{"id":15295,"date":"2015-05-23T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15295"},"modified":"2015-05-23T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T19:22:25","slug":"open-thread5232014-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/23\/open-thread5232014-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/23\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The surprises keep coming.&#160; Last night I fell into a deep sleep, between 8:00 and 9:00 PM.&#160; Since preparations for my prison volunteer trip next week and my ongoing medical mayhem have kept me completely occupied, I had no idea that the opening ceremonies for the annual Portland Rose Festival wired also last night.&#160; The launch site for the fireworks is six blocks away.&#160; The blasts echoing between they downtown buildings amplifies the noise level.&#160; I awakened thinking I had fallen asleep during an MRI.&#160; I did get back to sleep eventually, but not soon enough.&#160; My doctor\u2019s staff continues to screw up.&#160; The Orthopedist to whom they referred me was actually the nurses station of the Orthopedics floor of the hospital.&#160; The nurse was quite amused when I tried to schedule an appointment with a doctor through her.&#160; I think I found one on my own, but my doctor\u2019s office tool a 5 day weekend. ARGH!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:22 (average 4:46).&#160; To do it, click here.&#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:\/\/civic.moveon.org\/reinventeducation\/share.html\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font><strong>10 Ideas to Save the Economy: Reinvent Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wall-to-wall testing and skyrocketing tuition have destroyed American education. Here&#8217;s how we fix it. \\<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YpGeInUOvuw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen to everything he said. This is the fifth video in the series and now the Reich on the left has been right five times. Please click through to <a href=\"http:\/\/civic.moveon.org\/reinventeducation\/share.html\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a> and share it from there.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/05\/21\/1386696\/-Woman-who-ran-over-her-husband-with-an-SUV-because-he-didn-t-vote-against-Obama-is-headed-to-prison\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A judge has sentenced an Arizona woman to 3 \u00bd years in prison for running over her husband with an SUV because he didn\u2019t vote in the 2012 presidential election. <\/p>\n<p>Thirty-one-year-old Holly Nicole Solomon of Mesa pleaded guilty to assault charges stemming from injuries her husband suffered days after President Barack Obama was re-elected. She was sentenced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Solomon was upset about Obama\u2019s re-election&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans seem to take voting more seriously that we do, even though their solutions for every obstacle are criminal and\/or violent.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/23\/us\/some-california-farmers-to-cut-water-use-to-ease-drought.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Ever since the Gold Rush, California farmers have staked their claim to water and ferociously protected their rights to use it to irrigate the crops that have made the state the greengrocer for the nation.<\/p>\n<p>But on Friday, in a sign of how the record-setting drought is shaking up established ways here, state officials accepted an offer from farmers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to give up a quarter of their water this season, either by leaving part of their land unplanted or finding other ways to reduce their water use. In return, the state has assured them that it will not seek further reductions for the growing season.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It looks like people are going to go hungry, because oil and coal, the m,ain causes of the drought, are not edible.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0523Cartoon\" 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=\"0523Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/0523Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surprises keep coming.&#160; Last night I fell into a deep sleep, between 8:00 and 9:00 PM.&#160; Since preparations for my prison volunteer trip next week and my ongoing medical mayhem have kept me completely occupied, I had no idea that the opening ceremonies for the annual Portland Rose Festival wired also last night.&#160; The <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/23\/open-thread5232014-2\/' 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-15295","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\/15295","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=15295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}