{"id":36011,"date":"2019-03-22T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36011"},"modified":"2019-03-22T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:33:43","slug":"open-thread-3-22-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/22\/open-thread-3-22-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/22\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a chilly Friday here at the CatBox.&nbsp; I plan to publish tomorrow, but I may be a bit late, because WWWendy is coming a day early tomorrow.&nbsp; I want to publish then, because it looks like both Monday and Thursday will be single article days with no Care2 links messages.&nbsp; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:18 (average 7:32).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-22-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=DHfskkM2Eug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Finns Clap Back At Nikki Haley: Our Health Care Is Great!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DHfskkM2Eug\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Love this! Kudos to all the nations with universal, single-payer health care. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/3\/20\/1843675\/-33-California-news-outlets-join-forces-to-shine-a-light-on-rogue-police-officers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Police misconduct in California is about to come under a powerful spotlight. Not just one news organization but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/newsletters\/2019\/collaborative-effort-involves-33-newsrooms-cleveland-com-files-suit-denver-wants-to-take-it-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">33 of them<\/a> have announced they\u2019ll be focusing on \u201crogue police officers\u201d and their departments, and rather than go it alone, the news outlets are joining forces.<\/p>\n<p>The organizations, which include the Los Angeles Times, KQED, the Southern California News Group, and the Sacramento Bee, will be aided by a new police transparency law in the state\u2014and by their strength in numbers.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This needs to be done nationwide. For far too long, criminal cops move down the road and go back to work, whenever they are caught and fired. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/21\/us\/abortion-laws-states.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Phil Bryant, the Republican governor of Mississippi, on Thursday signed a bill largely banning abortions once doctors can detect a trace of a fetal heartbeat with an ultrasound, a milestone that can come as early as six weeks into pregnancy.  <\/p>\n<p>Mississippi is only the latest state to press for the strict abortion limit \u2014 the sort that has already been passed and then blocked in the courts in states including Kentucky, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/16\/us\/kentucky-fetal-heartbeat-abortion-law.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved it earlier this month<\/a>, and Iowa, where a law passed last year was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu-ia.org\/sites\/default\/files\/05771_eqce083074_ofju_6621248.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struck down by a state court<\/a> in January. About 10 other states also are debating bills to ban abortions once fetal heartbeats are found, a point at which some women and girls are not yet aware that they are pregnant.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If this makes it to SCROTUS (Republican Unconstitutional VD), Injustice Pervert Kava-Nazi may well to drive the final nail in the coffin of Roe v. Wade. We need to win the Senate and impeach him for perjury during his confirmation hearings. <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\/0322Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly Friday here at the CatBox.&nbsp; I plan to publish tomorrow, but I may be a bit late, because WWWendy is coming a day early tomorrow.&nbsp; I want to publish then, because it looks like both Monday and Thursday will be single article days with no Care2 links messages.&nbsp; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzles: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/22\/open-thread-3-22-2019\/' 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-36011","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\/36011","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=36011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}