{"id":33690,"date":"2018-09-13T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33690"},"modified":"2018-09-13T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T19:57:33","slug":"open-thread-9-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/13\/open-thread-9-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/13\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s cool so far here in the CatBox, but it should be sunny in a bit, so I&#8217;ll need to crank up the AC.&#160; News may be slow for the next few days, as MSNBC is reporting Florence, almost to the exclusion of everything else.&#160; It&#8217;s a holy night in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; The Bengals and Ravens are meditating, and I expect the birds will eat the cats.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:47 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-13-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=lSdWd9ciKIM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: How to Build Progressive Power<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lSdWd9ciKIM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. In order to accomplish his worthy goals, we need to flush the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich at all levels of government, federal, state, and local. Every Republican <em>dawg<\/em> catcher is one Republican <em>dawg<\/em> catcher too many! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dp39nuJceLM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Lawrence: GOP Midterm \u2018Shipwreck\u2019 Could Be Worse <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Dp39nuJceLM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ll be surprised, if we take the Senate, but let this go from Lawrence&#8217;s mouth to God&#8217;s ear. However, we will win nothing, unless <strong>YOU<\/strong>\u2026 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/13\/politics\/trump-puerto-rico-death-toll\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/28\/health\/puerto-rico-gw-report-excess-deaths\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nearly 3,000 people died in the aftermath<\/a> of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. President Donald Trump denied this reality as a hurricane barrels toward the Carolinas.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000,&quot; he said in a tweet Thursday morning [<em>Twit tweet delinked<\/em>] as Carolinians prepared to be pummeled by Hurricane Florence.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the island&#8217;s governor formally raised the death toll from Hurricane Maria to an estimated 2,975 from 64 following a study conducted by researchers at The George Washington University. CNN&#8217;s own reporting reflects similar numbers. The university study accounted for Puerto Ricans who succumbed to the stifling heat and other aftereffects of the storm and had not been previously counted in official figures. Much of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/29\/politics\/trump-puerto-rico-fantastic\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">US territory was without power for weeks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Para el cerdo anaranjado: mierda de toro!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!&#160; <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><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\/0913Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cool so far here in the CatBox, but it should be sunny in a bit, so I&#8217;ll need to crank up the AC.&#160; News may be slow for the next few days, as MSNBC is reporting Florence, almost to the exclusion of everything else.&#160; It&#8217;s a holy night in the Church of the Ellipsoid <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/13\/open-thread-9-13-2018\/' 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-33690","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\/33690","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=33690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}