{"id":32726,"date":"2018-06-16T10:25:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T17:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32726"},"modified":"2018-06-16T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T17:25:45","slug":"open-thread-6-16-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/16\/open-thread-6-16-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/16\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Early this afternoon, I&#8217;ll have to button up the CatBox and fire-up the AC.&#160; Starting tomorrow, the high will hit the 90\u00b0s, setting the pattern for the next week or more.&#160; So, on this last relatively cool morning, I&#8217;m skipping my morning rest to get my work done,enjoying fresh air for the last time in a while.<\/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 5:46).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-16-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Yesterday&#8217;s Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0615Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Many of you had forgotten, so I&#8217;ll explain.&#160; In 2011, Sarah Palin marked the campaign headquarters of House Democrats with gun sights.&#160; One of those bullseyes targeted Gaby Giffords&#8217; HQ in AZ.&#160; On 1\/8, an insane Republican terrorist, Jared Lee Loughner, shot Gaby and others.&#160; Ever since, I have called Palin, Bloody Bullseye Barbie.<\/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=yVuze1HKhag\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND (Parody)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yVuze1HKhag?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In a word\u2026 Amen! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE<\/strong> <strong>BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bwGchXyxypA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>President Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Sent To Jail To Await Trial (17 min.)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bwGchXyxypA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope that a few days in lockup are enough to convince Manafart to flip on his Fuhrer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/1772245\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">The United States is <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-un-rights-usa\/u-s-expected-to-retreat-from-main-u-n-rights-forum-activists-diplomats-idUSKBN1JA2ZA\" target=\"_blank\">expected to pull out of the United Nations Human Rights Council<\/a><font color=\"#000000\">&#160;<\/font><\/font><font color=\"#000000\">in the coming weeks after U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley threatened to do so last year, accusing the council of a \u201cchronic anti-Israel bias.\u201d There\u2019s still no official word, but unnamed sources tell Reuters the move is \u201cimminent.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I actually like the idea. The spot on the council should be held by a government that believes in human rights. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From&#160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/06\/trump-threatened-send-25-million-mexicans-japan-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>[D]onald Trump threatened Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe he would ship 25 million Mexicans to his country, one of a series of bizarre missives that jarred fellow leaders at last week\u2019s acrimonious G7 meet, according to a report on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Group of Seven summit gathering of top industrialized democracies finished in disarray after the US president abruptly rejected its consensus statement and bitterly attacked Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, Trump\u2019s counterparts were dismayed by verbal jabs on topics ranging from trade to terrorism and migration, The Wall Street Journal said, quoting European officials who were present.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/illegal-immigration\/how-many-illegal-immigrants-are-in-us\" target=\"_blank\">The total number of undocumented people in the US from all nations, not just Mexicans, is 12.5 million<\/a>. 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If that isn&#8217;t racist, what is? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/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\/2016\/06\/0616Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We need it now more than ever.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this afternoon, I&#8217;ll have to button up the CatBox and fire-up the AC.&#160; Starting tomorrow, the high will hit the 90\u00b0s, setting the pattern for the next week or more.&#160; So, on this last relatively cool morning, I&#8217;m skipping my morning rest to get my work done,enjoying fresh air for the last time in <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/16\/open-thread-6-16-2018\/' 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-32726","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\/32726","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=32726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}