{"id":19380,"date":"2016-01-24T10:38:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T18:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19380"},"modified":"2016-01-24T10:38:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T18:38:46","slug":"open-thread1242016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/24\/open-thread1242016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/24\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is a  very high holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, the Holy Light of Conferences meditations.  My Broncos are worshiping with the heretics from New England.  May my Broncos make then see the light.  In the late meditation cats and birds get together.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today;s took me 3:18 (average 6:16).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From isidewith,com<\/a> (H\/T Dave C): <\/font>Answer the following questions to see which 2016 Presidential candidate you side with. <\/font><\/p>\n

I side with Bernie Sanders on 98% of issues in the 2016 Presidential election
I side with Hillary Clinton on 95% of issues in the 2016 Presidential election
Note how close the two are.<\/font>
I side with Martin O’Malley on 78% of issues in the 2016 Presidential election<\/font><\/p>\n

I side with Jeb Bush on 27% of issues in the 2016 Presidential election
<\/font>Note how huge difference is!  What were your results?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>David Koch is resigning from his post on the board at the American Museum of Natural History. For 23 years, everyone\u2019s favorite \u201cevil-twin\u201d brother wowed the other board members with cash. That\u2019s basically the only reason he was on the board and in his defense, it\u2019s frequently the reason many people are on \u201cboards\u201d of anything.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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The Koch family has spent millions<\/a> funding climate change denier groups and disinformation campaigns, and scientists around the country have called for Koch to be removed from the museum board. Well, they finally got what they wanted \u2014 the American Museum of Natural History announced Koch\u2019s resignation this week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

David Koch\u2019s people want you to know this had nothing to do with the recent protests\u2014of which the Daily Kos helped organize a petition that garnered around 350,000 signatures<\/a>\u2014on Koch\u2019s position on the board. For example, 23 scientists came together to write a letter<\/a> protesting David Koch being allowed to be near anything remotely attributed to \u2018science’.<\/p>\n

Kudos to Kos and the scientists. Koch is anti-science, Anti-American, anti-natural, and anti-history.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Cruz is a loner who\u2019s willing to destroy institutions. Trump has spent his career using the federal government and making friends with big shots. Not Cruz. Most of his Republican colleagues in the Senate detest him. And Cruz is eager to destroy: He has repeatedly crossed to the other side of the Capitol and led House Republicans toward fiscal cliffs. In the Fall of 2013, Cruz\u2019s strident opposition to Obamacare \u2013 including a 21-hour talking marathon — led in a significant way to the shutdown of the federal government.<\/p>\n

Both men would be disasters for America, but Cruz would be the larger disaster. <\/p>\n

This is just the fifth of five reasons from Robert Reich, the Reich on the left that is right, that Uranus Inspector, no matter how you spell it, is more dangerous than Hateful Hairball. Click through for the other four. Even the Republican Reich, the Reich on the right that is wrong, fears him.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"0124Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

Cruz wasn\u2019t  inspecting Uranus at the time.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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