{"id":27723,"date":"2017-05-24T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27723"},"modified":"2017-05-24T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T21:29:23","slug":"open-thread-5242017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/24\/open-thread-5242017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/24\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We have a couple days of cool weather, and they couldn&#39;t have come soon enough for me.&nbsp; I expect Store to Door to deliver my groceries between now (12:15) and 3:00 PM.&nbsp; This evening Wendy will be here, and has plenty of stink to remove from the heat-waved TomCat.&nbsp; Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow, as I have an an appointment with a new Prosthetist.&nbsp; My old one moved out of town, so the new one will need to familiarize herself with George, Stumpy and me in order to get approval for my annual upgrades.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s took me 2:54 (average 4:45).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-24-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=TtmA6qyLZeo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">So, What About Those Oval Office Tapes? | 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\/TtmA6qyLZeo?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For us, the best option may be impeachment in 2019, if we can take the House. Presenting Trump&#39;s agenda is a less difficult win that stopping the same agenda under Pence. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/?p=3512735\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump&rsquo;s foreign trip hit a snag on Tuesday, when the remaining countries on his itinerary announced that they would rather &ldquo;wait a month&rdquo; and meet with the next President instead.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It makes no sense for us to roll out the red carpet for Trump when there is going to be a completely different guy in the White House in a month,&rdquo; Hendrik van der Valde, a travel minister for the Belgian government, said. &ldquo;We very much look forward to hosting the next U.S. President, be it Mike Pence or Paul Ryan or whoever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Citing the exorbitant costs of hosting a President, the Belgian said it &ldquo;would be insane&rdquo; to spend such sums on someone who &ldquo;only has a few weeks left&rdquo; in office.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL Andy! Those foreigners sure are smarter than we are! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/24\/politics\/democratic-wave-election-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font>Conditions are right for a major Democratic wave to sweep out the House Republican majority next fall, according to Nathan Gonzales, who runs the <a href=\"https:\/\/insideelections.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&quot;Inside Elections&quot; campaign tipsheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The midterm elections are still nearly a year and a half away, and the political dynamics could yet change, but we shouldn&#39;t ignore the fact that history and the current environment are merging together for a potentially great set of elections for Democrats in November 2018,&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/gonzales\/needs-video-19-house-races-shift-toward-democrats\" target=\"_blank\">writes Gonzales in a piece published Wednesday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">God knows we need it! <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\/0524Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0524Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0524Cartoon_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=\"0524Cartoon\" width=\"654\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans still don&#39;t believe it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a couple days of cool weather, and they couldn&#39;t have come soon enough for me.&nbsp; I expect Store to Door to deliver my groceries between now (12:15) and 3:00 PM.&nbsp; This evening Wendy will be here, and has plenty of stink to remove from the heat-waved TomCat.&nbsp; Please expect no more than a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/24\/open-thread-5242017\/' 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-27723","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\/27723","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=27723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}