{"id":46828,"date":"2022-02-11T06:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46828"},"modified":"2022-02-11T14:56:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T22:56:40","slug":"open-thread-for-february-11-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/11\/open-thread-for-february-11-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for February 11, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I overslept &#8211; which is a good thing because I had not slept well the prior two noghts. But between that and the Zoom presentation (which was WELL worth the 2+ hours it took), I ran late and didn&#8217;t get a lot done. Well, I had expected not getting a lor done, and it really doesn&#8217;t all need to be done at once. I did get a couple of bills paid, which is a plus.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0211Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0211Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0211Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2022\/02\/az-election-conspirator-and-county-clerk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; Colorado Election Conspirator And County Clerk Arrested, Kicks Cop<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Tina [Peters], Trumper, election conspirator and GOPer clerk and recorder in Mesa County, Colorado, is currently being investigated by a grand jury for election tampering. She was arrested on unrelated charges yesterday of illegally recording a criminal hearing Monday. During her arrest, she appears to have kicked an officer.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2022\/02\/az-election-conspirator-and-county-clerk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story<\/a>, and for even more, through again t CPR. She is a real piece of work. She has been barred from overseeing the 2022 election. Want to bet she&#8217;ll try anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Colorado and elections, the above story sent me to search engines looking for what our districts will look like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2021\/09\/23\/colorado-redistricting-new-congressional-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Public Radio &#8211; If The Redistricting Commission Doesn\u2019t Agree On Something Else, This Is What Colorado\u2019s New Congressional Map Will Look Like<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Colorado\u2019s Congressional Redistricting Commission still has a few more days to reach a super-majority agreement on a new map. But if commissioners can\u2019t hit that deadline, we now know what the state\u2019s congressional districts will look like&#8230;. Politically, the map creates four Democratic seats, three Republican ones, and a swing district that leans just a hair to the left.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2021\/09\/23\/colorado-redistricting-new-congressional-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for tha map and<\/a> a comparison of the districts 2011-2020 with all proposed maps if you like. Sadly, we did not get the map that takes away Boebert&#8217;s residency inn the district she represents. So we may be stuck with her unless our SoS can get her disqualified unser the 14th Amendment. CPR can be counted on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/593399-house-passes-bill-to-reform-postal-service-operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill &#8211; House passes bill to reform Postal Service operations<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; bipartisan agreement to overhaul the Postal Service had long eluded lawmakers, until last year when House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and the panel\u2019s top Republican, Rep. James Comer (Ky.), unveiled the proposal the House passed on Tuesday. \u201cToday\u2019s historic bipartisan vote brings us one step closer to finally putting the Postal Service on a sound financial footing so it can continue serving all Americans for years to come,\u201d Maloney said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/593399-house-passes-bill-to-reform-postal-service-operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through<\/a> &#8211; This is clearly good news, but it comes at a time which concerns me. We are still stuck with DeJoy, and there are things obstructing getting rid of him. I fear this bill, while doing good, will also give him more leeway to steal\/<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gazpacho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"809\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gazpacho.jpg 809w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gazpacho-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gazpacho-150x126.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gazpacho-768x645.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, Ms. Taylor Greene recently qas widely quoted as saying &#8220;gazpacho&#8221; when she meant &#8220;Gestapo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I overslept &#8211; which is a good thing because I had not slept well the prior two noghts. But between that and the Zoom presentation (which was WELL worth the 2+ hours it took), I ran late and didn&#8217;t get a lot done. Well, I had expected not getting a lor done, and it <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/11\/open-thread-for-february-11-2022\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4837,3704,3866,4115],"class_list":["post-46828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-black-history","tag-cartoon","tag-history","tag-justice","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\/46828","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=46828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}