{"id":14690,"date":"2015-02-11T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14690"},"modified":"2015-02-11T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:13:14","slug":"open-thread2112015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/open-thread2112015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/11\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Day 98.&#160; Yesterday\u2019s volunteer meeting in prison was excellent.&#160; Our CoDA group talked about making amends.&#160; Often people are not receptive, when we try.&#160; When that happens, we should accept that without bitterness.&#160; Obtaining a favorable response is not the purpose of making amends.&#160; Our willingness to do so unloads the baggage; so we don\u2019t have to carry it anymore.&#160; The down side, as usual, is that I\u2019m quite worn out today.&#160; I\u2019m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:04 (average 5:43).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-02-11-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.dpo.org\/2015-legislative-session-agendas\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Party of Oregon<\/a>: <\/font><strong>2015 Legislative Session Agendas<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In November, with your help, Oregon Democrats won resounding victories in the State House and State Senate. And thanks to you, they\u2019re already making a difference.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about what Democrats in the Oregon Legislature are working hard to accomplish right now, view the Democratic session agendas for the Oregon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpo.org\/sites\/www.dpo.org\/files\/house_dems_fight_oregons_future.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">State House<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpo.org\/sites\/www.dpo.org\/files\/2015_senate_agenda.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">State Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click the links for House and Senate.&#160; It\u2019s is what Democrats are doing in Oregon. It might well serve as a model for the nation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>\u2018Bears\u2019 have own plan for Jeb Bush campaign site<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_Ebear_150209_474327\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Since MSNBC took down the video they put on YouTube, we&#8217;ll try again. We still don\u2019t know what bears do or don\u2019t do in the woods, but they certainly do on the Bush!!&#160; \ud83d\ude00<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/you-can-learn-a-lot-from-a-cat-especially-a-cat-that-cares\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Dealing with the mess we&#8217;ve made feels overwhelming. Does swapping out your lightbulbs, writing your legislators, and sorting your trash really change anything? How can one person make a difference?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that our little actions, all added up together, do make a big difference. If everyone in the United States turned off the water while they brush their teeth, the daily savings could be up to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.epa.gov\/blog\/2008\/11\/climate-for-action-h2o-hero\/\" target=\"_blank\">2.528 billion gallons<\/a>. That&#8217;s more than twice as much water than the entirety of New York City uses in a day. <\/p>\n<p>In this tongue-in-cheek video, a cat shows you how he makes a few tiny changes that have a big impact.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/49758656\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have to say that cats are the wisest of creatures.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0211Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0211Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0211Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0211Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 98.&#160; Yesterday\u2019s volunteer meeting in prison was excellent.&#160; Our CoDA group talked about making amends.&#160; Often people are not receptive, when we try.&#160; When that happens, we should accept that without bitterness.&#160; Obtaining a favorable response is not the purpose of making amends.&#160; Our willingness to do so unloads the baggage; so we don\u2019t <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/open-thread2112015\/' 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-14690","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\/14690","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=14690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}