{"id":22952,"date":"2016-07-10T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T21:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22952"},"modified":"2016-07-10T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T21:31:35","slug":"open-thread-7102016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/open-thread-7102016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/10\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running quite late, as today was a long day for Wendy.&#160; Dang!!&#160; She certainly is a good worker.&#160; I let her go a half hour early, as I couldn&#8217;t find anything else for her to do.&#160; She polished and shined the TomCat, did the dreaded task, changed the sheets, cleaned the countertops, swept and mopped the floors, dusted, and reorganized the kitchen drawers and cabinets.&#160; The place is so clean I&#8217;m afraid to pass gas!! <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-angel\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Angel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wlEmoticon-angel.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:37 (average 6:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-07-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>In the Mail<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I received a gift from a friend, who shall remain nameless.&#160; Here it is.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_0186\" 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=\"IMG_0186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0186.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here it is again in a more appealing environment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_0194\" 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=\"IMG_0194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0194.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thanks Nameless!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thesouthern.com\/news\/local\/state-and-regional\/kirk-again-trails-duckworth-in-fundraising-for-us-senate-bid\/article_793a420e-0d41-5b90-9318-0e2606f45d05.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Southern Illonoisan<\/a>: <\/font>U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth outraised Illinois Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk for the sixth consecutive quarter, giving her a multimillion-dollar cash advantage in a race that could help determine whether Democrats retake control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk&#8217;s campaign said late Friday he raised more than $1 million between April and June, finishing with $3.1 million in his campaign fund.<\/p>\n<p>Duckworth raised $2.7 million during the same period and ended the second quarter with $5.5 million cash on hand, her campaign said earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sad as this is, fundraising is more predictive that polling this early in the race. Go Tammy Go!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/7\/9\/12135292\/hillary-clinton-public-option-bernie-sanders\" target=\"_blank\">Vox<\/a>: <\/font>On Saturday morning, Hillary Clinton released a new health care policy proposal that emphasized several major progressive priorities, including a public option and increased funding for community health centers.<\/p>\n<p>In the proposal, Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/briefing\/factsheets\/2016\/07\/09\/hillary-clintons-commitment-universal-quality-affordable-health-care-for-everyone-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">pledged<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To give Americans in every state a &quot;public option&quot; health insurance plan <\/li>\n<li>To let Americans as young as 55 years old opt in to Medicare <\/li>\n<li>And to double funding for primary care services at community health centers <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, these aren\u2019t really new ideas for Clinton. She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/11\/us\/politics\/hillary-clinton-health-care-public-option.html\" target=\"_blank\">said at a campaign event in May<\/a> that she supported &quot;the public option, so that people can buy into Medicare at a certain age.&quot; And she\u2019s long supported community health centers.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact that she\u2019s formally backing these progressive priorities at this moment \u2014 rather than pivoting to more centrist ideas as the general election contest approaches \u2014 is a testament to the influence of Bernie Sanders\u2019s campaign. And it may be a prelude to an endorsement from Sanders as soon as next week.<\/p>\n<h5>Sanders: &quot;The Clinton campaign and our campaign are coming closer and closer together&quot;<\/h5>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s encouraging.&#160; All three are steps in the right direction.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/07\/09\/megyn-kelly-whitesplains-blacks-reason-complain-being-shot.html\" target=\"_blank\">PoliticusUSA<\/a>: <\/font>Megyn Kelly, sometimes the voice of reason on Fox News, switched into full-blown stupid mode again Friday by <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2016\/07\/08\/megyn-kelly-and-mark-fuhrman-agree-african-americans-grievances-police-are-overblown\/211463\" target=\"_blank\">saying<\/a> that \u201cEspecially in the days of iPhones\u2026and social media where, you know, every encounter gets caught on camera. It doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that it\u2019s happening more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She appeared with racist Ex-LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman, who is frequently trotted out by Fox News to cover racially-charged events, like when Freddie Gray was shot in Baltimore and Fuhrman (again appearing with Kelly) called blacks \u201cthese people,\u201d and was told by liberal guest Richard Fowler that \u201cI really think you live in an alternate universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, hello, Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the most recent alternate reality segment from Friday\u2019s The Kelly File, courtesy of Media Matters for America:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/211463\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Not all people that support Black Lives Matter think that all cops are racist. I for one have said many times that the majority of police are professionals just doing their jobs. Here, these racists from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, are conflating all Black Lives Matter protestors with the Dallas murderer.&#160; How vile!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0710Cartoon\" 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=\"0710Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0710Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running quite late, as today was a long day for Wendy.&#160; Dang!!&#160; She certainly is a good worker.&#160; I let her go a half hour early, as I couldn&#8217;t find anything else for her to do.&#160; She polished and shined the TomCat, did the dreaded task, changed the sheets, cleaned the countertops, swept and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/open-thread-7102016\/' 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-22952","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\/22952","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=22952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}