{"id":32427,"date":"2018-05-13T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T19:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32427"},"modified":"2018-05-13T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T19:51:26","slug":"open-thread-5-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/13\/open-thread-5-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/13\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday Nameless asked how I could have found a new barber that works on Mothers Day.&#160; See below.&#160; Today&#8217;s high is forecast at 89\u00b0.&#160; ARGH!!<\/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 4:36).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-13-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>My New Barber<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/0513IMG_0249.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0513IMG_0249\" 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=\"0513IMG_0249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/0513IMG_0249_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"867\" \/><\/a><\/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=gczHz0CPum4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The big problem with comparing Trump to Nixon<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gczHz0CPum4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They make a huge point. I remember those days, ad it&#8217;s easy to forget how little tech we had.&#160; In the year Nixon quit, the electronics we take for granted did not exist. I bought my first computer to calculate astrology charts. It cost $7,000 and had 4k RAM. It&#8217;s display was LED. For storage it had a magnetic card reader. The printout was a dot-matrix 2&quot; paper tape. I could create a chart with it, but there&#8217;s no way I could create a Republican Bubble Machine. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/05\/12\/us\/politics\/women-midterm-elections.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Just as the women\u2019s marches and #MeToo helped define 2017, the surging numbers of female candidates have defined the midterm races now underway. Yet for all that, the November elections may not produce a similar surge in the number of women in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>More than half the female candidates for House and Senate seats are challenging incumbents, who historically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/overview\/reelect.php\" target=\"_blank\">almost always win<\/a>; there were <a href=\"http:\/\/cawp.rutgers.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/data-point-compare-1992-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">far more wide-open races in 1992\u2019s so-called Year of the Woman,<\/a>which doubled the number of women in Congress. A large percentage of the women now running for open seats are in districts that favor the other party. And many female candidates are clustered in the same districts, meaning many will be eliminated in this spring and summer\u2019s primaries.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree that women are getting the empty end of the lollipop. Of the Democratic woman candidates for House and Senate, endorsed by Emily&#8217;s List, over 75% are in districts considered safe or very likely for Republicans. The wide open races are going to men. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2018\/05\/oliver-north-knows-who-are-real-criminals\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Boy, it&#8217;s been a hell of a week for the NRA&#8217;s new president, Oliver North, hasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>If the notion of celebrating a convicted gun runner for terrorists as the head of the NRA wasn&#8217;t enough, Oliver North hit the ground running and setting up exactly who the enemy is.<\/p>\n<p>Horrifyingly, he&#8217;s decided it&#8217;s the teenagers who survived the Parkland, Florida school shooting. In a wide-ranging interview with The Washington Times, North made it clear that he thinks the whole idea of not wanting to be shot at while attending high school to be entirely&#8230;criminal.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/b5Dysbye\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">North is where Ammosexual and Bullshit artist become one. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoons<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0513Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0513Cartroon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0513Cartroon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/0513Cartroon.gif\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Nameless asked how I could have found a new barber that works on Mothers Day.&#160; See below.&#160; Today&#8217;s high is forecast at 89\u00b0.&#160; ARGH!! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:17 (average 4:36).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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