{"id":27393,"date":"2017-05-03T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27393"},"modified":"2017-05-03T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:49:24","slug":"open-thread-532017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/open-thread-532017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/3\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Immodium has not kicked in all the way, but my trips are less frequent than yesterday, and I did get a little sleep.&#160; Summer seems to have arrived.&#160; From yesterday&#8217;s high of 57\u00b0, today&#8217;s is forecast at 81\u00b0 and extremely humid.&#160; Currently it&#8217;s 83%.&#160; Needless to say, the AC is going.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to come with groceries.&#160; Wendy will be here this evening.&#160; In this weather the TomCat will need extra destinking.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:42 (average 5:00).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-03-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LYBtS1eKO94\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Trump is Panicking About Russia | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LYBtS1eKO94?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Keith! To clarify, the minute Obama fired Flynn in 2014, his security clearance died with his job, so when he and his co-traitor Jill Stein joined Putin [R-RU] on RT, it was not on Obama&#8217;s watch, as Trump claims. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/fourth-grade-class-touring-white-house-answers-trumps-questions-about-civil-war\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A class of fourth-grade students touring the White House on Monday had a chance encounter with Donald Trump and were able to answer several of his questions about the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>The students, on a field trip organized by their Bethesda, Maryland, elementary school, happened upon Trump outside the Oval Office and \u201ccleared a lot of things up for him,\u201d their teacher said.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump invited the children into his office, the ten-year-olds briefed him on the causes of the Civil War, including slavery, states\u2019 rights, and regional economic differences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really cool,\u201d Tracy Klugian, who had done a diorama about the Civil War while in third grade, said. \u201cSomeday I\u2019ll be able to tell my kids that I met the President and taught him about history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy! Are you spreading Republican propaganda? Clearly anything taught at a 4th grade level is way too advanced for Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten to understand! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/5\/1\/1657712\/-Trump-Blames-Constitution-for-his-100-Day-Failure-Declares-May-1-Loyalty-Da\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump blamed the Constitution for his repeated failures in his first hundred days in office. He told Fox News that the Constitution is&#160; archaic and that the rule of law that has prevented his unconstitutional edicts from being implemented &quot;is a bad thing for the country\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/apr\/29\/trump-blames-constitution-for-first-100-days-chaos-presidency\" target=\"_blank\">www.theguardian.com\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In an interview with Fox News to mark the 100-day mark, he declared himself \u201cdisappointed\u201d with congressional Republicans, despite his many \u201cgreat relationships\u201d with them.<\/p>\n<p>He blamed the constitutional checks and balances built in to US governance. \u201cIt\u2019s a very rough system,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an archaic system \u2026 It\u2019s really a bad thing for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Since Trump considers the Constitution a bad thing for the country, we can be sure he will appoint more Injustices like Whoresuch to SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD). Fascist pseudo-Christian ideology will be the basis of their decisions. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0503Cartoon\" 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=\"0503Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0503Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My own definition:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><font color=\"#0000ff\">Godwin&#8217;s Law &#8211; a common meme used by Republicans, other fascists, pseudo-intellectuals, and people with their heads in the sand or in smellier places, whenever anyone points out the verifiable commonalities between today&#8217;s Republican Party and Germany&#8217;s National Socialist Party, as Hitler became dictator.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Immodium has not kicked in all the way, but my trips are less frequent than yesterday, and I did get a little sleep.&#160; Summer seems to have arrived.&#160; From yesterday&#8217;s high of 57\u00b0, today&#8217;s is forecast at 81\u00b0 and extremely humid.&#160; Currently it&#8217;s 83%.&#160; Needless to say, the AC is going.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/open-thread-532017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27393","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\/27393","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=27393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}