{"id":28067,"date":"2017-06-13T13:46:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28067"},"modified":"2017-06-13T13:46:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T20:46:39","slug":"open-thread-6132016-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/open-thread-6132016-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/13\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I got tangled in medical mayhem, had to reschedule my cataract surgery, and am way behind schedule.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:13 (average 4:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-13-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; 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=3ATnIls5HSM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Donald Trump\u2019s Odd Obsession with &quot;Hookers&quot; | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3ATnIls5HSM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Spot-on! Putin&#8217;s Piddle Pervert needs a shower to feel golden. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">All In<\/a>: <\/font><strong>T1\/T2: Schumer perfectly lampoons Trump cabinet meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best response to President Trump\u2019s first cabinet meeting, where members showered him with compliments, came from New York Senator Chuck Schumer. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_t1t2schumerlampoons_170612\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL! Kudos to Schumer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/russian-hackers-reportedly-infiltrated-voting-systems-39-states\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Voter databases and software systems in an overwhelming number of states\u201439 to be exact\u2014were targeted by Russian cyberattacks over the summer and fall of 2016, Bloomberg News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2017-06-13\/russian-breach-of-39-states-threatens-future-u-s-elections\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>That number, and Bloomberg\u2019s revelation that hackers attempted to delete or alter voter data in Illinois and successfully accessed a campaign finance database in another state, indicates that Russian\u2019s election interference was even more vigorous than has previously been reported.<\/p>\n<p>It builds on a NSA document leaked to The Intercept and made public last week that offered hard evidence that Russian meddling involved not only the strategic hacking and distribution of campaign communications, but <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/nsa-russian-hacking-election-officials\" target=\"_blank\">efforts to interfere<\/a> with America\u2019s election infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This in itself should invalidate the election. <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\/06\/0613Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0613Cartoon\" 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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0613Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0613Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got tangled in medical mayhem, had to reschedule my cataract surgery, and am way behind schedule. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:13 (average 4:30).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (GQ Channel): Donald Trump\u2019s Odd Obsession with &quot;Hookers&quot; | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann &#160; Spot-on! <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/open-thread-6132016-2\/' 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-28067","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\/28067","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=28067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}