{"id":15454,"date":"2015-06-17T12:54:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T19:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15454"},"modified":"2015-06-17T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T19:54:50","slug":"open-thread6172014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/17\/open-thread6172014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/17\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m feeling quite tired after last night\u2019s meeting, although I did sleep well.  Today is a grocery delivery day, and tomorrow, I have my first appointment with an Orthopedist to treat my rotator cuff.  I will be gone for at least five hours, so expect no more than a Personal Update, please.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:39 (average 5:46).  To do it. click here<\/a>.  Hoe did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Fantasy Football Recruiting<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

We still need two new players for <\/font>Lefty Blog Friends<\/a><\/font>, our fantasy football league.  How about you?  For more information, <\/font>click here<\/a><\/font>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From NPR<\/a>: <\/font>This afternoon, the U.S. House voted 236 to 189 to give itself six more weeks to sort out tangled legislation involving trade.<\/p>\n

The House Republican leaders prodded their members to approve a rule change that extends time for a second vote on one part of a trade package. This portion, called Trade Adjustment Assistance, failed on Friday.<\/p>\n

That outcome tripped up the entire package, which also would have granted Trade Promotion Authority to the president. Now lawmakers have until July 30 \u2014 just before the August recess \u2014 to try to find compromises to pass the entire package and get it to President Obama for his signature.<\/p>\n

When that second vote might happen is far from clear at this point. Democrats were virtually united in opposing the six-week extension to reconsider the matter, even though that’s what Obama wanted<\/strong>. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n

This is a bad development. It gives Republicans six more weeks to figure out how to pass Trade Adjustment Assistance, while assuring their rabid InsaniTEA base that they will actually assist billionaires only.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Did I say advocate? I meant nutjob.<\/a><\/p>\n

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An Iowa mall cop \u2014 with a Facebook account loaded with open-carry and right-wing memes and photos of multiple weapons \u2014 is under arrest for shooting and killing a fellow mall worker because she filed sexual harassment complaints against him. <\/p>\n

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KCJJ reports that a cousin of Farrington\u2019s said that Kozak had been harassing the victim for at least six weeks and that she had complained to his superiors about unwanted advances he had made toward her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So he shoots her 3 times in the back. <\/p>\n

She was 20 years old.<\/p>\n

Another day, another Republican Ammosexual.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A spokesman for ISIS said on Tuesday that its leaders were \u201cgenuinely confused\u201d by the abundant hotel analogies in Presidential candidate Donald Trump\u2019s announcement speech, acknowledging that they were having a difficult time understanding how his colorful anecdotes about running a hotel empire translated into a strategy to defeat the terror group.<\/p>\n

In a prepared statement, the ISIS spokesman said that Trump\u2019s pronouncements about such hotel-industry concerns as air-conditioning and renting the proper-sized ballroom were creating confusion within ISIS, as the group\u2019s leaders struggled to determine how any of the examples applied to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re having a very hard time making sense of the speech,\u201d the ISIS spokesman said. \u201cHe talked about defeating us, but it seemed like what he was saying was pretty specific to hotels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minutes after the statement was released, Trump responded that the fact that he had confused ISIS \u201cmeans I\u2019m already winning the war against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Somehow I think Andy knows better. I’m sure Hairball will offer ISIS leaders a suite in the Trump Towers. I want to see his birth certificate. It’s not about where he was born. It’s about whether<\/strong> he was born.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"0617Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

How little things change, in some ways.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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