{"id":23115,"date":"2016-07-18T13:38:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23115"},"modified":"2016-07-18T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:38:26","slug":"open-thread-7182016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/open-thread-7182016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/18\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The doctor told me that I don&#8217;t have arthritis, bit that I do have tendonitis in my left hand.&#160; He have me a cortisone shot (quite painful) and declared me fixed.&#160; I&#8217;m skeptical.&#160; I&#8217;m also quite pooped.&#160; This is 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 3:30 (average 8:31).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-07-18-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:\/\/act.hrc.org\/ea-campaign\/action.retrievestaticpage.do?ea_static_page_id=5082\" target=\"_blank\">HRC<\/a>: <\/font>Get The Facts about Donald Trump<\/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\/eYbt1aMXP_4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you&#8217;re gay, vote blue! If not, vote blue!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/03\/23\/1196435\/-Conservapedia-Disproves-E-mc\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Now then, let&#8217;s see how Conservapedia takes that ignorant liberal, Albert Einstein down a few pegs&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Under the heading E=mc\u00b2, we find the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>E=mc\u00b2 is Einstein&#8217;s famous formula which asserts that the energy (E) which makes up the matter in any body is equal to the square of the speed of light (c\u00b2) times the mass (m) of that body. It is a statement that purports to relate all matter to energy. In fact, no theory has successfully unified the laws governing mass (i.e., gravity) with the laws governing light (i.e., electromagnetism), and numerous attempts to derive E=mc\u00b2 in general from first principles have failed. <strong>Political pressure, however, has since made it impossible for anyone pursuing an academic career in science to even question the validity of this nonsensical equation. <u>Simply put, E=mc\u00b2 is liberal claptrap<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Huh?!!? Here&#8217;s a rule as good as E=MC<sup>2<\/sup>: Thou shalt not commit TEAbuggery!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/18\/us\/baton-rouge-attack-deepens-anguish-for-police-weve-seen-nothing-like-this.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>\u201cOfficer down!\u201d an officer screamed frantically into his police radio Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, La. \u201cShots fired! Officer down!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the most dreaded calls in policing triggered a surge of officers to the city\u2019s Airline Highway, not far from Police Headquarters, an agonizing replay of the distress calls 10 days earlier that prompted the Dallas police to scramble to the aid of their fallen colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>The twin attacks \u2014 three officers dead Sunday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/police-shooting-in-baton-rouge\/\" target=\"_blank\">in Baton Rouge<\/a>, five killed on July 7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/news-dallas-shooting-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">in Dallas<\/a>, along with at least 12 injured over all \u2014 have set off a period of fear, anguish and confusion among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nleomf.org\/facts\/enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\">the nation\u2019s 900,000<\/a> state and local law enforcement officers. Even the most hardened veterans call this one of the most charged moments of policing they have experienced.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don&#8217;t mistake what I&#8217;m saying. Gunning down cops in cold blood is evil. There is no excuse or justification for it. That said, this will happen again and again, as long as good cops cover up the murders committed by racist bad cops. Good cops everywhere and all who love them are in my thoughts and prayers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Convention Observation<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Repuglicans have already violated their own rules.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0718Cartoon\" 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=\"0718Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0718Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctor told me that I don&#8217;t have arthritis, bit that I do have tendonitis in my left hand.&#160; He have me a cortisone shot (quite painful) and declared me fixed.&#160; I&#8217;m skeptical.&#160; I&#8217;m also quite pooped.&#160; This is today&#8217;s only article. 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