{"id":31072,"date":"2018-01-16T12:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31072"},"modified":"2018-01-16T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:17:15","slug":"open-thread-1-16-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/16\/open-thread-1-16-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/16\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another extremely muggy day with record temps forecast, and I&#8217;m praying for the weekend to arrive before I melt.&#160; Please excuse my brevity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:06 (average 5:43).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-16-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=a5hFMy4pTrs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Abraham * Martin and John *** Dion<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/a5hFMy4pTrs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">JD reminded me. This still makes me tear-up when I hear it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OM-X7iIeHzs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>With Mike Pence In Front Row, Pastor Rips Into Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OM-X7iIeHzs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen to that Pastor! How I would have loved to see that racist pseudo-Christian&#8217;s red face! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/more-americans-without-health-insurance-6d201e3d05aa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>More U.S adults are without insurance now than before President Donald Trump took office. The uninsured rate was 12.2 percent at the end of 2017, up 1.3 percentage points from the record low of 10.9 percent at the end of 2016, or the end of President Barack Obama\u2019s final term in office, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/225383\/uninsured-rate-steady-fourth-quarter-2017.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;stream=top-stories\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to a Gallup national survey released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gallup, the 1.3 point increase is an estimated 3.2 million Americans who became uninsured in 2017. Young, Black, Latinx, and low-income residents saw the largest increases in the uninsured rate; Black and Latinx residents saw the biggest shift, with 2.3 and 2.2 point increases respectively. This isn\u2019t too surprising because people of color <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/disparities-policy\/press-release\/under-the-affordable-care-act-people-of-color-have-seen-greater-gains-in-health-coverage-but-remain-more-likely-than-whites-to-be-uninsured\/\" target=\"_blank\">saw greater gains<\/a> in coverage than white residents under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) \u2014 although they\u2019re still more likely to be uninsured.<\/p>\n<p>This seemingly modest increase is the largest single-year increase Gallup and Sharecare have documented since it started in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">RepubliCare kills! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0116Cartoon\" 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=\"0116Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0116Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another extremely muggy day with record temps forecast, and I&#8217;m praying for the weekend to arrive before I melt.&#160; Please excuse my brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:06 (average 5:43).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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