{"id":22796,"date":"2016-07-02T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22796"},"modified":"2016-07-02T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T16:24:42","slug":"open-thread-722016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/02\/open-thread-722016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/2\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Julie and Killer Dawg are here for their next to last day.&#160; After her work is done, we&#8217;re having a small feast of baby back ribs.&#160; To spend some time with her, and because I&#8217;m tired, I&#8217;m making this today&#8217;s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:56 (average 5:06).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-07-02-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l6RDueR7t9s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>MoveOn and Robert Reich have a special Fourth of July message about patriotism. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/l6RDueR7t9s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Indeed!&#160; Henry David Thoreau said that patriotism is the willingness to oppose your country when the leaders violate human rights in <em>Civil Disobedience<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/02\/us\/politics\/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-email-server.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over the federal investigation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/us\/elections\/hillary-clinton-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>\u2019s personal email account, said Friday that she would accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director made about whether to bring charges in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Lynch said she had decided this spring to defer to the recommendations of her staff and the F.B.I. because her status as a political appointee sitting in judgment on a politically charged case would raise questions of a conflict of interest. But the meeting with Mr. Clinton, she acknowledged, had deepened those questions, and she said she now felt compelled to explain publicly her reasoning to try to put the concerns to rest.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is a good move by Lynch, but on a scale of one to ten, Slick Willie was <strong>STUPID<\/strong>!!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2016\/07\/scoreboard-bitches-bill-maher-takes-look\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Bill Maher wrapped up this Friday&#8217;s edition of Real Time with a look at Republican run states such as Kansas and Louisiana, or as their party likes to call them, the &quot;laboratories of democracy&quot; and what the results of years of trickle-down economics and tax breaks for the rich has done to their economies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"332\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/9BUBF3Bx\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bill has crystalized the incompetence in a Republican Reich.&#160; Who would have ever thought that Californicated would become a compliment!!<\/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\/07\/0702Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0702Cartoon\" 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=\"0702Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0702Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie and Killer Dawg are here for their next to last day.&#160; After her work is done, we&#8217;re having a small feast of baby back ribs.&#160; To spend some time with her, and because I&#8217;m tired, I&#8217;m making this today&#8217;s only article. 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