{"id":10454,"date":"2009-11-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-11T00:29:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T00:29:26","slug":"november-10-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/11\/november-10-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"November 10 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Not really, California, but I (Brian) found this so offensive that I thought it worth a mention here. As we speak, David Horowitz, the &#8220;conservative&#8221; winger at frontpagemag.com, is <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/09\/the-meaning-of-fort-hood\/\">going around writing stories<\/a> that say &#8220;The Fort Hood killings are the chickens of the left coming home to roost&#8221; because diversity is a bad thing. &nbsp;According to Horowitz, we should be segregating them and going around telling people about the dangers of Islam. &nbsp;As a Jew myself, this sentiment both shocks and saddens me. &nbsp;How soon some Jews can forget what becomes of such McCarthyism. It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/Holocaust\/stlouis.html\">never ends there<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More on the Scott Gerber, recording phone calls story. Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/11\/09\/BA3T1AHK09.DTL&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">he recorded 6 calls<\/a> after being told not to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Aww, snap. Carly Fiorina&#8217;s web team got all fancy with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=51279\">new website<\/a>. &nbsp;It&#8217;s at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.callmebarbara.com\/\">CallMeBarbara.com<\/a> and it goes after her request to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&#038;address=385x326221\">called Senator rather than ma&#8217;am<\/a>. Apparently, it was a big outrage on the right. How dare she request to be called the title to which she won election!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Clint Reilly, a big-time political consultant in San Francisco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2009\/11\/09\/constitutional-reform-group-hires-clint-reilly\/\">has been hired by Repair California<\/a>, as they try to get their broken Con-Con measures on the ballot. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 DiFi loves to people guessing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/11\/why-difi-always-does-the-dance-of-the-seven-veils\/\">so say CalBuzz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 OFA is having their California headquarters grand opening tomorrow in Los Angeles starting at 6pm in Los Angeles&#8211;well, technically, Culver City: 6700 S. Centinela Avenue. &nbsp;A plethora of Party officials and elected officials will be speaking or in attendance. &nbsp;Might be a good place to catch up with (or harass, depending on your preference) your favorite electeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Not really, California, but I (Brian) found this so offensive that I thought it worth a mention here. As we speak, David Horowitz, the &#8220;conservative&#8221; winger at frontpagemag.com, is <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/09\/the-meaning-of-fort-hood\/\">going around writing stories<\/a> that say &#8220;The Fort Hood killings are the chickens of the left coming home to roost&#8221; because diversity is a bad thing. &nbsp;According to Horowitz, we should be segregating them and going around telling people about the dangers of Islam. &nbsp;As a Jew myself, this sentiment both shocks and saddens me. &nbsp;How soon some Jews can forget what becomes of such McCarthyism. It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/Holocaust\/stlouis.html\">never ends there<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More on the Scott Gerber, recording phone calls story. Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/11\/09\/BA3T1AHK09.DTL&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">he recorded 6 calls<\/a> after being told not to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Aww, snap. Carly Fiorina&#8217;s web team got all fancy with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=51279\">new website<\/a>. &nbsp;It&#8217;s at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.callmebarbara.com\/\">CallMeBarbara.com<\/a> and it goes after her request to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&#038;address=385x326221\">called Senator rather than ma&#8217;am<\/a>. Apparently, it was a big outrage on the right. How dare she request to be called the title to which she won election!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Clint Reilly, a big-time political consultant in San Francisco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2009\/11\/09\/constitutional-reform-group-hires-clint-reilly\/\">has been hired by Repair California<\/a>, as they try to get their broken Con-Con measures on the ballot. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 DiFi loves to people guessing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/11\/why-difi-always-does-the-dance-of-the-seven-veils\/\">so say CalBuzz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 OFA is having their California headquarters grand opening tomorrow in Los Angeles starting at 6pm in Los Angeles&#8211;well, technically, Culver City: 6700 S. Centinela Avenue. &nbsp;A plethora of Party officials and elected officials will be speaking or in attendance. &nbsp;Might be a good place to catch up with (or harass, depending on your preference) your favorite electeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-10454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2IC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}