{"id":32443,"date":"2018-05-16T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32443"},"modified":"2018-05-16T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:37:10","slug":"open-thread-5-16-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/16\/open-thread-5-16-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/16\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Finally!&#160; A comfortable day!&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my grocery order.&#160; They are running late.&#160; When they arrive, I&#8217;ll break to unpack and stow.&#160; (Done!)&#160; This evening WWWendy comes to destink the TomCat, who id sufficiently rancid to make well needed.&#160; I also have a couple hours of banking paperwork to complete.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:47 (average 6:32).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-16-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=hL7zl6XFPl8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Disgraced Former Representative Blake Farenthold Gets Hired As A Lobbyist<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hL7zl6XFPl8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Where have all the perverts gone? Long time passing. Where have all the perverts gone? Long time ago. Where have all the perverts gone? To the lobbies everyone! When will we ever learn? When will <strong>WE<\/strong> ever learn? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2018\/05\/15\/north-korea-trump-summit-nuclear-weapons\/614213002\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>A senior North Korean official warned Wednesday that Pyongyang may cancel its summit meeting between Kim Jong Un and President Trump scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, if it is going to be pushed into giving up its nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>If the Trump administration pressures Pyongyang to unilaterally abandon its nuclear weapons, North Korea would have to reconsider the summit, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I deal in that left North Korea with nuclear arms would reflect the standard Republican incompetence level, and leave Trump demanding the Nobel Peace Prize for moving the doomsday clock closer to midnight. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2018\/05\/liberal_democrats_primary_wins.html#incart_river_index\" target=\"_blank\">The Oregonian<\/a>: <\/font>Oregon\u2019s liberal Democrats notched key wins Tuesday in [State] legislative primaries that focused on such hot-button issues as housing affordability and the state\u2019s public pension crisis.<\/p>\n<p>With the Legislature likely to consider proposals on tax increases, public pension reform and greenhouse gas emissions next year, the constituencies that support and oppose those plans \u2013 businesses, public employee unions and environmentalists \u2013 poured money into certain primary contests.<\/p>\n<p>The vote also set the stage in a couple of swing districts that are likely to be intensely contested in November\u2019s general election, as Democrats attempt to win a supermajority and Republicans do their best to block them. Democrats need to pick up just one seat in the House and Senate to achieve the three-fifths supermajority necessary to pass bills raising revenue without Republican support.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s primaries included 16 seats up for grabs in the Senate, with five Democrats running unopposed. All 60 seats were up in the House, with seven Republicans and 24 Democrats running unopposed.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oregon leads the way! We&#8217;re doing our job. How about your state? <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\/2017\/05\/0516Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally!&#160; A comfortable day!&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my grocery order.&#160; They are running late.&#160; When they arrive, I&#8217;ll break to unpack and stow.&#160; (Done!)&#160; This evening WWWendy comes to destink the TomCat, who id sufficiently rancid to make well needed.&#160; I also have a couple hours of banking paperwork <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/16\/open-thread-5-16-2018\/' 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-32443","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\/32443","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=32443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}