{"id":9821,"date":"2013-01-05T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T21:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2013-01-05T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T21:49:15","slug":"open-thread152013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/05\/open-thread152013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/5\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday, my coughing was quite severe, so I\u2019m still down.&#160; The Church of the Ellipsoid Orb offers playoff meditations today and tomorrow.&#160; My Broncos, as the top seed in the AFC, have a bye week.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Soon, I hope.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:19 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-01-05-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.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2013\/01\/05\/opinion\/05-gail-collins-quiz.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>O.K., people, we are really in 2013. It took a few days, but now we\u2019ve settled in. Test your New Year\u2019s knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&quot;Your score: 8\/8.&quot; How did you do? Don&#8217;t give away the answers in comments, please.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/fischer-businesses-threatened-flaming-homosexual-applicants-return-jim-crow\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer today blew up over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfaw.org\/issues\/on-capitol-hill\/factsheets\/ending-employment-discrimination-lgbt-equality-in-the-workplace\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)<\/a>, warning in a blog post [pseudo-Christians delinked] that \u201cENDA would represent the return of Jim Crow laws.\u201d On his radio program Focal Point, Fischer warned that if ENDA is signed into law businesses will be faced with a barrage of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z2xz0skyDto&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">flaming homosexual<\/a>\u201d job applicants.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z2xz0skyDto?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fifty years ago, the pseudo-Christian issue would be that civil rights legislation would force business to hire African Americans, no matter how dark they were. When peop0le express hatred in God&#8217;s name, you can be sure that God has nothing to do with their views.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#50369489\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: Fleecing the sheeple.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc45e94d\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=50369489^0^1015883&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc45e94d\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=50369489^0^1015883&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">First, it&#8217;s interesting to note that, whenever a fellow proves himself morally unfit for service as a Democrat, there is always a place for him with the Republican Party. Now, to all the Republican sheeple who donated to Super PAC for America, you&#8217;ve been fleeced. Drop your skivvies, bend over, grab your ankles and say BA-A-A-A-A-A-A!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"5Cartoon\" alt=\"5Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/5Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my coughing was quite severe, so I\u2019m still down.&#160; The Church of the Ellipsoid Orb offers playoff meditations today and tomorrow.&#160; My Broncos, as the top seed in the AFC, have a bye week.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Soon, I hope. 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