{"id":28435,"date":"2017-07-05T13:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28435"},"modified":"2017-07-05T13:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:14:14","slug":"open-thread-752017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/open-thread-752017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 7\/5\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hot enough to melt a brass monkey, and my little AC is going full speed, trying to keep it tolerable in the room.  When Wendy gets here for my shower, it will be 93\u00b0 outside, so it will be at least that hot or hotter in the shower room.  It will be a dry off twice day, once when I finish the shower, and once when I’m back in my room.  Tomorrow I have an annual board meeting with my prison volunteer group, and Friday I have a follow up appointment with my gall bladder surgeon, so please expect no more than a Personal Update on both days.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:25 (average 6:28).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Newsweek<\/a>: <\/font>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<\/a> has taken a pop at the political direction of the U.S. and the U.K. in a conversation with Ireland\u2019s new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.<\/p>\n

During his official visit to Ireland, Trudeau said<\/a> in a joint press conference with Varadkar that Canada and Ireland had major allies who were going in a \u201cdifferent direction\u201d from them, underlining his souring relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

"There are tremendous opportunities for countries like Canada and Ireland, at a time where perhaps our significant allies and trading partners in the case of both the U.S. and the U.K. are turning inward or at least turning into a different direction,\u201d Trudeau said in comments carried by AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kudos to Trudeau. We all know what country the Fuhrer wants to insert into Canada’s favored position. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>\u2026Republican senators have had to decide whether public appearances would be fruitful or the crowds hostile. Many lawmakers seem to have given up on town hall-style meetings and parades\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

In short, most Republicans are avoiding the rich political opportunities for grandstanding the 4th offers, so they can to stay in hiding from their constituents. What anti-American cowards they are! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Did you hear about the Civil War Part II over the weekend? Somehow, word got around among Confederate \u201cpatriot\u201d groups that AntiFa (anti-facists) were planning to desecrate Confederate memorials like Gettysburg. Never mind there are no Confederate memorials at Gettysburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For their part, the Central Pennsylvania AntiFa organization made it clear they had no plans to show up and emphatically denied they ever had any intention of going to Gettysburg.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the rally cry had already gone out, the Confederate bugle sounded, and so-called \u201cpatriots\u201d heeded the call and made their way to Gettysburg to defend their great, great, great, great grandpappy\u2019s honor. Among the \u201cpatriots\u201d was Ben Hornberger, a Trump supporter<\/a>, who accidentally shot himself while resting his flag pole on his gun at the rally of Gettysburg:<\/a><\/p>\n

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A "patriot" who brought a revolver to Gettysburg National Military Park Saturday amid rumors of desecration of memorials accidentally shot himself in the leg Saturday.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Hornberger, 23, of Shippensburg, accidentally triggered the revolver, which was inside a leg holster, when he temporarily rested the bottom of his flag pole against the holster, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n

Park police were nearby when the shooting occurred and officers quickly applied a tourniquet that may have saved the man’s life, said Sgt. Anna Rose, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Park Police.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After police took the gun, it went off again as they were trying to unload it. Humiliation aside, Hornberger is expected to recover.<\/p>\n

As long as the fool was shooting himself, it’s a shame this Nazi Republican Ammosexual didn’t shoot himself in a place that would have prevented him from polluting the gene pool. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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It’s hot enough to melt a brass monkey, and my little AC is going full speed, trying to keep it tolerable in the room.  When Wendy gets here for my shower, it will be 93\u00b0 outside, so it will be at least that hot or hotter in the shower room.  It will be a dry […]<\/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-28435","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\/28435","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=28435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}