{"id":35954,"date":"2019-03-14T10:10:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35954"},"modified":"2019-03-14T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:10:46","slug":"open-thread-3-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/open-thread-3-14-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/14\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WordPress installed an update from 5.1 to 5.1.1 and, in the process, screwed up compatibility with the ARK Comment Editor Plugin that we use.&nbsp; There is no trouble replying to articles.&nbsp; But here&#8217;s how we need to reply to comments, until they fix it.&nbsp; The comment form at the bottom for a reply to the article works.&nbsp; Make your reply to a reply there, but do not click the Submit Comment button.&nbsp; Then click the Reply link under the comment to which you are replying.&nbsp; When the fractured,. empty comment form opens, click its Submit Comment button and your comment will be posted in the right place.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sorry for the inconvenience and am getting pissed off at the WordPress folks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:17 (average 6:23).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-14-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=YA1yIYML2-E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheNewYorkTimes\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Who Is Beto O\u2019Rourke?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YA1yIYML2-E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I listened to him this morning in Iowa. He knew his material. He related to people where they are. He answered questions with progressive solutions. I wish he had more seasoning, but he&#8217;s totally constipated. (He has his shit together :-)). <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VMLQxGyWD8g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Liberal Redneck &#8211; Rich Kids, Poor Parents, and the Least Surprising Scandal Ever<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VMLQxGyWD8g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Stealing education was the next logical step for behavior typical of the Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/13\/business\/canada-737-max.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>After days of mounting pressure, the United States grounded Boeing\u2019s 737 Max aircraft on Wednesday, reversing an earlier decision in which American regulators said the planes could keep flying after a deadly crash in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, announced by President Trump, followed determinations by safety regulators in some 42 countries to ban flights by the jets, which are now grounded worldwide. Pilots, flight attendants, consumers and politicians from both major parties had been agitating for the planes to be grounded in the United States. Despite the clamor, the Federal Aviation Administration had been resolute, saying on Tuesday that it had seen \u201cno systemic performance issues\u201d that would prompt it to halt flights of the jet.  <\/p>\n<p>That changed Wednesday when, in relatively quick succession, Canadian and American aviation authorities said they were grounding the planes after newly available satellite-tracking data suggested similarities between Sunday\u2019s crash in Ethiopia and one involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 in Indonesia in October.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Finally!&nbsp; Normally this announcement would come from the FAA, which has the authority to ground those planes, but Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten claimed credit for it. He lied that they were grounded only because he<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> had declared a so-called &#8220;national emergency&#8221; to do so.&nbsp; On the other hand, it&#8217;s more of a national emergency than his freaking wall.&nbsp; <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\/0314Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress installed an update from 5.1 to 5.1.1 and, in the process, screwed up compatibility with the ARK Comment Editor Plugin that we use.&nbsp; There is no trouble replying to articles.&nbsp; But here&#8217;s how we need to reply to comments, until they fix it.&nbsp; The comment form at the bottom for a reply to the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/open-thread-3-14-2019\/' 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":[31,35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-31-id","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\/35954","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=35954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}