{"id":28859,"date":"2017-08-04T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28859"},"modified":"2017-08-04T13:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:30:51","slug":"open-thread-842017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/04\/open-thread-842017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/4\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a few degrees cooler than yesterday, yet the building is so super heated that I can&#8217;t tell the difference.&#160; I took a thermometer to the rest room this morning.&#160; At 6:00 AM, in Nameless&#8217; favorite position, it was 101\u00b0 there.&#160; Tomorrow&#8217;s forecast high is the coolest of the nest ten days: 93\u00b0.&#160; AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:44 (average 7:34).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. 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=YImCcKTO5pY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Mueller Takes Next Step In Donald Trump Russia Probe<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YImCcKTO5pY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Joy did an excellent job of filling us in on the history and status of the investigation into the crimes of Donald &quot;Putin&#8217;s Pervert&quot; Trump (R-RU) and his Republican cronies. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Also from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kzSJaAzExQQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Lawrence: Donald Trump Begged Mexico For Help On The Wall<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kzSJaAzExQQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What a lying fool! Here is a full transcript of both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2017\/politics\/australia-mexico-transcripts\/\" target=\"_blank\">this phone call and the idiot&#8217;s call to Australia&#8217;s PM<\/a>. Enjoy, Ozzies!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-says-mueller-just-called-him-and-said-hes-the-most-innocent-person-ever\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The special counsel, Robert Mueller, just called Donald Trump to tell the President that he was \u201cthe most innocent person ever,\u201d Trump told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the middle of the afternoon, and he just picked up the phone to say how innocent I was,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe said I was the most innocent person he\u2019d ever come across, and maybe in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he had been over all of the evidence and that he and his staff would spend hours just looking at each other in amazement at about how unbelievably innocent I was,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, the really sad thing is that it&#8217;s something Trump would actually say. <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\/0804Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0804Cartoon\" 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=\"0804Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0804Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And today&#8217;s Republicans would cheer!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a few degrees cooler than yesterday, yet the building is so super heated that I can&#8217;t tell the difference.&#160; I took a thermometer to the rest room this morning.&#160; At 6:00 AM, in Nameless&#8217; favorite position, it was 101\u00b0 there.&#160; Tomorrow&#8217;s forecast high is the coolest of the nest ten days: 93\u00b0.&#160; AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! 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