{"id":22833,"date":"2016-07-03T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22833"},"modified":"2016-07-03T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:31:27","slug":"open-thread-732016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/03\/open-thread-732016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/3\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday Julie and I shared a small feast of BBQ baby back ribs.&#160; The store brand was nowhere as good as the Tony Roma brand, but Killer <em>Dawg<\/em> did not seem to mind.&#160; Julie says I have created a spoiled monster, but she spoils him just as much.&#160; I&#8217;m running a bit late, because I overslept.&#160; I must have needed it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:33 (average 5:39).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-07-03-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\/5\/21\/1529429\/-Trump-s-wife-posing-with-gun-Thong-and-Boots-And-they-had-a-problem-with-Michelle-s-bare-arms\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Well there you have it\u2026&#160; He thinks he is King of the World and she poses like she in an auditon for a James Bond movie.&#160; The NRA endorsed Trump..&#160; HA.&#160; totally classless and&#160; they call themselves conservative.&#160; Hypocritical&#160; right wing trashed our First Lady because she bared her arms differently.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0703TrumpWife\" 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=\"0703TrumpWife\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0703TrumpWife.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Michelle Obama has more class than any Republican, let alone their Presumptive Rectum and its nearly naked wife!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2016\/07\/03\/3795279\/trumps-former-campaign-manager-defends-tweet-white-supremacist-meme-gets-paid-cnn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>A report by Mic revealed that the image originated a few days ago on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/147711\/donald-trump-s-star-of-david-hillary-clinton-meme-was-created-by-white-supremacists#.dTtbjFLf0\" target=\"_blank\">white supremacist message board \/pol\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Trump later deleted the tweet, keeping the original meme created on \/pol\/ but <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2016\/07\/02\/3795232\/trump-anti-semitic-graphic\/\" target=\"_blank\">crudely replacing the star<\/a> with a red circle. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, defended Trump\u2019s use of the white supremacist meme Sunday morning on CNN\u2019s State Of The Union. He said that critics were \u201creading into a thing that is not there.\u201d He also blasted the \u201cmainstream media\u201d for buying into \u201cpolitical correctness run amok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/S_SBU-Jqfwk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">All claims to reading something that isn&#8217;t there disappear with the revelation that the presumptive rectum of the Republican Party plagiarized the image from a White Supremacist site.&#160; Are the mainstream media being politically correct? Hell NO!!! Otherwise they wouldn&#8217;t be paying Rump Dump&#8217;s shill.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/right-wing\/5-worst-right-wing-moments-week-katrina-pierson-divorces-reality-good\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Fox Newsians got very upset about minimum wage going up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Highly punchable, smug Fox Business Newsian Stuart Varney thinks that raising the minimum wage is just terrible, and will probably lead to Armageddon.<\/p>\n<p>He made no secret of his feelings about people possibly being able to make a living wage when he kicked off a panel discussion thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHow about this one? It is July the 1st, minimum wage increases go into effect today in 15 cities spread across five states. I think this is the march towards $15 an hour. Want to go around the block here with everyone. First to you, Tammy. What do you think about this march to $15 \u2014 legislated wages?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ooohhh, scary. A march toward $15. Legislated wages.<\/p>\n<p>Then, fellow panel member Tammy Bruce brought up another scary thing: Robots. \u201cIt&#8217;s a march towards robotics, is what it is. You&#8217;re going to have kiosks that are going to be able to sell things to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t tell her there are already kiosks selling things to people.<\/p>\n<p>It could be worse than robots, Varney suggested, we could turn into Bermuda, which is a very expensive place.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes. Not Bermuda.<\/p>\n<p>Several agreed it was sad that 12-year-olds don\u2019t bag groceries for tips anymore. Those were the days.<\/p>\n<p>Varney did some quick math in his head. He\u2019s a business guy, so he\u2019s good with numbers. \u201c$15 an hour, for a 40-hour week, is $30,000 a year. I mean, what\u2014\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Someone interrupted. It\u2019s hard to know where Varney was going with that. Was he suddenly realizing you can\u2019t support a family on that? Or even a single person, in most places?<\/p>\n<p>Hard to say what thoughts blew in the wind through those ears.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oregon has been a leader in raising the minimum wage for years, and it hasn\u2019t hurt a bit. This is just the fourth of five worst Republican moments listed this week. Click through for the other four.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0703Cartoon\" 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=\"0703Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0703Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Julie and I shared a small feast of BBQ baby back ribs.&#160; The store brand was nowhere as good as the Tony Roma brand, but Killer Dawg did not seem to mind.&#160; Julie says I have created a spoiled monster, but she spoils him just as much.&#160; I&#8217;m running a bit late, because I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/03\/open-thread-732016\/' 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-22833","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\/22833","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=22833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}