{"id":28340,"date":"2017-07-01T13:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28340"},"modified":"2017-07-01T13:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T20:15:22","slug":"open-thread-712017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/01\/open-thread-712017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/1\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day and not as hot as yesterday&#160; After today, the temperatures will be in the mid-80\u00b0s and above for the next ten days.&#160; The horrible part is that for that whole time, the humidity will never drop below 45%.&#160; I hope you are enjoying your holiday weekend (US).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:02 (average 5:25).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-07-01-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=WyAEUOYJlmY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Trump Will Not Be Cleared<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WyAEUOYJlmY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Was Trump an unwitting accomplice? Possibly. A dimwitted one? Indubitably! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/6\/29\/1676496\/-MSNBC-Fires-Greta-Van-Susteren\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2017\/06\/msnbc-greta-van-susteren-part-ways\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But a few days shy of her six-month mark on air, Van Susteren\u2019s business is finished on MSNBC, according to people familiar with the situation. The anchor, whose show struggled to gain traction even as the rest of her colleagues were buoyed by anti-Trump hysteria, has parted ways with the network. She will not appear on the show on Thursday evening. She will be permanently replaced by Ari Melber, the network\u2019s chief legal correspondent and host of the The Point on weekends. He will continue to appear across NBC and MSNBC shows as he takes over the 6 p.m. slot next month. (MSNBC and NBC News declined to comment. Reached by phone Thursday afternoon, Van Susteren had no comment.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I never published one of her clips, I gave her the benefit of the (very small) doubt, if any, and watched several when going to MSNBC for material from Chris, Rachel, and Lawrence. It was more like watching the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>. Good riddance to bad rubbish. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/30\/us\/politics\/trump-health-law-affordable-care-act.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>With Senate Republicans already bogged down over how to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, President Trump on Friday tossed in a new complication with an old idea: The Senate could repeal the health law now, then replace it later.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump gave his blessing [<em>tweeting twit delinked<\/em>] in a Twitter post after a Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/livewellnebraska\/ben-sasse-breaks-silence-on-health-care-bill-says-he\/article_23d50bee-5b87-11e7-92f2-93c61d12da7e.html\" target=\"_blank\">dissatisfied with the current repeal bill<\/a>, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, floated the two-stage approach as a backup plan. Mr. Sasse sent a letter to the president [<em>Fascist delinked<\/em>] and made a pitch on Fox News [<em>Faux Noise delinked<\/em>] on Friday as an agreement on a new version of the Senate\u2019s repeal bill remained elusive.<\/p>\n<p>Other conservatives quickly picked up the idea \u2014 including Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, backed by Charles G. and David H. Koch \u2014 presenting a new headache to Senate leaders who are trying to focus their conservative and moderate troops on finding a compromise.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It isn&#8217;t enough for the Fuhrer and his Koch sucking Republican cronies to take health care away from only 24 million Americans. This will do it to 36 million. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0701Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0701Cartoon\" 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=\"0701Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0701Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I made this cartoon five years ago today.&#160; It still applies.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day and not as hot as yesterday&#160; After today, the temperatures will be in the mid-80\u00b0s and above for the next ten days.&#160; The horrible part is that for that whole time, the humidity will never drop below 45%.&#160; I hope you are enjoying your holiday weekend (US). 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