{"id":15341,"date":"2015-05-31T13:32:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T20:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15341"},"modified":"2015-05-31T13:32:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T20:32:01","slug":"open-thread5312015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/31\/open-thread5312015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/31\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was a bad day for resting.&#160; When&#160; I went down to bask in the sunshine, I realized that all my spots were occupied.&#160; The city rents put the sidewalk in front of my building for about $30 a head to watch the Rose Festival Starlight Parade.&#160; The noise below my window magnified as the day progressed, and it did not abate until after 1 AM, when the street sweepers went through.&#160; I\u2019ve taken some shortcuts today, because I\u2019m so tired.&#160; The following video is four years old, but it will give you an idea od what it\u2019s like from a sidewalk renter\u2019s perspective.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZdUU1udupDg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:47 (average 5:41).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-05-31-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>: (All Daily Kos Classics)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/09\/04\/1327137\/-Pat-Robertson-advises-80-year-old-tither-to-get-her-butt-to-work\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Pat Robertson advises 80 year old tither to get her butt to work<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/REgIl3jc7LI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">September, 2014. He personifies Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian greed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/02\/24\/1280047\/-Nine-out-of-10-most-miserable-states-are-Red-surprising-no-one\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2014\/02\/23\/most-miserable-states\/5729305\/\" target=\"_blank\">thing<\/a> that measures how happy people are:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/info.healthways.com\/wbi2013\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index<\/a>, which interviewed more than 176,000 people from all 50 states last year, measures the physical and emotional health of Americans across the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So take a gander at the states with the most miserable people:<\/p>\n<p>10. Louisiana    <br \/>9. Oklahoma     <br \/>8. Missouri     <br \/>7. Tennessee     <br \/>6. Arkansas     <br \/>5. Ohio     <br \/>4. Alabama     <br \/>3. Mississippi     <br \/>2. Kentucky     <br \/>1. West Virginia<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">February, 2014. I&#8217;m not surprised. Are you? I see a direct correlation between degree of Republican rule and misery.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/09\/02\/1127055\/-Which-party-is-best-for-the-economy-It-s-not-even-close\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Which party is best for the economy? It&#8217;s not even close<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">September 2012 Click through for a great collection of graphics. Here&#8217;s just one:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0531jobs\" 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=\"0531jobs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/0531jobs.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"442\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0531Cartoon\" 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=\"0531Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/0531Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a bad day for resting.&#160; When&#160; I went down to bask in the sunshine, I realized that all my spots were occupied.&#160; The city rents put the sidewalk in front of my building for about $30 a head to watch the Rose Festival Starlight Parade.&#160; The noise below my window magnified as the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/31\/open-thread5312015\/' 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":[45,35,3,141,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-report","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-plus","category-politics","category-religion","category-45-id","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-141-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341","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=15341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}