{"id":15897,"date":"2015-08-23T12:08:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T19:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15897"},"modified":"2015-08-23T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T19:08:44","slug":"open-thread8232015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/23\/open-thread8232015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/23\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">First, I want to thank you all for your support regarding my volunteer work.&#160; I have decided to take a low key approach.&#160; First, getting certified as a volunteer, one gives them all the power.&#160; Second, I could have avoided it by staying home.&#160; Third, when the system has a problems with individuals, they tend to punish groups.&#160; Any lawsuit from me would engender retaliation against my guys, even though the people running volunteer services would oppose such action.&#160; That takes any disabled access complaint off the table.&#160; I plan to contact the head of volunteer services, with support from my group,&#160; and try to work out a compromise that keeps me in the saddle.&#160; I\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:25 (average 8:58).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-08-23-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0822Broncos14-Texans10\" 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=\"0822Broncos14-Texans10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0822Broncos14-Texans10.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Watching the Broncos win with less than 2:00 to go in the 4th quarter was far less exciting, because I already knew what happened the night before.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/wendys-and-publix-are-the-two-biggest-companies-that-havent-signed-on-for-fair-food-what-is-it\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Wendy&#8217;s and Publix are the two biggest companies that haven&#8217;t signed on for &#8216;Fair Food.&#8217; What is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/b6s4YAOISns?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I plan to call my local Wendy&#8217;s, where I have an occasional burger. Republicans have their own plan. Deport the workers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/voters-who-favor-border-wall-cannot-identify-border-on-map\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Amid the growing debate over building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, a new poll shows that voters who strongly favor building such a wall cannot successfully identify the border on a map.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the more enthusiastic voters are about building a wall, the less likely they are to know where the border is actually situated, the poll finds.<\/p>\n<p>Voters who could not correctly identify the U.S.-Mexico border provided no fewer than fifteen alternative locations for it. Nearly twenty per cent of respondents located it along the United States\u2019 border with Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Being told that they had incorrectly identified the U.S.-Mexico border did not in any way dampen voters\u2019 enthusiasm for building a wall there, however.<\/p>\n<p>To the contrary, voters believed that it would be easier to locate the border once it had a twenty-foot wall.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/08\/18\/1413068\/-A-Texas-Conservative-Openly-Call-For-Violence-Against-LGBT-People\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: On Thursday, Texas conservative Steven Hotze launched his &quot;Faith, Family, Freedom Tour&quot; with the aim of influencing Huston&#8217;s [sic] upcoming municipal elections and, of course, trying to fight their civil rights ordinance, which will be decided at the ballot box in November.<\/p>\n<p>The launch was nothing short of disturbing and disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/conservative-texas-steve-hotze-gay-nazis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Observer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday, he launched a multi-city tour of Texas, \u201cThe Faith Family Freedom Tour,\u201d at a nearly half-empty event at a hotel ballroom in Houston. Sponsored by Christian conservative notables such as Cathie Adams and Jonathan Saenz, speakers included former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who explained why he thought the judiciary could be effectively overruled by the people, a radio host named Terry Lowry who told the crowd that \u201cSatan and his demons are seducing the people of Houston,\u201d and a reparative therapist who warned the audience that the science of making kids un-gay could someday be banned. <\/p>\n<p>But it was Hotze who stole the show. He began his time on stage by showing his audience a video that warned of the audacious plans of the gay rights movement. \u201cJust like there was a communist manifesto, there\u2019s a homosexual manifesto,\u201d Hotze said. \u201cThe hackles will stand up on the back of your neck when you see what they have planned.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Gay Manifesto is, of course, a satirical essay from 1987, not an actual LGBT conspiracy. If someone said the same thing about Jews, they would rightly be condemned as anti-semitic. So, this is, in and of itself, homophobic.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for more Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian TEAbuggery, but even though there is no video, you&#8217;d better have a barf bag handy.&#160; He openly calls for violence<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0823Cartoon\" 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=\"0823Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0823Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I want to thank you all for your support regarding my volunteer work.&#160; I have decided to take a low key approach.&#160; First, getting certified as a volunteer, one gives them all the power.&#160; Second, I could have avoided it by staying home.&#160; Third, when the system has a problems with individuals, they tend <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/23\/open-thread8232015\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897","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=15897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}