{"id":28524,"date":"2017-07-09T12:57:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T19:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28524"},"modified":"2017-07-09T12:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T19:57:16","slug":"open-thread-792017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/09\/open-thread-792017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 7\/9\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank goodness it’s a Wendy day.  Until she gets here, my mama had a word for anyone who gets downwind of this TomCat: nauseous!  I’m sure I will not have time to finish today’s articles, before she arrives to de-stink me, and help with several chores, including the dreaded task.  I have a busy week ahead.  Later:  Wendy just left.  We did all the chores.  I smell much better now.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 2:38 (average 4:22).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>A Ku Klux Klan chapter holding a rally in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday afternoon says it expects 80 to 100 members and supporters to take part in the protest and that most will have guns with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an open-carry state, so our members will be armed,\u201d said James Moore, a member of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which is headquartered in Pelham, N.C., near the Virginia border. Moore said that if members are attacked, they will defend themselves.<\/p>\n

The KKK is protesting the Charlottesville City Council\u2019s decision this year to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a public park and rename that park. Once called Lee Park, it is now Emancipation Park. A court injunction has halted the statue\u2019s removal until a November hearing.<\/p>\n

Pray that they kill nobody. Immediately after the rally, the Ammosexual racists could reconvene as a meeting of the North Carolina RNC. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From DC Report<\/a>: <\/font>What\u2019s missing this morning from the front pages of four of America\u2019s Big Five newspapers\u2014The New York Times<\/a>, The Washington Post<\/a>, The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, and USA Today\u2014<\/a>exposes some of the reasons we felt the need after the November election to create DCReport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not one of America\u2019s four most influential newspapers quoted the most crucial words spoken by Rex Tillerson, our country\u2019s Secretary of State, about the private meeting Friday in Hamburg between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. The Los Angeles Times<\/a> gave the keywords only passing mention.<\/p>\n

Tillerson said Trump began the meeting with Putin \u201cby raising the concerns of the American people regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notice that Trump didn\u2019t say he was concerned. Trump didn\u2019t say that the administration was concerned. He didn\u2019t even say that the United States of America was concerned.<\/p>\n

Trump expressed no official concern, based on what Tillerson said. None.<\/p>\n

I agree with David Cay Johnston. To The best of my knowledge, only one other major news organization did make that distinction, MSNBC in the clip I shared yesterday. That’s too much media bias. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>The world was aghast as a first daughter sat in for her father at the Group of 20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany. Ivanka Trump took her father’s seat among world leaders, sitting directly between Chinese President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister Theresa May.<\/p>\n

Republican nepotism has now reached the penultimate extreme. Will he let her try the nuclear football next? RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Thank goodness it’s a Wendy day.  Until she gets here, my mama had a word for anyone who gets downwind of this TomCat: nauseous!  I’m sure I will not have time to finish today’s articles, before she arrives to de-stink me, and help with several chores, including the dreaded task.  I have a busy week […]<\/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-28524","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\/28524","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=28524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}