{"id":30657,"date":"2017-12-11T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T21:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30657"},"modified":"2017-12-11T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T21:46:49","slug":"open-thread-12-11-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/open-thread-12-11-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/11\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running a but late today as I had a lot of record keeping to catch up.&#160; The air is still stagnant and upsetting my COPD, but not badly.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:31 (average 12:14).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-12-11-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1210Broncos23-Jets0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1210Broncos23-Jets0\" 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=\"1210Broncos23-Jets0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1210Broncos23-Jets0_thumb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Would someone please make sure I&#8217;m conscious.&#160; This is so unbelievable that I think someone spiked my coffee with wacky tobackey.<\/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=6SBP0SiR6_0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Liberal Redneck &#8211; To Hell with Roy Moore<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6SBP0SiR6_0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Trae. We know there&#8217;s a good South. Look at Pat, Vivian, Freya and more! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jRuEbhjeTmc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why We Must Protect Net Neutrality<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jRuEbhjeTmc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left is right.&#160; Protect Net Neutrality!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/06\/facebook-partners-conservative-misinformer-weekly-standard-fact-checking\/218761\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>Conservative news outlet The Weekly Standard has been approved by Facebook to partner in fact-checking &quot;false news,&quot; a partnership that makes little sense given the outlet\u2019s long history of making misleading claims, pushing extreme right-wing talking points, and publishing lies to bolster conservative arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The Weekly Standard\u2019s history of publishing false claims on topics such as the 2012 attacks on diplomatic facilities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/research\/2016\/06\/29\/media-fell-bogus-new-information-spin-gop-benghazi-report\/211275\" target=\"_blank\">Benghazi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/11\/preliminary-obamacare-enrollment-numbers-counte\/207458\" target=\"_blank\">the Affordable Care Act<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/research\/2015\/10\/29\/right-wing-media-attack-cnbc-moderator-for-corr\/206509\" target=\"_blank\">tax cuts<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/research\/2014\/08\/10\/rewriting-history-conservatives-attack-obama-fo\/200380\" target=\"_blank\">war in Iraq<\/a>, among many others, raises doubts that Facebook is taking the challenge of fact-checking seriously.<\/p>\n<p>As The Guardian reports, The Weekly Standard is the first \u201cexplicitly partisan\u201d outlet to partner with Facebook in their effort to fact-check fake news. The decision by Facebook raises concerns over the decision to give a conservative opinion outlet with a history of misinformation unearned influence over the fact-checking process. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fascist bias is one of the reasons I don&#8217;t do Facebook. Those of you that do should make a big stink over this. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1211Cartoon\" 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=\"1211Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1211Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running a but late today as I had a lot of record keeping to catch up.&#160; The air is still stagnant and upsetting my COPD, but not badly. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:31 (average 12:14).&#160; To do it, click here. Religious Ecstasy: Would someone please make sure I&#8217;m conscious.&#160; This is so <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/open-thread-12-11-2017\/' 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-30657","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\/30657","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=30657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}