{"id":29102,"date":"2017-08-20T13:37:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29102"},"modified":"2017-08-20T13:37:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:37:34","slug":"open-thread-8202017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/20\/open-thread-8202017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/20\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very unusual Sunday, because normally, Wendy would be finishing up, and I&#8217;d be a perfumed Puddy Tat.&#160; I expect she will leave her country music festival in Southern Oregon late this afternoon, and will not be coming, until after she finishes work tomorrow.&#160; Therefore, I&#8217;m issuing an Air Quality Alert for a 500 mile radius.&#160; We&#8217;re moving into another heat wave, and it was so muggy last night that I slept very poorly.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:50 (average 5:03).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-20-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0819Broncos33-49ers14\" 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=\"0819Broncos33-49ers14\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0819Broncos33-49ers14.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In truth, I was not at all satisfied with the Bronco offence.&#160; Their defense was outstanding, and the 49ers did not play up to their potential.<\/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=-LbIoQckc38\" 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 Ballad Of General Robert E. Lee&#8217;s Statue<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-LbIoQckc38?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/8\/18\/1691239\/-Make-This-Schwarzenegger-Video-a-Viral-Sensation\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Just a quick note here:&#160; I never liked Arnold Schwarzenegger.&#160; Didn\u2019t care for his movies, his celebrity schtick, his time as California governor, but this video addressing Trump, racism, Nazism, white supremacy, etc. gave me chills. <\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schwarzenegger\">@Schwarzenegger<\/a> has a blunt message for Nazis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HAbnejahtl\">pic.twitter.com\/HAbnejahtl<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 ATTN: (@attn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/attn\/status\/898328098529083394\">August 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/kennedy-center-honors-trump-boycott-652374\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump announced Saturday morning that they would not be attending the Kennedy Center Honors celebrations scheduled for this December. The ceremonial weekend, due to include a State Department dinner and gala, honors performing arts figures that have changed American culture. Typically, the people being honored sit next to the president and first lady, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/donald-trump-wont-attend-kennedy-center-honors-ceremony-w498559\" target=\"_blank\">according to Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not this year.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The President and First Lady have decided not to participate in this year&#8217;s activities to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction,&quot; White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a news release. &quot;First Lady Melania Trump, along with her husband President Donald J. Trump, extend their sincerest congratulations and well wishes to all of this year&#8217;s award recipients for their many accomplishments.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If I was being honored, and he were attending, I would boycott. 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