{"id":23766,"date":"2016-09-04T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23766"},"modified":"2016-09-04T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T15:18:41","slug":"open-thread-942016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/04\/open-thread-942016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/4\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The reason today&#8217;s articles are late is that Sunday is Wendy day.&#160; She&#8217;s due in ten minutes.&#160; One of her tasks today, other than buffing and stuffing the TomCat, is the complete cleaning of the area you know as the Cat Box:&#160; my computer desk.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy has not come and is not answering texts or phone.&#160; I fear something is wrong, but had better get my articles up, in case she comes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:40 (average 5:54).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-09-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. 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=\"https:\/\/www.jacklinks.com\/sasquatchworkout\" target=\"_blank\">jacklinks.com<\/a> (H\/T JD): <\/font>What has Lynn been up to?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iTF3JOaoJ_k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Squatch!!! Is that your physio?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2dDceXhKuZ8&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (MoveOn Channel): <\/font>What Racism Has to Do with the High Cost of College<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2dDceXhKuZ8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I could not agree more!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/04\/science\/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Huge vertical rulers are sprouting beside low spots in the streets here, so people can judge if the tidal floods that increasingly inundate their roads are too deep to drive through.<\/p>\n<p>Five hundred miles down the Atlantic Coast, the only road to Tybee Island, Ga., is disappearing beneath the sea several times a year, cutting the town off from the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>And another 500 miles on, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., increased tidal flooding is forcing the city to spend millions fixing battered roads and drains \u2014 and, at times, to send out giant vacuum trucks to suck saltwater off the streets.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, as the global warming created by human emissions caused land ice to melt and ocean water to expand, scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/06\/24\/us\/global-warming-has-begun-expert-tells-senate.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> that the accelerating rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States\u2019 coastline.<\/p>\n<p>Now, those warnings are no longer theoretical: The inundation of the coast has begun. The sea has crept up to the point that a high tide and a brisk wind are all it takes to send water pouring into streets and homes.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We might be able to make some money out of this. Lets market SCUBA gear with the GOP logo on the tanks and wetsuits captioned &quot;Global Warming Is a Hoax!&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0904Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason today&#8217;s articles are late is that Sunday is Wendy day.&#160; She&#8217;s due in ten minutes.&#160; One of her tasks today, other than buffing and stuffing the TomCat, is the complete cleaning of the area you know as the Cat Box:&#160; my computer desk. 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