{"id":27484,"date":"2017-05-08T14:21:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T21:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27484"},"modified":"2017-05-08T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T21:21:05","slug":"open-thread-582017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/08\/open-thread-582017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/8\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I slept well last night, and although I&#8217;m still hurting whenever I breathe, it&#8217;s rarely excruciating, so I&#8217;m going to return to medical mayhem next week.&#160; I have such a huge backlog of appointments put on hold, that I may be quite scarce at times.&#160; I&#8217;m debating buttoning up the Cat Box and turning on the AC.&#160; It&#8217;s only 65\u00b0, but when the sun hits my outside wall, the wall radiates heat.&#160; OGIM!&#160; (Oh God It&#8217;s Monday!)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:11 (average 5:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-08-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XqJiDNoxuBk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/PBSNewsHour\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">PBS Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Yates testifying on ousted national security adviser Flynn<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XqJiDNoxuBk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m anticipating Yates&#8217; testimony. Have you ever seen a TomCat drool? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/french-annoyingly-retain-right-to-claim-intellectual-superiority-over-americans\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>On Sunday, the people of France annoyingly retained their traditional right to claim intellectual superiority over Americans, as millions of French citizens paused to enjoy just how much smarter they were than their allies across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>In bars and caf\u00e9s across France, voters breathed a sigh of relief in the knowledge that arrogantly comparing themselves to the U.S. population, a longtime favorite pastime of the French people, would remain viable for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Grimange, a Parisian caf\u00e9-goer, sipped on a glass of Bordeaux and toasted his nation \u201cfor not being so dumb as the United States after all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, that&#8217;s what I said yesterday. Great minds fall in the same ditch. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/07\/us\/politics\/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific review board, the latest signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency\u2019s regulatory reach by reducing the role of academic research.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, said he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate, as part of the wide net it plans to cast. \u201cThe administrator believes we should have people on this board who understand the impact of regulations on the regulated community,\u201d said the spokesman, J. P. Freire.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Putting this more realistically, the foxes are now in charge of hen house protection. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0508Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0508Cartoon\" 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=\"0508Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0508Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slept well last night, and although I&#8217;m still hurting whenever I breathe, it&#8217;s rarely excruciating, so I&#8217;m going to return to medical mayhem next week.&#160; I have such a huge backlog of appointments put on hold, that I may be quite scarce at times.&#160; I&#8217;m debating buttoning up the Cat Box and turning on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/08\/open-thread-582017\/' 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-27484","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\/27484","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=27484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}