{"id":22762,"date":"2016-07-01T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22762"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:45:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:45:51","slug":"open-thread-712016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/open-thread-712016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/1\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I want to get as much rest as I can this weekend.&#160; Tomorrow is shower and housework day.&#160; Monday is the Fourth.&#160; Tuesday is break in a new home health aide day.&#160; Wednesday is a two hour appointment to evaluate my residual vision.&#160; Thursday is grocery delivery day, and Friday is Physical Therapy day.&#160; So I&#8217;ll be scarce next week.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:13 (average 5:25).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-07-01-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:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/06\/30\/1543791\/-Watch-this-woman-call-Mitch-McConnell-s-office-and-ask-How-much-does-he-cost\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>here is doing the good deed of calling U.S. Congress members to voice concerns\u2014and then, there is doing that good deed while videotaping your calls. One woman named \u201cHeather Calling\u201d has decided to do both as she tries to get answers on why Republican lawmakers are doing nothing to stop the epidemic of gun deaths in America. You can subscribe to Heather Callings\u2019 YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsjg5I_OiDVpBKEJ41-Cl8Q\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In this first video, Heather Calling places a call to the office of Senator Mitch McConnell&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ok-GmJOHhqw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sorry Heather, but Bought Bitch Mitch is not for sale to folks like us. He&#8217;s already bought and paid for by the 1%.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/01\/us\/transgender-military.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter on Thursday removed one of the final barriers to military service by lifting the Pentagon\u2019s ban on transgender people serving openly in the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly,\u201d Mr. Carter said. \u201cThey can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to the Obama Administration.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2016\/06\/29\/laura-ingraham-suggests-people-wear-diapers-rather-share-bathrooms-transgender-people\/211276\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>Laura Ingraham Suggests People Wear Diapers Rather Than Share Bathrooms With Transgender People<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/211276\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I strongly suspect that Ingraham already wears adult diapers, as she clearly lacks the maturity to coexist.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0701Cartoon\" 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=\"0701Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0701Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"543\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to get as much rest as I can this weekend.&#160; Tomorrow is shower and housework day.&#160; Monday is the Fourth.&#160; Tuesday is break in a new home health aide day.&#160; Wednesday is a two hour appointment to evaluate my residual vision.&#160; Thursday is grocery delivery day, and Friday is Physical Therapy day.&#160; So <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/open-thread-712016\/' 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-22762","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\/22762","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=22762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}