{"id":37454,"date":"2019-08-25T07:52:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T14:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37454"},"modified":"2019-08-25T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T14:52:05","slug":"open-thread-8-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/25\/open-thread-8-25-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/25\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy will be here in about an hour to destink the polluted TomCat, and we have lots of chores to do, so this is my only article today.&nbsp; Hurry Hugs to all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:33 (average 4:56).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-25-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\/2017\/08\/0825Cartoon.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=SHhrZgojY1Q&amp;list=PLvCvQKDJNRNY8rTuYvAEnereF4AGQf9hs&amp;index=63&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Who &#8211; Won&#8217;t Get Fooled Again<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SHhrZgojY1Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories! In 2016, we got fooled again. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/8\/23\/1880906\/-Dearborn-Michigan-ends-decade-long-collaboration-with-ICE-following-community-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Dearborn, Michigan has cut ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, declining to renew a contract to jail immigrant detainees for the agency. Mayor Jack O&#8217;Reilly Jr. made the decision \u201cfollowing backlash by immigration advocates and religious groups,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/wayne-county\/2019\/08\/21\/dearborn-not-renew-jail-contract-hold-detainees-ice\/2072803001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Detroit News reports.<\/a> \u201cThe department has renewed contracts annually with Calhoun County and ICE for more than 10 years. Dearborn police would hold detainees for ICE in Dearborn&#8217;s 20-bed facility in an undisclosed location,\u201d though detentions stretched into the thousands over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Reps. Debbie Dingell, Rashida Talib and Andy Levin were among the leaders that have called for an end to local collaboration with ICE,&nbsp; with demonstrators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/wayne-county\/2019\/08\/13\/protesters-dearborn-police-ice-immigration-detainees\/1996840001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as recently as last week<\/a> gathering outside the Dearborn Police Department to protest mass deportation policies.&#8221;This country is being divided by fear and hatred, and it&#8217;s wrong,&#8221; Dingell said. &#8220;We stand here today of members of all faiths that are being targeted.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Dearborn. Put ICE on ice! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/shareblue.com\/this-week-in-wins-national-guard-oregon-tuition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share Blue Media<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Oregon law gives tuition assistance to National Guard members<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gov. Kate Brown signed into law a new bill to provide tuition assistance to Oregon National Guard members, <a href=\"https:\/\/kval.com\/veterans\/governor-signs-law-expanding-tuition-assistance-for-oregon-national-guard-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KVAL<\/a> reported.  <\/p>\n<p>The law provides up to 90 hours of credits at a community college or 180 hours of credits at a pubic or even qualifying private state universities.  <\/p>\n<p>To qualify, student must remain in good standing and maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They deserve it!&nbsp; Oregon leads the way!&nbsp; <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 a busy day here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy will be here in about an hour to destink the polluted TomCat, and we have lots of chores to do, so this is my only article today.&nbsp; Hurry Hugs to all. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:33 (average 4:56).&nbsp; To do it, click <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/25\/open-thread-8-25-2019\/' 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-37454","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\/37454","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=37454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}