{"id":29022,"date":"2017-08-16T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29022"},"modified":"2017-08-16T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:20:45","slug":"open-thread-8162017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/16\/open-thread-8162017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/16\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day with temps in the 80\u00b0s and high humidity.&#160; Store to Door delivered groceries, and I just finished putting them away.&#160; In half an hour, I&#8217;ll break for lunch.&#160; Boo Hoo!&#160; I intended to have <em>dawg<\/em>, but that Sasquatch took it.&#160; I have a haircut scheduled at Noon.&#160; Then I finish writing, do some paperwork, and take a nap.&#160; Finally, Wendy is coming to de-stink the TomCat!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:15 (average 4:40).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-16-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=QF0-Fx96e24\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">More Moral Than Trump: The Red Wings and the Torch Maker | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QF0-Fx96e24?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The explanation is obvious. Unlike Trump, neither the Red Wings nor Tiki are Nazis. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bQUllxy-1y8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">RWW News: Michele Bachmann Is Now Skyline&#8217;s Pastor To The United Nations<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bQUllxy-1y8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AprilFools.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"AprilFools\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"AprilFools\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AprilFools_thumb.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is Batshit just like a bad penny, as evidenced by my 2012 April Fools graphic, or what?&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/millions-willing-to-work-for-mueller-for-free-if-that-would-speed-things-up\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Millions of Americans would gladly work for Robert Mueller for free if that would help speed things up, a new poll finds.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey, a substantial number of Americans would leave their jobs, their homes, and even their families to join the special counsel\u2019s team if doing so would help bring this nightmare to a swifter conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the special counsel confirmed that his office has been receiving thousands of r\u00e9sum\u00e9s a day from Americans begging to do anything to help Mueller \u201cmove things along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Where do I sign up? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0816Cartoon\" 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=\"0816Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0816Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day with temps in the 80\u00b0s and high humidity.&#160; Store to Door delivered groceries, and I just finished putting them away.&#160; In half an hour, I&#8217;ll break for lunch.&#160; Boo Hoo!&#160; I intended to have dawg, but that Sasquatch took it.&#160; I have a haircut scheduled at Noon.&#160; Then I finish writing, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/16\/open-thread-8162017\/' 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-29022","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\/29022","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=29022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}