{"id":19033,"date":"2016-01-14T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19033"},"modified":"2016-01-14T12:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:50:12","slug":"open-thread1142016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/open-thread1142016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/14\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, after groceries came, I made five more suppers ns now have 12 meals prepared and frozen.  This afternoon I have a building community meeting.  I\u2019m feeling very tired, so please pardon my brevity.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 5:17 (average 6:36).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  <\/font>How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Sometimes a small change in language can reveal an obvious truth. <\/p>\n

As I have written about elsewhere<\/a>, done interviews about, and discussed more generally<\/a>, if the Bundy Brigands who are engaged in an armed "standoff" in Oregon were "Muslims" or people of color–especially African-Americans–they would at worst be dead by now or at the very least in jail.<\/p>\n

The Bundy Brigands have begun to amplify their noxious, aggressive, and threatening behavior towards local authorities and residents who live in the area around Burns, Oregon.<\/p>\n

I have made a small change in the language of a recent report from CNN about the Bundy Brigands in order to highlight how the double standard for white, right-wing, domestic terrorists enables their bad behavior and insulates them from consequences, i.e. what conservatives like to call "personal responsibility".<\/p>\n

The author is spot-on. If Y’all Qaeda were black they’d be dead.<\/font><\/p>\n

From PRWatch<\/a>: <\/font>Justice Samuel Alito has been scouring the land looking for a case to make his mark on history.<\/p>\n

Could he find a way to hold a big bank accountable for ripping off millions of consumers? Could he interpret intellectual property law to give more desperately ill people access to essential medicines? Could he hold a chemical company to account for poisoning people and hiding it for decades?<\/p>\n

No. Alito apparently decided to make his mark by helping a massive right-wing funding machine crush wages for teachers, nurses, firefighters, cops and prison guards.<\/p>\n

The case is Friederichs vs. California Teachers Association<\/em> will be heard on Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click through for more details of what could be Scalito’s legacy in the ongoing case, SCROTUS v. Constitution<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>There is no longer any question that Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky plans to shut down the health insurance exchange his state built to enroll residents for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Now that he has notified the Obama administration of his intention to do so, the question is, will it change the law\u2019s substantial impact there?<\/p>\n

It is hard to predict, partly because what Mr. Bevin is doing is without precedent. While a few states have been forced to largely rely on the federally run exchange after their own versions failed, Kentucky will be the first to abandon a homegrown exchange that functions well.<\/p>\n

Condolences to the residents of Kentucky. On the other hand, they did this to themselves.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yesterday, after groceries came, I made five more suppers ns now have 12 meals prepared and frozen.  This afternoon I have a building community meeting.  I\u2019m feeling very tired, so please pardon my brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 5:17 (average 6:36).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-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\/19033","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}