{"id":18792,"date":"2016-01-05T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18792"},"modified":"2016-01-05T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T17:22:08","slug":"open-thread152016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/open-thread152016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/5\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today I have a very busy day.&#160; I have RN and PT coming.&#160; Then I have a bath aide coming finally!!!&#160; Three showers in twenty seven days has left TC a tad ripe!&#160; Store to door is calling for my grocery order.&#160; And, if the weather allows, my helper friend is coming later.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:35 (average 5:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-01-05-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.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/oregon-considers-wall-to-keep-out-angry-white-men\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A majority of Oregonians favor building a twenty-foot wall along the border of their state to prevent angry white men from getting in, a poll released on Monday shows.<\/p>\n<p>The survey indicates that Oregonians are fed up with irate male Caucasians pouring into their state and bringing with them guns, violence, and terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis used to be such a nice state,\u201d said Oregon State Senator Carol Foyler, a pro-wall lawmaker. \u201cSince the angry white men came here, parts of it are unrecognizable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy!! Why didn&#8217;t I think of that? <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-lightbulb\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none\" alt=\"Light bulb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wlEmoticon-lightbulb.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/12\/31\/1465126\/-You-can-t-make-this-up-Ted-Cruz-fans-blame-Obama-for-well-everything\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>In 91 seconds, watch Tea Party Kool-Aid drinkers &#8216;thank&#8217; Obama\u2014for EVERYTHING<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Bark Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Wwyk2b1Km7w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Some thanks! Uranus Inspector Cruz has two more anuses to inspect.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3017553\/internet\/error-451-is-the-new-ray-bradbury-inspired-http-code-for-online-censorship.html\" target=\"_blank\">PC World<\/a>: <\/font>The web is full of cryptic status codes that your browser shows when it can\u2019t connect to a website, such as 403 Forbidden or 404 Not Found. Now the Internet Engineering Steering Group is adding one more error code for your browser\u2014but this time it will make it all too clear why you can\u2019t see something. <\/p>\n<p>The IESG recently approved <a href=\"https:\/\/datatracker.ietf.org\/doc\/draft-ietf-httpbis-legally-restricted-status\/\" target=\"_blank\">status code 451<\/a> that tells visitors they can\u2019t see the requested content due to \u201clegal obstacles,\u201d which usually means government censorship. Former Google engineer Tim Bray suggested code 451, inspired by Ray Bradbury\u2019s dystopian novel <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fahrenheit_451\" target=\"_blank\">Fahrenheit 451<\/a>, back in 2012. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now we need a code for blocking due to \u201ceconomic obstacles\u201d, that is, ISP violations of Net Neutrality for profit.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0105Cartoon\" 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=\"0105Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/0105Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I have a very busy day.&#160; I have RN and PT coming.&#160; Then I have a bath aide coming finally!!!&#160; Three showers in twenty seven days has left TC a tad ripe!&#160; Store to door is calling for my grocery order.&#160; And, if the weather allows, my helper friend is coming later. 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