{"id":23534,"date":"2016-08-17T12:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T19:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23534"},"modified":"2016-08-17T12:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T19:21:25","slug":"open-thread-8172016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/open-thread-8172016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/17\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The day is going poorly so far.&#160; My A\/C tubing came loose last night.&#160; I can&#8217;t see to fix it.&#160; If I could, I won&#8217;t fit in that corner.&#160; Building maintenance said they&#8217;ll come when they can, but are not sure when.&#160; Portland is now under an excessive heat warning through the weekend.&#160; In addition, today is a grocery delivery day.&#160; Late this afternoon, Wendy will be here for my care.&#160; I imagine I may be very stinky by then.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Maintenance arrived over two hours later.&#160; Even though the temperature was still under 70\u00b0 outside, it was over 85\u00b0 in here, because the sun had hit the brickwork and was superheating it.&#160; Fortunately, they were able to reconnect the exhaust hose.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:25 (average 5:23).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-08-17-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\/funny-or-die-putin-loves-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Funny or Die: Putin Loves Trump <\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/embed\/da23fb8960\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 640px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left\"><a title=\"from Jerry O&#39;Connell, Owen Burke\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/da23fb8960\/vladimir-putin-loves-donald-trump-but-didnt-hack-dnc-emails\" target=\"_blank\">Putin Loves Trump<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/funnyordie\" target=\"_blank\">Funny Or Die<\/a><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s almost as absurd the third party propaganda Putin produces on RT.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/08\/15\/1560422\/-Rudy-Giuliani-There-were-no-terrorist-attacks-in-the-US-until-Obama-came-along\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Rudy Giuliani, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeedAndrew\/status\/765254440085577728\" target=\"_blank\">stumping for Trump today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn&#8217;t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States. They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And to think we used to call him Rudi 911! Nevertheless Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian terrorists are a far more deadly threat to the US than the Republican Supply-side pseudo-Muslims of Al Qaeda and the Daesh.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/17\/us\/politics\/hillary-clintons-warning-to-supporters-dont-be-complacent.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Hillary Clinton does not dispute that the presidential campaign is going well for her at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>But she would rather not dwell on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be complacent, my friends!\u201d she told supporters on Tuesday inside a high school gym in West Philadelphia. \u201cEven though we\u2019re doing fine right now, I\u2019m not taking anyone, anywhere, for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Mrs. Clinton seizes polling advantages over Donald J. Trump in essentially every traditional swing state, her team is working to keep supporters energized and engaged, reminding them that winning public surveys in August is worth exactly zero electoral votes in November.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She&#8217;s right!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0817Deweytruman\" 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=\"0817Deweytruman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0817Deweytruman.jpg\" width=\"369\" height=\"286\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0817Cartoon\" 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=\"0817Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0817Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day is going poorly so far.&#160; My A\/C tubing came loose last night.&#160; I can&#8217;t see to fix it.&#160; If I could, I won&#8217;t fit in that corner.&#160; Building maintenance said they&#8217;ll come when they can, but are not sure when.&#160; Portland is now under an excessive heat warning through the weekend.&#160; In addition, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/open-thread-8172016\/' 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-23534","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\/23534","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=23534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}