{"id":21975,"date":"2016-05-21T15:37:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21975"},"modified":"2016-05-21T19:15:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T02:15:36","slug":"open-thread-5212016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/21\/open-thread-5212016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/21\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#39;m waiting for Julie to arrive.&nbsp; She&#39;s now almost two hours late, and since she lost her phone, I cannot contact her.&nbsp; I&#39;m very worried.&nbsp; Phew, she made it 2 1\/4&nbsp; hours late.&nbsp; We made me a polished puddy tat, did the dreaded task, cleaned the apartment, made a 4 &#8211; 5 day supply of &gamma;\u03ad&epsilon;&nu;&nu;&alpha; chili, and talked.&nbsp; Now it&#39;s late and I&#39;m pooped, but that&#39;s OK.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today;s took me 5:03 (average 7:30).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-05-21-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/05\/17\/1527576\/-Woman-with-short-hair-mistaken-for-trans-is-bullied-in-Walmart-bathroom-her-response-is-PERFECT\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/font>While washing her hands in a Connecticut Walmart bathroom, a woman named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/never.shout.aimee?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Aimee Toms<\/a>, 22, was harassed by another customer who said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re disgusting!&rdquo;<br \/>\n\t\t&quot;You don&rsquo;t belong here!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/el6vxQwtWXI?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We can put her argument against Republican bigots another way. &quot;Thou shalt not commit TEAbuggery!!&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/the-liberal-redneck-tells-conservatives.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>The Liberal Redneck tells conservatives how it is in language they can understand<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2y6LMbvTPFc?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even Bubba Bagger could understand that!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/5\/19\/1528565\/-Louisiana-Republican-files-amendment-to-regulate-the-age-and-weight-of-strippers\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Louisiana state Rep. Kenneth Havard from Jackson proposed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.la.gov\/legis\/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1004593\">amendment<\/a> to a bill yesterday, then pulled it, which would limit the age and weight of exotic dancers. The Louisiana House was discussing bill No. 468, that would raise the minimum age of exotic dancers from 18 to 21. But that wasn&rsquo;t what the amendment was about.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>AMENDMENT NO. 1<br \/>\n\t\tOn page 1, line 14, after &quot;shall be&quot; delete the remainder of the line and insert the following:<br \/>\n\t\t<font color=\"#000000\">&quot;<strong>between twenty-one and twenty-eight years of age and shall be no more that one hundred sixty pounds in weight<\/strong>.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In my younger days, I knew a stripper, who went by &quot;U.C. Moore&quot;. She weighed over 250, had a humongous chest, and was far a far better comedienne than this Republican asshole is a Representative.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0521Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/0521Cartoon.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"0521Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Given the chance, Rump Dump Trump will guarantee that more will be exploded.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m waiting for Julie to arrive.&nbsp; She&#39;s now almost two hours late, and since she lost her phone, I cannot contact her.&nbsp; I&#39;m very worried.&nbsp; Phew, she made it 2 1\/4&nbsp; hours late.&nbsp; We made me a polished puddy tat, did the dreaded task, cleaned the apartment, made a 4 &#8211; 5 day supply of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/21\/open-thread-5212016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","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\/21975","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}