{"id":32318,"date":"2018-05-04T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32318"},"modified":"2018-05-04T12:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T19:52:11","slug":"open-thread-5-4-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/open-thread-5-4-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/4\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It was a very muggy night, and I could not get to sleep, so I&#8217;m feeling very tired.&#160; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:15 (average 5:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-04-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=Lj4DTLHoN5c\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Profiles In Discourage: Blankenship&#8217;s &#8216;Cocaine Mitch&#8217; Ad<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Lj4DTLHoN5c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Murderer Blankenship is such a jerk! Everyone knows that Bought Bitch Mitch doesn&#8217;t snort coke. He sucks Koch! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UpasbCCUO88\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>DOJ Gets Wise To GOP Effort To Tip Off President Trump On Mueller Probe<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UpasbCCUO88?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The House Republicans, who are making these bogus demands, should all be charged with Obstruction of Justice.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/mueller-reportedly-considering-appropriate-thank-you-gift-for-giuliani\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The special counsel, Robert Mueller, is actively considering what would be the most appropriate thank-you gift to send to the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a source close to Mueller\u2019s team has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, Mueller and his team were behind closed doors on Thursday morning to discuss the gift and appear to be close to a decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve been around and around on this, but a consensus seems to be forming on a bottle of single-malt Scotch,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Moments after the news of Mueller\u2019s gift to Giuliani leaked, however, Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels\u2019s lawyer, indicated that he had already sent Giuliani a single-malt Scotch on Thursday morning and advised Mueller to select an alternative gift, such as Dom P\u00e9rignon champagne or beluga caviar.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Straight News! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0504Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a very muggy night, and I could not get to sleep, so I&#8217;m feeling very tired.&#160; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:15 (average 5:51).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Late Show Channel): Profiles In Discourage: Blankenship&#8217;s &#8216;Cocaine Mitch&#8217; Ad &#160; Murderer Blankenship is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/open-thread-5-4-2017\/' 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-32318","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\/32318","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=32318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}