{"id":16336,"date":"2015-10-06T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16336"},"modified":"2015-10-06T11:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:38:37","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-06102015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/squatchs-open-thread-06102015\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch&#8217;s Open Thread 06\/10\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">It has been a busy day with over 2 hours of physiotherapy and then 3 hours of teaching. &nbsp;After a quick trip for a loaf of bread &#8212; yum, cinnamon bread (has shaved cinnamon in it!) &#8212; I arrived home. &nbsp;No cat nap today, although I would have loved one!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>Puzzle<\/strong> &mdash; Today&rsquo;s took me 4:03 (average 5:53). To do it, <\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-10-06\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">. How did you do? For those that don&#039;t know, we always do the 48 piece classic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Short Takes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/maher-why-gop-loves-fake-capitalist-jesus-not-real-socialist-one-video\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Alternet<\/span><\/a><\/strong> &#8212;&nbsp;Bill Maher took some time out on Friday night&#039;s Real Time to point out the modern GOP was currently worshiping a totally fantastical Jesus. One who&#039;s contemptuous of the poor, greedy, and less about values and more about maximizing shareholder value.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fYYlRgf2ToA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Read the remainder of this short&nbsp;<\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/maher-why-gop-loves-fake-capitalist-jesus-not-real-socialist-one-video\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Alternet<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">&nbsp;article and watch the video above. &nbsp;Bill is always entertaining.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/charleston-south-carolina-soaked-worst-rains-1000-years\/story?id=34233408\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">ABC News<\/span><\/a><\/strong> &#8212;&nbsp;South Carolina is enduring its worst rains &quot;in 1,000 years,&quot; Gov. Nikki Haley said Sunday, urging residents to stay off the roads as conditions were &quot;changing by the minute,&quot; with roads flooding and rivers at their highest levels in decades.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Weather Service, one area of downtown Columbia, the South Carolina capital, received nearly 17 inches of rain in 17 hours, and it was still raining.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/flood-south-carolina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"flood south carolina\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16471\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/flood-south-carolina-300x125.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/flood-south-carolina-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/flood-south-carolina-1024x428.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/flood-south-carolina.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Consensus has it that this large and powerful storm is not part of Hurricane Joaquin but certainly influenced by Joaquin. &nbsp;Read the rest and see the live reporting at&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/charleston-south-carolina-soaked-worst-rains-1000-years\/story?id=34233408\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a>. &nbsp;<span style=\"color:#0000FF\">There will be more and more extreme weather unless we learn to effectively deal with global warming and climate change. &nbsp;That is not a Democratic thing or a Republican thing. . . that is a human thing. &nbsp;Please keep the people of the affected areas and their families&nbsp;in your thoughts and prayers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mixed-media\/2015\/10\/john-oliver-mental-health-guns\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Mother Jones<\/span><\/a><\/strong> &#8212;&nbsp;&quot;It seems like there is nothing like a mass shooting to suddenly spark political interest in mental health,&quot; Oliver said, while featuring the talking points of Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Mike Huckabee&mdash;all of whom steered away from discussing increased gun control legislation after the shooting in Oregon, to tout the need for better mental health programs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NGY6DqB1HX8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">John Oliver makes some very salient points about mental health and gun control. &nbsp;Society needs to look seriously at how we deal with mental illness&nbsp;, but it also needs to deal with gun control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">My Universe<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color:#0000FF\">&#8212; I love me some Simon&#039;s Cat. &nbsp;What cat parent has not had to deal with this?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Te4wx4jtiEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gifgratis.net\/gifs_animes\/chats\/441.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy day with over 2 hours of physiotherapy and then 3 hours of teaching. &nbsp;After a quick trip for a loaf of bread &#8212; yum, cinnamon bread (has shaved cinnamon in it!) &#8212; I arrived home. &nbsp;No cat nap today, although I would have loved one! 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