{"id":27823,"date":"2017-05-31T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27823"},"modified":"2017-05-31T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:47:04","slug":"open-thread-5312014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/open-thread-5312014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/31\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#39;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries.&nbsp; Wendy comes this evening, and I have plenty of stink to keep her scrubbing for a while.&nbsp; Tomorrow I have two appointments with Christine, my Ophthalmologist in preparation for my first cataract surgery on the 23rd.&nbsp; Please expect only a Personal Update.&nbsp; I&#39;ll be fully dilated and virtually blind when I return.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s took me 3:14 (average 4:19).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-31-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=YdnT4fmWq18\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Shouldn&rsquo;t Jared Kushner Be Arrested? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YdnT4fmWq18?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Arrest Kushner Now! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-says-sleeping-only-four-hours-a-day-not-affecting-his-ability-to-cljjryff\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump tweeted early Wednesday morning that his practice of sleeping only four hours a day was having no impact whatsoever on his ability to cljjryff.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who repeatedly touted his high energy level during the 2016 campaign, tweeted that, despite his gruelling Presidential schedule, he still had enormous reserves of stamina, which he called &ldquo;stamgygygyggy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In the same tweetstorm, he lashed out at news reports questioning his fitness for office, denouncing them as &ldquo;fakequez%(&trade;.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy is back to straight news again. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/30\/us\/politics\/trump-dubke-white-house-staff-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Back from overseas and confronting an unforgiving political environment, President Trump appears increasingly isolated inside the White House, according to advisers, venting frustration over the performance of his staff and openly talking about shaking it up. But as he considers casting off old aides, Mr. Trump is finding it challenging to recruit new ones.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosures from investigations stemming from Russian meddling in last year&rsquo;s election &mdash; coupled with the president&rsquo;s habit of undercutting his staff &mdash; have driven away candidates for West Wing jobs that normally would be among the most coveted in American politics, according to people involved in the search.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the first change in what may be a broader shake-up was announced Tuesday, the White House was left without a replacement. Michael Dubke, the White House communications director, said he would step down, but four possible successors contacted by the White House declined to be considered, according to an associate of Mr. Trump who like others asked not to be identified discussing internal matters.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That makes perfect sense. If I were a completely corrupt Republican (tautology intended), I would not accept an appointment from the Fuhrer without a guaranteed full-salary pension for life and a blanket full pardon for all crimes: past, present and future. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0531Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0531Cartoon.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"0531Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries.&nbsp; Wendy comes this evening, and I have plenty of stink to keep her scrubbing for a while.&nbsp; Tomorrow I have two appointments with Christine, my Ophthalmologist in preparation for my first cataract surgery on the 23rd.&nbsp; Please expect only a Personal Update.&nbsp; I&#39;ll be fully dilated <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/open-thread-5312014\/' 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-27823","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\/27823","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=27823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}