{"id":15407,"date":"2015-06-10T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T21:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15407"},"modified":"2015-06-10T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T21:05:07","slug":"open-thread6102015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/10\/open-thread6102015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/10\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m off to a very late start today.&#160; I had a bunch of volunteer paperwork to get done.&#160; I had to complete my kitty solar basking, before it got too hot.&#160; I had to set up our fantasy football league for the coming season.&#160; And I had to clean house, because today is a grocery delivery day.&#160; I\u2019m now waiting for Store to Door to arrive, do I can put them away.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:37 (average 5:36).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-06-10-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\/makepolluterspay\/share.html\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Ideas to Save the Economy: Make Polluters Pay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s stop investing in dirty fuels and start charging polluters rent for poisoning our skies. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Z9OCPqzbzBk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left is right again. To his solutions I would add an end to all; subsidies for polluters. This the ninth video in the series. Please click through to <a href=\"http:\/\/civic.moveon.org\/makepolluterspay\/share.html\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a> and share it from there.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/06\/06\/1390893\/-Man-who-posted-picture-of-Obama-in-a-noose-is-upset-over-backlash\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/22\/us\/politics\/obamas-twitter-debut-potus-attracts-hate-filled-posts.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota resident Jeff Gullickson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>posted a doctored image of Mr. Obama\u2019s famous campaign poster, instead showing the president with his head in a noose, his eyes closed and his neck appearing broken as if he had been lynched<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; to Twitter in response to President Obama&#8217;s first tweet from his brand-new account, he netted himself nationwide attention, a visit from the Secret Service, was fired from his automotive job, and permanently etched his own name into the pantheon of the internet&#8217;s famous Obama-era racist nutcases. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/06\/minn-man-says-company-wrong-to-fire-him-over-obama-lynching-threat-my-only-regret-is-being-called-racist\/#.VXDe2rcFP3A.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">This upsets him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But the Plymouth resident insisted that his tweets were not racist. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That is not racist. The Pope is not Catholic. Bears never, ever shit in the woods.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/10\/us\/police-officer-in-mckinney-tex-resigns-over-incident-caught-on-video.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A police officer in McKinney, Tex., who was seen on video pulling his gun on teenagers in swimsuits and shoving a young black girl\u2019s face in the ground at a pool party has resigned, the police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cpl. David Eric Casebolt, who had been placed on administrative leave after the episode on Friday, remains under investigation, Chief Greg Conley said at a news conference. The corporal will keep his pension and benefits, the police chief said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur policies, our training, our practice doesn\u2019t support his actions,\u201d Chief Conley said. \u201cHe came into the call out of control, and as the video shows was out of control during the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This does not go far enough. Not only does this Republican get to keep his pension and benefits, but also, he is eligible for hire as a police officer elsewhere. He needs to be criminally charged and convicted to keep him out of police work. If you think he should be allowed to work, he can always get a job as private security for Republican campaign events, where his employers would appreciate that kind of behavior.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0610Cartoon\" 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=\"0610Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0610Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m off to a very late start today.&#160; I had a bunch of volunteer paperwork to get done.&#160; I had to complete my kitty solar basking, before it got too hot.&#160; I had to set up our fantasy football league for the coming season.&#160; And I had to clean house, because today is a grocery <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/10\/open-thread6102015\/' 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-15407","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\/15407","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=15407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}