{"id":35403,"date":"2019-01-19T10:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35403"},"modified":"2019-01-19T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:08:29","slug":"open-thread-1-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/19\/open-thread-1-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/19\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Apartment I looked at yesterday was the nicest I&#8217;ve seen to date.&#160; It&#8217;s in a retirement community, has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a full kitchen.&#160; It sits on top of a hill.&#160; (pic below) If I can get it I want to, but whether or not I can fit into the government program that makes it affordable is touch and go.&#160; I&#8217;ll have collect more documentation, complete the application, go back to submit it, and wait.&#160; I don&#8217;t want to get my hopes up, because it&#8217;s a long shot.&#160; Tomorrow WWWendy and I have a very busy day, so I may have no more than an Open Thread or Personal Update.&#160; It&#8217;s also a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; I&#8217;ll favor the Rams and the Chiefs.&#160; May the Orb bless your team.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0119heights\" 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=\"0119heights\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/0119heights.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:22 (average 4:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-19-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=BgGdDa13i5Y\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Buzzfeed Stands By Michael Cohen Story In Face Of Robert Mueller Objections<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/BgGdDa13i5Y\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What a week indeed! I suspect that Mueller&#8217;s objection is on technicality, not substance. I also suspect that it reflects his reaction to Buzzfeed breaking the story, before Mueller was ready. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FkQOlIdkU20\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">New Show, Slightly New Sam\\<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FkQOlIdkU20\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo Sam!! We have missed you big time! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/01\/womens-march-organizers-release-far-reaching-intersectional-feminist-policy-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>A day ahead of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensmarch.com\/2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">major march<\/a> in Washington, D.C. and satellite events nationwide, the Women\u2019s March on Friday unveiled a detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensmarch.com\/agenda\" target=\"_blank\">70-page agenda<\/a>, a document the group describes as a first of its kind \u201cintersectional feminist policy platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cWomen\u2019s Agenda,\u201d the group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/womensmarch\/status\/1086358948981166082\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a> on Twitter, is \u201ca roadmap for our movement, a workplan for our electeds, and it\u2019s everything we\u2019re marching for on January 19, 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That path forward is summed up with a list of two dozen federal policy priorities that fall within the following ten issue areas:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ending Violence Against Women &amp; Femmes <\/li>\n<li>Ending State Violence <\/li>\n<li>Reproductive Rights &amp; Justice <\/li>\n<li>Racial Justice <\/li>\n<li>LGBTQIA+ Rights <\/li>\n<li>Immigrant Rights <\/li>\n<li>Economic Justice &amp; Worker\u2019s Rights <\/li>\n<li>Civil Rights &amp; Liberties <\/li>\n<li>Disability Rights <\/li>\n<li>Environmental Justice <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In addition, the agenda highlights a trio of \u201cpolicy priorities\u201d that have direct impacts on all women: universal healthcare; the Equal Rights Amendment; and ending war.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to all the women marching everywhere. <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\/2018\/01\/0119Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apartment I looked at yesterday was the nicest I&#8217;ve seen to date.&#160; It&#8217;s in a retirement community, has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a full kitchen.&#160; It sits on top of a hill.&#160; (pic below) If I can get it I want to, but whether or not I can fit into the government program <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/19\/open-thread-1-19-2019\/' 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-35403","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\/35403","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=35403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}