{"id":28876,"date":"2017-08-05T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28876"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:20:57","slug":"open-thread-852017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/05\/open-thread-852017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/5\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday&#8217;s high was 101\u00b0, 6\u00b0 hotter than forecast, and breaking another all time record for the date, in addition to smoke.&#160; Today is the &quot;cool&quot; day, with only 93\u00b0 forecast.&#160; We may have a week in the 80s\u00b0, starting a week from tomorrow.&#160; Even giving myself a whore&#8217;s bath daily, I can&#8217;t stand myself.&#160; Squatch had better hide, because we have a south wind.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:39 (average 6:44).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-05-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=AbP1ouWsu9A\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Breach of Trust<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AbP1ouWsu9A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Coast Guard Commandant, Adm. Paul Zuklunft, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/08\/01\/commandant-i-will-not-break-faith-transgender-coast-guardsmen.html\" target=\"_blank\">refuses to break faith<\/a> with trans service people. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/the-whole-world-is-laughing-at-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>After the transcript leaked, a panel on an Australian news show devolved into laughter while talking about the conversation Turnbull and Trump had in February. On the call, Turnbull argues that Trump should honor an Obama-era deal that the U.S. would consider taking refugees from Manus Island and Nauru.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mKvvS6AKl5o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! A news show host couldn&#8217;t say that here!! They were way too king to Trump! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/nra-tv-fisk-the-new-york-times\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>The National Rifle Association continued a streak of publishing decidedly aggressive video content Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DLoesch\">@DLoesch<\/a> has a message for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\">@nytimes<\/a>: \u201cWe&#8217;re coming for you.\u201d One       <br \/>non-<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fakenews?src=hash\">#fakenews<\/a> story is not enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NRA?src=hash\">#NRA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClenchedFistofTruth?src=hash\">#ClenchedFistofTruth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hm1QkJi5Tp\">pic.twitter.com\/Hm1QkJi5Tp<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 NRATV (@NRATV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRATV\/status\/893230656125149185\">August 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Frankly, I think the gray lady will serve these fascist Republican Ammosexuals their own asses on a silver platter. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0805Cartoon\" 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=\"0805Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0805Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We have not had a Republican in the White House that wasn&#8217;t a fascist since IKE, with the possible exception of Ford.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s high was 101\u00b0, 6\u00b0 hotter than forecast, and breaking another all time record for the date, in addition to smoke.&#160; Today is the &quot;cool&quot; day, with only 93\u00b0 forecast.&#160; We may have a week in the 80s\u00b0, starting a week from tomorrow.&#160; Even giving myself a whore&#8217;s bath daily, I can&#8217;t stand myself.&#160; Squatch <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/05\/open-thread-852017\/' 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-28876","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\/28876","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=28876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}