{"id":29606,"date":"2017-09-26T13:34:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29606"},"modified":"2017-09-26T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:34:06","slug":"open-thread-9262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/26\/open-thread-9262017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The sun has returned, and it hit the wall this morning, so I had to button up and turn on the AC again.&#160; Starting tomorrow, we have a two day heat wave, but a couple 85\u00b0 days is a lot more bearable than a couple weeks at or near 100\u00b0.&#160; I tried a Quicken replacement.&#160; It screwed the pooch.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:07 (average 4:34).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-26-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the latest from our own fantasy football league, <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"3Scores\" 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=\"3Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/3Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Can anyone spare some Vaseline? <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"3Standings\" 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=\"3Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/3Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats to Pam for leading the league.&#160; And look at Wendy go!&#160; Also, congrats to our beloved Sasquatch for getting some underfooting.&#160; I&#8217;m speeding toward her.<\/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=otQE0GK6L3Q\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">We Will Not Stand for Trump<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/otQE0GK6L3Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I could not have said it better. In a wheelchair, nobody asks me to stand anymore, but I would put my hand on a shoulder, or if I had someone to help me back up, I would take a knee. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Trump dangerous bellicosity raises nuclear war risk with N. Korea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joe Cirincione, MSNBC nuclear security analyst, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump&#8217;s insult-comic threats against North Korea have only escalated the threat of war with North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_acirincione_170925\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We are closer to nuclear war than we have been at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, because the greater idiot took a break from tweets applauding Nazis and tweets demeaning women to provoke the lesser idiot. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/this-conservative-politician-slammed-wear-a-dress-day-it-backfired-big-time\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Down Under, Bernardi is known for, among other things, pushing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/planet-oz\/2017\/feb\/07\/how-cory-bernardi-was-inspired-to-push-climate-denial-from-us-conservative-groups\" target=\"_blank\">climate change denial<\/a>, vehemently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/jun\/18\/cory-bernardi-same-sex-bestiality\" target=\"_blank\">opposing LGBTQ rights<\/a>, and calling proponents of abortion access &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/federal-politics\/political-news\/liberal-senator-cory-bernardi-under-more-fire-from-within-party-20140108-30hl4.html\" target=\"_blank\">pro-death<\/a>.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><strong>So, at face value, a tweet he published on Sept. 20 probably wasn&#8217;t all that surprising.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&quot;This gender morphing is really getting absurd,&quot; Bernardi said, linking to a story about a school in South Australia holding a &quot;Wear a Dress Day.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The first problem with Bernardi&#8217;s tweet is that it&#8217;s wildly transphobic. The second problem is that it &#8230; sort of totally missed the whole point of what &quot;Wear a Dress Day&quot; actually is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&quot;Wear a Dress Day&quot; has nothing to do with any sort of LGBTQ awareness campaign like Bernardi&#8217;s tweet suggests. It&#8217;s about girls&#8217; education.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Student leaders at Craigburn Primary School near Adelaide had chosen to support One Girl&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doitinadress.com\/craigburn-primary-school\" target=\"_blank\">Do It in a Dress campaign<\/a> on their last day of term \u2014 a day in which students are typically allowed to wear casual clothes to class.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Students who want to wear casual clothing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/nation\/school-wear-a-dress-fundraiser-hijacked-by-ssm-activists-on-both-sides\/news-story\/fe53cd4b306b989f0564cbdfe8b2b383\" target=\"_blank\">can certainly still do so<\/a>. But, in recognition of the campaign, students of all genders are also allowed to wear dresses \u2014 only if they wish to do so \u2014 to boost awareness of girls&#8217; lack of access to education globally, a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.craigburn.sa.edu.au\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/doing-it-in-a-dress-casual-day-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> by the school points out.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Condolences to my Oz friends, because you clearly have Republicans on your side of the world too. <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\/09\/0926Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0926Cartoon\" 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=\"0926Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0926Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun has returned, and it hit the wall this morning, so I had to button up and turn on the AC again.&#160; Starting tomorrow, we have a two day heat wave, but a couple 85\u00b0 days is a lot more bearable than a couple weeks at or near 100\u00b0.&#160; I tried a Quicken replacement.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/26\/open-thread-9262017\/' 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-29606","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\/29606","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=29606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}