{"id":32564,"date":"2018-05-27T12:24:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T19:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32564"},"modified":"2018-05-27T12:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T19:24:22","slug":"open-thread-5-27-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/27\/open-thread-5-27-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/27\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">By way of explanation, my building takes several temporary RCP residents.&#160; They are street people that have no place to go, when they are released from hospitals.&#160; While they are here Central City Concern tries to get them into programming, but most care only about getting high.&#160; After they are back on their feet, they move on.&#160; Many are so addled that they have no idea how to live in decent facilities.&#160; Most of the kitchen fires here come from RCP trying to cook when too loaded to do so.&#160; Does that make it more clear?&#160; WWWendy is due in 30 minutes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WWWendy just left.&#160; Chores all done.&#160; She says Hi.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:24 (average 4:49).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-27-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=y0QwV-U9v2w\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">SAD WORLD (Parody of) Mad World (9\/25\/2017)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/y0QwV-U9v2w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">All that seems so mild compared to how much Trump has devolved since. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/retropolis\/wp\/2018\/05\/26\/who-killed-bobby-kennedy-his-son-rfk-jr-doesnt-believe-it-was-sirhan-sirhan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Just before Christmas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled up to the massive Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, a California state prison complex in the desert outside San Diego that holds nearly 4,000 inmates. Kennedy was there to visit Sirhan B. Sirhan, the man convicted of killing his father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, nearly 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>While his wife, the actress Cheryl Hines, waited in the car, Kennedy met with Sirhan for three hours, he revealed to The Washington Post last week. It was the culmination of months of research by Kennedy into the assassination, including speaking with witnesses and reading the autopsy and police reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got to a place where I had to see Sirhan,\u201d Kennedy said. He would not discuss the specifics of their conversation. But when it was over, Kennedy had joined those who believe there was a second gunman, and that it was not Sirhan who killed his father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went there because I was curious and disturbed by what I had seen in the evidence,\u201d said Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and the third oldest of his father\u2019s 11 children. \u201cI was disturbed that the wrong person might have been convicted of killing my father. My father was the chief law enforcement officer in this country. I think it would have disturbed him if somebody was put in jail for a crime they didn\u2019t commit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In my opinion, one of the things that JFK, RFK and MLK have in common is that all were murdered by the Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2018\/05\/rnc-may-be-selling-access-trump-chinese\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/invitations-offer-wealthy-chinese-access-to-president-trump-at-fundraiser\/2018\/05\/25\/3bc6a8ae-5e90-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.a85d4ba9a8cb\" target=\"_blank\">Republican National Committee offering wealthy Chinese investors access<\/a> to Trump in exchange for campaign contributions?<\/p>\n<p>Nooooooooo. I mean, why WOULD they? That would be improper. Illegal, even! Pay no attention to that letter with &quot;the insignia of a real Republican committee raising money for the party and President Trump\u2019s reelection campaign, it purported to offer a handshake and a one-on-one photo with the president for $100,000 \u2014 a \u201cVIP\u201d trip \u201cto be remembered for a lifetime.\u201d That&#8217;s all completely innocent, and the RNC knows nothing about that, they promise!<\/p>\n<p>Also, completely innocuous is the upcoming fundraiser on May 31st! Ignore, if you would, the two Chinese companies charging two or three times the price of the campaign fundraiser&#8217;s ticket, promising access to and photos with the president of the United States. The RNC knows noooooothing about that.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And the emoluments march on. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0527Cartoon\" 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=\"0527Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/0527Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s time to fight the Nazis again!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of explanation, my building takes several temporary RCP residents.&#160; They are street people that have no place to go, when they are released from hospitals.&#160; While they are here Central City Concern tries to get them into programming, but most care only about getting high.&#160; After they are back on their feet, they <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/27\/open-thread-5-27-2018\/' 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-32564","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\/32564","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=32564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}