{"id":45005,"date":"2021-09-04T06:59:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T13:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=45005"},"modified":"2021-09-03T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T03:01:05","slug":"open-thread-for-september-4-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/04\/open-thread-for-september-4-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for September 4, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got to see Virgil and we had as good a visit as you can have under the conditions. A couple of non-visitation staff members passed through the lobby while I was checking in said hi to me, and one actually came to the visitation room to say hi to me. Well, I must be doing something right. (So must Virgil.)\u00a0 I appreciate them too. I depend on them to keep Virgil safe and healthy and even in some semblance of good spirits. Of course I was exhausted when I got home. So this may be a bit skimpy.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11027\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/4Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/4Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/4Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100215816660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dem Underground &#8211; Elie Mystal, a legal expert, says<\/a> . . .<br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Biden would be entirely within his rights to deputize doctors in Texas and make them federal employees with immunity. That&#8217;s a great idea. Make all clinic employees federal officers and untouchable.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100215816660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through.<\/a> The quote is all there is, and no link is provided, but the discussion is most interesting (Don&#8217;t believe everything. Not everyone is a lawyer.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QIKE7cQvMG\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/crime-justice\/2021\/09\/ida-incarcerated-family-hurricane-louisiana-st-charles\/\">Her Husband Was in Jail When Ida Hit. She Hasn&#8217;t Heard From Him Since.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Her Husband Was in Jail When Ida Hit. She Hasn&#8217;t Heard From Him Since.&#8221; &#8212; Mother Jones\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/crime-justice\/2021\/09\/ida-incarcerated-family-hurricane-louisiana-st-charles\/embed\/#?secret=QIKE7cQvMG\" data-secret=\"QIKE7cQvMG\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100215816660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through.<\/a> The quote is all there is, and no link is provided, but the discussion is most interesting (Don&#8217;t believe everything. Not everyone is a lawyer.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/crime-justice\/2021\/09\/ida-incarcerated-family-hurricane-louisiana-st-charles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother Jones &#8211; Her Husband Was in Jail When Ida Hit. She Hasn\u2019t Heard From Him Since.<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Yet despite a mandatory evacuation order for parish residents, Sheriff Greg Champagne did not evacuate people in the jail ahead of the storm. By Monday, the 911 system in the parish wasn\u2019t working, according to Nola.com; on Thursday, repeated calls to the sheriff\u2019s office and jail still failed to connect. For Davis, who has not received any word of her husband\u2019s safety since the storm, the silence is frightening. She is planning to travel to the jail herself, along with her husband\u2019s mother, to get answers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/crime-justice\/2021\/09\/ida-incarcerated-family-hurricane-louisiana-st-charles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story.<\/a> I believe you &#8220;catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar&#8221; in any case. But this is another reason to be nice to the good staff.<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/W24jajY.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got to see Virgil and we had as good a visit as you can have under the conditions. A couple of non-visitation staff members passed through the lobby while I was checking in said hi to me, and one actually came to the visitation room to say hi to me. Well, I must <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/04\/open-thread-for-september-4-2021\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3723,4541,4097,4115,4395],"class_list":["post-45005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-climate-change","tag-freedumb","tag-incarceration","tag-justice","tag-womens-health","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\/45005","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}