{"id":28228,"date":"2017-06-23T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28228"},"modified":"2017-06-23T13:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:29:23","slug":"open-thread-6232017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/open-thread-6232017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/23\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday my appointment was successful, but altogether grueling.&#160; They do make special replacement lenses that would give me vision at all distances, but Medicare does not cover them, and I can&#8217;t afford $2,700 to buy them myself.&#160; I selected a standard mid-range lens, suitable for most indoor activities.&#160; Then I can get a pair of sunglasses for long range outdoor use, seeing hazards to my chair at a distance, and a pair of reading glasses.&#160; TriMet Lift delivered me an hour early, I was seen right away, and it took far less time than anticipated.&#160; I was done at Noon.&#160; I called TriMet, but they were unable to move my ride up from the 2:00 to 2:30 window.&#160; They picked me up just after 2:30.&#160; On the way home, someone sideswiped another TriMet Lift Bus, and mine was diverted to rescue their passengers.&#160; I got to take an unwanted, but necessary, grand tour and finally returned home just after 5:00.&#160; Exhausted, I ate, went to bed, and slept well.&#160; We are now in the worst heat wave of the year so far, forecast at 92\u00b0 today, 99\u00b0 tomorrow, and 100\u00b0 Sunday.&#160; I&#8217;m afraid that when Wendy comes Sunday to de-stink the TomCat, the TomCat may also have to de-stink Wendy!!&#160; <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-angel\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Angel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wlEmoticon-angel.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:59 (average 5:06).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-23-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=ImGMpNkNoYE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Sam Rohrer Says Opposition To Trump Is &#8216;Creating The Circumstances&quot; For The Rise Of The Antichrist<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ImGMpNkNoYE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bull. The home of the Antichrist is 666 Park Avenue.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0623-666\" 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=\"0623-666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0623-666.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"470\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/22\/us\/politics\/trump-comey-tapes.html\" target=\"_blank\">From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump cleared up one of the capital\u2019s least suspenseful mysteries on Thursday, acknowledging that he did not record conversations with James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director he fired in anger over an investigation into his campaign\u2019s possible ties to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting a self-imposed deadline of this week to resolve questions he himself raised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-threatens-retaliation-against-comey-warns-he-may-cancel-press-briefings.html\" target=\"_blank\">by implying that he had taped<\/a> Mr. Comey, Mr. Trump said on Twitter [Traitor delinked] that he had not made tapes of what Mr. Comey has testified were attempts by the president to derail the Justice Department\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>But if few people believed that Mr. Trump actually possessed recordings, his motives in warning Mr. Comey that he might have taped him remain a mystery, particularly since it set off a chain of events that accelerated, rather than slowed, the investigation into Mr. Trump and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Comey testified that it was Mr. Trump\u2019s veiled threat of tapes that led him to authorize the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/16\/us\/politics\/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\">disclosure of memos<\/a> of his conversations with the president \u2014 the details of which prompted the Justice Department to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/17\/us\/politics\/robert-mueller-special-counsel-russia-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\">appoint a special counsel<\/a> to look into the case.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Trump is now telling the truth, always a doubtful hypothesis, he committed Obstruction of Justice by using threats to temper with a witness. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2017\/06\/trump-administration-cuts-funding-to-group-fighting-neo-nazis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>Life After Hate \u2014 a nonprofit group dedicated to de-radicalizing white nationalist and neo-Nazi extremists and combating the rise of right-wing extremism \u2014 is losing its funding under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/06\/23\/playbook-dhs-extremism-life-after-hate-239889\" target=\"_blank\">Politico\u2019s Playbook Plus reported<\/a> that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)\u2019s $10 million grant program \u201cCountering Violent Extremism\u201d was stalled but is set to resume on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Life After Hate was supposed to receive a $400,000 grant in the last days of the Obama administration. That money was delayed as the program was reviewed and assessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut,\u201d Politico said, \u201cthe Trump administration dropped them from the new grant list that\u2019s getting announced today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group has had a \u201ctwenty-fold increase in calls for help\u201d since Election Day from people trying to \u201cdisengage\u201d from neo-Nazism and white supremacy as well as friends and family looking for help for someone they know.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me at all, if the Fuhrer and his Republican Reich gave the money to <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/fighting-hate\/extremist-files\/group\/stormfront\" target=\"_blank\">Stormfront<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"> instead. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0623Cartoon\" 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=\"0623Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0623Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my appointment was successful, but altogether grueling.&#160; They do make special replacement lenses that would give me vision at all distances, but Medicare does not cover them, and I can&#8217;t afford $2,700 to buy them myself.&#160; I selected a standard mid-range lens, suitable for most indoor activities.&#160; Then I can get a pair of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/open-thread-6232017\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228","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=28228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}