{"id":27585,"date":"2017-05-16T12:53:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T19:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27585"},"modified":"2017-05-16T12:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T19:53:38","slug":"open-thread-5162017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/16\/open-thread-5162017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/16\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another day, and I was busy this morning with paper work.&#160; I also composed my grocery order in time for Store to Door to call for it.&#160; As usual, another day in the Republican Rectum Reich has brought a new scandal.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today;s took me 4:50 (average 6:32).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-16-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=VfyVsjQRMaM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Here\u2019s How Trump Could Already Be Prosecuted | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VfyVsjQRMaM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Nixon was impeached and almost charged for covering up corruption and a 3rd rate burglary. Slick Willie was impeached and almost charged for covering up a BJ. What does Trump deserve for covering up high treason? That&#8217;s right, but Republicans refuse to obey the law.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/three-russian-spies-meet-in-the-oval-office\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Three men alleged to be prominent Russian spies inexplicably gained access to the Oval Office last week and held a high-level meeting there, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses to the meeting said that the three Russian agents spoke at length and shared sensitive intelligence material, at times laughing uproariously.<\/p>\n<p>After approximately an hour, the meeting broke up, with two of the spies leaving the Oval Office and the third remaining behind.<\/p>\n<p>News that agents of the Russian Federation had somehow eluded the Secret Service in order to hold a meeting in the Oval Office sent shock waves through Washington on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, there is no satire there. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-russia-classified-information-isis.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump boasted about highly classified intelligence in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador last week, providing details that could expose the source of the information and the manner in which it was collected, a current and a former American government official said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence disclosed by Mr. Trump in a meeting with Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, was about an Islamic State plot, according to the officials. A Middle Eastern ally that closely guards its own secrets provided the information, which was considered so sensitive that American officials did not share it widely within the United States government or pass it on to other allies.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is this why Russian press was allowed in, but US press was not?&#160; Were it not his right to declassify, this would be high treason. After this, no sane leader will share intelligence with the US again . <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\/0516Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0516Cartoon\" 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=\"0516Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0516Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another day, and I was busy this morning with paper work.&#160; I also composed my grocery order in time for Store to Door to call for it.&#160; As usual, another day in the Republican Rectum Reich has brought a new scandal. 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