{"id":23409,"date":"2016-08-07T13:21:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23409"},"modified":"2016-08-07T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:21:43","slug":"open-thread-872016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/open-thread-872016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/7\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running late, as Wendy just left.&#160; She left both the TomCat and the Cat Box bright and shiny.&#160; We feasted on Baby Back Ribs! I&#8217;m very tired as the hot sticky weather kept me up last night, but we have three days of cool weather before the heat returns.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:12 (average 5:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-08-07-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\/election-2016\/surprise-there-isnt-single-woman-trumps-new-15-member-economic-advisory-council\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>In an effort to bolster his policy platform, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Friday a new 15-member economic advisory council that does not include a single woman.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rump Dump measures women&#8217;s intellect in bra size, not IQ.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2016\/08\/bill-maher-assange-wikileaks-working\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>:&#160; <\/font>A somewhat important question that Julian Assange manages to completely dodge.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"343\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/9Hc4oumc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Assange had ducked discussing his complicity with Putin and Trump any harder, he would have quacked.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/08\/north-korea-accuses-us-of-seeking-pre-emptive-nuclear-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>North Korea has accused Washington of planning a pre-emptive nuclear strike, after the US announced it would deploy its B-1 bomber in the Pacific for the first time in a decade.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s insane even for North Korea. Is there a new leader there named Kim Jong-Trump?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#160;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0807Cartoon\" 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=\"0807Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0807Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running late, as Wendy just left.&#160; She left both the TomCat and the Cat Box bright and shiny.&#160; We feasted on Baby Back Ribs! I&#8217;m very tired as the hot sticky weather kept me up last night, but we have three days of cool weather before the heat returns. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/open-thread-872016\/' 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-23409","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\/23409","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=23409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}