{"id":33405,"date":"2018-08-15T12:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T19:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33405"},"modified":"2018-08-15T12:51:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T19:51:34","slug":"open-thread-8-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/15\/open-thread-8-15-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/15\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s horrid hot, humid and smoky here in Portland.&#160; It irritates my COPD and burns my eyes.&#160; Store to Door delivered groceries, and I put them away.&#160; This is my shower night, but WWWendy&#8217;s schedule is a bit crazy between having to work overtime and going out of town for a few days.&#160; My shower times will be tomorrow morning instead of this evening, Monday evening instead of Sunday Morning, and Thursday evening instead of Wednesday evening.&#160; Tomorrow that may interfere with my research and writing.&#160; Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:40 (average 5:22).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-15-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Reminder<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The live online draft for our own fantasy football league, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">, is this Saturday, August 18, at 9 AM PDT (10 AM MDT, 11 AM CDT, 12 Noon EDT).&#160; I strongly recommend that players log into the league and participate in a mock draft between now and then.&#160; If you cannot attend, the league will draft for you.&#160; See you then!<\/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=WR2xA4xn9Ng\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Senator Bernie Sanders: &#8216;President Donald Trump Has Got To Be Defeated&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WR2xA4xn9Ng?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats, Bernie, but only 94%?!!? We will win the struggle between &quot;establishment Democrats&quot; and &quot;social&quot; Democrats by attrition. As time goes on more and more establishment Democrats will become socialists. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/14\/us\/politics\/primary-results-minnesota-wisconsin.html\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>On a night when voters in four states went to the polls, Democrats delivered groundbreaking primary victories for a transgender woman in Vermont, a Muslim woman in Minnesota and an African-American woman in Connecticut, while voters in Wisconsin nominated a top state education official, Tony Evers, to challenge Gov. Scott Walker, one of the most vulnerable high-profile Republicans of the midterms cycle.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These diverse Democrats look like winners to me. Also, Kobitch won the Pigination as Reich-KKKandidate for Governor in KS, improving the Democrat&#8217;s chances there. Go Laura Kelly!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/over-5000-low-income-arkansans-are-poised-to-lose-health-care-due-to-medicaid-work-requirements-999dd738959a\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>In Arkansas, residents on Medicaid need to report 80-hours-a-month of work or service online to keep their health insurance under new requirements. So far, more than 5,000 people have failed to do so, jeopardizing their continuous coverage.<\/p>\n<p>About 5,426 people who qualify for the public health insurance program designed for low-income people failed to report 80 hours of work in June and July, according to the latest numbers from Arkansas\u2019 Department of Human Services. If they fail to report hours in August, Arkansas officials will boot people who are otherwise eligible for Medicaid off the program for the rest of the calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>In July, only 844 residents actually satisfied the work requirement, which must be reported online. Nearly 13,000 failed to in July. 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