{"id":15945,"date":"2015-08-29T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T18:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15945"},"modified":"2015-08-29T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T18:32:29","slug":"open-thread8292015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/29\/open-thread8292015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/29\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">m starting a little late, because a thunderstorm interfered with my Wi-Fi. On the plus side, steam rose from the asphalt street.&#160; What a relief!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">me&#160; 2:58 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-08-29-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=193&amp;v=Ei50lM6ab1c\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (Hat-Tip Lynn Squance): <\/font>Harperman is a protest song against the Conservative government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. We are organizing a cross-Canada singalong of Harperman on September 17, just a month before the expected date of the Canadian federal election. Please contribute, if you can, to helping organize the singalong. Our first crowdfunding program on Indiegogo has finished and a new campaign has been launched at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/cro...\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/cro&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ei50lM6ab1c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thanks Squatch!! This could apply to any US Republican too!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/08\/27\/1415942\/-I-m-Just-Going-to-Say-It-Hateful-Racist?\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>In recent weeks, there has been a lot of political debate among the Republican presidential candidates about immigrants and aspiring citizens in our country.<\/p>\n<p>And frankly, it has become ugly and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Please take a minute to hear my thoughts below.<\/p>\n<p>In Solidarity,<\/p>\n<p>Rich.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3ovTNbuQGTw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I couldn&#8217;t have said it better.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/29\/us\/in-alaska-obama-will-be-in-middle-of-oil-and-climate-change-battle.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>&#8230;As Mr. Obama comes north for what the White House has described as an examination of the effects of climate change, Alaska is battling over oil \u2014 its chief source of revenue \u2014 and the thorny implications of drilling. Oil prices have fallen to multiyear lows, and production has declined from aging oil fields \u2014 with consequences rippling through a state that pays for just about everything with taxes from oil.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Walker, in an interview in his Anchorage office, said he planned to press Mr. Obama to loosen restrictions on exploration and to pledge support for a natural gas pipeline. More broadly, Mr. Walker said, he hoped to help the president understand Alaska\u2019s dependence, because of climate and geography, on what can be extracted from the land or sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom oil and gas development to fish caught in the ocean, we literally live off the resources,\u201d Mr. Walker said.<\/p>\n<p>But fossil fuels are also blamed for human-caused climate change, and that reality has set up a competing claim for the president\u2019s attention. More drilling for energy, climate advocates say, is not the answer for Alaska or the planet. With a three-day trip for Mr. Obama planned out by the White House \u2014 including the first visit by a sitting president to some of Alaska\u2019s most remote Arctic communities \u2014 the uncertainties and stakes are high, people on all sides of the energy fight say.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope that environmentalists hound President Obama wherever he goes. Allowing Shell to drill in the Arctic was one of his worst decisions while in office.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0829Cartoon\" 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=\"0829Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0829Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m starting a little late, because a thunderstorm interfered with my Wi-Fi. On the plus side, steam rose from the asphalt street.&#160; What a relief! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me&#160; 2:58 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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