{"id":23149,"date":"2016-07-21T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23149"},"modified":"2016-07-21T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T18:30:59","slug":"open-thread-7212016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/open-thread-7212016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/21\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Last night my hands continues to hurt and I gad a severe bout of phantom leg pain that kept me up most of the night, so I&#8217;m very tired today.&#160; Tomorrow, I go to see Courtney, my Physical Terrorist, so please expect no more that a personal update from me.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:33 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-07-21-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.alternet.org\/sex-amp-relationships\/lot-people-are-looking-gay-sex-during-rnc\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>A Lot of People Are Looking for Gay Sex During the RNC<\/p>\n<p>Craigslist is brimming with ads from horny men looking for hot hookups. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A picture is worth 1,000 words<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOPCloset\" 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=\"GOPCloset\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GOPCloset.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2016\/07\/who-better-laura-ingraham-fly-nazi-salute\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>That thing did actually happen. At the end of her speech, Laura Ingraham appeared flew [<em>sic<\/em>] the Nazi salute in honor of her hero, F\u00fchrer Drumpf.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/9ExflSiX\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Heil Rectumite Reich!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/07\/snls-mock-justice-ginsburg-slams-trump-if-my-mind-is-shot-his-is-shot-stabbed-and-strangled\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>In a special episode of Saturday Night Live that aired after the Republican National Convention on MSNBC, castmember Kate McKinnon reprised her role as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/07\/ruth-bader-ginsburg-finds-new-zealand-appealing-of-donald-trump-becomes-president\/\">Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/a> to give Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP the ultimate slam. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zdagdK0O0GM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m sorry, but as hard as SNL tries, they can&#8217;t anywhere near as ridiculous as the real thing.<\/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\/0721Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0721Cartoon\" 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=\"0721Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0721Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my hands continues to hurt and I gad a severe bout of phantom leg pain that kept me up most of the night, so I&#8217;m very tired today.&#160; Tomorrow, I go to see Courtney, my Physical Terrorist, so please expect no more that a personal update from me. 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