{"id":28776,"date":"2017-07-29T14:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T21:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28776"},"modified":"2017-07-29T14:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T21:42:28","slug":"open-thread-7292017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/29\/open-thread-7292017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/29\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Jason, my computer tech to arrive to delve into some network and laptop issues.&#160; He arrived just as I finished that sentence and did an excellent job.&#160; He cleaned up the network issues Comcast left, did a malware check on my laptop.&#160; He founds it clean but buggy, and started a system recovery to return it to factory default.&#160; I have a shitload of work to do to reinstall all the software.&#160; He even reconfigured my TV, so my screen dimensions display properly.&#160; Needless to say, I&#8217;m running late and am very tired.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:09 (average 4:29).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-07-29-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=4P7iVhs8W1U\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Timeline In the Case Against Trump | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4P7iVhs8W1U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Guilty! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OIoxplmgBCE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Anna Galland on Trumpcare Defeat, Resistance<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OIoxplmgBCE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thanks McCain, Murkowski, and Collins. Also thanks MoveOn and all the progressive patriots fighting RepubliCare, especially <strong>YOU<\/strong>! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-supporters-furious-that-they-still-have-health-care\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>With a fury that could spell political trouble for Republicans in the midterm elections, Trump voters across the country on Friday expressed their outrage and anger that they still have health coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to bed Thursday night and slept like a baby, assuming that when I woke up I would have zero health insurance,\u201d Carol Foyler, a Trump voter, said. \u201cInstead, this nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harland Dorrinson, who voted for Trump \u201cbecause he promised that he would take my health care away from me on Day 1,\u201d said that he was \u201cvery upset\u201d that he will still receive that benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI woke up this morning, and my family and I could still see a doctor,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a betrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many Trump supporters said that congressional Republicans \u201cgave up too soon\u201d in their efforts to deprive ordinary Americans like them of their health care.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Sadly, that is correct. After deplorable, the next synonym for &#8216;Trump supporter&#8217; is idiot. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0729Cartoon\" 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=\"0729Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0729Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Jason, my computer tech to arrive to delve into some network and laptop issues.&#160; He arrived just as I finished that sentence and did an excellent job.&#160; He cleaned up the network issues Comcast left, did a malware check on my laptop.&#160; He founds it clean but buggy, and started a system <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/29\/open-thread-7292017\/' 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-28776","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\/28776","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=28776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}