{"id":35763,"date":"2019-02-23T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35763"},"modified":"2019-02-23T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:35:06","slug":"open-thread-2-23-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/23\/open-thread-2-23-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/23\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a chilly day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; When we upgraded to WordPress 5.1 it was partially incompatible with our comment editor.&nbsp; I tried to fix it by deactivating and reactivating it, after which the plugin would not even load.&nbsp; So I reverted to our old CKEditor, which I had uninstalled.&nbsp; The compatibility issues with that editor appear to have been fixed.&nbsp; Let me know if there are problems.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and we will be very busy.&nbsp; So 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 3:45 (average 5:47).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-02-23-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=1fQ4NZfc1o0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>For years, right-wing figures have warned about &#8220;civil war&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1fQ4NZfc1o0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This means that, if the Republican Reich cannot stay in power through election theft, they want to take power violently. This is how they use fear to brainwash their sheeple to be violent. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/02\/the-republicans-dumbest-idea-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>It\u2019s one thing to oppose the grandiose \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d as gratuitously imprecise or for its full-throated attack on all-things-ozone and carbon release in our global community.<\/p>\n<p>It feels like something totally other to oppose narrow regulations that could advance the campaign to swap out incandescent light bulbs for light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, a small, practical step that, multiplied into the millions, would passively remove a healthy chunk of energy-eating pollution over time.  <\/p>\n<p>Actually, I was surprised to see a recent editorial about all this in The Washington Post,&nbsp; which argued that \u201cOf all the counterproductive policy campaigns conservatives have waged in recent years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/how-many-trumps-does-it-take-to-not-change-a-lightbulb\/2019\/02\/11\/f2c02942-2b20-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html?utm_term=.8fcc65c2ba5e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">among the most irrational has been their war on the federal government\u2019s efforts to update the light bulb<\/a>.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The use of the word light is enough to stampede the Republican Reich. They prefer darkness to cover their crimes. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/22\/health\/trump-defunds-planned-parenthood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/opa\/sites\/default\/files\/title-x-notice-of-final-rule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced on Friday that it will bar organizations that provide abortion referrals from receiving federal family planning money<\/a>, a step that could strip millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood and direct it toward religiously-based, anti-abortion groups.  <\/p>\n<p>The new federal rule is almost certain to be challenged in court. Clinics will be able to talk to patients about abortion, but not where they can get one. And clinics will no longer have to counsel women on all reproductive options, including abortion, a change that will make anti-abortion providers eligible for funding  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Not only is this a violation of women&#8217;s right to choose, but also, the provision that funds faith-based &#8220;providers&#8221; violates the Establishment Clause. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0223Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; When we upgraded to WordPress 5.1 it was partially incompatible with our comment editor.&nbsp; I tried to fix it by deactivating and reactivating it, after which the plugin would not even load.&nbsp; So I reverted to our old CKEditor, which I had uninstalled.&nbsp; The compatibility issues with <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/23\/open-thread-2-23-2019\/' 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-35763","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\/35763","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=35763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}