{"id":29322,"date":"2017-09-04T12:52:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29322"},"modified":"2017-09-04T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T20:40:31","slug":"open-thread-942017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/04\/open-thread-942017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 9\/4\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a pretty miserable day here on the way to 102\u00b0 and 65% humidity.\u00a0 Last night was so muggy that I hardly slept.\u00a0 ARGH!\u00a0 The National Weather Service has issued a Hazardous Air Quality Warning for and is considering evacuating Washington, DC in advance of tomorrow’s methane storm<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:09 (average 4:54).\u00a0 To do it, click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

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

From weather.com<\/a>: <\/span>Hurricane Irma now poses potential threat<\/a> to parts of the US as islands located along the east of the Caribbean Sea prepare for its arrival.<\/p>\n

Irma strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday and additional strengthening is expected as Irma heads west in the days ahead, where it could become a Category 4 hurricane.<\/p>\n

Only less than a week after Hurricane Harvey devastated large parts of the US Gulf coast, residents and meteorologists in the East Coast are continuing to monitor its progress very closely.<\/p>\n

\"0904hurricane-irma-5-day-sept-4\"<\/p>\n

If it has to hit the US, may it park over Trump! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a> (Classic 8\/2013): <\/span>If you know anyone who still believes in a “liberal media,” here’s 15 things everyone would know if there really were a “liberal media” (inspired by Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post<\/a>):<\/p>\n

1. Where the jobs went.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outsourcing (or offshoring) is a bigger contributor to unemployment in the U.S. than laziness.<\/p>\n

Since 2000, U.S. multinationals have cut 2.9 million jobs here while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million. This is likely just the tip of the iceberg as multinational corporations account for only about 20% of the labor force.<\/p>\n

When was the last time you saw a front-page headline about outsourcing?<\/p>\n

\"0904outsourcing\"<\/p>\n

Too True! All, except the 9th, are still true. I shared the first thing. Click through for the other fourteen. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

From Raw Story<\/a>: <\/span>Former President Barack Obama is expected to come out swinging against President Donald Trump\u2019s decision<\/a> to end protections for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States by their parents as children.<\/p>\n

According to Politico<\/a>, Obama plans to post a message opposing Trump\u2019s decision on Facebook, and then promote it on Twitter to his 94 million followers.<\/p>\n

The publication notes that, shortly before leaving office, Obama said he would not remain silent if Trump engaged in \u201cefforts to round up kids who have grown up here and for all practical purposes are American kids, and send them someplace else, when they love this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kudos to Obama. Trump now says his plan has a six month delay to give Congress time to agree on a solution. That’s just an excuse to deport the DACA kids and blame it on Democrats, after Republicans refuse to negotiate in good faith, as always. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s a pretty miserable day here on the way to 102\u00b0 and 65% humidity.\u00a0 Last night was so muggy that I hardly slept.\u00a0 ARGH!\u00a0 The National Weather Service has issued a Hazardous Air Quality Warning for and is considering evacuating Washington, DC in advance of tomorrow’s methane storm Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:09 […]<\/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-29322","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\/29322","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=29322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}