{"id":28789,"date":"2017-07-30T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T21:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28789"},"modified":"2017-07-30T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T22:06:59","slug":"open-thread-7302017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/30\/open-thread-7302017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/30\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Wendy left a short time ago, and I desperately needed destinking.\u00a0 Portland entered an excessive heat warning starting yesterday and extending through the entire week.\u00a0 Today is only 89\u00b0 (60% humidity).\u00a0 Thursday is forecast at 109\u00b0.\u00a0 ARGH!\u00a0 Tomorrow I have my semi-annual eye torture by Alison, my eye cancer surgeon, to make sure there has been no recurrence.\u00a0 Ultrasound on the eye is like scratching a chalk board inside your head.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be gone most of the day and will be fully dilated and useless when I return, so please expect no more than a Personal Update.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:07 (average 4:45).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-07-30-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7PIpWsfQQ-g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RWW News: Rick Joyner Says Chaos Is Proof Trump Is An &#8216;Extraordinary Leader,&#8221; Just Like Jesus<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7PIpWsfQQ-g?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What a crock from this Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian. However, Trump is just like Republican Supply-side Jesus (the exact opposite of the Real Jesus). So where is Supply-side Judas when we need him? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/7\/28\/1684840\/-Trump-responds-to-Republican-repeal-failure-by-threatening-Obamacare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans failed in their latest attempt to take health coverage from 16 million people with so-called \u201cskinny repeal.\u201d So how\u2019s Donald Trump responding? By lamenting the failure and promising to do what he can to blow up the system so that at least a few million people lose coverage:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/890820505330212864\">July 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Very presidential. So populist. What a champion of working people. After sleeping on it, Trump expressed the deep thought <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/890931465885798400\">that<\/a> \u201cIf Republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the Senate, they must immediately go to a 51 vote majority, not senseless 60\u201d\u2014after a 51-49 vote.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What an idiot!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/29\/nyregion\/trump-police-too-nice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>President Trump\u2019s admonition that the police should not be \u201ctoo nice\u201d while transporting suspects drew laughter and cheers from a crowd of officers on Friday, but police officials swiftly made it clear they did not find the words funny.<\/p>\n<p>From New York to Los Angeles, law enforcement authorities criticized the president\u2019s remarks. Experts worried that his words could encourage the inappropriate use of force. A defense lawyer even signaled that he might use video of the speech in court.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism online started shortly after Mr. Trump\u2019s comments, which came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-immigration-gang-violence-long-island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at an event in Brentwood, N.Y.<\/a>, which was intended to support the police in their fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/12\/nyregion\/ms-13-murders-long-island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13<\/a>, a gang that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-immigration-gangs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> of several murders on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>After calling for more immigration officers to help arrest the gang members, Mr. Trump told officers, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/politics\/100000005320670\/trump-to-police-please-dont-be-too-nice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please don\u2019t be too nice<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike when you guys put somebody in the car, and you\u2019re protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over\u201d their head, he said, putting his hand above his head for emphasis. \u201cI said, \u2018You can take the hand away, O.K.?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To the best of my knowledge, no President has ever publicly called for criminal police brutality. But the Fuhrer is a Resident, not a President. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0730Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0730Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0730Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"0730Cartoon\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Redux time!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy left a short time ago, and I desperately needed destinking.\u00a0 Portland entered an excessive heat warning starting yesterday and extending through the entire week.\u00a0 Today is only 89\u00b0 (60% humidity).\u00a0 Thursday is forecast at 109\u00b0.\u00a0 ARGH!\u00a0 Tomorrow I have my semi-annual eye torture by Alison, my eye cancer surgeon, to make sure there has <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/30\/open-thread-7302017\/' 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-28789","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\/28789","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=28789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}