{"id":33590,"date":"2018-09-03T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T19:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33590"},"modified":"2018-09-03T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T19:52:40","slug":"open-thread-9-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/open-thread-9-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/3\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here in the CatBox, the sun has hit the wall, so I buttoned-up and turned on the A\/C.&#160; I decided that it&#8217;s inappropriate for me to work my ass off on Labor Day, so I decided to put off the Monthly Report until tomorrow and have an easier day today.&#160; I hope that US readers are enjoying your holiday and the rest of you are surviving Monday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:02 (average 4:41).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-03-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=s76mkRRGPZA&amp;list=PLaOYihwaS97QmsnhTn-d7C_pAWvXSrZYG&amp;index=9\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (A Protest for Labor Day): <\/font>Woodie Guthrie &#8211; All You Fascists are Bound to Lose<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/s76mkRRGPZA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If it still fits, sing it! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/2018\/08\/30\/monsanto-faces-demands-from-vietnam-to-pay-compensation-to-the-victims-of-agent-orange\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nation of Change<\/a>: <\/font>A legal precedent has paved the way for Vietnam to demand Monsanto pay compensation to the many victims of Agent Orange, a chemical herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. While previous claims said herbicides produced by Monsanto \u2013 and other companies \u2013 and used during the war were harmless, the recent guilty verdict in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/2018\/08\/15\/jury-finds-monsanto-guilty-in-first-roundup-cancer-trial-plaintiff-to-receive-289-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monsanto vs. Dewayne Johnson<\/a> refutes those claims, a spokesman for Vietnam\u2019s foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The company, now part of Bayer AG after an acquisition went through, was ordered to pay $289 million in restitution to Johnson, a former pest control manager for a California country school system, after a jury at San Francisco\u2019s Superior Court in California ruled that Monsanto failed to warn users of it\u2019s product about the cancer risks. Vietnam is now using this as grounds for Agent Orange victims.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I sure hope they win. It&#8217;s WAY past due. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/02\/us\/politics\/kemp-georgia-abrams.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Brian Kemp, the Republican running for Georgia governor, won his party\u2019s nomination with the help of a TV ad that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Q1cfjh6VfE\">explicitly argued<\/a> that he is not a moderate guy. Titled \u201cSo Conservative,\u201d it portrayed Mr. Kemp as a gun-toting, \u201cpolitically incorrect conservative\u201d who would personally round up \u201ccriminal illegals\u201d in his pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>But that was then. In his latest TV ad, playing now in the Atlanta Metro market for the November general election, Mr. Kemp, in a check-print, button-down shirt, speaks to the camera in a kindly, drawly baritone about \u201cgrowing jobs, not government,\u201d investing in education (of the locally controlled variety), and \u201crewarding legal \u2014 not illegal \u2014 behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Stacey should keep rubbing his nose in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=9&amp;v=5Q1cfjh6VfE\">this<\/a>! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5Q1cfjh6VfE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0903Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And the blessed light burst forth from the Holy Ellipsoid Orb!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the CatBox, the sun has hit the wall, so I buttoned-up and turned on the A\/C.&#160; I decided that it&#8217;s inappropriate for me to work my ass off on Labor Day, so I decided to put off the Monthly Report until tomorrow and have an easier day today.&#160; I hope that US readers <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/open-thread-9-3-2018\/' 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-33590","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\/33590","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=33590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}