{"id":37409,"date":"2019-08-21T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37409"},"modified":"2019-08-21T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T16:19:14","slug":"open-thread-8-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/21\/open-thread-8-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/21\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; The power chair repairman is due in about an hour to fix my chair.&nbsp; I have no idea how long it will take.<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">&nbsp; Yesterday my Oncologist&#8217;s PA explained that the nodes in my lungs are so tiny that they are impossible to biopsy, and that they are probably just scar tissue from my COPD.&nbsp; Therefore, they&#8217;ll do another Cat Scan in three months, to make sure they undergo no sudden growth.&nbsp; This is my only article today, but starting tomorrow, I should be back in the saddle until Sunday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:44 (average 6:24).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-21-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><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\/2015\/08\/0821Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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=2dOOuAl_8Sc\" 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>2020 Animated By \u2018Fear Of Trump\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2dOOuAl_8Sc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is great.&nbsp; Unfortunately, this attitude also tends to steer voters toward Joe Biden and against Democratic competitors, who are both more cogent and more competent. Assuming that we win in 2020, an administration that gives Republicans license to screw America in a the misguided pursuit of bipartisanship will guarantee a quick Republican return to power. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9QWjFiFdeDU\" 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: The 5-Step CEO Pay Scam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9QWjFiFdeDU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, has two kinds of policies: scams and bigger scams. Robert&#8217;s plan is spot-on! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/unskilled-man-fears-he-will-lose-job-in-recession\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A man with no identifiable skills is deeply worried that a recession could cause him to lose his job, people close to the man have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who has barely clung to his job for the past two and a half years, is justified in believing that an economic downturn would result in his unemployment, experts said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the economy is good, it\u2019s possible for someone like him to hold down a job for which he is woefully unqualified,\u201d Harland Dorrinson, a human-resources specialist, said. \u201cBut when the economy goes south, look out.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Dorrinson said that the unskilled man\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9, which lists six bankruptcies and multiple business failures, could come under scrutiny in the event of a recession.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis employers might find themselves asking, \u2018How did he get this job in the first place?\u2019 \u201d Dorrinson said.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, he got the job by repeating &#8216;Spasibo, tovarishch Putin&#8217; over and over. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; The power chair repairman is due in about an hour to fix my chair.&nbsp; I have no idea how long it will take.&nbsp; Yesterday my Oncologist&#8217;s PA explained that the nodes in my lungs are so tiny that they are impossible to biopsy, and that <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/21\/open-thread-8-21-2019\/' 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-37409","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\/37409","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=37409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}