{"id":32647,"date":"2018-06-06T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32647"},"modified":"2018-06-06T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:50:09","slug":"open-thread-6-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/06\/open-thread-6-6-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/6\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fifty two years ago today, I graduated high school and celebrated with a three day trip to NYC with debauchery of Republican proportions, except there were no Russian Hookers or Golden Showers.&#160; still fighting Republicosis, I&#8217;m not feeling well.&#160; I&#8217;m forcing myself to stay up for my grocery delivery and to collect the data for May&#8217;s Monthly Report.&#160; Tonight is a WWWendy night.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:21 (average 5:52).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-06-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=hTCWblyj24Y\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Scott Pruitt Tried To Get His Wife A Chick-Fil-A Franchise<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hTCWblyj24Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Imagine, if if you can, the Republican response, if a member of the Obama cabinet had done the same thing. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/philadelphia-eagles-accept-muellers-offer-to-celebrate-with-him\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The Philadelphia Eagles have accepted Robert Mueller\u2019s invitation to come to his office and celebrate their Super Bowl victory with him, Mueller has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The special counsel said that he was \u201cabsolutely tickled\u201d that the Eagles had accepted his invitation. \u201cI\u2019m a huge fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, and it turns out the feeling is mutual,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to one member of the team, the Eagles accepted Mueller\u2019s invitation only after being assured that their visit would not in any way distract the special counsel from \u201cgetting his job done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Those Eagles are fantastic! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/05\/technology\/facebook-device-partnerships-china.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with China\u2019s government, the social media company said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements, which date to at least 2010, gave private access to some user data to Huawei, a telecommunications equipment company that has been flagged by American intelligence officials as a national security threat, as well as to Lenovo, Oppo and TCL.<\/p>\n<p>The four partnerships remain in effect, but Facebook officials said in an interview that the company would wind down the Huawei deal by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Saying they will wind it down, years after China has downloaded your personal data, is much too little much too late. With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play! <strong>UNPLUG<\/strong>!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0606cartoon\" 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=\"0606cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/0606cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"575\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Vintage 2011 and still valid.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty two years ago today, I graduated high school and celebrated with a three day trip to NYC with debauchery of Republican proportions, except there were no Russian Hookers or Golden Showers.&#160; still fighting Republicosis, I&#8217;m not feeling well.&#160; I&#8217;m forcing myself to stay up for my grocery delivery and to collect the data for <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/06\/open-thread-6-6-2018\/' 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-32647","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\/32647","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=32647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}