{"id":15974,"date":"2015-09-02T12:44:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T19:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15974"},"modified":"2015-09-02T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T19:44:25","slug":"open-thread922015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/02\/open-thread922015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/2\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day has brought another rush trying to get things done.  Today is a grocery delivery day, so I\u2019ve been cleaning.  No heat waves are forecast through Labor Day, but it has been very humid.  I have a couple relatively light days tomorrow and Friday, so hopefully I can rest up then.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:14 (average 4:55).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Saying that \u201cthings just didn\u2019t work out,\u201d the billionaire Koch brothers have decided to put Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker up for sale.<\/p>\n

The Kochs, who earlier had purchased Gov. Walker with great fanfare<\/a>, announced their plan to sell the politician in a terse statement from Koch Industries headquarters in Wichita.<\/p>\n

\u201cScott Walker is a fine individual, and we wish him well,\u201d the Kochs\u2019 statement read. \u201cWe are confident that he will be a good fit for some other billionaire industrialists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican insiders, however, called the Kochs\u2019 plan to sell Walker highly optimistic, and noted that the market for the Wisconsin Governor was, at this point, virtually nonexistent.<\/p>\n

The Kochs, who reportedly had been frustrated by Walker\u2019s poor performance in the polls, finally decided to sell the Wisconsinite after last weekend\u2019s odd pronouncement, in which he seemed to support a border wall with Canada.<\/p>\n

You’d better wish them luck, Andy. The Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan will be harder to sell than the Brooklyn Bridge!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>John Oliver is making his presence felt.  After only about a year on the air, he’s influenced the FCC on NetNeutrality (causing their comments to overload), formed his own Church to make a point about "Prosperity Gospel" scams and engaged in an internet war with the President of Ecuador.<\/p>\n

Now, he’s been cited<\/a> by a Judge on one of the Courts just below the Supreme Court — the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  On his show on March 8, he mocked the lack of representation in US Territories because of a hundred year old group of Supreme Court cases — The Insular Cases<\/em>.<\/p>\n