{"id":22258,"date":"2016-06-05T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22258"},"modified":"2016-06-05T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T22:25:14","slug":"open-thread-652016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/05\/open-thread-652016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 6\/5\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I expected to be done by now, but I was Napster Nailed!!  Lona got me this morning, and I slept for four solid hours.  It’s already 96\u00b0, and the building is super-heated.  The 10,000 BTU floor AC isn’t keeping it as cool as the 5000 BTU window AC used to, but it’s keeping it in the high 70\u00b3s, and with sum hitting the concrete face of the building most of the day, it would be over 120\u00b0 inside without it.<\/font><\/p>\n

Last night I was awakened by the beginnings of the Portland Rose Festival<\/a> Starlight Parade, which passes under my window every year.  So I dressed, decided to give Stumpy some fresh air, and went out without George.  I took a bunch of my pictures with my Kindle Fire tablet.  That was a mistake, because this was the best of them.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Fortunately, I also took a few with my IPhone 6.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I hope to do better with the Grand Floral Parade next weekend.  It’ll be daytime.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 5:53 (average 10:02).  To do it. click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>An as-of-yet unnamed language arts teacher at Burns Middle School in Mobile, Alabama, is on administrative leave after giving 8th grade students a shockingly racist math test. Erica Hall\u2019s son was so shocked that he snuck a photo of the test and sent it to his mom. <\/p>\n

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We may not know the teacher’s name, but we do know his political party.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/strong><\/font>Senator John McCain does not say much these days about Donald J. Trump\u2019s attack on his five-plus years as a prisoner of war. Instead, he clenches his teeth and says he will support the Republican Party\u2019s presumptive nominee, who once said derisively about the senator\u2019s time in captivity, \u201cI like people that weren\u2019t captured.\u201d<\/p>\n

That McConJob is goose-stepping behind Rump Dump, even after that, shows what a terrible President he would have been.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: \\<\/font>Senator Elizabeth Warren hammered Donald Trump on his now defunct, and probably fraudulent, Trump University while giving a speech the Massachusetts State Democratic Convention in Lowell on June 4.<\/p>\n