{"id":27554,"date":"2017-05-13T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27554"},"modified":"2017-05-13T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T20:45:15","slug":"open-thread-5132017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/13\/open-thread-5132017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 5\/13\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

i was up late again last night.  First I was trying to wrap myself around understanding the day’s abominations by the walking urinal and his Republican Reich.  Then my computer notified me that I needed to restart to update Windows 10.  I insist on having my computer ready to go in the morning, and thinking it would only take a few minutes, I did it.  If you have Windows 10 and have not done the latest update, be warned!  That SOB is HUGE<\/strong>!  Almost two hours and several restarts later, I finally got to bed.  Also, the update reset several of my defaults to MS Apps.  GRRR!<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:40 (average 4:36).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In an interview with NBC\u2019s Lester Holt, Donald Trump boasted that, if he is impeached, the television ratings will be higher than those of any other impeachment in history.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverywhere I go, people tell me that if I am impeached, they\u2019re going to watch it,\u201d he said. \u201cThe ratings are going to be through the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that he expected his impeachment ratings to be \u201cmany, many times\u201d the size of the audience for Bill Clinton\u2019s impeachment, in 1998.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not even going to be close,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe ratings for Bill Clinton\u2019s impeachment were a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dang, Andy!  Would that it were so! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Zero Hedge<\/a>: <\/font>The Senate Intelligence Committee requested the records from Treasury\u2019s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, late last month<\/strong>, the WSJ reports although it did not elaborate on the nature of the records. One person cited by the WSJ said that without them the committee wouldn\u2019t be able to reach a conclusion on whether there was collusion between Trump associates and Russia<\/strong> during last year\u2019s campaign. [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n

Since with these records the committee can prove whether or not the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, and since the absence of examples could not prove the negative, this is an implicit statement is that the records will enable the committee to prove Trump’s treason. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSN<\/a>: <\/font>Comey declined<\/a> an invitation to speak to the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed door session next week.<\/p>\n

However, The New York Times reports<\/a> that a source says Comey is willing to speak if it’s a public hearing.<\/p>\n

Comey does not want to give Senate Republicans an opportunity to hide his testimony from the American people the way they hid Russia’s interference before the election. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0513Cartoon\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i was up late again last night.  First I was trying to wrap myself around understanding the day’s abominations by the walking urinal and his Republican Reich.  Then my computer notified me that I needed to restart to update Windows 10.  I insist on having my computer ready to go in the morning, and thinking […]<\/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-27554","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\/27554","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=27554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}