{"id":37609,"date":"2019-09-07T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37609"},"modified":"2019-09-07T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T18:08:16","slug":"open-thread-9-7-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/07\/open-thread-9-7-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/7\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a cooler rainy day here at the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m running late, because I overslept.\u00a0 Please expect no more than a Personal Update from me on both tomorrow and Monday.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and we have lots of chores.\u00a0 Monday, I have an appointment with Megan, my PCP for her to decide whether she wants to try medicine for my hiatal hernia or refer me to a surgeon.\u00a0 Tomorrow is also a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 My Broncos don&#8217;t play until Monday Night, so tomorrow, may the Orb shine its divine light on your team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:34 (average 4:54).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-09-07-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0907Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AolEdrVCUIQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>House Probes Military Travel To Troubled Trump Resort: Politico<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AolEdrVCUIQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">C-17 flights to line the Fuhrer&#8217;s pocket? That&#8217;s 28,000 gallons at $1.71\/gal. That&#8217;s $49,248 per flight. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/9\/6\/1883947\/-ThinkProgress-is-shutting-down-tonight-for-good\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/span>I wasn\u2019t sure whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/06\/business\/media\/thinkprogress-closing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a> was general knowledge or not, but for those of us who have relied on its outstanding reporting over the past 15 years, it\u2019s a pretty big deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The progressive site ThinkProgress shut down on Friday in yet another sign of how much the news media landscape has changed in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very sad to announce that after more than two months of searching, we have been unable to identify a new publisher for ThinkProgress, and we are left with no choice but to close ThinkProgress as an independent enterprise focused on original reporting,\u201d the statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ThinkProgress<\/a> is Judd Legum, who started the site in 2005.\u00a0 The Center for American Progress, the site\u2019s parent \u201dthink tank,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/center-for-american-progress-puts-think-progress-up-for-sale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">put the site up for sale<\/a> in July of this year. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogressaction.org\/press\/statement\/2019\/09\/06\/174977\/statement-on-thinkprogress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no buyer for the site has been found,<\/a> the site will shut down, presumably tonight, as reported.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a sad day for journalism from a progressive perspective. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/in-latest-humiliation-boris-johnsons-dog-resigns-as-his-pet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>In the latest in a string of humiliating blows to the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson\u2019s dog has abruptly resigned as his pet.<\/p>\n<p>The dog, whom Johnson named Lord Slobberly, made the announcement in an official statement on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter wrestling with my conscience for some time, I have concluded that any further association with Mr. Johnson would be damaging to my reputation,\u201d the dog said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Andy, while it would be much more in character had a cat resigned, kudos to the <em>dawg<\/em>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">Vote Blue!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a cooler rainy day here at the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m running late, because I overslept.\u00a0 Please expect no more than a Personal Update from me on both tomorrow and Monday.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and we have lots of chores.\u00a0 Monday, I have an appointment with Megan, my PCP for her to decide whether <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/07\/open-thread-9-7-2019\/' 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-37609","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\/37609","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=37609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}