{"id":33766,"date":"2018-09-20T13:09:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33766"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:09:29","slug":"open-thread-9-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/20\/open-thread-9-20-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/20\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox, so I&#8217;m trying to hurry along.&#160; It&#8217;s muggy and warmer.&#160; I&#8217;m enjoying the fresh air, while I can, but I&#8217;ll need to button up and go to A\/C soon.&#160; WWWendy sent greetings.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:14 (average 4:59).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-20-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=ITJSX0eqpFM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Liberal Redneck &#8211; Climate Change the Game<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ITJSX0eqpFM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The people causing of those insane and terrifying political scandals are the same ones causing this insane and terrifying climate change: the Republican Reich and their corporate financiers. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BstW9KGuT5I\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>&quot;It Struck Me As True&quot; &#8211; Christine Blasey Ford Friend<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/BstW9KGuT5I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich would just love to teach women that speaking-out against rich predators, like Perverts Kava-Nazi, Trump, and Roy Moore, is only a guarantee of more abuse without justice.&#160; But it appears that their abuse has not scared Christine away.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/2018\/09\/19\/facebook-is-letting-job-advertisers-target-only-men\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nation of Change<\/a>: <\/font>Hundreds of thousands of Americans drive for Uber. And the company is looking for many more. It runs ads on Facebook that say, for example: \u201cDriving toward something? Make extra money when it works for you and get there faster.\u201d Another touts: \u201cEarn $1,100 in Nashville for your first 200 Trips. Limited time guarantee! Terms apply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just one catch: Many of those ads are not visible to women.<\/p>\n<p>A ProPublica review of Facebook ads found that many purchased by Drive with Uber [Facebook delinked], the company\u2019s recruiting arm, targeted only men in more than a dozen cities across the U.S. Our survey of 91 Uber ads found just one targeting only women; three did not target a specific sex.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for other examples. With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0920Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0920Cartoon\" 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=\"0920Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0920Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox, so I&#8217;m trying to hurry along.&#160; It&#8217;s muggy and warmer.&#160; I&#8217;m enjoying the fresh air, while I can, but I&#8217;ll need to button up and go to A\/C soon.&#160; WWWendy sent greetings. 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