{"id":33898,"date":"2018-10-03T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33898"},"modified":"2018-10-03T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:28:00","slug":"open-thread-10-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/open-thread-10-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/3\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries, so I&#8217;ll need to unload and stash them.&#160; It&#8217;s actually a bit chilly here, and I&#8217;m enjoying that.&#160; I made the graphic and collected the data I&#8217;ll need for tomorrow&#8217;s monthly report.&#160; ClustrMap is on the fritz and I have no idea why.&#160; WWWendy is back on schedule so she comes this evening to destink the TomCat.&#160; My plan is to finish my work shortly after lunch, as I&#8217;m still quite tired.<\/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 5:00).&#160; To do it, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-03-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">.&#160; How did you do? (I ate a big bowl of killer green cloud chili last night, hoping to blow that Sasquatch back, long enough for me to get that <em>dawg<\/em>!)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=56k5_fD3-Ms\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> (<\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">): Trump mocks Christine Blasey Ford&#8217;s testimony<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#160;<\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/56k5_fD3-Ms?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Put this together with Kavanookie&#8217;s statements about her and we have a tag-team of perverts. Putting Kavanookie on SCROTUS (Republican Unconstitutional VD) would be no worse than giving the seat to Trump. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/10\/2\/1800862\/-Republican-Senator-hides-in-bathroom-to-dodge-survivors-questions-about-Kavanaugh\">Daily Kos<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Georgia\u2019s Republican Senator David Perdue, known around these parts for being a millionaire who <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2014\/1\/17\/1270490\/-GA-Sen-Millionaire-David-Perdue-R-Loves-Bailots-For-Wall-Street-Not-Detroit\" target=\"_blank\">loves bailouts<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> and <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2014\/10\/7\/1334849\/-David-Perdue-didn-t-just-say-he-was-proud-of-outsourcing-jobs-He-said-it-on-camera\" target=\"_blank\">outsourcing American jobs<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\">, was walking through Washington\u2019s Ronald Reagan National Airport when he was approached by three women. According to The Cut, the three women, including two identified as sexual-assault survivors, wanted to ask Sen. Perdue to stand up for women by demanding a thorough investigation <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2018\/10\/republican-senator-ignores-assault-survivors-in-bathroom.html\" target=\"_blank\">into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">The three women \u2014 sexual-assault survivors Patti Serrano and Jennifer Epps-Addison, of the Center for Popular Democracy advocacy group, along with Arizona State Representative Isela Blanc \u2014 also asked Perdue whether he supports a full FBI investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\">Perdue tried to ignore the women, and then told one of them not to touch him when she put out her hand to introduce herself. Perdue proceeded to make a beeline for an airport bathroom. Maybe an appropriate Republican motto could be \u201cRepublicans: angry and afraid<\/font> <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">of women \u2026 since forever.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That a thoroughly Republican thing to do! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/02\/business\/amazon-minimum-wage.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Amazon said on Tuesday that it would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for its United States employees, a rare acknowledgment that it was feeling squeezed by political pressure and a tight labor market. The raises apply for part-time workers and those hired through temporary agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it would also lobby Washington to raise the federal minimum wage, which has been set at $7.25 for almost a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The new wages will apply to more than 250,000 Amazon employees, including those at the grocery chain Whole Foods, as well as the more than 100,000 seasonal employees it plans to hire for the holiday season. The change will not apply to contract workers. It goes into effect on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,\u201d Amazon\u2019s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re excited about this change and encourage our competitors and other large employers to join us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Jeff Bezos and amazon.com. I&#8217;d rather pay a little more, if that means more for workers. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1003Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries, so I&#8217;ll need to unload and stash them.&#160; It&#8217;s actually a bit chilly here, and I&#8217;m enjoying that.&#160; I made the graphic and collected the data I&#8217;ll need for tomorrow&#8217;s monthly report.&#160; ClustrMap is on the fritz <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/open-thread-10-3-2018\/' 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-33898","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\/33898","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=33898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}