{"id":23401,"date":"2016-08-06T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23401"},"modified":"2016-08-06T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:19:23","slug":"open-thread-862016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/06\/open-thread-862016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/6\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m feeling a bit groggy, because after sleeping yesterday afternoon, I had a light supper and slept all evening and night.&#160; That must have come from down under.&#160; I hope Lona catches up to her nap soon.&#160; I have the Olympics on in the background.&#160; Fiji just beat the US in Women&#8217;s Rugby.&#160; I may actually get to watch them a bit later this afternoon.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:13 (average 5:06).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-08-06-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Players, don&#8217;t forget that our draft is two weeks from today: 8\/20 at 4:00 PM EDT(3:00 CDT, 2:00 MDT, 1:00 PDT).<\/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=Ekv4wMT31eo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (Media Matters Channel): <\/font>As Trump Disrespects Troops And Their Families, Where&#8217;s Fox? <\/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\/Ekv4wMT31eo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, is solidly behind Rump Dump.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HggNLz5fLFA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (Real Time with Bill Maher Channel): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">New Rule \u2013 Priority Fail (HBO) <\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HggNLz5fLFA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Not only is he funny as hell, he&#8217;s also spit on. Sadly for the lefties that put their hatred for Clinton above all but else, boutique issues are everything, and Armageddon is off the table.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/08\/05\/1557038\/-Bernie-Sanders-OpEd-I-support-Hillary-Clinton-So-should-everyone-who-voted-for-me?detail=email&amp;link_id=14&amp;can_id=7c64f55588334faf361d1837600872c9&amp;source=email-washed-up-soap-actor-says-his-claim-that-obama-was-a-muslim-has-led-to-a-hollywood-blacklist&amp;email_referrer=washed-up-soap-actor-says-his-claim-that-obama-was-a-muslim-has-led-to-a-hollywood-blacklist&amp;email_subject=washed-up-soap-actor-says-his-claim-that-obama-was-a-muslim-has-led-to-a-hollywood-blacklist\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Bernie Sanders wrote an OpEd [<em>sic<\/em>] for the Los Angeles Times, published today.&#160; He lays out why he strongly supports Hillary and asks anyone who voted for him to join him in supporting Hillary.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through to read Bernie&#8217;s own words. Thanks&#8217; again, Bernie.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0806Cartoon\" 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=\"0806Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0806Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling a bit groggy, because after sleeping yesterday afternoon, I had a light supper and slept all evening and night.&#160; That must have come from down under.&#160; I hope Lona catches up to her nap soon.&#160; I have the Olympics on in the background.&#160; Fiji just beat the US in Women&#8217;s Rugby.&#160; I may <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/06\/open-thread-862016\/' 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-23401","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\/23401","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=23401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}