{"id":32385,"date":"2018-05-09T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32385"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:42:11","slug":"open-thread-5-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/09\/open-thread-5-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/9\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day, here at the CatBox, and I slept poorly.&#160; I had about 90 minutes of paperwork to do this morning.&#160; Store to Door should be delivering groceries for me to unpack and stow in a couple hours.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening to destink the TomCat.&#160; It&#8217;s cooled today, and I have three cool days, before the next heat wave comes this weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:30 (average 4:59).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2038-05-09-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=vcW2_ON7PQs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Liberal Redneck &#8211; Nuclear Dealbreaker<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vcW2_ON7PQs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Spot-on!&#160; If those are Trump&#8217;s true prayers, may they be granted. If Trump sticks his dick in a gun, it had better be a BB gun. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A-7-_ChGECI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Outrage &amp; Trepidation After President Trump Abandons Iran Nuclear Deal<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/A-7-_ChGECI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trumps&#8217; favorite policy is to pull out. He shouldn&#8217;t bother. He should know that she&#8217;ll never notice the difference. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6F3EJh6V1cw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>In Conversation: Elizabeth Warren and Robert Reich (27 min.)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6F3EJh6V1cw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In many ways, the Democratic Party is a swamp that needs to be drained. However, before we drain that swamp, we need to exterminate the entire infestation of vicious Republican Alligators. Liz in 2020! <strong>RESIST!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/0509Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0509Cartoon\" 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=\"0509Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/0509Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day, here at the CatBox, and I slept poorly.&#160; I had about 90 minutes of paperwork to do this morning.&#160; Store to Door should be delivering groceries for me to unpack and stow in a couple hours.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening to destink the TomCat.&#160; It&#8217;s cooled today, and I have <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/09\/open-thread-5-9-2018\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32385","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\/32385","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=32385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}