{"id":35253,"date":"2019-01-05T12:28:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35253"},"modified":"2019-01-05T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:28:48","slug":"open-thread-1-5-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/05\/open-thread-1-5-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/5\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As always, it&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; Store to Door returns next week, so I&#8217;m starting to plan my menu.&#160; Today and Tomorrow are High Holy Days, as the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb celebrates the annual Festival of Cards Gone Wild.&#160; My Broncos are not in the playoffs, because they stink.&#160; May the Orb shine its blessed light upon your team.&#160; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and we have a pants load of chores.&#160; Therefore, please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:43 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-05-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=bylgYDBf7Uw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Democrats Paint Stark Contrast With Outgoing Republicans (18:29)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bylgYDBf7Uw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&quot;HR1 is the most far reaching reform plan to be introduced in Congress, since the Watergate era.&quot; This is a beautiful way to introduce voters to what the Democratic Party wants to do. We must publicize the bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/legislation\/for-the-people-act-2019\" target=\"_blank\">text of HR1 here<\/a>) and the tactics Republicans use to keep it from becoming law. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D3fkiJv4F3U\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Hank Kunneman Prophesies That God Will Use 2019 to Divide the Democrats<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/D3fkiJv4F3U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hate to say this. To be divided, Democrats have never needed help from hate-filled, rabid pseudo-Christians (the opposite of real authentic Christians) or Republican Supply-side Jesus (a Republican invention that is the opposite of the real Jesus). We have accomplished that all by ourselves. That MUST stop NOW! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/01\/here-are-5-of-the-most-ridiculous-right-wing-moments-this-week-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <strong>1. <\/strong><\/font><strong>Tucker Carlson warns women being paid more than men will destroy society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson is by now well-known for his on-air <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/tucker-carlson-losing-advertisers-fox-news-response\" target=\"_blank\">appeals to white nationalism<\/a>. Last month, his remarks that immigrants make America \u201cpoorer and dirtier\u201d have caused him to lose a raft of advertisers in recent weeks. But he also has a serious problem with women \u2014 and according to his broadcast on Wednesday, rising pay for women will lead to \u201cmen in decline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson claimed that because \u201cmale-dominated\u201d industries like manufacturing are in decline in some parts of the country, but schools, hospitals, and other places that employ large numbers of women are in as high demand as ever, \u201cin many areas, women suddenly made more than men \u2026 Study after study shows that when men make less than women, women generally no longer want to marry them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver big populations this causes a drop in marriage, a spike in out-of-wedlock births and all the familiar disasters that inevitably follow. More drug and alcohol abuse, higher incarceration rates, fewer families formed in the next generation,\u201d Carlson warned\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Naturally, Carlson doesn\u2019t provide any sourcing for these claims. Nor does he seem to have noticed that women in fact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/business-news\/gender-pay-gap-worse-thought-study-shows-women-actually-earn-n941626\" target=\"_blank\">earn less than men<\/a> on average, not more.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the first of five most ridiculous Republican moments of week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/01\/here-are-5-of-the-most-ridiculous-right-wing-moments-this-week-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click through<\/a> for the other four. <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\/01\/0105Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, it&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; Store to Door returns next week, so I&#8217;m starting to plan my menu.&#160; Today and Tomorrow are High Holy Days, as the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb celebrates the annual Festival of Cards Gone Wild.&#160; My Broncos are not in the playoffs, because they stink.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/05\/open-thread-1-5-2018-2\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253","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=35253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}