{"id":32745,"date":"2018-06-18T13:17:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32745"},"modified":"2018-06-18T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:17:32","slug":"open-thread-6-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/open-thread-6-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/18\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The heat wave is upon us, with an all time record high yesterday.&#160; So far the AC is holding it&#8217;s own.&#160; I spent a lot of the morning doing paperwork and scheduling more medical mayhem.&#160; The surgery to straighten my eyes is scheduled for 12\/12.&#160; Dang!&#160; Seeing only one WWWendy will be a 50% reduction in gorgeous. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smilewithtongueout\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Smile with tongue out\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/wlEmoticon-smilewithtongueout.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:00 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-18-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=s9JY0fCa-hA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Pressure Grows On President Donald Trump To Change Border Policy For Kids<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/s9JY0fCa-hA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Whether and how the Reich responds will depend on the balance between their hatred of poor Latino children, and their fear that the current exposure of that hatred will cost them their power. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BEZBTUQKE8s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>): <\/font>&quot;Fox &amp; Friends&quot; hosts defend use of cages<\/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\/BEZBTUQKE8s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What Republican garbage! When families go to the checkpoints, where they are supposed to receive an amnesty interview, they are told to leave and come back when hearings officers are available. Republicans have made sure that none are ever available. After repeated attempts at legal entry, desperate families cross the border illegally.&#160; Republicans separate the families, jail the parents,&#160; and cage the children.&#160; A chain link enclosure you can&#8217;t open is still a cage. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/pamplinmedia.com\/pt\/9-news\/398618-293179-rainbows-galore-at-2018-portland-pride-parade\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Tribune<\/a>: <\/font>Love was the treasure at the end of every rainbow during a Sunday spectacle in Portland.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands marched, pranced, danced, jiggled, giggled, swaggered, stomped, sashayed, prayed, hip-hip-hoorayed and \u2014 above all \u2014 stood tall during the 2018 Portland Pride Parade on Sunday, June 17 in downtown Portland.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0618pride\" 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=\"0618pride\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/0618pride.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I did not attended, and I go for lady cats, not other TomCats, but I&#8217;m proud of PRIDE and my LBGT friends. <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\/0618Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich has abandoned and violated it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat wave is upon us, with an all time record high yesterday.&#160; So far the AC is holding it&#8217;s own.&#160; I spent a lot of the morning doing paperwork and scheduling more medical mayhem.&#160; The surgery to straighten my eyes is scheduled for 12\/12.&#160; Dang!&#160; Seeing only one WWWendy will be a 50% reduction <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/open-thread-6-18-2018\/' 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-32745","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\/32745","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=32745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}