{"id":9941,"date":"2013-02-08T03:46:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9941"},"modified":"2013-02-08T03:46:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:46:55","slug":"open-thread282013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/open-thread282013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/8\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Something must have been going on downtown yesterday, because there were helicopters low over my building for the early part of my sleep time, so I\u2019m pretty pooped.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies and should be OK tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:45 (average 5:26).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-02-08-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:\/\/front.moveon.org\/breaking-moveon-makes-a-bet-that-a-million-progressive-leaders-are-yet-to-be-sparked\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>BREAKING: MoveOn Makes A Bet That A Million Progressive Leaders Are Yet To Be Sparked<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FGX9PbGM0DY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to MoveOn. They have done a spectacular job in the past and their future appears most promising.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2013\/02\/07\/1556521\/key-gop-congressmans-immigration-idea-would-create-permanent-underclass-of-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Ra\u00fal Labrador (R-ID), a key player in the ongoing House negotiations to advance comprehensive immigration reform, has <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2013\/02\/raul-labrador-pathway-citizenship-immigration.php?ref=fpnewsfeed\" target=\"_blank\">come out against<\/a> providing a pathway to citizenship for the nation\u2019s 11 million undocumented immigrants, echoing a growing consensus among conservative members. The position is in stark contrast to the framework put forward by a bipartisan group of Senators and President Obama \u2014 which would allow the unauthorized to earn citizenship. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people that came here illegally knowingly \u2013 I don\u2019t think they should have a path to citizenship,\u201d Labrador said during an interview with NPR on Thursday morning. \u201cIf you knowingly violated our law, you violated our sovereignty, I think we should normalize your status but we should not give you a pathway to citizenship.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican intent here is crystal clear. They are willing to let undocumented workers stay, but only as long as they can be used as serf labor.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/fox-news-fictional-climate-math\/192516\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>On Fox News, Republican strategist Brad Blakeman denied the scientific consensus on manmade climate change, saying &quot;For every one scientist that says there is, I&#8217;ll give you 10 scientists that said it&#8217;s not manmade&quot;:<\/p>\n<p>But in fact, credible <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/07\/heartland-institutes-climate-contrarians-enjoy\/185131#surveys\" target=\"_blank\">surveys<\/a> have repeatedly found that the vast majority of climate scientists agree humans are changing the climate. For instance, a 2009 survey published by the American Geophysical Union <a href=\"http:\/\/tigger.uic.edu\/%7Epdoran\/012009_Doran_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">found<\/a> that 97 percent of those who specialize in climate science said human activity is contributing to rising global temperatures:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/static\/clips\/2013\/02\/04\/28771\/fnc-blakeman-20130204-climate\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reichsministry of propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, deals with facts in a thoroughly Republican way. They make them up.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px\" title=\"8Cartoon\" alt=\"8Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/8Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And Republicans want it back!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something must have been going on downtown yesterday, because there were helicopters low over my building for the early part of my sleep time, so I\u2019m pretty pooped.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies and should be OK tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:45 (average 5:26).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/open-thread282013\/' 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-9941","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\/9941","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=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}