{"id":19413,"date":"2016-01-25T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19413"},"modified":"2016-01-25T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T18:26:10","slug":"open-thread1252016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/open-thread1252016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/25\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I basked in the glory of the holy light fro, the blessed and beneficent Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; It promises to be a busy week, but much less so than next month.&#160; I have more scheduling to do today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:32 (average 5:08).&#160; To do better would have risked cannibalism.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-01-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0124Broncos20-Patriots18\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0124Broncos20-Patriots18\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/0124Broncos20-Patriots18.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A nail-biter between excellent teams.&#160; Phew!!!&#160; Denver\u2019s D was brilliant!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L_Ua53PJlv8&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (H\/T Pat B): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Yosemite Sarah Palin<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Laugh Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/L_Ua53PJlv8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sam might sue the videographer for defamation of character!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trumps-plan-to-randomly-shoot-people-lacks-details-random-shooters-say\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>One day after Donald Trump claimed that he could shoot people on New York\u2019s Fifth Avenue and not lose support, a leading member of the random-shooting community complained that the billionaire\u2019s random-shooting plan lacks specifics.<\/p>\n<p>Harland Dorrinson, who heads the largest association of random shooters in the nation, said that Trump\u2019s Fifth Avenue plan \u201clacked many of the key ingredients necessary for a credible random shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no weapons cache, no twisted manifesto to be found later by authorities,\u201d Dorrinson said. \u201cTo anyone in the random-shooting world, Trump\u2019s plan fails on so many levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy is too right, There are so many demented crazies in the rabid Republican base, anxious to do it on their idols\u2019 behalf, that Republican candidates have no reason to commit their own random shootings.&#160; But one never knows for sure.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/home\/holding-a-go-donald-media-accountable-for-normalizing-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAIR.org<\/a>: <\/font>Great Britain won\u2019t actually ban Donald Trump from the country but Parliament did spend time taking seriously what was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2016\/jan\/18\/donald-trump-should-be-banned-from-uk-for-inflaming-hate-mp-says\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a> Trump\u2019s \u201cpoisonous, corrosive\u201d effect on public discourse. At the same time, actors, writers and others, including Harry Belafonte, Eve Ensler and Noam Chomsky, launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stophatedumptrump.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stop Hate Dump Trump<\/a> campaign, that included serving notice to media that they \u201care accountable for normalizing Trump\u2019s extremism by treating it as entertainment, by giving it inordinate and unequal air time and by refusing to investigate, interrogate or condemn it appropriately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For some journalists, this might provoke questions: Reporters can\u2019t ignore public figures, but is there daylight between covering news of a person and providing them a near-constant, legitimizing megaphone?<\/p>\n<p>For media executives, though, the main question seems to be: What time does the bank open?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thinking of a report from December by Lee Fang at The Intercept (<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/12\/10\/cbs-chief-cheers-trump-go-donald-keep-getting-out-there\/\" target=\"_blank\">12\/10\/15<\/a>), about how, with visions of campaign ad dollars sparkling in his eye, <strong>CBS chief executive Les Moonves cheered on Trump\u2019s candidacy at an investor presentation: \u201cThe more they spend, the better it is for us, and: Go Donald! Keep getting out there!<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was after Trump\u2019s comments about Mexico sending rapists to the US and his call for Muslim Americans to have to \u201cregister\u201d with the government.,, [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is what Republicans deceptively call \u201cThe <em>Librul<\/em> media\u201d,<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0125Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0125Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/0125Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I basked in the glory of the holy light fro, the blessed and beneficent Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; It promises to be a busy week, but much less so than next month.&#160; I have more scheduling to do today. 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