{"id":28642,"date":"2017-07-19T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28642"},"modified":"2017-07-19T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:22:21","slug":"open-thread-7192017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/open-thread-7192017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/19\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I was awake most of Monday night, because I had cotton mouth, as I was allowed no liquids.&#160; The Surgery Center was efficient.&#160; During the surgery, Christine told me that the cancer surgery had made the cataract more difficult to extract and the pain drops were wearing off.&#160; When she applied more drops, I had a brief moment of intense burning, but otherwise there was no pain during the procedure.&#160; I got to look through the eye this morning, and the effect is phenomenal. The vision is clear and colors are brilliant.&#160; The computer screen is still blurry, because I have to wear my glasses, which are intended for distance, to protect the eye.&#160; I can&#8217;t wait to get the other eye done.&#160; This is today&#8217;s only article, because I have a follow-up appointment this afternoon.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:35 (average 4:19).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-07-19-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=h0AseqeQTws\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">A Timeline of Treason | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/h0AseqeQTws?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It is what Keith says it is: a timeline of treason. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Trump, Putin had second, undisclosed, hour-long encounter at G20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian Bremmer, political scientist and president of The Eurasia Group, talks with Rachel Maddow about the revelation of an undisclosed second encounter between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that left US allies concerned and no official record. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_a2bremmer_170718\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Consider this in the context that Jared Kushner tried to establish a backchannel of communications with the Russian government, so that nobody in the US government would be aware of what is said. Why does the Trump Reich want to hide dealings with Russia from America? It seems clear that the second meeting between Trump and Putin included only a Russian translator was also a safe way to discuss <em>quid pro quo<\/em> in secret. That&#8217;s conspiracy. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-with-low-white-vote-count\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was rushed to the hospital late Monday night with what doctors diagnosed as a low white-vote count.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center said that when McConnell arrived at the facility his white-vote count had fallen below fifty and he had gone into shock.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Harland Dorrinson, a physician at Walter Reed who is monitoring McConnell\u2019s condition, called his low white-vote count \u201cvery serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch McConnell needs a white-vote count of at least fifty in order to function,\u201d he said. \u201cIf it falls below fifty and stays there for an extended period of time, he cannot survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! So that explains it. This might give Bought Bitch Mitch a chance to socialize with his pal, Antonin Scalia. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile-1.png\" \/>&#160;<strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/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\/07\/0719Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0719Cartoon\" 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=\"0719Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0719Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#8230;for now.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was awake most of Monday night, because I had cotton mouth, as I was allowed no liquids.&#160; The Surgery Center was efficient.&#160; During the surgery, Christine told me that the cancer surgery had made the cataract more difficult to extract and the pain drops were wearing off.&#160; When she applied more drops, I had <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/open-thread-7192017\/' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28642","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\/28642","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=28642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}