{"id":34574,"date":"2018-11-30T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34574"},"modified":"2018-11-30T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:15:46","slug":"open-thread-11-30-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/30\/open-thread-11-30-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/30\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m a bit less frazzled than I was yesterday, when everything was crazy to get things done.&#160; Now chasing my tail all day has become &#8216;hurry up and wait&#8217; I might as well post while I&#8217;m waiting.&#160; I&#8217;m sure there are hectic days ahead.&#160; Tomorrow, I expect to post as usual, but even on hectic days, I should get at least a Personal Update posted.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:01 (average 5:13).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-11-30-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=zihDr5kBIuI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">MIDTERM VIBRATIONS &#8211; Parody<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zihDr5kBIuI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ve been in the hospital for a week, and this one is worth the wait! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BCKBe8mtaV8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Michael Cohen Knowledge A &#8216;Very Dangerous Threat&#8217; To President Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/BCKBe8mtaV8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I could not get MSNBC in the hospital. I missed Rachel Big-Time! Putin&#8217;s Pervert is giving his owner a $50 million suite with hot and cold running hookers. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/north-carolina-gerrymandering.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>When the blue wave came to North Carolina, the red levees held.<\/p>\n<p>In a year in which Democrats picked up as many as 41 House seats, including in places as conservative as Oklahoma and Utah, they lost all three of their targets for pickups in one of the nation\u2019s most closely divided states. Democrats in North Carolina earned 48.3 percent of the total vote cast in House races but won only three seats; Republicans had 50.4 percent of the vote and won 10 seats.<\/p>\n<p>The results, which left the partisan makeup of the state\u2019s House delegation unchanged, were as much a triumph of mapmaking as campaigning. The election was held using gerrymandered district lines that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/27\/us\/north-carolina-congressional-districts.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\">federal judges had deemed unconstitutional<\/a>; those lines were drawn because previous ones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/22\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-north-carolina-congressional-districts.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\">had also been deemed unconstitutional<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That only hints at the depth and ferocity of the battles over gerrymandering and voting regulations in North Carolina, where a Republican takeover of the General Assembly in 2010 set off a barrage of conservative legislation and rule changes that are still being fought in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>In this, North Carolina is one conspicuous example of a critical story line in this year\u2019s elections: the degree to which gerrymandering has created firewalls in key states that even a wave election may not be able to breach.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I wish I had a solution. I do not, beyond the certainty that I know one must be found.<\/font> <font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/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\/2016\/11\/1130Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How about a trial for Injustice Pervert KavaNazi?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit less frazzled than I was yesterday, when everything was crazy to get things done.&#160; Now chasing my tail all day has become &#8216;hurry up and wait&#8217; I might as well post while I&#8217;m waiting.&#160; I&#8217;m sure there are hectic days ahead.&#160; Tomorrow, I expect to post as usual, but even on hectic <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/30\/open-thread-11-30-2018\/' 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-34574","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\/34574","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=34574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}