{"id":34706,"date":"2018-12-04T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34706"},"modified":"2018-12-04T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:03:24","slug":"open-thread-12-4-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/04\/open-thread-12-4-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/4\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another crazy day here in the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;m getting closer to getting my on demand O<sub>2<\/sub> system.&#160; There is no more news on a place to live.&#160; So far today, I&#8217;ve had visits from a nurse and a physical therapist.&#160; I&#8217;ve also replaced my bio recovery company.&#160; Finally, I emailed my grocery order to Store to Door.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:47 (average 5:17).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-12-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the news from our own <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\">fantasy football league<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"13Scores\" 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=\"13Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/13Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats to Vivian, Pam and me for winning our games.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"13Standings\" 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=\"13Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/13Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Wendy for leading the league.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This coming weekend is the last in our regular season.&#160; Our playoffs begin the following week.<\/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=sDLbrnQwkvw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>TALKING ABOUT RAKING IN FINLAND &#8211; Parody<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sDLbrnQwkvw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don, I hope you agree that saying he isn&#8217;t too bright defames millions of low yield minds by comparing them to Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. \ud83d\ude42 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/women-in-democratic-leadership-116th-congress-dcf34228-a42b-4436-bffb-e753b8bd6c88.html\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>: <\/font>Democrats are moving women into leadership roles in key party organizations, including the campaign arms for national and state races \u2014 and even in the moderate Blue Dog coalition, which will be led by a woman of color for the first time in its 23-year history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>: It&#8217;s a recognition of the importance of women in the Democratic coalition \u2014 especially the role women voters played in the House midterm election victory \u2014 and a nod to the growing diversity of the party&#8217;s elected officials. Republicans haven&#8217;t made similar moves in their leadership ranks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These positions carry tremendous influence<\/strong> in candidate recruitment, messaging, and securing donations in future elections. Elevating more women addresses some of the concerns from the party&#8217;s base and more progressive members who want fresh faces to lead the caucus.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s about time. Click through for a half a dozen examples. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/180771008065\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica first\u201d economic nationalism is finally crashing into the reality of America\u2019s shareholder-first global capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, General Motors announced it would cut about 14,000 jobs, most of them in the politically vital swing states of Michigan and Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t quite square with the giant $1.5 trillion tax cut Trump and the Republicans in Congress enacted last December, whose official rationale was to help big corporations make more investments in America and thereby create more jobs. Trump told Ohio residents \u201cdon\u2019t sell your homes,\u201d because lost automaking jobs \u201care all coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GM got a nice windfall from the tax cut. The company has already saved more than $150 million this year. But some of those Ohio residents probably should have sold their homes.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the Left, Robert Reich, is right. There is a word for the auto workers, who believed the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich. That word is fools! <strong>RESIST<\/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\/2016\/12\/1204Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another crazy day here in the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;m getting closer to getting my on demand O2 system.&#160; There is no more news on a place to live.&#160; So far today, I&#8217;ve had visits from a nurse and a physical therapist.&#160; I&#8217;ve also replaced my bio recovery company.&#160; Finally, I emailed my grocery order to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/04\/open-thread-12-4-2018\/' 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-34706","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\/34706","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=34706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}