{"id":28151,"date":"2017-06-18T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T18:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28151"},"modified":"2017-06-18T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T18:59:50","slug":"open-thread-6182017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/18\/open-thread-6182017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/18\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Wendy to arrive to de-stink the sweaty TomCat and to help with chores, including the dreaded task.&#160; If you played Fantasy Football in our league last year and have not told me whether you are still playing, please let me know.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:52 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-18-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=GpNrTpoYUkY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>A GOP Father&#8217;s Day<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/GpNrTpoYUkY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You know Bought Bitch Mitch and his goose-stepping criminal cronies will only make the bad things in the House Bill worse. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/6\/16\/1672334\/-Trump-family-golf-and-wedding-planner-tapped-for-job-overseeing-distribution-billions-of-tax-dollars\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>No experience? No problem! Donald Trump rewards loyalty above all else. Like a king doling out titles and land to loyalists, the U.S. is now Trump\u2019s own personal fiefdom. He\u2019s proved it once again by announcing he\u2019s selected Lynne Patton for a key role at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/trump-chooses-family-event-planner-run-n-y-housing-programs-article-1.3251314\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Patton was appointed Wednesday to head up the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development\u2019s Region II, which includes New York and New Jersey, where she\u2019ll oversee distribution of billions of taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What makes her qualified for a job overseeing billions of taxpayer dollars? She coordinated Eric Trump\u2019s wedding, not to mention some \u2018celebrity\u2019 golf tournaments. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What&#8217;s even sadder is that she may be the most qualified of all of Trump&#8217;s appointees. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/allies-start-planning-a-life-without-america.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Many governments must be thinking along the same lines, but few have spelled it out so clearly. Germany did, when Chancellor Angela Merkel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/28\/world\/europe\/angela-merkel-trump-alliances-g7-leaders.html\">said<\/a>, \u201cThe times in which we could rely fully on others \u2014 they are somewhat over.\u201d Now Canada, a country tightly bound to its neighbor by history, alliance and the longest border in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/06\/world\/canada\/canada-military-spending-trump-freeland.html\">has declared<\/a> the need to recognize that the United States is relinquishing its role as the \u201cindispensable nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that our friend and ally has come to question the very worth of its mantle of global leadership puts into sharper focus the need for the rest of us to set our own clear and sovereign course,\u201d Canada\u2019s foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, told her Parliament this month.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Freeland never mentioned Donald Trump. That wouldn\u2019t be diplomatic. But every line of her speech before a silent House of Commons was clearly about a world order thrown into crisis as President Trump scoffs at trade agreements, hectors allies, rips up the landmark Paris climate accord and otherwise demonstrates disdain for anything that isn\u2019t \u201cAmerica First.\u201d Canada\u2019s course, Ms. Freeland said, would be the opposite of Canada First; it would be \u201cthe renewal, indeed the strengthening, of the postwar multilateral order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dear world. It is my fervent hope that we will defeat the Republican Reich and return to the community of civilized nations. RESIST!!<\/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\/0618Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0618Cartoon\" 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=\"0618Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0618Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Wendy to arrive to de-stink the sweaty TomCat and to help with chores, including the dreaded task.&#160; If you played Fantasy Football in our league last year and have not told me whether you are still playing, please let me know. 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