{"id":12831,"date":"2014-05-22T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12831"},"modified":"2014-05-21T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T06:00:13","slug":"open-thread5222014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/22\/open-thread5222014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/22\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.&#160; It\u2019s late in a busy day.&#160; Because tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, I may have little or nothing for Friday and\/or Saturday, as I shall get home late Thursday night and will have missed a sleep cycle.&#160; Day 31.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:55 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-05-22-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.youtube.com\/watch?v=fvk06CYyhnY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>The Colbert Report 2014-05-19 Elizabeth Warren <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fvk06CYyhnY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hilarious! Did Bernie have it right or what? Warren played it great.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/05\/18\/1300249\/-Germany-got-74-of-its-electrical-power-from-Renewable-Sources-the-other-day\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>On Friday evening I went up to Bellingham to hear Bill McKibben speak. Bill has something fascinating to share with his audience, how Germany has reached the point where it had gotten over 74% of its electrical power from renewable sources the other day. That&#8217;s a huge milestone, and it demonstrates that renewable sources can power a large industrial nation. Germany shows us that renewables aren&#8217;t a potential source of power for some time in the future, they are a viable alternative TODAY.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m no fan of the German conservative government, but they do deserve kudos for this.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/sex-amp-relationships\/georgia-you-can-carry-gun-you-need-prescription-vibrator\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Giving out prescriptions for vibrators seems more like a doctor&#8217;s bad pick-up line than good public policy. But in Sandy Springs, Georgia, you really do need a medical reason \u2013 and a doctor&#8217;s prescription \u2013 to buy a sex toy. <\/p>\n<p>Melissa Davenport, a resident of Sandy Springs, has filed suit against the city because, as her lawyer Gerry Weber&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/news\/local\/woman-files-suit-over-sex-toy-law\/nfxrR\/?ref=cbTopWidget\" target=\"_blank\">told a local TV station<\/a>, the ordinance allows the government to &quot;stick its nose in your bedroom and say you can use this but not that.&quot; Davenport has multiple sclerosis, which she says has impacted her sex life with her husband, and she credits sex toys with saving her marriage. Yet her doctors still won&#8217;t write her a prescription. <\/p>\n<p>Leaving aside the bizarreness of the policy itself \u2013 people should be able to buy sex toys for the sheer fun of it \u2013 it seems ironic that a woman with a real medical condition is being denied sex toys, when you consider that the vibrator was actually&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Technology-Orgasm-Hysteria-Vibrator-Satisfaction\/dp\/0801866464\/ref%3Das_at?tag=thedailybeast-autotag-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1214154576&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">invented to cure a (fake) medical condition<\/a>: hysteria. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I intend no disrespect to women here, but disrespect for the Republican War on Women.&#160; No wonder I call Republicans the Grand Old Pussy Posse! If they spent 1\/20 the time policing Banksters that they do policing vaginas, we&#8217;d be in far better shape!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/GOPP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOPP\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"GOPP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/GOPP_thumb.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0522Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0522Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0522Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.&#160; It\u2019s late in a busy day.&#160; Because tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, I may have little or nothing for Friday and\/or Saturday, as I shall get home late Thursday night and will have missed a sleep cycle.&#160; Day 31. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 2:55 (average 4:45).&#160; To do <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/22\/open-thread5222014\/' 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-12831","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\/12831","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=12831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}