{"id":15936,"date":"2015-08-28T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15936"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:05:03","slug":"open-thread8282015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/open-thread8282015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–8\/28\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barring a surprise that has not been forecast, I have a whole week of sub-80\u00b0s days, and I can\u2019t wait for the building to bleed off the heat.  Today through Sunday are minor holy days in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  For one evening I\u2019ll have to give up my solidarity with the LGBT community, because on Saturday my Broncos are having a service with the 69ers, a team notorious for wise receivers and very tight ends. \"Winking The game will not be televised live here, because the networks are showing only the damn Seachickens, as usual.  I will get to see the game later, though.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 2:02 (average 4:19).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>In another entry in the 2016 annals of "If Trump’s doing it, me too," Ted Cruz went after Fox News host Megyn Kelly after she dared to ask him a question on whether he would deport citizen children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants. Nick Gass reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When Kelly pressed the Texas senator on what he would do as president, Cruz said that he\u2019s \u201cnot playing the game\u201d and declined to answer the question. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat would President Cruz do? Do American citizen children of two illegal immigrants, who are born here, the children, get deported under a President Cruz?\u201d Kelly asked.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump, she said, \u201chas answered that question explicitly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMegyn, I get that that\u2019s the question you want to ask,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cThat\u2019s also the question every mainstream media liberal journalist wants to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether it is an unfair question, Cruz said that it is \u201ca distraction\u201d from solving the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, it\u2019s also the question that Barack Obama wants to focus on,\u201d Cruz retorted.<\/p>\n

Megyn Kelly? Mainstream?!? Liberal?!!? Bwaha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama came to this once-stricken city on Thursday to make a case for his entire presidency: that when disaster strikes, the federal government should help not only to rescue the stranded but also to rebuild better and fairer than before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe project of rebuilding here wasn\u2019t just to restore the city as it had been,\u201d Mr. Obama said to several hundred people at a new community center in the once-devastated Lower Ninth Ward. \u201cIt was to build a city as it should be \u2014 a city where everyone, no matter what they look like, how much money they\u2019ve got, where they come from, where they\u2019re born, has a chance to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president explicitly linked New Orleans\u2019s recovery from Hurricane Katrina, which struck 10 years ago<\/a> this month, to the nation\u2019s recovery from the 2008 recession. \u201cThat\u2019s the story of New Orleans, but that\u2019s also the story of America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I think Obama was wrong to pay lip service to the New Orleans recovery, because the recovery aid has been unfairly targeted to whites by Republican state officials. Obama should have called them out for that.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>CNN political commentator Jeffrey Lord attacked Univision anchor Jorge Ramos for playing the "race card" even though he is a "blue-eyed, light-skinned … European Mexican." Lord also connected Ramos to Virginia shooter Vester Lee Flanagan II and alleged Charleston shooter Dylann Roof, claiming they all engaged in "dividing the country by race."<\/p>\n

Ramos is an American, and every day CNN is looking more like Faux Noise<\/em> Lite.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"0828Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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