{"id":15594,"date":"2015-07-11T13:56:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15594"},"modified":"2015-07-11T13:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T20:56:03","slug":"open-thread7112015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/11\/open-thread7112015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/11\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m getting a late start today, because I\u2019ve been busy talking to my friend with cancer, proofreading and editing a manual that another organization is preparing for prisoners on how to prepare for a parole board review, and planning an upcoming three day prison volunteer trip in September. I\u2019m not fully well, but am still mending.&#160; I hope you are having a fine weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:46 (average 6:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-07-11-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 may still need one new player 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; Viv and her Hillbilly Lefties are now onboard. We may have found our last player. 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\/07\/10\/1400914\/-DNC-Releases-Killer-Ad-Retrumplican-Party?detail=email\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>From Business Insider:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The national Democratic Party released a new video Thursday that connects the entire Republican presidential field to the immigration remarks made by real-estate magnate Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>The Democratic National Committee&#8217;s video is titled, &quot;Retrumplican Party.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CGVnisiEiGc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I say again, the reason Hairball is leading in the polls is that that he represents the actual values of the Republican Party. The others are freaking out over him, because he says directly the things that they disguise with dog-whistle rhetoric.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/11\/opinion\/psychologists-who-greenlighted-torture.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The first detailed accounts of the brutal interrogation program the Central Intelligence Agency established after the Sept. 11 attacks noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/17\/opinion\/tortured-by-psychologists-and-doctors.html\" target=\"_blank\">psychologists and other medical professionals played key roles<\/a> in abetting the torture of terrorism suspects. However, much about their role and their degree of responsibility in one of the most macabre and shameful chapters of American history has remained shrouded in secrecy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/07\/09\/us\/document-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">A new report<\/a> by a former federal prosecutor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/11\/us\/psychologists-shielded-us-torture-program-report-finds.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news\" target=\"_blank\">first disclosed by James Risen in The Times<\/a>, contains astonishing, disturbing details. It found that top members of the American Psychological Association, the largest professional organization of psychologists, colluded with officials at the Pentagon and the C.I.A. to keep the group\u2019s ethics policies in line with tactics that interrogators working for the agency and the military were employing.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when intelligence and Department of Defense officials were desperate for intelligence that would help them foil new terror plots, they were willing to pay handsomely for experts who could give the torture program a veneer of legitimacy. Prominent psychologists were apparently happy to indulge them. \u201cA.P.A. chose its ethics policy based on its goals of helping D.O.D., managing its P.R., and maximizing the growth of the profession,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every psychologist and medical professional of any kind that participated in the Republican Torture program should charged with war crimes. Those who merely abetted the Republican torture program should be stripped of their licenses to practice ever again for violating their professional ethics.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/culture\/watch-key-and-peele-made-feminist-pirate-shanty-and-its-hilarious\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/maher-rants-again-about-pc-idiots-little-sht-who-lectured-seinfeld-about-comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\">suffering through<\/a> weeks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/culture\/jerry-seinfeld-white-hetero-male-worth-820-million-thinks-world-too-pc\" target=\"_blank\">white men complaining<\/a> how political correctness is &quot;ruining comedy&quot; (read: &quot;people have stopped laughing at my jokes&quot;), the Key and Peele Show&#8217;s latest viral bit involving pirates singing a catchy feminist shanty offered a much-needed respite, showing that comedy can be both funny and inclusive.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MwUUDypEDNQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">HAR!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0711Cartoon\" 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=\"0711Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0711Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m getting a late start today, because I\u2019ve been busy talking to my friend with cancer, proofreading and editing a manual that another organization is preparing for prisoners on how to prepare for a parole board review, and planning an upcoming three day prison volunteer trip in September. 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