{"id":45849,"date":"2021-11-11T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=45849"},"modified":"2021-11-10T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T23:49:55","slug":"open-thread-for-november-11-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/11\/open-thread-for-november-11-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for November 11, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we were a bit shorthanded here. Pat took the day off for her birthday, and SoINeedAName&#8217;s computer suffered the Blue Screen Of Death so he was just able to post a short comment from his phone. Never a dull moment!<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11621 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1111Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1111Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1111Cartoon-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vets.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vets-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vets-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vets-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vets-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vets-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vets-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/black-student-isabella-tichenor-dies-by-suicide-in-davis-school-district-where-doj-says-racism-is-rife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Girl Dies by Suicide in Utah School District Rife With Racism<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; A 10-year-old Black girl who was a student in a Utah school district that had been the subject of a federal racism investigation hanged herself over the weekend, leaving her family distraught over what they say were unanswered calls to address bullying. The girl\u2019s mom, Brittany Tichenor, said she had contacted the Davis School District \u201cmultiple times\u201d to discuss how her daughter Isabella was mistreated by her peers after starting fifth grade just months ago. Through sobs, Tichenor described during a news conference the relentless teasing that her daughter\u2014one of just a few Black students at the Foxboro Elementary School\u2014had endured without much help from school administrators.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/black-student-isabella-tichenor-dies-by-suicide-in-davis-school-district-where-doj-says-racism-is-rife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for background and story<\/a> &#8211; if you can stand to. Rest in peace, sweet Izzy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/11\/wait-until-you-hear-why-cop-didnt-render\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crroks and Liars &#8211; Wait Until You Hear Why Cop Didn&#8217;t Render Aid To Ahmaud Arbery<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Former Officer Ricky Minshaw was asked by prosecutor Larissa Ollivierre how Ahmaud Arbery appeared when he arrived at the scene. Minshew said he was face-down and looked &#8220;unresponsive to his surroundings, he appeared to be deceased.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/11\/wait-until-you-hear-why-cop-didnt-render\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for a little more and a video<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/emoticons\/banghead.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/article\/50280126\/district-investigates-after-teacher-turns-veterans-day-talk-into-message-against-vaccine-socialism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KSL (Salt Lake City) &#8211; District investigates after teacher turns Veterans Day talk into message against vaccine, socialism<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; &#8220;It was just basically full of anti-Asian rhetoric talking about how people getting free handouts like food from the grocery store is anti-American and for lazy people&#8230;.&#8221; The parent also claimed Law expressed his support for the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C., and that the &#8220;government telling us we should get vaccinated is the government being a bully and we need to fight back against the bullies.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/article\/50280126\/district-investigates-after-teacher-turns-veterans-day-talk-into-message-against-vaccine-socialism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for the whole disturbing tale.<\/a> The station will not back up Linked in&#8217;s claim that he attended the Air Force Academy, but it&#8217;s certinly not impossible. The AFA has a long and notorious history of denyong church-state separation.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-45859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/barf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"24\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailykos.com\/images\/997135\/story_image\/1558ckCOMICtoycivilwarsoldiers.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter 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, we were a bit shorthanded here. Pat took the day off for her birthday, and SoINeedAName&#8217;s computer suffered the Blue Screen Of Death so he was just able to post a short comment from his phone. Never a dull moment! Cartoon &#8211; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Short Takes &#8211; Black <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/11\/open-thread-for-november-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":[3704,3915,3751,3725,4115,3748,4048],"class_list":["post-45849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-education","tag-gop-insanity","tag-holiday","tag-justice","tag-racism","tag-veterans","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\/45849","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=45849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45849\/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=45849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}