{"id":21407,"date":"2016-04-24T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21407"},"modified":"2016-04-24T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T20:10:21","slug":"open-thread-4242016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/24\/open-thread-4242016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/24\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday, after my shower, Julie and I spent four hours doing the dreaded task, changing the bed linens, cleaning, dusting, sweeping and mopping.&#160;&#160; In addition, I had risen early to finish blogging and to make a several day batch of \u03b3\u03ad\u03b5\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1 chili, before she arrived,&#160; That all tired me so much that I\u2019m getting a late start today, because I needed a morning Lona nap.&#160; On the plus side, I\u2019m enjoying the green cloud that\u2019s starting to form.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today;s took me 2:23 (average 4:28).&#160; To so it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-04-24-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.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/11\/21\/1346494\/-NASA-creates-incredible-video-to-illustrate-the-role-of-CO2-in-climate-change-around-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a> (classic: 11\/2014): <\/font>NASA has released an amazing new video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x1SgmFa0r04\" target=\"_blank\">A Year in the Life of Earth&#8217;s CO2<\/a>. It brilliantly illustrates how carbon dioxide travels around the world. The mesmerizing computer model makes it crystal clear that all countries of the world will have to act together to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/goddard\/2014\/november\/nasa-computer-model-provides-a-new-portrait-of-carbon-dioxide\/#.VG9xB75FNUT\" target=\"_blank\">combat climate change:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/x1SgmFa0r04?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Does that deflate Republican pseudo-science, or what?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/24\/us\/politics\/hillary-clinton-vice-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/us\/elections\/hillary-clinton-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>\u2019s advisers and allies have begun extensive discussions about who should be her running mate, seeking to compile a list of 15 to 20 potential picks for her team to start vetting by late spring.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Clinton\u2019s team will grapple with complicated questions like whether the United States is ready for an all-female ticket, and whether her choice for vice president would be able to handle working in a White House in which former President Bill Clinton wielded significant influence on policy.<\/p>\n<p>While the nomination fight is still fluid, Mrs. Clinton is confident enough of victory that she has described a vision of a running mate and objectives for the search, according to campaign advisers and more than a dozen Democrats close to the campaign or the Clintons.<\/p>\n<p>She does not have a front-runner in mind, they said, but she is intrigued by several contenders and scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Among the names under discussion by Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Clinton and campaign advisers: Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, former governors from the key state of Virginia; Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who represents both a more liberal wing of the party and a swing state; former Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, a prominent African-American Democrat; and Thomas E. Perez, President Obama\u2019s labor secretary and a Hispanic civil rights lawyer.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Were Hillary to choose a progressive, it might make her more palatable, but her choice should not be a Senator. We need all our progressive Senators in the Senate. However, another reason to vote for Bernie is that Bill would be the ugliest first lady in history.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HPZQWqPfVzc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>The Worst Person in Tennessee: Jeremy Durham | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HPZQWqPfVzc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL!!&#160; And while we&#8217;re on the subject if bathroom behavior\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOPCloset\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"GOPCloset\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/GOPCloset.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0424Cartoon\" 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=\"0424Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0424Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"546\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after my shower, Julie and I spent four hours doing the dreaded task, changing the bed linens, cleaning, dusting, sweeping and mopping.&#160;&#160; In addition, I had risen early to finish blogging and to make a several day batch of \u03b3\u03ad\u03b5\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1 chili, before she arrived,&#160; That all tired me so much that I\u2019m getting a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/24\/open-thread-4242016\/' 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-21407","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\/21407","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=21407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}