{"id":15056,"date":"2015-04-15T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15056"},"modified":"2015-04-15T12:44:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:44:01","slug":"open-thread4152015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/open-thread4152015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/15\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is today\u2019s only article, because an unusual situation has me running behind.&#160; This morning I was awakened by a bang on my door.&#160; I woman who lives on the floor could not breathe well, and was trying to use an Advair dispenser.&#160; I tried to help her, but saw that she had no doses left.&#160; I called 911, notified building staff, and cared for her until help arrived.&#160; I was pleased that the EMTs arrived in under 15 minutes.&#160; I lay back down to rest for just a few minutes, and slept a couple hours past the time I planned to arise.&#160; Today is a grocery delivery day, and I\u2019m waiting for Store to Door to arrive.<\/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 4:33).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-04-15-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.upworthy.com\/racism-explained-by-a-good-ol-southern-boy\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>When a self-proclaimed &quot;white redneck&quot; starts a video with &quot;white people are racists,&quot; it&#8217;s hard not to listen. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JGJt0JXX05M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He looks like Bubba Bagger. He sounds like Bubba Bagger. But there is nothing Republican about him.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/10\/02\/907116\/-10-Reasons-Why-You-Should-Vote-Republican\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><strong>1. You want to finance the wealthy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You think the banking bailout wasn&#8217;t enough for the elite? They need tax breaks to invest more in the developing world so their companies become more profitable? Pleas give them tax cuts to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to decrease unemployment overseas, give corporations tax cuts and breaks to finance their move to the land of cheap labor of their choice? So what if the workers are to young or kept in dormitories and the conditions resemble those of forced labor. You really want that stuff to be so cheap that you can afford it on the unemployment line? Well then:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vote Republican<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. You believe victims of crime are whiners?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two wrongs make a right?<\/p>\n<p>Women who are raped and become pregnant should be forced to carry the baby of a crime?<\/p>\n<p>That those complaining of sexual and moral abuse at work are just lazy and have no right to be treated equally at the workplace?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vote Republican.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here are just two things voting Republican will help you get. Click through for the other eight.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/hillary-clinton-officially-begins-nineteen-months-of-looking-concerned\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>With a stop in Iowa on Tuesday, the Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton officially embarked on a nineteen-month marathon of looking concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting with patrons at Jones Street Java House, in Le Claire, the former Secretary of State listened intently, sipped from a cup of coffee, and nodded her head at appropriate junctures, flawlessly re\u00ebnacting a brief scene from her first campaign video.<\/p>\n<p>After about twenty minutes of virtually nonstop displays of empathy, a Clinton aide said, \u201cwe decided to shut it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHillary is staring down nineteen months of sipping coffee and nodding her head,\u201d the aide continued. \u201cWe want to make sure she paces herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy is probably more accurate that we want to consider. We need to pressure her to make the kinds of commitments on issues that we can live with.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0415Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0415Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0415Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s only article, because an unusual situation has me running behind.&#160; This morning I was awakened by a bang on my door.&#160; I woman who lives on the floor could not breathe well, and was trying to use an Advair dispenser.&#160; I tried to help her, but saw that she had no doses <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/open-thread4152015\/' 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-15056","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\/15056","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=15056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}