{"id":15490,"date":"2015-06-23T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15490"},"modified":"2015-06-23T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:09:08","slug":"open-threat6232015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/open-threat6232015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Threat&ndash;6\/23\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I seem to be coming down with a cold.&#160; ARGH!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:55 (average 5:42).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-06-23-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Recruiting<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We still need two new players for <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/lbf.league.fantasy.nfl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">, our fantasy football league.&#160; How about you?&#160; For more information, <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/10\/politics-plus-fantasy-football-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/06\/21\/1395181\/-I-ll-be-buying-some-Tylenol-now-HowWeFamily\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>So I was minding my own business last night watching TV when I saw this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4oTS44SUwjM\" target=\"_blank\">amazing commercial for Tylenol<\/a>. I paused the TV and yelled for my husband to come into the room and I rewound and showed it to him. We were both blown away.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4oTS44SUwjM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Tylenol. Somehow I think Republicans will be experiencing a lot more pain, as they refuse to take it to express their hatred of black-white and LGBT marriages.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/watch-jon-stewart-slams-fox-news-idiocy-charleston\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>On last night&#8217;s Daily Show, Jon Stewart ran a montage of conservative commentators and Fox hosts berating liberals for bringing up race and gun reform after the shootings in Charleston, S.C. <\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/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:b90c71b6-946a-4e53-bf5e-5730beb17a16\" 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\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jon did a great job of exposing Republican support for all things racist.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1e0yQE9\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Rachel Maddow reviews the history of white segregationist Citizens&#8217; Councils in the American South and transformation into the Council of Conservative Citizens, a recurring embarrassment for GOP politicians and cited influence of the Charleston shooter.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_aracism_150622\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Just as the White Citizens Councils morphed into the Conservative Citizens Council to hide from their violent past, the latter will escape the consequences they face now by morphing into another equally hateful, equally racist, and equally violent organization. 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