{"id":19319,"date":"2016-01-22T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19319"},"modified":"2016-01-22T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T20:43:00","slug":"open-thread1222016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/22\/open-thread1222016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/22\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have another busy day today.  My shower-aide just left, leaving me smelling like a rose.  PT is coming at 9:00 and OT at 10:00, so they will have come and gone by the time I get this posted.  Arvilla (PT) is bringing a cane to see if it will give me sufficient stability to aid in transfers, when I\u2019m out and don\u2019t have my walker for transfers.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today;s took me 3:24 (average 5:10).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Ted Nugent may have totally broken the law and called for the lynching of a sitting president and (possible) future sitting president. [Fascist criminal delinked]<\/p>\n

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Our unholy rotten soulless criminal America destroying government killed 4 Americans in Banghazi. Period! What sort of chimpass punk would deny security, turn down 61 requests for security, then tell US forces to STAND DOWN when they were ready to kickass on the allapukes & save American lives! Obama & Clinton, thats who. They should be tried for treason & hung. Our entire fkdup gvt must be cleansed asap.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Can’t you feel what Republicans call love?!!?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>Fox News has devoted roughly three hours to promoting the release of Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi<\/em>, a movie about the 2012 attacks on diplomatic facilities in Libya, praising the film, repeatedly characterizing the movie as a threat to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and hyping several debunked myths about the Benghazi terror attacks. More than half of the network’s 32 segments focused on falsehoods about the State Department and Obama administration’s responses to the attacks, and nearly 60 percent of the segments linked the movie to Clinton’s 2016 bid for the White House. <\/p>\n

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No matter how many times the lies are debunked, The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise<\/em>, refuses to let this go.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>In a significant victory for President Obama, a federal appeals panel on Thursday rejected an effort by 27 states and dozens of corporations and industry groups to block the administration\u2019s signature regulation on emissions from coal-fired power plants while a lawsuit moves through the courts.<\/p>\n

The rule, issued last summer by the Environmental Protection Agency, is at the heart of Mr. Obama\u2019s efforts to tackle climate change<\/a>. It would require each state to significantly cut greenhouse gas pollution from electric power plants, the nation\u2019s largest source of such emissions.<\/p>\n

Once fully in place, the regulation \u2014 which would cut emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 \u2014 could transform the electricity system, closing hundreds of heavily polluting coal-fired plants and sharply increasing production of wind and solar powers.<\/p>\n

But the 27 states, many of which have economies that rely on coal mining or coal-fired power, have sued the administration to kill the plan. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit set June 2 to hear arguments in that case, although it is widely expected to be ultimately decided by the Supreme Court, most likely in 2017.<\/p>\n

Won’t it be wonderful, if a Democratic President can replace a Republican Injustice on SCROTUS by 2017?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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