{"id":30176,"date":"2017-11-05T12:48:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T20:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30176"},"modified":"2017-11-05T12:48:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T20:48:56","slug":"open-thread-1152017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/05\/open-thread-1152017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/5\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy is due in forty minutes, and my Broncos start playing in 130 minutes, so I&#8217;m in a big hurry.&#160; I&#8217;ll publish after the game is over.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy Left and my Broncos are getting clobbered so bad that they took the game off TV.&#160; Oh my POOR butt! <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-cryingface\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Crying face\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wlEmoticon-cryingface.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:17 (average 5:32).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-05-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=spkfIpPmPgs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Paul Manafort&#8217;s House Cold Open<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/spkfIpPmPgs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With that Airplane Trump, Melania will get the best sex she has had, since before her wedding day. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/11\/3\/1712269\/-Trump-groped-them-and-called-them-liars-These-women-just-want-us-to-remember-that\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump is hoping to keep his gross treatment of women out of court. The women who\u2019ve come forward to tell their stories of being groped, kissed, and grabbed by Trump over the years are hoping that a lawsuit brought by one of them, former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos, will at least mean that their experiences are heard and taken as seriously as those of Harvey Weinstein\u2019s victims. Or Bill Cosby\u2019s. Or Kevin Spacey\u2019s. Or Mark Halperin\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Not that any of those accusers got justice, even in the court of public opinion, quickly\u2014but they didn\u2019t have to watch their harassers or rapists be inaugurated president, either. The White House press secretary didn\u2019t call them liars on national television. And it\u2019s that response that\u2019s at the center of the lawsuit that Trump\u2019s victims hope will let them be fully heard<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is no excuse not to prosecute Trump. Upchuckabee-Sanders should be sued for defamation. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/impact.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prisoner of the Census<\/a>: <\/font>The way the Census Bureau counts people in prison creates significant problems for democracy and for our nation\u2019s future. It leads to a dramatic distortion of representation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/problem\/local.html\" target=\"_blank\">local<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/problem\/state.html\" target=\"_blank\">state levels<\/a>, and creates an inaccurate picture of community populations for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/problem\/statistics.html\" target=\"_blank\">research and planning purposes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau counts incarcerated people as residents of the towns where they are confined, though they are barred from voting in 48 states and return to their homes after being released. The practice also defies most state constitutions and statutes, which explicitly state that incarceration does not change a residence.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau\u2019s approach to counting incarcerated people dates back to the beginning of the census, when it was important only to count the number of people in each state to ensure equal representation in Congress. Congressional apportionment relied on the comparative populations of the states, not where people were relative to each other within each state. Now that Census data are used for redistricting at all levels of government, the specific location of populations is critical. The prison population has risen exponentially in the past couple of decades; counting the people in prison in the wrong place now undermines the Supreme Court\u2019s requirement that political power be apportioned on the basis of population. The process of drawing fair and equal districts fails when the underlying data are flawed.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for more info on this deplorable form of making some districts disproportionately powerful. Prisoners should be counted where they will return after serving their sentences, because those communities will need the resources to help reintegrate the prisoners. <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\/11\/1105Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1105Cartoon\" 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=\"1105Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1105Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy is due in forty minutes, and my Broncos start playing in 130 minutes, so I&#8217;m in a big hurry.&#160; I&#8217;ll publish after the game is over. Wendy Left and my Broncos are getting clobbered so bad that they took the game off TV.&#160; Oh my POOR butt! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:17 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/05\/open-thread-1152017\/' 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-30176","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\/30176","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=30176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}