{"id":22193,"date":"2016-06-02T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T21:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22193"},"modified":"2016-06-02T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T21:41:25","slug":"open-thread-622016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/02\/open-thread-622016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/2\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#39;m rushing to to finish as much as I can before my CAT scan,&nbsp; I&#39;ll say hi to the cat for you.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#39;m back.&nbsp; The cat made me drink a quart of cat pee called contrasting agent and then injected more.&nbsp; YUCK!&nbsp; I have my pre-surgery physical tomorrow morning sp expect no more than a late Personal Update.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s took me 3:25 (average 5:47).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-06-02-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\/stories\/2016\/6\/1\/1532938\/-Watch-Trump-University-fraud-victims-describe-how-Donald-Trump-scammed-them-of-their-savings\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A federal judge ordered the release of hundreds of documents related to the fraud case against Donald Trump for his now defunct (like most of Trump&rsquo;s businesses) Trump University. The so-called &ldquo;university&rdquo; was a series of real estate seminars that promised to teach people insider secrets of the real estate business. The documents reveal high pressure sales tactics that were designed to play on people&rsquo;s emotions and carefully convince people to part with their money, often encouraging them to take on huge amounts of debt to finance their &ldquo;education.&rdquo; The manual instructed Trump University sales staff to find out personal information and then use that to close the deal and separate already desperate people from what money they had, even if that meant taking on credit card debt&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/eZf7uWcOlrc?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Everything about Rump Dump, like his CONiversity, is also a lie.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/02\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-republican-convention.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A wave of prominent Republicans have announced their intention to skip the party&rsquo;s national convention in Cleveland this summer, the latest sign that Donald J. Trump, who last week secured the delegates needed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/27\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-republican-nomination.html?version=meter+at+1&amp;module=meter-Links&amp;pgtype=article&amp;contentId=&amp;mediaId=&amp;referrer=&amp;priority=true&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=meter-links-click\" target=\"_blank\">clinch the Republican presidential nomination<\/a>, continues to struggle in his effort to unite the party behind his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>The list of those who have sent regrets includes governors and United States senators &mdash; almost all facing tough re-election fights this year &mdash; and lifelong party devotees who have attended every convention for decades. Some are renouncing their seats like conscientious objectors.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I could not in good conscience attend a coronation and celebration of Donald Trump,&rdquo; wrote one Indiana delegate, Josh Claybourn, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshclaybourn.com\/donald-trump-and-the-presidency\/#more-1275\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post resigning<\/a> his position.<\/p>\n<p>The coolness toward Mr. Trump amounts to a remarkable rebuke. A broad range of party leaders are openly rejecting the man who will be their nominee. And the July 18-21 convention, usually a moment of public catharsis for political parties after contentious primaries, is shaping up to be another reminder of the disarray and disunity that is still rocking the Republican Party after a bitter 17-way fight for the nomination.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Extinction is the only proper fate of the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/local-peace-economy\/us-city-sustainable-utopia-heres-what-they-have-accomplished-where-they-are\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>The City of Portland has created and implemented strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for more than 20 years. In the early 1990s, it became the first city in the United States to adopt a comprehensive carbon dioxide reduction strategy. In 2001, Multnomah County (the most populous of Oregon&rsquo;s 36 counties) and the City of Portland (which is the seat of Multnomah County and Oregon&rsquo;s largest city) passed their joint Local Action Plan on Global Warming.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Multnomah County and Portland adopted an updated climate action plan (CAP) with expanded categories for actions and more-rigorous reduction targets. The plan identifies 93 action steps in 8 categories to reach its emissions reduction goals, ranging from curbside pickup of residential food scraps to expanding the city&rsquo;s streetcar and light rail system.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to strong government leadership, science-informed policy making has long been practiced in Portland. To avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change, the city set its latest emissions reduction target by referring to current science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Portland adopted an 80 percent emissions reduction target by 2050, with an interim goal of 40 percent by 2030. In line with IPCC recommendations, 1990 was set as the baseline year for the reduction target.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oregon leads the way!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0602Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0602Cartoon.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=\"0602Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m rushing to to finish as much as I can before my CAT scan,&nbsp; I&#39;ll say hi to the cat for you. I&#39;m back.&nbsp; The cat made me drink a quart of cat pee called contrasting agent and then injected more.&nbsp; YUCK!&nbsp; I have my pre-surgery physical tomorrow morning sp expect no more than a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/02\/open-thread-622016\/' 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":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-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\/22193","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=22193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}