{"id":29009,"date":"2017-08-15T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29009"},"modified":"2017-08-15T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:49:13","slug":"open-thread-8152016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/open-thread-8152016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/15\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday&#8217;s eye appointment was completely successful.&#160; My right eye is 20\/20, and my left eye is scheduled for cataract surgery on 7\/28.&#160; The only bad news is that I&#8217;ll need to wait six months before a plastic surgeon can correct the excessive droop in my eyelids, and three months after that before my left eye can be surgically repaired to point straight.&#160; So it will be spring before the long process of seeing right again is finally done.&#160; The temperatures are back in the 80\u00b0s, so I&#8217;m back on AC, but at least it isn&#8217;t murderous!&#160; I hope you&#8217;re having a great day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:43 (average 5:22).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-15-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lefty Blog Friends has a new team.&#160; Welcome the Country Raiderettes.&#160; It&#8217;s Wendy!<\/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=58r68aCwtVg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Trump And Charlottesville: Too Little, Too Late | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/58r68aCwtVg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Keith says what we have all been saying, buy more of it. However, calling Trump filth insults filth. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/man-in-hostage-video-forced-to-recite-words-not-his-own\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A disturbing hostage video surfaced on Monday showing an American man woodenly reciting words that were not his own.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which was broadcast on all the major news networks, raised concerns for the man, whose robotic performance indicated that he was reading a prepared statement under duress.<\/p>\n<p>While the man appeared well fed and, to a certain extent, healthy, his facial expressions and body language convinced experts that the act of reciting the prepared text was an extraordinary ordeal for him.<\/p>\n<p>Harland Dorrinson, a forensic psychologist, compared the man\u2019s performance with hours of earlier footage of him and said that the man had \u201cnever expressed these sentiments before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! That&#8217;s NOT satire! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/14\/us\/white-supremacists-right-wing-extremists-richard-spencer.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The white supremacists and right-wing extremists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/13\/us\/far-right-groups-blaze-into-national-view-in-charlottesville.html\">who came together over the weekend<\/a> in Charlottesville, Va., are now headed home, many of them ready and energized, they said, to set their sights on bigger prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Some were making arrangements to appear at future marches. Some were planning to run for public office. Others, taking a cue from the Charlottesville event \u2014 a protest, nominally, of the removal of a Confederate-era statue \u2014 were organizing efforts to preserve white heritage symbols in their home regions.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it \u201can opportune time,\u201d Preston Wiginton, a Texas-based white nationalist, declared on Saturday that he planned to hold a \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d march on Sept. 11 on the campus of Texas A&amp;M \u2014 with a keynote speaker, Richard B. Spencer, who was featured at the Charlottesville event.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These Republican Alt-Right Nazis are emboldened because the<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">y literally got away with murder with the tacit support of the US Resident. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0815Cartoon\" 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=\"0815Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0815Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s eye appointment was completely successful.&#160; My right eye is 20\/20, and my left eye is scheduled for cataract surgery on 7\/28.&#160; The only bad news is that I&#8217;ll need to wait six months before a plastic surgeon can correct the excessive droop in my eyelids, and three months after that before my left eye <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/open-thread-8152016\/' 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-29009","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\/29009","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=29009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}