{"id":53376,"date":"2023-10-18T06:06:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53376"},"modified":"2023-10-17T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T00:57:11","slug":"open-thread-october-18-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/18\/open-thread-october-18-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 18, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, this paragraph was in the public radio newsletter<\/a>: “Colorado said the bridge that collapsed near Pueblo in a fatal train derailment was owned by the railroad company, but the company says the state owns it.” It’s going to be a long wait. Sigh. “Photos and videos posted by authorities showed the partially collapsed bridge with the semi-truck caught beneath in the right lane. The images also show a pileup of train cars and wheels scattered across the scene and loads of coal covering a portion of the highway. Thirty-nine cars of the 124 being hauled derailed, the National Transportation Safety Board said.”<\/p>\n

Also, my ballot arrived.\u00a0 I already knew how I wanted to vote on the two issues, but there is also a school board election.\u00a0 Five candiedates.\u00a0 Two vacancies.\u00a0 At least this time Ballotpedia came through on a couple of them (one yes, one no) and another candidate ‘s name was unusual enough that just her name brought up that she’s registered D.\u00a0 So I had two that I could vote for, and did.\u00a0 The other two should have filled out the questionnaires.<\/p>\n

Cartoon –<\/p>\n

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Short Takes –<\/p>\n

John Pavlovitz – The One Place to Stand in The Israel-Palestine Violence<\/a>
\nQuote – As a person of faith, morality, and conscience, I don\u2019t know where to stand in times like these\u2014other than with squandered, brutalized life. That means I don\u2019t get off so easy as to be able to make a tidy little declaration and walk away feeling good about myself. It means I have to leave the shallows of ambiguity and into deep waters of nuance and history and human nature. It means I have to read and learn, to listen and reflect, to pray and wrestle. It means I\u2019ll end up with fewer answers and more questions and I might be sick to my stomach. But this place of staring at the ugly unfigureoutable is where I am, where many of us are.
\nClick through for full secular sermon<\/a> – which is what I found it to be. Yes, John is a pastor, but he does his best to speak to everyone, and often succeeds. I think he succeeds here.<\/p>\n

Colorado Public Radio – Navy honors sailor who helped stop Club Q shooting<\/a>
\nQuote – During a ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 5, Rear Adm. Scott Robertson, director of Plans, Policy and Strategy for North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command, presented the medal on behalf of the Navy…. “I myself can only hope that I would channel the courage in our Navy core values like he did,\u201d Robertson said. \u201cBut, we don\u2019t have to wait for crisis to apply core values. We can and should apply them every day. That\u2019s what I am taking away from the lessons you taught us all.\u201d
\nClick through for full story<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a week or more old – I saved it until Pat got back. Thank God Tommy Tuberville didn’t have his way before this occurred – it could have been much worse.<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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