{"id":45094,"date":"2021-09-11T07:05:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=45094"},"modified":"2021-09-10T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T04:33:23","slug":"open-thread-for-september-11-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/11\/open-thread-for-september-11-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for September 11, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, not a lot happened, and what did happen was mostly annoying small stuff.\u00a0 Plus, it was hot &#8211; hotter than it&#8217;s been for over a week.\u00a0 So let&#8217;s just all move on from that.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/11Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/11Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/11Cartoon-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@Amy_Klobuchar\/statement-from-senator-amy-klobuchar-975260e9de8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medium &#8211; Statement from Senator Amy Klobuchar<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Of course this has been scary at times, since cancer is the word all of us fear, but at this point my doctors believe that my chances of developing cancer again are no greater than the average person.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@Amy_Klobuchar\/statement-from-senator-amy-klobuchar-975260e9de8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for full statement.<\/a> Pat already TJI&#8217;ed the news, but I think it&#8217;s worth a repeat (with a picture and an exhortation.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/09\/08\/president-biden-names-seventh-round-of-judicial-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House Press Release: President Biden Names Seventh Round of Judicial Nominees<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; The President is announcing eight new candidates for the federal bench, all of whom are extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution. These choices also continue to fulfill the President\u2019s promise to ensure that the nation\u2019s courts reflect the diversity that is one of our greatest assets as a country \u2014 both in terms of personal and professional backgrounds.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/09\/08\/president-biden-names-seventh-round-of-judicial-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for a few stats and all 8 names and short bios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/fox-news-accuses-biden-of-using-federal-government-to-improve-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker (Borowitz) &#8211; Fox News Accuses Biden of Using Federal Government to Improve Country<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; \u201cJoe Biden came into office claiming that he wanted to be the President of all the people,\u201d Sean Hannity said. \u201cNow, however, his real agenda has become clear: he wants to increase Americans\u2019 life expectancy. How long one lives should be a personal choice,\u201d Hannity continued. \u201cBut not if Joe Stalin-slash-Biden has anything to say about it.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/fox-news-accuses-biden-of-using-federal-government-to-improve-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for what sounds like pretty straight news to me.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creators.com\/214\/309769\/309769_image.jpg\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, not a lot happened, and what did happen was mostly annoying small stuff.\u00a0 Plus, it was hot &#8211; hotter than it&#8217;s been for over a week.\u00a0 So let&#8217;s just all move on from that. Cartoon &#8211; Short Takes &#8211; Medium &#8211; Statement from Senator Amy Klobuchar Quote &#8211; Of course this has been scary <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/11\/open-thread-for-september-11-2021\/' 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":[4305,3708,3704,3760,4115,3706,3803,4395],"class_list":["post-45094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-anniversary","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-joe-biden","tag-justice","tag-satire","tag-terrorism","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\/45094","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=45094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45094\/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=45094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}