{"id":22314,"date":"2016-06-09T12:35:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22314"},"modified":"2016-06-09T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:36:06","slug":"open-thread-692016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/open-thread-692016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/9\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My ocular cancer surgeries are definitely scheduled for 6\/20 and 6\/24, so I&#39;m swamped making arrangements and rescheduling other appointments.&nbsp; Tomorrow, I go to PT with Courtney, so please expect no more than a 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 3:04 (average 5:46).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-06-09-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\/06\/07\/1535516\/-GRACE-FIRST-widely-aired-anti-Trump-ad-out-FL-OH-VA-NV-and-it-is-devastating-for-Donald-Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>This is the first Trump ad released by Priorities USA that gets very wide release nationally, it is being aired in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire.&nbsp;&nbsp; The ad goes at Trump for mocking disabled people, and it is a stunning ad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9QUYQUd0Qh8?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bingo!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/video\/watch-colbert-reveals-trump-has-used-his-own-ridiculous-teleprompter-all-along\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Stephen Colbert riffed on Trump&#39;s use of a teleprompter Wednesday night, a move that many were shocked by since Trump often has difficulty stringing actual sentences together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kza90QwFyLE?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He also uses a smelleprompter and a helleprompter.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/6\/7\/1535217\/-Best-Hillary-vs-Sanders-video-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">We&rsquo;re at the point of the primary where we can laugh at ourselves, right?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RunebquzVXQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A wet bag of <em>dawg<\/em> shit would be an improvement over Rump Dump Trump!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0609Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0609Cartoon.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=\"0609Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ocular cancer surgeries are definitely scheduled for 6\/20 and 6\/24, so I&#39;m swamped making arrangements and rescheduling other appointments.&nbsp; Tomorrow, I go to PT with Courtney, so please expect no more than a Personal Update. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#39;s took me 3:04 (average 5:46).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? 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