{"id":32212,"date":"2018-04-25T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T19:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32212"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:51:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T19:51:40","slug":"open-thread-4-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/open-thread-4-25-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/25\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a heat have here in the CatBox.&#160; This morning I tried to keep the room cool with an Open Window, but the building had not bled off yesterday&#8217;s heat and, when the sun hit the brickwork, the inside temperature reached 80\u00b0, before the outside temperature reached 60\u00b0.&#160; Today&#8217;s high is forecast at 86\u00b0, as is tomorrow&#8217;s.&#160; My medical waste disposal company just left after swapping my full sharps container for an empty one.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my grocery order, and I need to unpack and stow it.&#160; Wendy comes this evening to destink the TomCat, who is VERY stinky, due to the heat.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Groceries are done.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:03 (average 4:04).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-25-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=fLviKi58vUA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>This is MoveOn<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fLviKi58vUA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Considering all the good MoveOn does, I&#8217;m most happy to share their plug for themselves. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GDYBH8NO4SA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Firing Mueller Won&#8217;t End President Trump Investigation, Mueller Made Sure<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/GDYBH8NO4SA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That is excellent planning, but it needs one more step. Investigations need to proceed and indictments need to be issued on the State level also, so Trump or his successor cannot defeat them with federal pardons. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/bezos-says-that-when-pee-tape-is-released-it-will-be-free-for-all-amazon-prime-members\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, announced on Tuesday that when the purported \u201cpee tape\u201d becomes available it will be offered free to all Amazon Prime members.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in Seattle, Bezos said that the pee-tape offer was \u201cconsistent with Amazon\u2019s mandate to offer the highest-quality content to our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bezos acknowledged that the tape had not surfaced yet, but said that Amazon was \u201cworking around the clock to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo Andy!! I&#8217;ll email Prime customer service and reserve my copy today!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0425Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a heat have here in the CatBox.&#160; This morning I tried to keep the room cool with an Open Window, but the building had not bled off yesterday&#8217;s heat and, when the sun hit the brickwork, the inside temperature reached 80\u00b0, before the outside temperature reached 60\u00b0.&#160; Today&#8217;s high is forecast at 86\u00b0, as <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/open-thread-4-25-2018\/' 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":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-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\/32212","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=32212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}