{"id":23607,"date":"2016-08-22T12:19:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23607"},"modified":"2016-08-22T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:19:42","slug":"open-thread-8222016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/open-thread-8222016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/22\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday afternoon, I discovered that when I see two carafes full of coffee in my hand, and see two burners on the coffee maker, it&#8217;s easy to put the right eye&#8217;s carafe on the left eye&#8217;s burner.&#160; ARGH!&#160; Cleaning all that coffee from the floor took me over an hour.&#160; I could actually turn off my A\/C for the first time since last Wednesday.&#160; If only it would last.&#160; I&#8217;m getting ready to leave for my Podiatrist appointment.&#160; I won&#8217;t publish this before I return, and this will be my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The trip went without incident, and the foot is in excellent shape.&#160; As expected,. George&#8217;s foot needed no care.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:55 (average 8:58).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-08-22-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-asks-donald-trump-to-drop.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>John Oliver Asks Donald Trump To &quot;Drop Out&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/nDqDKfBvirQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oliver is both right and funny, but Trump won&#8217;t do it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/22\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-a-rigged-election-and-the-politics-of-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>As he seeks to revive his embattled candidacy, Donald J. Trump has seized on a new argument to rally his supporters and to explain away a possible defeat in November: that Democrats are preparing to exploit weak voter identification laws to win a \u201cstolen election\u201d through fraudulent voting.<\/p>\n<p>The claim has spurred outrage among Democrats and has alarmed some Republicans who worry his tactics will backfire, angering minority voters and threatening the party\u2019s chances in close races down the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, Republican governors and Republican-held state legislatures have fought for stricter voter identification laws, which Democrats argue are intended to hinder turnout by the poorest voters, many of them black and Hispanic, who tend to vote Democratic.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From a Republican perspective, Trump is right. Weak voter ID laws in some locations will actually allow some Democrats and independents to exercise their right to vote while Black, Latino, Asian, Poor, Disabled, Unionized, Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Transgender, Female, and\/or any other people, who Republicans are trying to disenfranchise.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/al-gore-dont-vote-third-party-15711ce062e7#.wpjvp25t2\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Al Gore lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/05\/31\/nader_elected_bush_why_we_shouldnt_forget_130715.html\" target=\"_blank\">in part<\/a> because of votes lost to third-party candidates. He has a simple message for fellow climate hawks who are contemplating a third-party vote in 2016: Please don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen! Please click through for the rest of Gore&#8217;s message.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0822Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0822Cartoon\" 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=\"0822Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0822Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon, I discovered that when I see two carafes full of coffee in my hand, and see two burners on the coffee maker, it&#8217;s easy to put the right eye&#8217;s carafe on the left eye&#8217;s burner.&#160; ARGH!&#160; Cleaning all that coffee from the floor took me over an hour.&#160; I could actually turn off <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/open-thread-8222016\/' 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-23607","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\/23607","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=23607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}