{"id":28115,"date":"2017-06-16T10:29:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28115"},"modified":"2017-06-16T10:29:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:29:05","slug":"open-thread-6162017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/16\/open-thread-6162017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/16\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is today&#8217;s only article from me.&#160; The good news is that I seem to have recovered from Republicosis.&#160; The bad news is that the blog caught it.&#160; I went to update the poll this morning, and went to the administrators&#8217; page that I always use to edit the sidebar widgets.&#160; It is blank.&#160; That means we have a conflict, between one of our plugins and WordPress, between two of our plugins, or between our theme and WordPress.&#160; I&#8217;m going to have to deactivate all our plugins and add them back one at a time until I find the culprit.&#160; During the process, the blog will be changing rapidly in appearance and function, so please be patient, and know that you are not the cause of this.&#160; At worst I may need to rebuild from scratch with far fewer bells and whistles. I needed this like America needs Trump!&#160; <strong>ARGH!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:23 (average 5:46).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-16-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4FyO-Rl2-gg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>13 Men Deciding Health Care<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4FyO-Rl2-gg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have nothing against men. I am one. I would not want 13 women to make decisions on my absolute need to scratch certain itches, and 13 well-intended progressive men, let alone 13 Republican misogynists, must not be allowed to make decisions on women&#8217;s health needs. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fl4FewtXLrY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Sessions \u2018n Cotton\u2019s Movie Talk<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Fl4FewtXLrY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Red Queen should sue over her comparison to the Fuhrer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exposedbycmd.org\/2017\/06\/12\/koch-convention-rewrite-constitution-roadblocks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exposed by CMD<\/a>: <\/font>This year\u2019s legislative season saw a strong push in the states from right-wing groups, bankrolled by the Koch brothers and other ultra-conservative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prwatch.org\/news\/2017\/03\/13229\/koch-brothers-bankroll-constitutional-convention\" target=\"_blank\">billionaires<\/a>, hoping to convene a national constitutional convention in order to inject rigid fiscal constraints into our country\u2019s founding document. Advocates of a federal \u201cbalanced budget amendment\u201d (BBA) picked up two more states, Wyoming and Arizona, in their drive to win the 34 resolutions needed to bypass Congress and convene a convention to propose changes to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>That momentum, however, was blunted by surprisingly successful campaigns to rescind convention calls in three states, New Mexico, Maryland, and Nevada. As a result, BBA proponents now claim 27 states in their column, down from 28 at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Two steps forward and three steps back\u2026from the brink of a political experiment untried since 1787.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click Through.&#160; A Constitutional Convention of, by, and for Republican Koch Suckers would be an unmitigated disaster. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0616Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0616Cartoon\" 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=\"0616Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0616Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today&#8217;s only article from me.&#160; The good news is that I seem to have recovered from Republicosis.&#160; The bad news is that the blog caught it.&#160; I went to update the poll this morning, and went to the administrators&#8217; page that I always use to edit the sidebar widgets.&#160; It is blank.&#160; That <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/16\/open-thread-6162017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28115","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\/28115","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=28115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}