{"id":28904,"date":"2017-08-08T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T20:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28904"},"modified":"2017-08-08T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T20:20:01","slug":"open-thread-882017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/open-thread-882017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/8\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This morning I ordered my week&#8217;s groceries from Store to Door.&#160; Yesterday&#8217;s 91\u00b0 high just missed setting a new all time record for the first time in a week, and today&#8217;s 95\u00b0 forecast is one degree short of a new record.&#160; We&#8217;re still under an air quality warning, due to smoke from wildfires.&#160; But we actually have a forecast high of 74\u00b0 on Sunday.&#160; I can&#8217;t wait!&#160; I&#8217;m heat exhausted, because it has interfered with my sleep on and off for about two weeks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:53 (average 7:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-08-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=EnDBvGKdJyc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">We Cannot Have A President Under Investigation | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EnDBvGKdJyc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LMAO!! Pirro is a Faux Noise Ammosexual, who has said her audience should be &quot;primed to use&quot; their guns. I&#8217;d love to see her confronted with that quote. Republicans are such hypocrites! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/mike-pence-considering-running-for-president-in-1820\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Vice-President Mike Pence is seriously considering running for President in 1820, various sources confirmed over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to several prominent Republican donors, Pence is already laying the groundwork for such a campaign, outlining what he believes are the most serious challenges facing 1820 America.<\/p>\n<p>In a conference call with donors last week, Pence reportedly said that, as President, his No. 1 priority would be to repeal and replace the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p>He offered a sneak preview of a potential 1820 stump speech, in which he unleashed a brutal attack on the Bill of Rights\u2019 author, James Madison, and called for the development of the telegraph key.<\/p>\n<p>According to Harland Dorrinson, a donor who was on the conference call, \u201cMike believes he\u2019s the right man to bring America into the nineteenth century, just like he did for Indiana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy!! Considering his policies, was that year a completely understandable typo? Otherwise, it&#8217;s accurate straight news! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/8\/4\/1687002\/-The-entire-world-is-laughing-about-Donald-Trump-s-small-stick\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope that eight years of President Barack Obama was enough to not only recover the United State&#8217;s reputation internationally after George W. Bush, but to inoculate us for however long Donald Trump remains in office. Because after those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/8\/3\/1686621\/--What-s-the-thing-with-boats-and-other-deep-thoughts-Trump-shared-with-world-leaders\" target=\"_blank\">horrifyingly hysterical transcripts<\/a> of his calls with world leaders were released, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/white-house\/article165303667.html\" target=\"_blank\">damn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>WASHINGTON When Jorge Guajardo, one of Mexico\u2019s most senior and seasoned foreign policy hands, got out of bed Thursday morning, a couple of interesting messages were waiting on his cell phone. <\/p>\n<p>One was a link shared by a U.S. diplomat to the leaked transcript of a phone conversation between U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto. In the second, a former Mexican official offered the quick analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#8217;s the opposite of Teddy Roosevelt,&quot; that official quipped to Guajardo about Trump. &quot;He speaks loudly and carries a small stick.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Seven months into the Trump administration, the world&#8217;s diplomatic community has gone from throwing its hands in the air to now leaning back in their chairs and laughing, albeit morosely, at Trump&#8217;s cringe-worthy display of diplomacy during the infancy of his presidency. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Everyone I&#8217;ve spoken to around the world is laughing,&quot; Guajardo said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There&#8217;s nothing new here. Russian hookers have laughed at Trump&#8217;s small stick for years. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0808Cartoon\" 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=\"0808Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0808Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I ordered my week&#8217;s groceries from Store to Door.&#160; Yesterday&#8217;s 91\u00b0 high just missed setting a new all time record for the first time in a week, and today&#8217;s 95\u00b0 forecast is one degree short of a new record.&#160; We&#8217;re still under an air quality warning, due to smoke from wildfires.&#160; But we <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/open-thread-882017\/' 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-28904","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\/28904","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=28904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}