{"id":59983,"date":"2026-08-27T05:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59983"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:35:22","slug":"open-thread-august-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/27\/open-thread-august-27-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 27 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I missed my morning appointment because I got royally lost. That&#8217;s a humiliating confession from someone who was habded a road map when I was 5 years old and told that I was the navigator, but it is what it is. Other than that my plsn worked well. I got to the ultrasound appointment a bit early having done the prep they recommend. They have certainly made progress with ultrasound equipmentin the 35 years or so since I had one before surgery to remove an endometrioma &#8211; something which runs in the family on my mother&#8217;s father&#8217;s side. One of Mom&#8217;s aunts (my great aunt) pretty clearly had one &#8211; they are pretty obvious when not removed, and she refused surgery. Considering this was around the time of World War I, that was probably a wise choice. My mother didn&#8217;t have one, but she did have an ectopic pregnancy, which has a similar cause but is much more dangerous. But she survived it, thanks to a creative OBG, and lived to age 93.<\/p>\n<p>They just can&#8217;t let <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2026\/08\/24\/colorado-wild-horses-federal-government-roundup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anything natural<\/a> be without finding a way to mess with it &#8211; usually to ruin it. They really do think they are Masters of the Universe &#8211; or Gods. Spoiler &#8211; They aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/this-may-be-the-worst-wrongful-deportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morning Memo<\/a> speaks for itself pretty eloquently<\/p>\n<p>Trust <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/its-really-about-2028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> to be right here to explain the ramifications when the same crime (or tort, if a civil suit) &#8211; and a single act can be both.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m lucky. I don&#8217;t know whether my gas and electric is public orr private &#8211; but I do know they can&#8217;t change rates without first holding a well-publlicized public hearing. My water and sewer I do know is public, and cannot change rates without putting a measure on the ballot in the next election -and then getting a majority of those voting to vote for it. My fire department is also public through a special district (this is very common in Colorado). And my utility rates have not gone through the roof &#8211; yet.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U98fgLqo-UA?si=xwrgqpjh36bAkUaQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2fer<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h2NncL0L0OE?si=Hq2a3MTpUhrXwnB8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/YET-e1787815661106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I missed my morning appointment because I got royally lost. That&#8217;s a humiliating confession from someone who was habded a road map when I was 5 years old and told that I was the navigator, but it is what it is. Other than that my plsn worked well. I got to the ultrasound appointment <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/27\/open-thread-august-27-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[7727,4355,7725,4531,5020,3811,7724,7726,5858],"class_list":["post-59983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animal-abuse","tag-animals","tag-cruel-and-unusual-deportation","tag-dogs","tag-fraud","tag-personal","tag-public-and-non-public-utilities","tag-stupidity-and-cupidity","tag-the-courts","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\/59983","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=59983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59987,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59983\/revisions\/59987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}