{"id":23416,"date":"2016-08-08T13:08:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23416"},"modified":"2016-08-08T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:08:57","slug":"open-thread-882016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/open-thread-882016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/8\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even though it&#8217;s been cooler since yesterday, the building&#8217;s brick face continues to radiate heat inward, but I did nap for a couple hours this morning and hope to do so again 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 3:28 (average 7:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-08-08-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:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/john-oliver-on-journalism.html#.V6iaOq1ejfZ\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>John Oliver on Journalism <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bq2_wSsDwkQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Although John is quite funny, he does make a good point. Since 2013, when the corporate oligopoly that had bought the paper gutted it, the Oregonian has gone downhill. For Oregon journalism, I now prefer Willamette Week.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/2016\/08\/04\/donald-j-trump-is-coming-to-portland-this-month-washington-post-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\">Willamette Week<\/a>: <\/font>Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump will make a fundraising stop in Portland at the end of August, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2016\/08\/04\/trump-campaign-lines-up-nearly-two-dozen-high-dollar-fundraisers-for-busy-august\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Post, citing sources near the Trump campaign, says Trump will make a west-coast swing on Aug. 29-31, with visits to San Francisco, Seattle and Portland.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s Oregon Campaign Manager Jacob Daniels confirms to WW that Trump will make stops here, but declined to confirm the exact dates.<\/p>\n<h1><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It will take weeks to wash away his slime!<\/font> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-sicksmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Sick smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wlEmoticon-sicksmile.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/08\/02\/1555822\/-OUCH-Newsweek-exposes-Trump-as-the-business-fraud-he-is\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: Trump\u2019s big line is he should be president because he is a successful businessman. After reading this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2016\/08\/12\/donald-trumps-business-failures-election-2016-486091.html\" target=\"_blank\">devastating Newsweek story<\/a>, no Trump apologist can ever say that again.<\/p>\n<p>The story goes through the bankruptcies of course, but there are defaults, people ripped off, and lie upon lie upon lie upon lie.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite stuff from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump lied to Congress. <\/li>\n<li>Trump was publicly insulting Native Americans while other real business people were making deals to help manage their casinos. <\/li>\n<li>Trump signed a deal with one Native American casino, and they paid him $6 million to go away. <\/li>\n<li>Trump punched his second grade teacher <\/li>\n<li>Trump lied in his books, then blamed the same woman he blamed for Melania Trump\u2019s plagiarized speech. <\/li>\n<li>Trump lied in a filing with a bank where he was trying to get a loan about how much he was worth. <\/li>\n<li>Trump lied about how much money he got from his dad. <\/li>\n<li>Trump\u2019s dad gave him illegal loans by taking cash to his casino, turning it over at a craps table, loading up a suitcase with $5,000 chips, and leaving. <\/li>\n<li>Trump\u2019s earliest deals all lost money and he only did well when his dad guaranteed loans. <\/li>\n<li>Trump spent $1 million per plane to turn a shuttle into a luxury trip that no one wanted to take. The planes were only worth $4 million each. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He really is a perfect match for Republican Reich Rectumites.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0808Cartoon\" 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=\"0808Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0808Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it&#8217;s been cooler since yesterday, the building&#8217;s brick face continues to radiate heat inward, but I did nap for a couple hours this morning and hope to do so again this afternoon. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:28 (average 7:12).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/open-thread-882016\/' 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-23416","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\/23416","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=23416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}