{"id":23620,"date":"2016-08-24T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23620"},"modified":"2016-08-24T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:54:27","slug":"open-thread-8242016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/open-thread-8242016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 8\/24\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

The heat wave has returned to Portland with a vengeance, and we are under an Excessive Heat Warning until Friday evening.  Today is a grocery delivery day, and late this afternoon, Wendt will be here to pamper and polish the TomCat.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:40 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Horseback riders, their faces streaked in yellow and black paint, led the procession out of their tepee-dotted camp. Two hundred people followed, making their daily walk a mile up a rural highway to a patch of prairie grass and excavated dirt that has become a new kind of battlefield, between a pipeline and American Indians who say it will threaten water supplies and sacred lands.<\/p>\n

The Texas-based company building the Dakota Access pipeline<\/a>, Energy Transfer Partners, calls the project a major step toward the United States\u2019 weaning itself off foreign oil. The company says the nearly 1,170-mile buried pipeline will infuse millions of dollars into local economies and is safer than trucks and train cars that can topple and spill and crash and burn.<\/p>\n

But the people who stood at the gates of a construction site where crews had been building an access road toward the pipeline viewed the project as a wounding intrusion onto lands where generations of their ancestors hunted bison, gathered water and were born and buried, long before treaties and fences stamped a different order onto the Plains.<\/p>\n

Kudos to the Sioux. I endorse their protest wholeheartedly.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Officials in Sarnia, Ontario were surprised last night to find approximately 1,500 Americans illegally floating into Canada.<\/a><\/p>\n

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They were participating in the annual Port Huron Float Down, during which people simply float down the river on rafts, inner tubes and other flotation devices from Port Huron, Mich.<\/p>\n

High winds pushed them to a number of points along the Canadian shore. They had to be rescued by Sarnia police, the OPP, the Canadian Coast Guard, Canada Border Service Agency and employees from a nearby chemical company Lanxess Canada.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Likely story. Probably a bunch of Justin Trudeau fans trying to get a glimpse.<\/p>\n

If Harper’s Harlots still ruled Canada, they would have lured those terrorist wetbacks into portapotties, locked them in, and trucked them back to this side of the border.<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>In a lawsuit filed Monday, former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros alleges that ex-network boss Roger Ailes was far from alone in making unwanted sexual advances during her tenure there. Tantaros alleges that network heavyweight Bill O\u2019Reilly and former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) also contributed to a culture of \u201cmisogyny\u201d at the conservative news network.<\/p>\n

Tantaros\u2019 suit<\/a> comes after Ailes resigned from the network amid mounting allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation, first made by fired host Gretchen Carlson in a lawsuit filed in July<\/a> (Ailes strenously denied those allegations through his lawyers). Tantaros\u2019 lawsuit names the network\u2019s newly appointed<\/a> co-president, Bill Shine, public relations czar Irena Briganti, and two other high-ranking executives, along with Ailes, whom the complaint labels as a \u201cpredator.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is boggles the mind. Tantaros always lies. Ailes always lies. We have an oxymoron between morons!<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0824Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

At the time, Nero (R-RO) explained that there was no such thing as volcanic climate change.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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