{"id":16257,"date":"2015-09-29T00:49:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T07:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16257"},"modified":"2015-09-29T00:49:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T07:49:46","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-29092015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/29\/squatchs-open-thread-29092015\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch’s Open Thread 29\/09\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well today is my momma's birthday — 87 years old.  I will going up to her care centre for a visit in the afternoon and take some brightly coloured balloons to bobble about and catch her attention.  I remember thinking as a child that my parents were really old at the age of about 40, and that I would never make it that far.  I knew my grandparents, even great grandparents, but that their ages were greater than my parents didn't seem to register the same way.  Now I am in my mid 60s, a mother to three cats, an honourary grandmother to 7 little humans (one named after me), and my mind still says I can do anything, but the body sometimes protests.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Puzzle<\/strong> — Today’s took me 3:29 (average 4:35). To do it, click here<\/a>. How did you do? For those that don't know, we always do the 48 piece classic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Daily Kos<\/span><\/a><\/strong> — By now we all know GOP Presidential wannabee Carly Fiorina has been telling everyone that she saw a video of an aborted fetus "with arms and legs kicking while Planned Parenthood people dissected the baby looking for its brain."<\/p>\n

Her story is bullshit of the highest order — HOWEVER — there is a tiny element of truth in the story.<\/p>\n

Click on <\/span>Here is the mom who gave birth to the premature baby<\/strong>.<\/span><\/a> to see what the truth is . . . and it is not what Fiorina is spreading!  See the <\/span>Lexi Oliver Fretz<\/strong><\/span><\/a> <\/a>story here in Crooks and Liars.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now the House wants to set up an investigation of Planned Parenthood after 3 states and the FBI have finished investigations and found no wrong doing.  Those fiscal conservatives really do like to throw good money after bad!<\/span><\/p>\n

Raw Story<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — Global financial regulators pledged to draft rules by November that will prevent taxpayers from having to bail out struggling financial institutions, according to reports. The announcement of the upcoming rules, which seek to combat banks and other institutions being “too big to fail,” followed a Friday meeting of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a group of global financial regulators, in London.<\/p>\n

Welcome news indeed.  My career was spent in banking management doing, among other things, Operational Risk Management and auditing. Of course, the largest banks like JP Morgan Chase and Citibank are opposing the move.  They would be required to carry higher capital requirements to offset risks.  For banks, that is considered to be "dead" money . . . money not making money so to speak.  Check out the rest of the story at Raw Story and additional info at <\/span>Meeting of the Financial Stability Board<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>There will be a lot of lobbying going on in Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alternet<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — Earlier this week, GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said <\/a>that he didn’t want “stupid” people — i.e. people who won’t vote for him — to vote at all. Then a Republican state representative in Florida was caught suggesting <\/a>that the party beat Rep. Corrine Brown by redrawing her African-American-majority district to include a large population of prisoners, who are not allowed to vote in Florida.<\/p>\n

\"huckabee\"<\/a><\/p>\n

These are just two of the instances of Republican lawmakers admitting that their electoral strategy hinges not just on winning votes, but on suppressing the votes of people who they think will oppose them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read about the others.  It could not get much more blatant than that!  I often wonder when the DOJ, or another government agency, is going to put the screws to the GOP for its flagrant voter suppression!<\/span><\/p>\n

My Universe<\/strong> — Just sticking my head in to say hello!<\/span><\/p>\n

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