{"id":30432,"date":"2017-11-25T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30432"},"modified":"2017-11-25T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T18:35:51","slug":"open-thread-11-25-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/25\/open-thread-11-25-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 11\/25\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m making this a lazy day.  I don’t know why, but I slept very poorly last night.  Most of the news seems to be rehashing old business.  This is my only article today, and I shall not be sending links messages on Care2.  Between 10 AM and Noon Amazon.com\/New Seasons Market is delivering the bird, a cooked 6-10 lb. Free Range Turkey.  Purrrr!!  This morning I prepared the Brussels Sprouts Hollandaise.  The stuffing and gravy are done.  And I look forward to feeding Wonder Woman Wendy (Thanks, Lona!) tomorrow.  Tomorrow is also a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos play Wendy’s Raiders, but we don’t get to watch, as it is not televised here.<\/font><\/p>\n

Later: The turkey came.  It’s in the fridge, waiting to be put in the TomCat.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:12 (average 5:29).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump and the outgoing head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau both named acting directors to head the watchdog agency on Friday, throwing its leadership into disarray.<\/p>\n

Legal analysts were split over whether the White House or the CFPB had authority to name an acting director, with each side citing the fine print of dueling federal rules. Some added that the laws were open to interpretation and that the courts ultimately would have to decide the matter.<\/p>\n

Trump proposed his White House budget director, Mick Mulvaney, as the acting director of the CFPB, which Mulvaney once called a \u201cjoke\u201d and said he wished didn\u2019t exist. Several defenders of the agency said they were worried that Mulvaney, if given the helm of the CFPB on a temporary basis, would gut its powers.<\/p>\n

The series of events began Friday when the CFPB\u2019s long-time director, Richard Cordray, announced that he would leave at the end of the day \u2014 instead of at the end of the month \u2014 and promoted his chief of staff, Leandra English, to become deputy director. Cordray said in a letter to CFPB staff that English would serve as the agency\u2019s acting director until a replacement was confirmed by the Senate.<\/p>\n

I have no doubt that the CFPB would not survive a week as a functional entity with Mulvaney at the helm. English is the rightful Acting Director, and Trump is trying to duck Senate confirmation. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Despite efforts by Congress, the Obama administration and state attorneys general to stop the predatory practices of for-profit colleges, veterans and service members who rely on funding from the G.I. bill and the Defense Department to attend school are still being targeted by an industry infamous for saddling people with debt and useless degrees.<\/p>\n

A Senate committee report<\/a> sounded a warning on this problem three years ago, when it raised questions about deceptive practices in the industry. State attorneys general and federal agencies at the time were investigating seven for-profit outfits with significant revenue streams from the G.I. bill. Some of these schools have since been forced to shut down.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, a new analysis of federal data by Veterans Education Success<\/a>, a nonprofit that provides free legal services to student veterans, finds that the for-profit industry is still setting its sights on veterans and service members even as its nonmilitary enrollment has declined.<\/p>\n

The Republican Reich views our veterans as prey fit to be ravished by Republican criminals. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>As Americans gather for Thanksgiving, we can only hope that the richest among us have the good graces to give thanks for the bounty they expect to receive in a few days thanks to how Donald Trump and the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill conned millions of voters.<\/p>\n

The plutocrats should set aside a moment to thank all the voters suckered by the Trumpian promise to drain the swamp. What Trump really meant was to drain the pockets of Americans who make less than $500,000 a year so the richest of the rich can have more.<\/p>\n

Amen! Amen!! Amen!!! YOU are the swamp! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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