{"id":35311,"date":"2019-01-12T11:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35311"},"modified":"2019-01-12T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:57:50","slug":"open-thread-1-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/12\/open-thread-1-12-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/12\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday my technician stood me up.&#160; I rushed through my blogging and prepared the area.&#160; I waited for him for four hours, before I gave up.&#160; I feel pretty angry at him, but I&#8217;d like to hope that he had an emergency so extreme that he could not even call.&#160; I&#8217;ll listen to his explanation, before I put him on my do not use list.&#160; Today is a High Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; It&#8217;s Division Playoffs Weekend.&#160; My Broncos are not playing, because they stink.&#160; If your team is still going, may the Orb bless them with its holy light.&#160; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day.&#160; After destinking a rancid TomCat, we have a ton of tasks.&#160; Please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread, and I will not be sending 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 3:07 (average 5:38).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-12-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=kDxlp2S8JxQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">NSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Senator Chris Van Hollen: Mitch McConnell Has Been &#8216;AWOL&#8217; In Shutdown<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kDxlp2S8JxQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bought Bitch Mitch [R-KY] is a total coward. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nTAo6yEKQZ8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Fox News on a Democrat swearing vs Fox News on a Republican embracing white supremacy<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/nTAo6yEKQZ8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Well, you didn&#8217;t expect integrity from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, did you? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/01\/here-are-the-5-right-wing-biggest-outrages-of-the-week-chaos-and-hate-from-the-gop-as-democrats-get-to-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Evangelical activists demand LGBTQ protections be removed from anti-lynching bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, the United States has no law that makes lynching a federal crime. Now, decades after the Civil Rights Movement, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill to correct this. The <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/19\/politics\/senate-anti-lynching\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Justice for Victims of Lynching Act<\/a> would give federal prosecutors the power to charge people for bias-motivated mob killings. It passed the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2019\/01\/08\/anti-lynching-bill-lgbt-exclude\/\" target=\"_blank\">unanimously<\/a> and by anyone\u2019s reckoning should be a slam dunk.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2019\/01\/08\/anti-lynching-bill-lgbt-exclude\/\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to PinkNews, the fundamentalist legal group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/fighting-hate\/extremist-files\/group\/liberty-counsel\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty Counsel<\/a> is now lobbying the House to change the bill. Why? Because lynchings of LGBTQ persons are included as crimes \u2014 and that just might be a slippery slope to federal laws that would protect all LGBTQ civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe old saying is once that camel gets the nose in the tent, you can\u2019t stop them from coming the rest of the way in,\u201d said Mat Staver, the group\u2019s president. \u201cAnd this would be the first time that you would have in federal law mentioning gender identity and sexual orientation, as part of this anti-lynching bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Counsel has previously compared homosexuality to pedophilia, attacked bans on abusive \u201cconversion therapy,\u201d and defended the infamous former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis as she defied the Supreme Court\u2019s orders to allow same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/fighting-hate\/extremist-files\/group\/liberty-counsel\" target=\"_blank\">hate group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the 4th in the author&#8217;s list of the week&#8217;s 5 worst Republican outrages. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/01\/here-are-the-5-right-wing-biggest-outrages-of-the-week-chaos-and-hate-from-the-gop-as-democrats-get-to-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click through<\/a> for the rest. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cartoon<\/font><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0112Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If they could, Republicans would repeal it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my technician stood me up.&#160; I rushed through my blogging and prepared the area.&#160; I waited for him for four hours, before I gave up.&#160; I feel pretty angry at him, but I&#8217;d like to hope that he had an emergency so extreme that he could not even call.&#160; I&#8217;ll listen to his explanation, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/12\/open-thread-1-12-2019\/' 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-35311","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\/35311","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=35311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}