{"id":23580,"date":"2016-08-19T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23580"},"modified":"2016-08-19T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:12:54","slug":"open-thread-8192016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/open-thread-8192016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/19\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today is the worst day of the heat wave so far.&#160; It&#8217;s before Noon and already 90\u00b0.&#160; 97\u00b0 is forecast, but it will be hotter.&#160; My A\/C is holding its own, albeit barely.&#160; While not comfortable, I&#8217;m not miserable either, as long as I remain quiet and expend little energy.&#160; Would you all please keep Nameless in your thoughts and prayers?&#160; He has an important medical appointment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:50 (average 5:05).&#160; To do it, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-08-19-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">click here<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lbf.league.fantasy.nfl.com\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"> players, our live draft is tomorrow (Saturday) at 1 PM PDT (2 PM MDT, 3 PM CDT, 4 PM EDT).&#160; Feel free to contact me with questions.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/funny-or-die-great-wall-of-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">KP Daily Funnies<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">: Funny or Die: The Great Wall of Trump <\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#160;<\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/embed\/19fafb7174\" 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 booyapictures, Ryan Coopersmith\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/19fafb7174\/the-great-wall-of-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Great Wall of Trump<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"> from <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/funnyordie\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">Funny Or Die<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rump Dump target practice? Now that&#8217;s what I call a happy ending!! <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile-1.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-obama-vacationing-instead-of-running-isis\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">The New Yorker<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">: President Obama is vacationing on Martha\u2019s Vineyard when he should be hard at work running ISIS, Donald Trump charged on Thursday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In an interview with Fox News, the Republican Presidential nominee said that Obama\u2019s preference for golfing in favor of the demanding day-to-day work of running a terrorist organization shows \u201cwhat a disaster he has been\u201d at the helm of the Islamic State.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">\u201cFrankly, he doesn\u2019t deserve to call himself the founder of ISIS,\u201d Trump told Fox\u2019s Sean Hannity. \u201cHe is a disgrace.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy!! That&#8217;s absurd enough for him to say! If Rump Dump were running his eternal resting place, Hell would need to import portable heaters for frost abatement.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/environment\/yup-its-another-record-hot-month-earth\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">Alternet<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">: The reign of record hot months in 2016 continues, with last month claiming the title of hottest July on record globally, according to <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/data.giss.nasa.gov\/gistemp\/tabledata_v3\/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">data released by NASA<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"> on Monday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The streak means that 2016 is still well on its way to upsetting last year as the hottest year on record. Or as Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClimateOfGavin\/status\/765237770839269378\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">said on Twitter<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">, there is still a 99 percent chance 2016 will take the top slot.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every month so far this year has been record hot. In NASA\u2019s data, that streak goes back to October 2015, which was the first month in its data set that was <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/incredible-october-warmth-guarantees-record-hot-2015-19695\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">more than 1\u02daC hotter<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"> than average.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can name two people who believe it: the Squatch and I.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0819Cartoon\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0819Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0819Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s no surprise that they like Trump too!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the worst day of the heat wave so far.&#160; It&#8217;s before Noon and already 90\u00b0.&#160; 97\u00b0 is forecast, but it will be hotter.&#160; My A\/C is holding its own, albeit barely.&#160; While not comfortable, I&#8217;m not miserable either, as long as I remain quiet and expend little energy.&#160; Would you all please keep <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/open-thread-8192016\/' 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-23580","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\/23580","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=23580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}