{"id":28731,"date":"2017-07-26T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28731"},"modified":"2017-07-26T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T19:40:51","slug":"open-thread-7262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/open-thread-7262017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s been a very hectic day.&#160; It began at 4:30 AM, when a resident on my floor fell asleep while cooking and started a minor cooking fire.&#160; It wasn&#8217;t bad enough to evacuate me, but when I heard the alarm, I got up, opened my door, and smelled smoke.&#160; I had to get dressed, pop on George, and prepare for evacuation, just in case.&#160; Jason, my tech, can&#8217;t come until Saturday.&#160; His car has a blown transmission, and the shop is looking for parts.&#160; It&#8217;s a &#8217;98 Volvo.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for a grocery delivery from Store to Door.&#160; They told me they had reduced my driver&#8217;s route, and that I can expect delivery between 10:00 AM and 12:00 Noon, instead of between 1:00 and 3:00 PM.&#160; It&#8217;s 11:45, and they haven&#8217;t come yet.&#160; Needless to say, I&#8217;m pooped.&#160; They arrived just before Noon, and groceries are put away!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:50 (average 5:20).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-07-26-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=tf2arVcdDZI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Republicans Are Bailing on Trump | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tf2arVcdDZI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This a rare occasion in which I disagree with Keith. While some Republicans are whining and bitching to cover their butts, but that&#8217;s a long way from bailing on the Fuhrer. That won&#8217;t happen until it&#8217;s so bas that they see themselves about to be tarred, feathered and driven from office.&#160; Republicans in Nixon&#8217;s day were a far better breed of criminal. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PJXzQq9i1Wo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">President Donald Trump Blocks Transgender People From Serving in Military<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PJXzQq9i1Wo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t see why transgender people can&#8217;t join the service, when transspecies monsters have joined Trump&#8217;s administration. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/girl-scouts-obtain-restraining-order-against-trump\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In an extraordinary rebuke of the President of the United States, the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. have obtained a restraining order against Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The order, which the Girls Scouts were granted on Monday night, prevents Trump from coming within three hundred feet of any gathering of the Scouts\u2019 organization.<\/p>\n<p>Carol Foyler, a Girl Scouts spokesperson, said that while the G.S.U.S.A. sought the restraining order \u201cout of an abundance of caution,\u201d the girls themselves were \u201cin no way, shape or form\u201d afraid of President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re prepared to deal with bobcats and bears,\u201d she said. \u201cThey can handle a malignant narcissist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a good thing they did, Andy. Otherwise, Putin&#8217;s Pervert would probably grope them. <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\/0726Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0726Cartoon\" 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=\"0726Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0726Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a very hectic day.&#160; It began at 4:30 AM, when a resident on my floor fell asleep while cooking and started a minor cooking fire.&#160; It wasn&#8217;t bad enough to evacuate me, but when I heard the alarm, I got up, opened my door, and smelled smoke.&#160; I had to get dressed, pop <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/open-thread-7262017\/' 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-28731","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\/28731","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=28731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}