{"id":27892,"date":"2017-06-06T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27892"},"modified":"2017-06-06T20:40:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:40:34","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-06-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/06\/squatchs-open-thread-06-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch&#8217;s Open Thread 06 June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">I have a meeting to go to shortly.&nbsp; I am a member of the Family Council and a liaison to the Board of the care centre where my mum lived and the board is meeting tonight.&nbsp; The Family Council meets next week.&nbsp; Tomorrow is physio and teaching so there will likely be no Open Thread for tomorrow.&nbsp; We have had no additional word from TC yet, but when we know, we will pass it on.&nbsp; In the mean time, please keep TC in your thoughts and prayers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&rsquo;s took me 3:39 (average 5:52).&nbsp; To do it, <\/font><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-06\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">.&nbsp; How did you do? Try not to get all wet with this one!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Short Takes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">YouTube &#8212;&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>If He Were Doing Any Other Job, Donald Trump Would Have Been Fired by Now | The Resistance | GQ&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aCJPd6C4vss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">I should think that Trump would understand this phrase: &quot;You&#39;re fired!&quot;&nbsp; Or perhaps this one: &quot;Go straight to jail.&nbsp; Do not pass Go.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:28px;\"><span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\"><span style=\"background-color:#FF0000;\"><b><i>Resist and Persist!!!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/calling-earth-a-loser-trump-vows-to-make-better-deal-with-new-planet\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>The New Yorker<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212;&nbsp;In a dramatic announcement from the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, Donald J. Trump pronounced the planet Earth a &ldquo;loser&rdquo; and vowed to make a better deal with a new planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" data-wc=\"31\" word_count=\"31\"><span class=\"s1\">&ldquo;Earth is a terrible, very bad planet,&rdquo; he told the White House press corps. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s maybe the worst planet in the solar system, and it&rsquo;s far from the biggest.&rdquo; <span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" data-wc=\"38\" word_count=\"38\"><span class=\"s1\">When asked which planet he would make a new deal with, Trump offered few specifics, saying only, &ldquo;The solar system has millions of terrific planets, and they&rsquo;re all better than Earth, which is a sick, failing loser.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" data-wc=\"30\" word_count=\"30\"><span class=\"s1\">Trump&rsquo;s remarks drew a strong response from one of the United States&rsquo; <small><font size=\"2\">NATO<\/font><\/small> allies, Germany&rsquo;s Angela Merkel. &ldquo;I strongly support Donald Trump leaving the planet Earth,&rdquo; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" data-wc=\"31\" word_count=\"31\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">I&#39;m with Angela Merkel!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" data-wc=\"31\" style=\"text-align: center;\" word_count=\"31\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:28px;\"><span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\"><span style=\"background-color:#FF0000;\"><b><i>Resist and Persist!!!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" data-wc=\"31\" word_count=\"31\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/karen-handel-dark-money-d0a0dadd2d04\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Think Progress<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212; &#8230;Sen. John Wiles (R) knew that if he could lift Georgia&rsquo;s law that banned outside groups from purchasing anonymous mailers, he could transform the way his party conducts campaigns. He declared at the time that he would &ldquo;not support any effort to regulate anonymous political speech.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" id=\"085a\" name=\"085a\">Wiles was able to get his colleagues on board, and they quietly passed legislation removing the ban. But the move earned him critics, including the top Republican in the state tasked with running elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" name=\"085a\">Karen Handel, then Georgia&rsquo;s Republican secretary of state, said she was &ldquo;adamantly&rdquo; opposed to Wiles&rsquo; political maneuver&mdash;she had <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonpye.com\/2008\/08\/georgia-sos-debuts-transparency-website\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonpye.com\/2008\/08\/georgia-sos-debuts-transparency-website\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">recently launched<\/font><\/a> a &ldquo;transparency in government&rdquo; program.<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong> &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" name=\"085a\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/span>Handel is relying heavily on the same kind of spending she so recently fought against.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" id=\"5c14\" name=\"5c14\">Outside groups have spent roughly $9 million supporting Handel&rsquo;s campaign during the primary and leading up to the June 20 runoff. More than $250,000 of that total has been spent on anonymous direct mail.&nbsp; <span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" name=\"5c14\">&ldquo;Karen Handel was for a ban on secret political spending, but now that it&rsquo;s clear she can&rsquo;t compete with Jon Ossoff and his small-dollar, grassroots donors, her campaign is almost completely reliant on special interest money from groups that refuse to disclose their donors.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" name=\"5c14\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">So much for being &quot;adamantly opposed&quot; to dark money.&nbsp; I did not like Karen Handel and her shenanigans when she was with Susan G Komen and I am disappointed to see her back in the limelight with her Republican talking points and lack of ethics.&nbsp; The special election in Georgia&#39;s 6th district is set for 20 June 2017.&nbsp; May it turn blue with Jon Ossoff who garnered 48.1% of the vote in the jungle primary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" name=\"5c14\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:28px;\"><span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\"><span style=\"background-color:#FF0000;\"><b><i>Resist and Persist!!!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" name=\"5c14\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>My Universe <\/strong>&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" name=\"5c14\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27946\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kung-fu-kitty.jpg\" width=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kung-fu-kitty.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kung-fu-kitty-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Kung Fu Kitty!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" name=\"5c14\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27947\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/break-dance-kitty.jpg\" width=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/break-dance-kitty.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/break-dance-kitty-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><strong><span style=\"font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Break dance kitty!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" data-wc=\"31\" word_count=\"31\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a meeting to go to shortly.&nbsp; I am a member of the Family Council and a liaison to the Board of the care centre where my mum lived and the board is meeting tonight.&nbsp; The Family Council meets next week.&nbsp; Tomorrow is physio and teaching so there will likely be no Open Thread <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/06\/squatchs-open-thread-06-june-2017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-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\/27892","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}