{"id":22267,"date":"2016-06-06T10:03:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22267"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T17:03:43","slug":"open-thread-662016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/open-thread-662016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/6\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Please pardon my brevity.&#160; I&#8217;m hurrying to get done before I have to leave for my appointment with a Radiation Oncologist.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:57 (average 5:52).&#160; To do it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-06-06-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; 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:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/fod-news-besides-getting-rid-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>FOD News: Besides Getting Rid Of Minorities, How Would You Make America Great Again? <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/embed\/1eefeae432\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 640px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left\"><a title=\"from David Guzman, Funny Or Die\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/1eefeae432\/make-america-great-again-with-minorities-unlike-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">FOD News: Besides Getting Rid Of Minorities, How Would You Make America Great Again?<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/funnyordie\" target=\"_blank\">Funny Or Die<\/a><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And they will be voting in November! God help us!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-mexicans-swarming-across-border-enrolling-in-law-school-and-becoming-biased-judges\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Unless the United States builds a wall, Mexicans will swarm across the border, enroll in law school en masse, and eventually become biased judges, Donald J. Trump warned supporters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>At a rally in San Jose, the presumptive Republican nominee said that \u201cmaking America great again\u201d meant preventing the nation from becoming \u201coverrun by Mexican judges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t win anymore,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cWe don\u2019t win at judges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Trump offered no specific facts to support his latest allegations, he said that he had heard about the threat of incoming Mexican judges firsthand from border-patrol agents.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL Andy!! Hilariously believable!!<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/06\/us\/virginia-at-center-of-racially-charged-fight-over-the-right-of-felons-to-vote.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>:<\/font> <\/p>\n<p>On the night Barack Obama became the nation\u2019s first black president, Leah Taylor, a fast-food worker and African-American mother of six, stayed up until 2 a.m. watching the election returns. \u201cI knew that was history, and I wanted to be a part of it,\u201d she said. But she did not vote.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Taylor, 45, has never voted. In 1991, when she was 20, she was stripped of her voting rights after being convicted of selling crack cocaine and sent to jail for a year. So she was stunned when an organizer from a progressive group, New Virginia Majority, showed up one recent afternoon at the church soup kitchen where she eats lunch and said he could register her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour rights have been restored!\u201d the organizer, Assadique Abdul-Rahman, declared with a theatrical flourish, waving an executive order signed in April by Gov. Terry McAuliffe. Ms. Taylor, so moved she nearly cried, promptly signed up.<\/p>\n<p>Thus did Ms. Taylor join a wave of newly eligible voters, all with criminal pasts, signing up in Virginia. But what Mr. McAuliffe granted, the Virginia Supreme Court may now take away.<\/p>\n<p>Top Republicans in the state legislature are seeking to block Mr. McAuliffe\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/23\/us\/governor-terry-mcauliffe-virginia-voting-rights-convicted-felons.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\">sweeping order<\/a>, which re-enfranchised 206,000 Virginians who have completed sentences, probation or parole. Last week, the Supreme Court announced a special session to hear arguments in July \u2014 in time to rule before the November election.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The surest way the state can tell former felons to adopt crime as a way of life is to deny them a stake in their communities.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0606Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0606Cartoon\" 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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0606Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0606Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">50 years ago I was soooooooo young!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please pardon my brevity.&#160; I&#8217;m hurrying to get done before I have to leave for my appointment with a Radiation Oncologist. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:57 (average 5:52).&#160; To do it. click here.&#160; How did you do? 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