{"id":28845,"date":"2017-08-03T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28845"},"modified":"2017-08-03T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:48:38","slug":"open-thread-832017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/open-thread-832017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/3\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It only broke the record by 12\u00b0 yesterday.&#160; Today is worse.&#160; AC helps, but it&#8217;s falling behind.&#160; I have collected the data for the Monthly Report, but I&#8217;ll put off writing it until tomorrow.&#160; Does anyone have a spare blizzard?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:38 (average 5:52).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-03-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=YhJ3BNPNn40\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Trump\u2019s Threats Are Getting Out of Control | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YhJ3BNPNn40?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ve noticed that, in the last couple days, Congress has ignored their Fuhrer. Is it the beginning of the end? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/8\/1\/1686050\/-Hot-damn-Check-this-female-Marine-pilot-s-intro-ad-for-Kentucky-s-6th-district-Congressional-race\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Lt. Col. Amy McGrath (Ret.) has launched a Congressional bid for Kentucky\u2019s 6th district and her introductory ad is phenomenal. McGrath is a former Marine fighter pilot who flew 85 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was inducted into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nkytribune.com\/2016\/11\/nkytrib-notre-dame-host-public-reception-for-lt-col-mcgrath-on-aviation-hall-of-fame-induction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hall of Fame at the Aviation Museum in Kentucky in November 2016.<\/a> She\u2019ll be facing Republican Andy Barr in Kentucky\u2019s 6th District, which Barr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/5\/1\/1657890\/-Kentucky-Democrats-eye-former-combat-pilot-Amy-McGrath-for-bid-against-GOP-Rep-Andy-Barr\" target=\"_blank\">narrowly won in 2012.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CcjG2fK7kNk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What a great ad! Bought Bitch Mitch supports her opponent. Isn&#8217;t that enough reason to support her?&#160; Also, she has brass cojones!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/02\/world\/europe\/vatican-us-catholic-conservatives.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of \u201chate\u201d with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican\u2019s good graces.<\/p>\n<p>The authors, writing in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laciviltacattolica.it\/articolo\/evangelical-fundamentalism-and-catholic-integralism-in-the-usa-a-surprising-ecumenism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vatican-vetted journal<\/a>, singled out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/07\/world\/europe\/vatican-steve-bannon-pope-francis.html?mcubz=0\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen K. Bannon<\/a>, Mr. Trump\u2019s chief strategist, as a \u201csupporter of an apocalyptic geopolitics\u201d that has stymied action against climate change and exploited fears of migrants and Muslims with calls for \u201cwalls and purifying deportations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article warns that conservative American Catholics have strayed dangerously into the deepening political polarization in the United States. The writers even declare that the worldview of American evangelical and hard-line Catholics, which is based on a literal interpretation of the Bible, is \u201cnot too far apart\u2019\u2019 from jihadists.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a blessing to see authentic Christians calling out Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians within their own denomination. The Fuhrer likes the pseudo-Christians and hopes to grope the nuns.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0803Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0803Cartoon\" 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=\"0803Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0803Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cousin Pole Cat knows what he&#8217;s doing!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only broke the record by 12\u00b0 yesterday.&#160; Today is worse.&#160; AC helps, but it&#8217;s falling behind.&#160; I have collected the data for the Monthly Report, but I&#8217;ll put off writing it until tomorrow.&#160; Does anyone have a spare blizzard? 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