{"id":24044,"date":"2016-10-01T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T20:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24044"},"modified":"2016-10-01T13:20:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T20:20:28","slug":"open-thread-1012016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/01\/open-thread-1012016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/1\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fortunately I slept for eight hours on Thursday night and ten hours last night, because it&#8217;s an incredibly busy day.&#160; This morning I cooked food, did dishes, restocked my pill caddy, changed our poll, and researched for todays articles.&#160; I also collected all the raw data and prepared all the graphics and charts for September&#8217;s Monthly Report.&#160; That report will be a day late on Monday, because tomorrow I have TomCat and apartment cleaning with Wendy.&#160; Also, tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are visiting the Buccaneers&#8217;&#160; Sadly, the meditation won&#8217;t be televised here.&#160; May the Holy Orb shine its blessed light on your team, unless they say &quot;HAR!!&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:29 (average 5:23).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-10-01-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/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\/user\/RealTime\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Two from Bill Maher<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JA5T7aBUi1A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I disagree with Bill. He called Johnson an idiot. I called him an imbecile.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oEsP4_1ImUI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Trump&#8217;s mother had really reproduced with an ape, we would have gotten something far better than Trump!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/9\/29\/1576014\/-Wisconsin-flouting-judge-s-orders-continuing-to-disenfranchise-black-voters\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The state of Wisconsin is under a court order to provide credentials for people who don&#8217;t have the extensive documentation the state is requiring to get an approved ID for voting. Ari Berman has discovered that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/wisconsin-is-systematically-failing-to-provide-the-photo-ids-required-to-vote-in-november\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s not complying<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Legal experts say they\u2019re extremely troubled by the state\u2019s continued failure to fairly enforce the voter-ID law. \u201cWisconsin has promised the court that voters would be able to get an ID with whatever documents they have,\u201d says Sean Young of the ACLU. \u201cThey\u2019ve completely failed to live up to that promise.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The state keeps frantically changing its procedures to mollify the courts, leading to even more confusion among voters. Last week the Walker Administration proposed issuing \u201cvoting purposes only\u201d IDs that could not be used for anything else, like opening a bank account. \u201cThe Division of Motor Vehicles also wants the free IDs\u2014born of voter-fraud fears \u2013 to be cheapened in quality, with some fraud protections removed,\u201d the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more they change the procedures, the clearer it becomes that this has nothing to do with voter impersonation,\u201d Young says. \u201cThe whole process has no meaning anymore. It\u2019s just a pointless obstacle to the right to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Did you expect any different from the Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/01\/us\/roy-moore-alabama-chief-justice.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Nine months after instructing Alabama\u2019s probate judges to defy federal court orders on <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/s\/same_sex_marriage\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" target=\"_blank\">same-sex marriage<\/a>, Roy S. Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, was suspended on Friday for the remainder of his term for violating the state\u2019s canon of judicial ethics.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second time in his contentious career that Judge Moore, an outspoken conservative, was removed as chief justice, and it followed his most recent star turn in the nation\u2019s culture wars.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension was imposed by the state\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/judicial.alabama.gov\/judiciary\/judiciary.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Court of the Judiciary<\/a>, a nine-member body of selected judges, lawyers and others, which found Judge Moore guilty on six charges. While the court did not take him off the bench entirely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/14\/us\/alabama-panel-ousts-judge-over-ten-commandments.html\" target=\"_blank\">as it did in 2003<\/a> after he defied <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/11\/19\/us\/judge-s-biblical-monument-is-ruled-unconstitutional.html\" target=\"_blank\">orders<\/a> to remove a giant Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building, it effectively ended his state judicial career. His term ends in 2019, and Judge Moore, 69, will be barred by law from running for a judicial position again because of his age.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Good riddance to bad rubbish!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1001Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1001Cartoon\" 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=\"1001Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1001Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately I slept for eight hours on Thursday night and ten hours last night, because it&#8217;s an incredibly busy day.&#160; This morning I cooked food, did dishes, restocked my pill caddy, changed our poll, and researched for todays articles.&#160; I also collected all the raw data and prepared all the graphics and charts for September&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/01\/open-thread-1012016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-24044","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\/24044","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=24044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}