{"id":20015,"date":"2016-02-18T12:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20015"},"modified":"2016-02-18T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:31:25","slug":"open-thread2182016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/18\/open-thread2182016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/18\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">After breakfast I did most of my research and felt too tired to continue, so I snaffled-up the nap that Lona left and caught a couple hours sleep.&#160;&#160; While I\u2019m writing, I\u2019m making a two day dinner of Mongolian Beef and Jasmine Rice.&#160; This afternoon, I have a ton of paper work to&#160; do.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:40 (average 5:27).&#160; To do it, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-02-18-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/news\/video\/merkley-keeping-our-citizen-owned-fossil-fuel-reserves-in-the-ground\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jeff Merkley<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Merkley: Keeping our Citizen-Owned Fossil Fuel Reserves in the Ground<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#160;<\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vVGOn9KnzFQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m so glad I worked on getting Jeff elected. Uw was worth the effort. Oregon leads the way! Support Jeff&#8217;s &quot;Keep It in the Ground Act&quot;!!! Bernie is a co-sponsor.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/02\/16\/1486124\/-Donald-Trump-just-floated-out-the-idea-that-Scalia-was-murdered-conspiracy\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Fuming cauldron of love Donald Trump was on Michael Savage\u2019s conservative talk radio show. The conservative host, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/10\/22\/1338155\/-Michael-Savage-Attacks-Veterans-With-PTSD-Stop-Crying-Like-A-Baby\" target=\"_blank\">best known for calling veterans who have PTSD \u201cweak,\u201d<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> asked the Trumpman about the ideas floating out in some circles that Scalia was murdered, and did not in fact die of natural <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/feb\/16\/donald-trump-antonin-scalia-death-conspiracy-theories\" target=\"_blank\">causes like his family has claimed.<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">\u201cIt\u2019s a horrible topic,\u201d said Trump, \u201cbut they say they found the pillow on his face, which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow. I can\u2019t give you an answer &#8230; I literally just heard it a little while ago. It\u2019s just starting to come out now, as you know, Michael.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This has been making rounds in the Republican Bubble Machine for a few days now. To set the record straight, there was no pillow on his face, and if there was any outside participation in his demise, it was divine, not human.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prwatch.org\/news\/2016\/02\/13043\/ford-becomes-latest-major-corporation-dump-alec\" target=\"_blank\">PRWatch<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Ford Motor Company confirmed to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) that it is cutting ties with the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alecexposed.org\/wiki\/ALEC_Exposed\" target=\"_blank\">American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\">, an organization that has drawn heavy criticism for promoting climate change denial and for opposing the development of renewable energy sources.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">&quot;As part of our annual budget review, we have adjusted our participation in several groups. We will not be participating in ALEC in 2016,&quot; wrote Christin Baker, a Ford spokesperson in an email to CMD.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Its products might be &quot;Ford Tough,&quot; but in making the decision to stop funding ALEC, Ford executives are responding to consumer concern over its membership in the controversial, Koch-funded ALEC, which has both an extreme anti-worker agenda as well as an anti-environmental agenda.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">The departure makes Ford the 108th identified company to cut ties with ALEC in <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php\/Corporations_that_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC\" target=\"_blank\">recent years.<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For the huge lost of corporate criminal Koch suckers that support ALEC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php\/ALEC_Corporations\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0218Cartoon\" 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=\"0218Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/0218Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I was in the Chicago 1968 demonstration and knew most of these folks.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After breakfast I did most of my research and felt too tired to continue, so I snaffled-up the nap that Lona left and caught a couple hours sleep.&#160;&#160; While I\u2019m writing, I\u2019m making a two day dinner of Mongolian Beef and Jasmine Rice.&#160; This afternoon, I have a ton of paper work to&#160; do. 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