{"id":22347,"date":"2016-06-11T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T17:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22347"},"modified":"2016-06-11T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T17:32:20","slug":"open-thread-6112016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/open-thread-6112016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 6\/11\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was hoping to sleep-in, but Grand Floral Parade goers started staking out their spots and blowing their air horns at about 5:00 AM.  I’d guess that the parade will get here between 11:00 AM and 12:00 N.  Julie and I rescheduled shower day to tomorrow, so I’m a stinky puddy tat!!  I’ll scoot down and take a few pictures, if it isn’t raining.  Rain is bad for my chair.<\/font><\/p>\n

My first surgery is a week from Monday.  The radioactive plaque they will be inserting behind my right eye is about the size of an old pop bottle cap.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Mine will have a notch in one side to fit around the optic nerve.  The second surgery, a week from Friday, will be to remove it.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 2:49 (average 4:58).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Politico has an excellent piece of reporting<\/a> from within the Sanders campaign on their future efforts. A great read and very encouraging for those of us who are anticipating unity within the party. It appears that staff within the Sanders group are already starting to shift their focus toward assisting Clinton in the general.<\/p>\n

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Sanders\u2019 tech team is already expressing interest in working on Clinton\u2019s behalf to drum up enthusiasm among young voters \u2014 a critical demographic for Democrats that Sanders dominated and Clinton struggled with during the primaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting a bunch of kids stoked on the process is very important to ensure a Trump presidency is not possible,\u201d said Arun Chaudhary, the Sanders videographer who joined the senator’s team at the White House on Thursday to take pictures surrounding his meeting with Obama.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As I said, the problem is not and never was Bernie. It’s the bots, who say they support him, but act at cross-purposes to what he is doing.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Texas, so fond of seeing the environmental regulators in court that it has sued the Environmental Protection Agency dozens of times<\/a>, wants to take the EPA to court for a brand new reason.<\/p>\n

The Texas Railroad Commission recommended that the state\u2019s attorney general, Ken Paxton, file another lawsuit targeting new EPA regulations<\/a> seeking to limit methane emissions. Texas would be the first state to do so. <\/p>\n

I don’t know why the Railroad Commission is doing this, when the Texas Republican Party is the biggest source of methane in the Southwest US.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>A potentially massive fine levied against three telemarketing companies could finally force others in the industry to comply with federal rules\u2014and stop nuisance calls.<\/p>\n

Local news station KSL.com reports<\/a> that the three companies\u2014Feature Films for Families, Corporations for Character and Family Films of Utah\u2014made more than 117 million illegal calls to consumers who had signed up with the \u201cDo Not Call\u201d registry. If the court assigns the regular fine amount for all of the 117 million illegal calls, the firms could end up paying over $1 trillion.<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that the companies would not be able to afford such high fines and would be financially ground into dust by such a verdict, although the companies are still waiting for the judge\u2019s decision on whether the full fines will be enforced. Eric Allen, an attorney for the law firm that is representing the companies, said a $1 trillion fine could have a chilling effect on other telemarketers.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I hope the judge puts them out of business. Companies with such a Republican lack of respect don’t deserve to operate, and it would put other telemarketers on notice to respect the Do Not Call list, OR ELSE!! Enough don\u2019t that it’s a rare day that I don’t get at least one scam robocall, usually for timeshare scams or loans<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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I was hoping to sleep-in, but Grand Floral Parade goers started staking out their spots and blowing their air horns at about 5:00 AM.  I’d guess that the parade will get here between 11:00 AM and 12:00 N.  Julie and I rescheduled shower day to tomorrow, so I’m a stinky puddy tat!!  I’ll scoot down […]<\/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-22347","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\/22347","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=22347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}