{"id":29958,"date":"2017-10-22T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T19:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29958"},"modified":"2017-10-22T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T19:53:20","slug":"open-thread-10222017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/22\/open-thread-10222017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/22\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have a very busy day.&#160; Wendy will be here shortly, and we have lots to do, while meditating upon the holy Ellipsoid Orb!&#160; When she arrives, I&#8217;ll break and finish when she leaves.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy just left. We finished everything and I fed her pizza for lunch.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:52 (average 6:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-22-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=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/am-joy\" target=\"_blank\">AM Joy<\/a>: <\/font><strong>FBI, law enforcement: Overlooking violent white supremacists?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FBI says that \u2018black identity extremists\u2019 threaten police, but many believe authorities are ignoring the documented violence of white supremacists. Joy Reid and her panel discuss. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_joy_whitesupremacistspolice_171021\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think police have little interest in white supremacist gang violence for two reasons. Police depend on the Republican Reich, who white supremacists represent, for military toys with which to kill Blacks.&#160; Second, police arresting such gang members would stand a high chance of arresting brother officers. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/10\/19\/1708308\/-Cub-Scout-calmly-questions-Republican-state-rep-gets-kicked-out-of-his-den\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>When eleven-year-old Cub Scout Ames Mayfield learned that his den was holding an event where cub scouts would be encouraged to ask questions of Colorado state senator Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, he spent days doing research on her views and the issues.&#160; He came prepared with two questions, one on gun control and one on comments she\u2019d made at 2013 legislative hearing on poverty and mortality rates among African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>A few days after the event, where he did, indeed, ask his questions, he got the news that a den leader felt the questions were too pointed and had kicked him out of the troop.<\/p>\n<p>His mother says that the only thing she told him to do was to be respectful and preface any question with \u201cwith all due respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This perfectly illustrates the Republican position on the First Amendment. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-association-health-plans-fraud.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>In signing a recent executive order, President Trump promised that millions of Americans could soon obtain \u201cgreat, great health care\u201d through inexpensive plans that offer consumers options they had been denied under the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>But these health plans, created for small businesses, have a darker side: They have a long history of fraud and abuse that have left employers and employees with hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid medical bills.<\/p>\n<p>The problems are described in dozens of court cases and enforcement actions taken over more than a decade by federal and state officials who regulate the type of plans Mr. Trump is encouraging, known as association health plans.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, the Labor Department said, it has targeted \u201cunscrupulous promoters who sell the promise of inexpensive health benefit insurance, but default on their obligations.\u201d In several cases, it has found that people managing these health plans diverted premiums to their personal use.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To anyone stupid enough to buy such a plan: Welcome to RepubliCare. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/RepubliCare.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1022Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1022Cartoon\" 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=\"1022Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1022Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The next &#8216;great&#8217; prophet after Miller in this movement was David Koresh.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very busy day.&#160; Wendy will be here shortly, and we have lots to do, while meditating upon the holy Ellipsoid Orb!&#160; When she arrives, I&#8217;ll break and finish when she leaves. 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