{"id":33981,"date":"2018-10-12T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33981"},"modified":"2018-10-12T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:10:07","slug":"open-thread-10-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/open-thread-10-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/12\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a lazy day here in the CatBox.&#160; I had&#160; a bunch of paper work to do this morning, and it&#8217;s a relatively slow day for news that I have not already covered, so I&#8217;ll be relatively brief and get some much needed rest.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">s took me 4:17 (average 5:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-12-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\/watch?v=CjEzvGGLqAQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Report: Turks Claim Evidence Of Missing Washington Post Journalist<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CjEzvGGLqAQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m not sure who is most vile, the Fuhrer of the Republican Reich or the Saudis. A toss-up? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6rbGMx3BBLk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Prominent right-wing figures incite violence<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6rbGMx3BBLk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There it is! Love, Republican style! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/washington-death-penalty-unconstitutional_us_5bbf6d7be4b0bd9ed557cb8b\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Washington state\u2019s Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional and converted to life in prison all pending death sentences in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s decision on Thursday was unanimous, with the justices determining that capital punishment is applied \u201cin an arbitrary and racially biased manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of the death penalty is unequally applied \u2014 sometimes by where the crime took place, or the county of residence&#8230; or the race of the defendant,\u201d the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/880867.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">court said in its opinion.<\/a> \u201cThe death penalty, as administered in our state, fails to serve any legitimate penological goal; thus, it violates <a href=\"http:\/\/leg.wa.gov\/LawsAndAgencyRules\/Pages\/constitution.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">article I, section 14<\/a> of our state constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the ruling, 20 states have either abolished or overturned the death penalty, according to the non-profit group <a href=\"https:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org\/states-and-without-death-penalty\" target=\"_blank\">Death Penalty Information Center.<\/a>&#160; Three others have moratoriums on it. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Washington State! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1012Cartoon\" 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=\"1012Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1012Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a lazy day here in the CatBox.&#160; I had&#160; a bunch of paper work to do this morning, and it&#8217;s a relatively slow day for news that I have not already covered, so I&#8217;ll be relatively brief and get some much needed rest. 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