{"id":16343,"date":"2015-10-11T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16343"},"modified":"2015-10-11T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:25:13","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-11102015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/squatchs-open-thread-11102015\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch&#8217;s Open Thread 11\/10\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">It has been raining all day long. &nbsp;I could hear the steady beat against the rain spout beside the den window. &nbsp;The furbabes are surrounding my feet. Could life get any better?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>Puzzle<\/strong> &mdash; Today&rsquo;s took me 3:20 (average 7:09). To do it, <\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-10-11\" 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><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/this-assistant-principal-who-sings-and-dances-during-school-drop-off-every-morning-wins-life?c=upw1&amp;u=6ffb12f2d750fff1c628f4ed4366938bb526f1d5\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Upworthy<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8212; <strong>h\/t JL<\/strong> &#8212;&nbsp;<\/span>&quot;It makes their day, and it makes mine to see them smilin&#039; and happy!&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61ToSfhEctk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">I like his style! &nbsp;My kind of teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/10\/rachel-maddow-reveals-to-trevor-noah-the-one-gop-candidate-she-could-maybe-support\/?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=rawstory\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>Raw Story<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212;&nbsp;Then Noah asked a question that Maddow found nearly impossible to answer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you had to vote for one of the Republican candidates, if someone held a gun to your head because&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/10\/ben-carson-i-got-held-up-once-at-popeyes-but-i-told-the-gunman-to-rob-an-employee-instead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Carson said<\/a>&nbsp;(to) point it that way, who would you vote for if you had to vote for one of the main 12?&rdquo; Noah asked.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Read the rest of this short article and view the video at&nbsp;<\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/10\/rachel-maddow-reveals-to-trevor-noah-the-one-gop-candidate-she-could-maybe-support\/?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=rawstory\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Raw Story<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">. <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Unfortunately, I couldn&#039;t watch the video because it is not on The Comedy Network (Canada&#039;s version of Comedy Central) yet, and&nbsp;Comedy Central is not available in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/10\/10\/1429810\/-Another-textbook-from-publisher-McGraw-Hill-lists-Afro-American-slaves-as-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>Daily Kos<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"> &#8212; <strong>h\/t Pat B<\/strong><\/span> &#8212;&nbsp;After a Houston-area mother complained about how his son&#039;s ninth-grade Word Geography textbook defined African American slaves as migrants and workers, I was curious to see what my son&rsquo;s seventh-grade Texas History textbook would say about slavery and immigration. So I looked at the online edition (the history teacher refused to let my son bring home the textbook) of the Texas History textbook published by McGraw-Hill, the same publisher of the now infamous high school World Geography book. And McGraw-Hill did not disappoint me!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Read the rest of this article at&nbsp;<\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/10\/10\/1429810\/-Another-textbook-from-publisher-McGraw-Hill-lists-Afro-American-slaves-as-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Daily Kos<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>. &nbsp;<\/strong>The saying<strong> &quot;History is written by the victors&quot;<\/strong>&nbsp;as attributed to Winston Churchill, seems apt here. &nbsp;The text misinforms readers and gives short shrift to the history of African Americans, something totally unacceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>My Universe<\/strong> &#8212; Sitting down to a great mousey dinner!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zQO3295WCmU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been raining all day long. &nbsp;I could hear the steady beat against the rain spout beside the den window. &nbsp;The furbabes are surrounding my feet. Could life get any better? Puzzle &mdash; Today&rsquo;s took me 3:20 (average 7:09). To do it, click here. How did you do? For those that don&#039;t know, we <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/squatchs-open-thread-11102015\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}