{"id":35854,"date":"2019-03-05T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35854"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:03:37","slug":"open-thread-3-5-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/open-thread-3-5-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/5\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another frigid day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I lost yesterday&#8217;s&nbsp; comments.&nbsp; To provide you a little comment flexibility, I installed TinyMCE, the most basic comment plugin.&nbsp; Unfortunately, it had compatibility issues with WordPress 5.1.&nbsp; When I deactivated it, it trashed the site.&nbsp; Fortunately, after the last crash, I bought us a backup plugin with limited offsite storage and restored our database from yesterday morning&#8217;s backup.&nbsp; Then I posted yesterday&#8217;s Open Thread again, but the ten comments to it are lost.&nbsp; My apologies.&nbsp; WordPress plans to incorporate WYSIWYG for comments in the next major revision, but that is months away. \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:17 (average 5:13).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-05-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=vvCtwDAQta0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: What&#8217;s the Real American Story<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vvCtwDAQta0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Right, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich is the Rot at the Top and the Malevolent Community. They act on behalf the Mob at the Gates. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pTwPHuE_HrU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font>A better way to tax the rich<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pTwPHuE_HrU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is good, because Vox spreads Warren&#8217;s message beyond progressive circles. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/jay-inslee-announces-climate-focused-2020-presidential-run-does-he-stand-a-chance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seattle Times<\/a>: <\/font>Gov. Jay Inslee entered the 2020 presidential race Friday, launching a longshot campaign with a focused message that he\u2019s the only candidate who would make defeating climate change the nation\u2019s top priority.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mlgdlWO-4yI&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">short video announcing his candidacy<\/a>, Inslee repeats what has become his signature slogan in recent years: \u201cWe\u2019re the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we\u2019re the last that can do something about it.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Over images of fire-scorched landscapes and flooding, Inslee said the nation must rise to the challenge, portraying a clean-energy revolution as a potential win for the economy and the environment.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Along with Oregon&#8217;s Kate Brown, Inslee is the most progressive governor in the US. I welcome his entry into the race. <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\/03\/0305Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another frigid day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I lost yesterday&#8217;s&nbsp; comments.&nbsp; To provide you a little comment flexibility, I installed TinyMCE, the most basic comment plugin.&nbsp; Unfortunately, it had compatibility issues with WordPress 5.1.&nbsp; When I deactivated it, it trashed the site.&nbsp; Fortunately, after the last crash, I bought us a backup plugin with <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/open-thread-3-5-2019\/' 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":[35,3,141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-plus","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-141-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\/35854","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=35854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}