{"id":28009,"date":"2017-06-11T01:38:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T08:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28009"},"modified":"2017-06-11T01:38:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T08:38:19","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-10-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/11\/squatchs-open-thread-10-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch&#8217;s Open Thread 10 June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Well, the nurses at&nbsp;Providence Portland Medical Centre are sick and tired of having a mangy, grumpy old TomCat lying about so they are shipping him home Saturday afternoon.&nbsp; He still needs more recovery time, after all, one does not donate their gallbladder to science without feeling a bit tired.&nbsp; Your continued healing thoughts and prayers are very much appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Jigsaw Puzzle<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&rsquo;s took me 3:22 (average 5:26).&nbsp; To do it, <\/font><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-10\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Short Takes<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/republican-candidate-tries-ask-jon-ossoff-gotcha-question-and-it-explodes-her-face\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Alternet<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212;&nbsp;This week Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel faced off in their first Special Election Debate&nbsp;for Georgia&rsquo;s District 06 seat.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/5\/8\/1660072\/-Karen-Handel-refused-debate-with-Jon-Ossoff-after-learning-it-would-be-open-to-the-public\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">Handel has been running scared for some time&mdash;<\/font><\/a>since running as a Republican these days is like wearing a gasoline body spray at a factory that only produces sparks.&nbsp;At one point, the candidates were allowed to ask one another a question. Handel, having virtually&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/6\/6\/1669544\/-Karen-Handel-I-do-not-support-a-livable-wage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">nothing worthwhile to stand on as a candidate herself<\/font><\/a>, decided to try to push the Republican narrative that Jon Ossoff is some carpet-bagging elitist who is going to turn your kids into musical theatre dancers with newfangled iPhones and solar energy lust.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jM8z2xf2VF8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">As the subheading to the article says, &quot;Karen Handel stepped on a land mine during Georgia&#39;s special election debate Wednesday&quot; and it went <strong>KABOOM<\/strong>!!!.&nbsp; That Georgia Peach is sour&nbsp; . . . as sour as can be!&nbsp; For those that don&#39;t remember her, Handel was involved with the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2012\/02\/22\/breast-cancer-awareness-ribbons.aspx#!\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Susan G Komen Foundation<\/strong><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">and the controversy from a few years back.&nbsp; On special election day 20 June 2017, let&#39;s make that Georgia Peach fall right off the tree!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/chowdhury-ny-senate-9c6b46420c56\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Think Progress<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212; For most politically active, progressive 16-year-olds, participating in the democratic process might involve volunteering for a campaign or joining a high school young Democrats club. Tahseen Chowdhury has a different idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" id=\"d521\" name=\"d521\">Though he isn&rsquo;t old enough to vote, the junior at Manhattan&rsquo;s Stuyvesant High School launched his campaign last month for New York state senate. Chowdhury will be challenging Sen. Jose Peralta (D) in Queens&rsquo; District 13 in September 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\" id=\"ba20\" name=\"ba20\">Chowdhury is unconcerned that he&rsquo;s not a known politician. He said he&rsquo;s counting on two phenomena emerging in 2017 to bolster his campaign: The growing number of first-time politicians deciding to take a stab at politics and voters&rsquo; anger toward President Trump, which is also being directed toward local lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\" id=\"1fe1\" name=\"1fe1\">&ldquo;If people don&rsquo;t trust their representatives on the federal level, they have to make sure they&rsquo;re represented adequately in the state and local level,&rdquo; he told ThinkProgress by phone from his high school office. &ldquo;And they&rsquo;re not being represented well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\" name=\"1fe1\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Click through to see what motivates this teen.&nbsp; I predict good things from this young man in the coming years.&nbsp; With the Labour gains in the recent UK election, the rejection of Marine LePen in France, and the protests against Drumpf and Republicans in the US, young voters are saying enough to false promises and austerity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\" name=\"1fe1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/6\/10\/1670675\/-Idiot-Republican-Congressman-Suggests-We-Back-ISIS\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Daily Kos<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212;&nbsp;On Thursday, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) praised the recent Islamic State attack in Tehran as a &ldquo;good thing&rdquo; and suggested that maybe the United States should work with the militant organization.&nbsp; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\" name=\"1fe1\">&quot;We have recently seen an attack on Iran, and the Iranian government, the mullahs, believe that Sunni forces have attacked them. This may signal a ratcheting up of certain commitments by the United States of America. <strong>As far as I&rsquo;m concerned, I just want to make this point and see what you think, isn&rsquo;t it a good thing for us to have the United States finally backing up Sunnis who will attack Hezbollah and the Shiite threat to us? Isn&rsquo;t that a good thing? <\/strong>And if so, maybe this is a Trump &mdash; maybe it&rsquo;s a Trump strategy of actually supporting one group against another, considering that you have two terrorist organizations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\" name=\"1fe1\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">How do these idiots like Rohrabacher get elected?&nbsp; Of course he is a Republican!&nbsp; Saints preserve us!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\" name=\"1fe1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\" name=\"1fe1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;\"><span style=\"font-size:72px;\"><span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\"><span style=\"background-color:#FF0000;\">Resist and Persist!!!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\" name=\"1fe1\"><strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">My Universe<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\" name=\"1fe1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IuHnAq6PMT4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\" name=\"1fe1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the nurses at&nbsp;Providence Portland Medical Centre are sick and tired of having a mangy, grumpy old TomCat lying about so they are shipping him home Saturday afternoon.&nbsp; He still needs more recovery time, after all, one does not donate their gallbladder to science without feeling a bit tired.&nbsp; Your continued healing thoughts and prayers <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/11\/squatchs-open-thread-10-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-28009","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\/28009","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=28009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}