{"id":28913,"date":"2017-08-09T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28913"},"modified":"2017-08-09T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:40:19","slug":"open-thread-892017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/09\/open-thread-892017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/9\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Store to Door has delivered my groceries, and I put them away.&#160; It&#8217;s another scorcher that will probably break another record.&#160; It&#8217;s down ti 67% now, but when I got up this morning the humidity was 96%.&#160; ARGH!!!&#160; I so glad Wendy is coming this evening.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:58 (average 5:46).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-09-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=EuuRu_pKm-E\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/PBSNewsHour\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">PBS Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why some scientists are concerned a government climate change report won\u2019t be released<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EuuRu_pKm-E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While not all leakers are performing a service, and some, like Putin&#8217;s other pervert, Julian Assange, are threat to our nation, these leakers are patriots.&#160; They brought to light information that should be in the public domain, because it has nothing to do with national security, but Republicans want to hide it for dishonest political motives. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/20-thingsmike-pence-did-while-you-werent-looking-mdash-and-why-it-matters\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>With the exception of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/what-happened-at-hamilton-last-night-says-a-lot-about-the-kind-of-america-we-want-to-be\" target=\"_blank\">infamous trip to see Hamilton<\/a> last November and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/03\/pence-wife-billy-graham-rule\/521298\/\" target=\"_blank\">a controversy about whether it&#8217;s OK to dine with women other than his wife<\/a>, we&#8217;ve heard relatively little about Vice President Mike Pence since the election. In May, CNN even ran a story with the headline, &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/18\/politics\/mike-pence-trump-comey\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Pence&#8217;s Disappearing Act<\/a>.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a heartbeat away from the presidency and seems interested in following his own political ambitions beyond this administration, so what exactly has Mike Pence been up to lately? A lot, actually.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s 20 things Mike Pence has done since taking office:<\/p>\n<p>1. In January, Pence and others lobbied Trump to take hard-line positions on abortion, making good on some of his anti-choice campaign pledges&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2. Pence has led the charge to advance Trump&#8217;s policy agenda&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>3. He&#8217;s been very vocal about supporting the use of tax dollars to fund religious schools&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>4. In January, Pence met with anti-abortion activists at the White House and delivered a speech at the annual March for Life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>5. Pence spent much of February selling the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court as &quot;mainstream.&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ve shared just headers from the first five things done by the man who wants to be Fuhrer of the Republican Rectum Reich. Click through for the descriptions and the other fifteen. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/fbi-conducted-predawn-raid-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-manaforts-home\/2017\/08\/09\/5879fa9c-7c45-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trump\u2019s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort\u2019s home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with various records. Jason Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort, confirmed that agents executed a warrant at one of the political consultant\u2019s homes and that Manafort cooperated with the search.<\/p>\n<p>The raid came as Manafort has been voluntarily producing documents to congressional committees investigating Russia\u2019s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The search warrant indicates investigators may have argued to a federal judge they had reason to believe Manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I bet a dollar against a donut that the FBI found things Manafart was hiding from the Congressional committees. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0809Cartoon\" 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=\"0809Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0809Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Store to Door has delivered my groceries, and I put them away.&#160; It&#8217;s another scorcher that will probably break another record.&#160; It&#8217;s down ti 67% now, but when I got up this morning the humidity was 96%.&#160; ARGH!!!&#160; I so glad Wendy is coming this evening. 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