{"id":28989,"date":"2017-08-13T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28989"},"modified":"2017-08-13T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T20:52:35","slug":"open-thread-8132017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/13\/open-thread-8132017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/13\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy will be here before I finish this article, and we have lots to do, so excuse me while I hurry.&#160; Tomorrow I have a post-op\/pre-op eye exam.&#160; Please expect no more than a Personal Update. &quot;Later: we found the keys.&#160; I just got a Mariachi strap for my guitar.&#160; I have not had time to try it yet, but on the way to bed I had put it around my neck to see how it fit.&#160; Then I took it off and put it on top of my dresser, which is out of my line of sight.&#160; The strap has too hooks, and when I took it off, one of the hooks caught my key lanyard and lifted it off my neck.&#160; ARGH!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:21 (average 5:15).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-13-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=kS-b3-B9fMU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>):<\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> Defend DACA<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kS-b3-B9fMU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Those young people are as American as we (who are American) are, and far more American than Putin&#8217;s Puppet and the racist Republicans that want to deport them. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/8\/11\/1688645\/-Oregon-passes-law-protecting-workers-from-predatory-scheduling-laws\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Good news for Oregon workers in the retail and fast food industries. The state has become the first to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/08\/09\/news\/economy\/oregon-advance-scheduling-law\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">a law protecting workers<\/a> from some of the worst scheduling abuses employers love so much.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One in six Oregonians receive less than 24 hours of notice before their shifts, according to a survey the University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center published in February.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Oregon is mandating that the state&#8217;s largest employers in the retail, hospitality and food service industries &#8212; those with more than 500 workers &#8212; give employees their schedules in writing at least a week ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll also have to give workers a 10-hour break between shifts, or pay them extra.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oregon leads the way! RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/12\/us\/politics\/elizabeth-warren-democrats-liberals.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Senator Elizabeth Warren used a speech to a grass-roots conference Saturday to take direct aim at Democrats\u2019 diminished moderate wing, ridiculing Clinton-era policies and jubilantly proclaiming that liberals had taken control of the party.<\/p>\n<p>While not invoking former President Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton by name, Ms. Warren sent an unambiguous message that she believes the Clinton effort to push Democrats toward the political center should be relegated to history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democratic Party isn\u2019t going back to the days of welfare reform and the crime bill,\u201d she said, highlighting measures Mr. Clinton signed into law as president that are reviled by much of the left. \u201cIt is not going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the speech:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Gm7VRWRYo3A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She said one thing that I&#8217;ve been saying for some time: &quot;We need to see each other&#8217;s fight as our own.&quot; Other than that highlight, &quot;Woooo Hoooo Liz!&quot; <strong>RESIST<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0813Cartoon\" 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=\"0813Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0813Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/>&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy will be here before I finish this article, and we have lots to do, so excuse me while I hurry.&#160; Tomorrow I have a post-op\/pre-op eye exam.&#160; Please expect no more than a Personal Update. &quot;Later: we found the keys.&#160; I just got a Mariachi strap for my guitar.&#160; I have not had time <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/13\/open-thread-8132017\/' 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-28989","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\/28989","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=28989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}