{"id":16650,"date":"2015-10-17T12:33:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T19:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16650"},"modified":"2015-10-17T12:33:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T19:33:40","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-17102015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/squatchs-open-thread-17102015\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch\u2019s Open Thread 17\/10\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">It has been another long day. &nbsp;Besides waking up at 4 am and being unable to sleep again until about 6:30, I had&nbsp;physio, then taught my ESL student and finally I was home about 5 pm. &nbsp;My student&#039;s 4 year old daughter sees me as grandma and came to me crying after a tiff with her 8 year old sister. She usually comes to me in such situations just to be cuddled. &nbsp;When I was much younger, I did not want to have children. &nbsp;I can&#039;t change my decision, nor do I wish to, but sometimes I&nbsp;wonder if child rearing should be left to older people who have developed patience and wisdom. &nbsp;Don&#039;t get me wrong, her mum is a wonderful mum to all her kids but it is tough when there are 6. &nbsp;There is something to be said for a closeknit, multi generational family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>Puzzle &#8212;&nbsp;<\/strong>Today&rsquo;s took me 2:45 (average 5:13). To do it,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-10-17\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><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><a href=\"http:\/\/wellthisiswhatithink.com\/2015\/10\/16\/having-difficulty-understanding-the-concept-of-sexual-consent-think-of-it-as-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>Well. this is what I think\u200b<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">&nbsp;<strong>h\/t Joanne D<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQbei5JGiT8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">This is common sense, but it isn&#039;t as common as one might hope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2015\/10\/15\/jeb-bush-desperate-turned-defending-redskins-speeches.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Politicususa<\/span><\/a><\/strong> &#8212; Jeb Bush is probably well aware that there is little direct political cost to ignoring American Indian concerns. Few Native Americans vote Republican, and if Bush can get some mileage out of mocking indigenous people to shore up his support from White racists, so be it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Ah, the Republican bigotry raises its ugly head once again!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/10\/obama-intercept-drone-papers-project-kill-list\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Mother Jones<\/span><\/a><\/strong> &#8212;&nbsp;The US government kills a lot of people who aren&#039;t military targets. &nbsp;War is an inherently deadly exercise, but the whole point of using armed drones, theoretically, is to minimize US military deaths and offer a more precise way to attack targets so that innocent people don&#039;t get killed. And while it&#039;s been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\/category\/projects\/drones\/drones-graphs\/\" target=\"_blank\">known for some time<\/a>&nbsp;that many innocent people die in US drone strikes, much of the information came from independent sources. The&nbsp;<em>Intercept&#039;s&nbsp;<\/em>package&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/drone-papers\/manhunting-in-the-hindu-kush\" target=\"_blank\">adds internal US military data to the conversation<\/a>, putting into stark reality just how bad the accidental killing problem has been: Between January 2012 and February 2013, US drone strikes in northeastern Afghanistan killed more than 200 people, only 35 of whom were the intended targets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">It seems that human beings are overly occupied with killing each other, and drones are another way to try to &quot;sanitise&quot; killing. The saying &quot;Don&#039;t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.&quot;, generally attributed to General Prescott at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 because his troops were low on ammunition, is a perfect example of NOT sanitising the war In other words, don&#039;t waste your shot; make it count even though you could get hurt. &nbsp;You can read the entire <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/drone-papers\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">Drone Papers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">through The Intercept but it is long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong>My Universe<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000FF\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/h8E72205F.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"h8E72205F\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16733\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/h8E72205F-198x300.jpg\" width=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/h8E72205F-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/h8E72205F.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Friday night without a date can be depressing!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been another long day. &nbsp;Besides waking up at 4 am and being unable to sleep again until about 6:30, I had&nbsp;physio, then taught my ESL student and finally I was home about 5 pm. &nbsp;My student&#039;s 4 year old daughter sees me as grandma and came to me crying after a tiff with <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/squatchs-open-thread-17102015\/' 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-16650","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\/16650","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=16650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}