might add wife-beater to that litany of the obscenities that come to mind when O’Reilly crosses your radar. Gawker is reporting that, according to documents from O’Reilly’s recently lost custody case against his ex-wife Maureen McPhilmy, O’Reilly is not just a vulgar verbally and mentally abusive, bullying type\u2014he’s also a physically assaulting type of bully:<\/a><\/p>\n

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According to a source familiar with the facts of the case, a court-appointed forensic examiner testified at a closed hearing that O\u2019Reilly\u2019s daughter claimed to have witnessed her father dragging McPhilmy down a staircase by her neck, apparently unaware that the daughter was watching. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

O\u2019Lielly must have a Republican reason for such a Republican crime. Could it be that she demanded to wear shoes?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Today the Arizona legislature did what no other state in the nation has been mean-spirited enough to do: they cut lifetime welfare benefits to one year for everyone \u2014 adults and children, the physically and mentally disabled. Most states<\/a> have a five-year limit, while thirteen others impose a two-year cutoff. Texas (of course) has a flexible limit that can be as short as one year, but even children are exempt in the Lone Star State. Not so for Arizona! We’re Number 1!<\/a><\/p>\n

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As a result, the Arizona Department of Economic Security will drop at least 1,600 families \u2014 including more than 2,700 children \u2014 from the state’s federally funded welfare program when the budget year begins in July.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It does not matter to Arizona Republicans that the federal government is paying for the aid. What does is that they get to starve hungry children.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Wired put together a very interesting piece on the renewable energy company Vortex<\/a>. They are now field testing bladeless wind energy turbines.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Instead of capturing energy via the circular motion of a propeller, the Vortex takes advantage of what\u2019s known as vorticity, an aerodynamic effect that produces a pattern of spinning vortices. Vorticity has long been considered the enemy of architects and engineers, who actively try to design their way around these whirlpools of wind. And for good reason: With enough wind, vorticity can lead to an oscillating motion in structures, which, in some cases, like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, can cause their eventual collapse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wooo Hooo!!! Some good news for a change!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0520Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

The attackers were the people the Republican Party embraced and supported, as part of their Southern Strategy.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course I\u2019m still buried with work to do.  I\u2019m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries.  Tomorrow I have an appointment to get my MRI results.  It\u2019s with my doctor that moved across town, so I\u2019ll be gone most of the day.  Expect a Personal Update at most. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took […]<\/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-15279","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\/15279","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=15279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}