{"id":23612,"date":"2016-08-23T12:05:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23612"},"modified":"2016-08-23T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:05:47","slug":"open-thread-8232016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/open-thread-8232016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 8\/23\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be as brief as I can, as I have a meeting this evening and need to rest today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:59 (average 5:14).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Florida’s Republican governor, Rick Scott, and legislature have happily joined in on the War on Women and the war on Planned Parenthood, attempting to state funding to reproductive health clinics and diverting resources away from clinics that provide abortion. What does that mean when it comes to fighting a disease that kills and deforms unborn babies? A looming disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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"We haven’t heard about any kits," says Laura Goodhue, a vice president at Planned Parenthood of South, East, and North Florida. Planned Parenthood hasn’t received any Zika kits from the Florida Department of Health, nor has it received any guidance from the department about how to serve pregnant women during a possible outbreak. [\u2026] <\/p>\n

A big part of the defense against infection for women in Florida appears to be the Zika prevention kits and OB-GYN outreach, but the Scott administration’s strategy is unclear. The Planned Parenthood affiliate operates three clinics in Miami-Dade County, which has the fourth-highest uninsured rate in the country, and another just over the border in Broward County. The women’s health care organization serves tens of thousands of people per year, many of whom are low-income and without insurance\u2014and more likely to get pregnant by accident. As Laura Goodhue notes, they have not received a single kit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This Republican is intentionally withholding life-saving services to the women who need them most. When his victims start dying, he will undoubtedly blame Planned Parenthood for the blood on his own hands.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Taking advantage of almost a decade of political victories in state legislatures across the country, conservative advocacy groups are quietly marshaling support for an event unprecedented in the nation\u2019s history: a convention of the 50 states, summoned to consider amending the Constitution.<\/p>\n

The groups are an amalgam of free-market, low-tax and small-government proponents, <\/p>\n

I urge you to click through to read this entire article to better understand how critically important it is to win down-ballot races. Then vote blue.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump is trailing<\/a> Hillary Clinton badly in Colorado, which despite being a "swing state" went for President Obama twice. And despite boasting that he’ll change<\/a> the electoral map, Trump is running a ground game in the Centennial State that can only be described as embarrassing, even for him.<\/p>\n

According to St. Louis-based news station KMOV 4, Weston Imer runs the GOP nominee’s campaign office in Jefferson County, Colorado, which is "part of the Denver metro area" and "one of the most populous counties in Colorado," KMOV notes. But Weston is just 12 years old.<\/p>\n

I consider it horrid that one so young is so corrupted. On the plus side, it appears that Rump Dump has all but given up in CO.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>: (Yesterday at the Podiatrist’s office, I heard a "trigger"word!)<\/font><\/p>\n

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I’ll be as brief as I can, as I have a meeting this evening and need to rest today. Jug Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:59 (average 5:14).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From Daily Kos: Florida’s Republican governor, Rick Scott, and legislature have happily joined in on the […]<\/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-23612","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\/23612","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=23612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}