{"id":17083,"date":"2015-11-11T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17083"},"modified":"2015-11-11T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T21:34:08","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-11112015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/11\/squatchs-open-thread-11112015\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch\u2019s Open Thread 11\/11\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

The visit to the doctor was good . . . I don't have bronchitis . . . yet!  But I am on the verge so I do have to rest, not go out and take Tylenol and cough syrup.  The doctor also nailed me for my flu shot.  There was a new patient in the waiting room, an elderly lady in a wheelchair, with whom I struck up a conversation and reassured her that the doctor was very nice.  Just before I was called in, I leaned over and told her the doctor was real eye candy.  At 93 years, she was giggling like a school girl.  Then she said her eyes were not good.  When I told the doctor about this, he started laughing.  I might have felt crappy, but at least I was able to make 2 people laugh.  Interesting though, 2 other patients joined in with positive opinions of the doctor.  I think he's a keeper!<\/span><\/p>\n

Puzzle — <\/strong>Today’s took me 3:01 (average 4:23). To do it, <\/span>click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. How did you do? For those that don't know, we always do the 48 piece classic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Alternet<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — "So this is weird for me," Noah said. "The media is saying 'those rumors about you haveing a clean record and being an upstanding member of society are true', and Ben Carson is like 'Bullshit! I'm dangerous and I try to kill people and I'm a bad person who should be President."<\/p>\n

The Daily Show host would save the worst bonehead moment for last: Carson's belief that the Egyptian pyramids were used to score grain and were not a tomb.<\/p>\n

Click through for the rest.  Unfortunately, I could not embed the video, partly because I am Canadian and partly because there is no embeding url.  Also, I could not find it on YouTube.  For Canadians <\/span>click here<\/span><\/a> for the Canadian version.  Noah's monologue on Carson starts at the 1:48 mark.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mother Jones<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — … the conservative American Action Network will run an ad opposing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog agency that Warren created following the financial crash. Per Everett, the group is spending half a million dollars to run the ad during the debate and later this week.<\/p>\n

The commercial paints the CFPB as a Kremlin-like bureaucratic nightmare, with Warren as the Stalinesque figure barring regular Americans from collecting loans. Warren's face is plastered on a giant red banner in the background, alongside that of CFPB director Richard Cordray. The Soviet imagery is not subtle.<\/p>\n