{"id":19296,"date":"2016-01-21T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19296"},"modified":"2016-01-21T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:58:10","slug":"open-thread1212016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/21\/open-thread1212016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/21\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday stayed busy.&#160; After my shower-aide left, Safeway.com delivered groceries, which I put away.&#160; Then my helper friend came.&#160; We did laundry, and I tried on everything in my closet to determine what to keep and what to throw away.&#160; The goal is to make the clothes I wear more accessible.&#160; This morning I spent a couple hours doing volunteer work, researching two potential appointees to the Parole Board.&#160; We want thee board to diversify.&#160; A Board consisting only of Prosecutors, Parole Officers, and Victims\u2019 Rights Advocates insures bias against prisoners, rather than a fair hearing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:00 (average 4:44).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-01-21-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\/this-comedian-hilariously-brought-up-knives-to-make-a-great-point-about-guns\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>In a clip from her upcoming special &quot;Marriage Material,&quot; Esposito tackles gun culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/G4QDVfqCACU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is a big take-down of Republican Ammosexuals.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/01\/19\/1471764\/-Rachel-Maddow-debunks-misremembered-Ronald-Reagan-for-GOP-candidates\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Rachel Maddow points out the inconvenient truths about Ronald Reagan as GOP candidates attempt to live vicariously through a misremembered idol. It has been the modus operandi of Republican candidates as they wrap themselves in their parties icon. It is no different than Hillary Clinton wrapping herself in President Obama during the <a href=\"http:\/\/egbertowillies.com\/tag\/democratic-debate-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">4th Democratic Debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently GOP candidates have been attacking President Obama on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/01\/18\/1471397\/-Obama-s-diplomacy-with-Iran-is-a-reason-to-be-proud-not-ashamed-to-be-an-American\" target=\"_blank\">deal he made to bring the hostages home from Iran<\/a>. Marco Rubio told Chuck Todd he would be like Ronald Reagan in dealing with Iran. Unfortunately Rubio is severely misremembering a Ronald Reagan who traded arms for hostages in Iran. He admitted it on national TV. Many of his National Security team were indicted. It was known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair\" target=\"_blank\">Iran Contra scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_biran_160118\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is Rachel&#8217;s original video, as the clip included with the article did not embed. Today&#8217;s Republicans prefer not to remember either the crimes or the \u201c<em>librul<\/em>\u201d tax increases perpetrated by Saint Ronnie Ray Gun.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/21\/science\/earth\/2015-hottest-year-global-warming.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Scientists reported Wednesday that 2015 was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/summary-info\/global\/201512\" target=\"_blank\">hottest year in the historical record<\/a> by far, breaking a mark set only the year before \u2014 a burst of heat that has continued into the new year and is roiling weather patterns all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>In the contiguous United States, the year was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/national\/201513\" target=\"_blank\">the second-warmest on record<\/a>, punctuated by a December that was both the hottest and the wettest since record-keeping began. One result has been a wave of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/31\/us\/missouri-flooding-st-louis-mississippi.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">unusual winter floods<\/a> coursing down the Mississippi River watershed.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists started predicting a global temperature record months ago, in part because an El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern, one of the largest in a century, is releasing an immense amount of heat from the Pacific Ocean into the atmosphere. But the bulk of the record-setting heat, they say, is a consequence of the long-term planetary warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole system is warming up, relentlessly,\u201d said Gerald A. Meehl, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The faster we convert top green energy, the less catastrophic the effects will be.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>The faster we convert top green energy, the less catastrophic the effects will be.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cartoon:<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0121Cartoon\" 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=\"0121Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/0121Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday stayed busy.&#160; After my shower-aide left, Safeway.com delivered groceries, which I put away.&#160; Then my helper friend came.&#160; We did laundry, and I tried on everything in my closet to determine what to keep and what to throw away.&#160; The goal is to make the clothes I wear more accessible.&#160; This morning I spent <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/21\/open-thread1212016\/' 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-19296","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\/19296","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=19296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}