{"id":28836,"date":"2017-08-02T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28836"},"modified":"2017-08-02T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T19:46:09","slug":"open-thread-822017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/open-thread-822017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/2\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m having a busy day in spite of the oppressive heat, but they did lower today&#8217;s forecast to 107\u00b0.&#160; That will still beat the old record high by 14\u00b0.&#160; I cleaned out the fridge and organized the freezer.&#160; Store to Door has delivered groceries, and I put them away.&#160; I changed the poll.&#160; I prepared the graphics and collected most of the data for July&#8217;s Monthly Report.&#160; Wendy will be coming this evening.&#160; I expect her to wear a swimsuit, so she can cool off too.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:33 (average 5:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-02-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=d57tluWHRs8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Why is Trump Reminding Us of the Pee Pee Tape? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/d57tluWHRs8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think Putin&#8217;s Piddle Pervert keeps bringing up the pee tape, because he&#8217;s suffering from withdrawal. Putin won&#8217;t provide hookers for Trump, because the investigation is interfering with Putin&#8217;s <em>quo<\/em>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4YSJo_2WJyY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Jim Bakker: Buy My Food Buckets Because We&#8217;re Heading For &#8216;A Hellish 42 Months On Planet Earth&#8217;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4YSJo_2WJyY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bakker illustrates the difference between taxpayers and pseudo-Christians. Republicans tax taxpayers to rip us off. Pseudo-Christians are so stupid that they hand it over despite Bakker&#8217;s long history of criminal con games. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department\u2019s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The document, an internal announcement to the civil rights division, seeks current lawyers interested in working for a new project on \u201cinvestigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement suggests that the project will be run out of the division\u2019s front office, where the Trump administration\u2019s political appointees work, rather than its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/educational-opportunities-section\" target=\"_blank\">Educational Opportunities Section<\/a>, which is run by career civil servants and normally handles work involving schools and universities.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The professionals in the Educational Opportunities section would not carry out Trump&#8217;s and KKK Beauregard&#8217;s racist Republican scam! <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\/08\/0802Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0802Cartoon\" 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=\"0802Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0802Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Can you blame Abe for portending he has never heard of them?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a busy day in spite of the oppressive heat, but they did lower today&#8217;s forecast to 107\u00b0.&#160; That will still beat the old record high by 14\u00b0.&#160; I cleaned out the fridge and organized the freezer.&#160; Store to Door has delivered groceries, and I put them away.&#160; I changed the poll.&#160; I prepared <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/open-thread-822017\/' 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-28836","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\/28836","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=28836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}