{"id":27525,"date":"2017-05-11T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27525"},"modified":"2017-05-11T13:53:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:53:13","slug":"open-thread-5112017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/open-thread-5112017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/11\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It should be much cooler today, giving me a chance to catch up on sleep.&#160; Between groceries, housework, and Republicans, I&#8217;m feeling pretty frazzled.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:11 (average 4:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-11-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=6yM1wGaQ7zY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">You Can\u2019t Fire the Person Investigating You | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6yM1wGaQ7zY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Keith&#8217;s summary was perfect. Either the Trump Reich must fall or America will. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/10\/us\/politics\/betsy-devos-bethune-cookman-commencement.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Betsy DeVos went to Bethune-Cookman University on Wednesday, knowing her first commencement address as secretary of education could get ugly at the historically black institute of higher education.<\/p>\n<p>It did \u2014 fast. Over sporadic heckling, and at some points to the backs of gown-clad graduates refusing to face her.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The greeting she deserved was to be mooned by the graduates. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/5\/10\/1660842\/-Let-s-be-clear-No-one-Trump-nominates-to-head-the-FBI-will-be-viewed-as-legitimate-No-one\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Popular vote loser Donald Trump abruptly fired the guy who was leading the very investigation that could lead to the downfall of his presidency. Speaking to reporters from the Capitol Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence confirmed that Trump is already searching for James Comey&#8217;s replacement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Already this morning, the president is in the process of evaluating individuals who will be able to fill that spot, lead the FBI and restore the confidence of the American people. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear: NO ONE TRUMP NOMINATES WILL BE SEEN AS LEGITIMATE, IMPARTIAL OR CAPABLE of carrying out the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In a word\u2026 Amen! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0511Cartoon\" 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=\"0511Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0511Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should be much cooler today, giving me a chance to catch up on sleep.&#160; Between groceries, housework, and Republicans, I&#8217;m feeling pretty frazzled. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:11 (average 4:51).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (GQ Channel): You Can\u2019t Fire the Person Investigating You <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/open-thread-5112017\/' 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-27525","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\/27525","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=27525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}