{"id":36219,"date":"2019-04-14T08:01:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36219"},"modified":"2019-04-14T08:01:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T15:01:36","slug":"open-thread-4-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/14\/open-thread-4-14-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/14\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m rushing.&nbsp; WWWendy will be here in an hour.&nbsp; This is today&#8217;s only article 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 3:15 (average 4:33).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-14-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=SwLBrnzdWVY\" 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>Missing Inaugural Ball Money Adds Layer To Odd Trump-China Story<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SwLBrnzdWVY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If I had to guess, I&#8217;d say the money was used to pay for a lifetime supply of happy ending tugs for Putin&#8217;s Piddle Pervert. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iryL4n07790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>MAR-A-LAGO-VILLE &#8211; Parody<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iryL4n07790\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos again, Don. When Himicane Andrew hit FL, I so hoped that vile place would follow Atlantis. No such luck. \ud83d\ude41&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/severe-sexual-harassment-at-accuweather-barry-lee-myers-trump-nominee-noaa-f7615ff72181\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ran a family company in which employees were subjected to \u201cwidespread\u201d and \u201cpervasive\u201d sexual harassment, according to an investigation by the Labor Department\u2019s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).<\/p>\n<p>The investigation concluded that AccuWeather, the company then run by Trump nominee Barry Lee Myers, had a culture of sexual harassment and discrimination that included unwanted touching and kissing by a male executive, according to a letter obtained by ThinkProgress via a Freedom of Information Act request.  <\/p>\n<p>Women who engaged in sexual relationships with senior male managers were rewarded with \u201cjob-related perks,\u201d the OFCCP letter concludes. Many women resigned rather than submitting to the harassment, while others feared being \u201cblacklisted\u201d if they filed complaints, the January 2018 letter states.  <\/p>\n<p>Although they were aware of the issue, AccuWeather officials \u201cdid not take reasonable action to prevent and remedy harassing conduct,\u201d the letter says.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We are wasting our time objecting to this. In the Trump sycophancy and the Republican Reich, perversion is a prerequisite, not a liability. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0414Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rushing.&nbsp; WWWendy will be here in an hour.&nbsp; This is today&#8217;s only article with no links messages on Care2. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:15 (average 4:33).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Missing Inaugural Ball Money Adds Layer To Odd Trump-China Story &nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/14\/open-thread-4-14-2019\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36219","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\/36219","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=36219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}