{"id":32509,"date":"2018-05-22T09:28:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32509"},"modified":"2018-05-22T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:28:57","slug":"open-thread-5-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/22\/open-thread-5-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/22\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have a hot one on tap here at the CatBox, and my plan for the day is to get my articles up early, and before it gets too hot out, and then, to go to the bank, so I have a supply of money with which to pay WWWendy.&#160; When I return, I plan to hide from the heat for the rest of the day.&#160; I understand that least a couple Care2 denizens have not been getting the daily messages I send to help Care2 &quot;fiends&quot; find our articles.&#160; If you have not been receiving yours regularly, please let me know.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:44 (average 4:46).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-22-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=gipm6mhEuu0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>DON&#8217;T WORRY &#8211; Parody of Don&#8217;t Worry, Be Happy<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gipm6mhEuu0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It would be nice, but it&#8217;s easier said than done. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q9E2nkifDgM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>What abortion coverage looks like on Fox News<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/q9E2nkifDgM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Pure Bullshit! A culture of death has taken root between the ears of Faux Noise Sheeple!\ufeff <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/public-demands-investigation-into-why-fbi-infiltrators-in-trump-campaign-failed-to-prevent-him-from-being-elected\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Millions of Americans are demanding an investigation into why, if F.B.I. operatives managed to infiltrate the 2016 Trump campaign, they utterly failed to prevent a nightmarish despot from being elected.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews across the country, Americans expressed dismay and, in some cases, despair at the news that F.B.I. infiltrators might have had a golden opportunity to prevent the nation\u2019s current unspeakable nightmare from unfolding but did not get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thought of F.B.I. infiltrators being inside the Trump campaign but not sabotaging it is, in a word, devastating,\u201d Carol Foyler, of Akron, Ohio, said. \u201cIf it turns out to be true, I will totally lose my faith in F.B.I. infiltrators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! That&#8217;s a more realistic investigation than the one the Fuhrer wants!&#160; <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\/2016\/05\/0522Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A foot deeper, he would have voted Trump!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a hot one on tap here at the CatBox, and my plan for the day is to get my articles up early, and before it gets too hot out, and then, to go to the bank, so I have a supply of money with which to pay WWWendy.&#160; When I return, I plan <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/22\/open-thread-5-22-2018\/' 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-32509","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\/32509","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=32509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}