{"id":28883,"date":"2017-08-06T13:43:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T20:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28883"},"modified":"2017-08-06T13:43:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T20:43:21","slug":"open-thread-862017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/06\/open-thread-862017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/6\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy is due to arrive in about ten minutes, and am I ever ready for a shower!&#160; I have been since five minutes after I got out of the shower on Wednesday evening.&#160; I have a light week coming up, and I don&#8217;t need to go out, except for a trip to the bank, which I&#8217;ll probably take tomorrow morning.&#160; Yesterday was only 93\u00b0.&#160; Humidity is 88%.&#160; My AC filters the air in my room, but in the hallways and outside, the smoke from wildfires is bad enough to irritate my eyes.&#160; I hope you are enjoying your weekend.&#160; Later: Wendy arrived, before I added the third Short Take.&#160; We got a lot done, and she is still a national treasure, but she just left, and I already need a shower.&#160; ARGH!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:30 (average 5:06).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-06-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=8K9yAW7dR3Q\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FunnyorDie\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Funny or Die Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The West Wing: Trump Reboot<\/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\/8K9yAW7dR3Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Are they right about the Executive Producer or what? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/8\/2\/1686263\/-WH-correspondent-cronies-Native-Indians-should-go-back-to-your-country\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Over at our favorite website for classy headlines and snarky stories, <a href=\"https:\/\/wonkette.com\/620990\/stupidest-white-house-correspondent-on-internet-tells-native-americans-to-go-back-to-mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Wonkette<\/a>, there\u2019s a fall-flat-on-your-face article about a twitter exchange that begins with a post by White House correspondent Lucian Wintrich, who writes for the right-wing conspiracy blog The Gateway Pundit. Seems Mr. Wintrich was none too pleased with a photo of three Native Americans flipping off Mount Rushmore. Below is the photo with his response\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0806Lucian-Wintrich-Rushmore-tweet\" 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=\"0806Lucian-Wintrich-Rushmore-tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0806Lucian-Wintrich-Rushmore-tweet.jpg\" width=\"552\" height=\"754\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2026The most braindead responses come from Wintrich\u2019s cronies who believe, as he does, that \u2018Native Indians\u2019 snuck into the continent and stole the land and resources. This exchange is classic:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why make the trip to do that, go back to your country if you don\u2019t like the country or its history.<\/p>\n<p>This is their country. They were here first<\/p>\n<p>Really? They don\u2019t look British at all<\/p>\n<p>Not at all huh <\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t look native Indian either<\/p>\n<p>[facepalm]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On a scale of one to ten, Republican activists are racist idiots! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/ryan-must-pass-major-legislation-2018\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday emphasized that congressional Republicans must pass major legislation or they will risk their majority in the 2018 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t do our job we will depress turnout,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/paul-ryan-predicts-an-easier-time-passing-tax-overhaul\/article_87cebf50-57e9-5ee2-b6b0-bbcd35b9e7ca.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan told the Wisconsin State Journal<\/a>. \u201cI am frustrated as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan blamed inaction on the Senate, which recently failed to pass a bill to repeal Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pretty frustrated with the slow pace of things (in the Senate), but in the House, we\u2019ve actually done most of our agenda except for welfare reform and tax reform,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker also lamented the distractions from the White House, though he did not mention President Donald Trump by name.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The tip of Lyin&#8217; Ryan&#8217;s nose is an orange shade of brown! <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\/0806Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0806Cartoon\" 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=\"0806Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0806Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy is due to arrive in about ten minutes, and am I ever ready for a shower!&#160; I have been since five minutes after I got out of the shower on Wednesday evening.&#160; I have a light week coming up, and I don&#8217;t need to go out, except for a trip to the bank, which <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/06\/open-thread-862017\/' 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-28883","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\/28883","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=28883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}