{"id":27594,"date":"2017-05-17T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T21:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27594"},"modified":"2017-05-17T14:15:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T21:15:27","slug":"open-thread-5172017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/17\/open-thread-5172017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/17\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#39;m writing late today to be sure that I&#39;m up when Store to Door delivers my grocery order.&nbsp; Wendy is coming this evening to de-stink the over-humidified TomCat and help with chores.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow.&nbsp; Comcast is coming in the early morning to install an upgraded cable modem and make sure all my wireless devices function properly with it.&nbsp; Neighborhood House, the Nonprofit that covers around 15% of Wendy&#39;s care, is coming in the late morning for me to sign some paperwork.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s took me 3:50 (average 4:42).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-17-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=14HiLa02E3k\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">What&rsquo;s Happening in <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s Head? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/14HiLa02E3k?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have no doubt that Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten suffers from severe, acute Narcissistic Personality Disorder. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/obama-willing-to-serve-as-temp-president-while-trump-receives-psychiatric-evaluation\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Amid concerns about Donald Trump&rsquo;s fitness to be President, former President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he was willing to serve as &ldquo;temp President&rdquo; while Trump undergoes psychiatric evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It would just be a temp thing,&rdquo; Obama told reporters. &ldquo;As soon as psychiatrists determine that Donald Trump is mentally stable and fit to serve as the most powerful officeholder in the world, I&rsquo;d step aside.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Obama said that he was a &ldquo;logical choice&rdquo; to serve as temp President because of his eight years in the White House. &ldquo;For starters, I know how the light switches work,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Obama said that, once installed as temp President, he would look after the day-to-day running of the White House: &ldquo;You know&mdash;vetoing bills, naming Supreme Court Justices, that kind of thing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From Andy&#39;s keyboard to God&#39;s eyes! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/pay-trump-bribes-here-how-an-activist-pulled-off-projecting-messages-onto-trump-hotel\/2017\/05\/16\/2b00fcaa-3a4b-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Since entering office, President Trump has faced accusations that his District hotel is profiting from his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>For a few minutes Monday night, projection artist Robin Bell tried to bring attention to the issue by shining light on it &mdash; a big, blue light.<\/p>\n<p>Bell parked his van about 9:15 p.m. on 12th Street NW across the street from the west entrance of the Trump International Hotel. Bell and two friends then turned on a projector in the van and displayed animated anti-Trump messages about the president&rsquo;s alleged conflicts of interest onto the upscale hotel&rsquo;s facade.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel security ordered him to shut off the projections after only a few minutes, but it was enough time for the messages to go viral on social media, garnering thousands of posts on Twitter and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JckiwLRRmwI?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Robin Bell. <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\/0517Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0517Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0517Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" 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\" title=\"0517Cartoon\" width=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cartoon 5 years old today.&nbsp; Republicans have not changed.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m writing late today to be sure that I&#39;m up when Store to Door delivers my grocery order.&nbsp; Wendy is coming this evening to de-stink the over-humidified TomCat and help with chores.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow.&nbsp; Comcast is coming in the early morning to install an upgraded cable modem <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/17\/open-thread-5172017\/' 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-27594","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\/27594","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=27594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}