{"id":32790,"date":"2018-06-21T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32790"},"modified":"2018-06-21T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T19:48:29","slug":"open-thread-6-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/21\/open-thread-6-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/21\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s cooler today, but it will take a couple days for the building to lose the heat.&#160; The restrooms and hallways are still in the 80\u00b0s, and the CatBox would be too, if I didn&#8217;t keep it buttoned up and the AC on.&#160; I&#8217;m ready for another shower, but that&#8217;s three days away.&#160; My guy in prison, for whom I recently wrote a letter to the Parole Board, received a date and will be released in December.&#160; I feel very proud of him. For our Pagan friends, Blessed be.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:53 (average 4:25).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-21-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>TC Controls the Seasons<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><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\/2015\/06\/0621Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/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=aHSa87ypMbI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Did President Donald Trump Executive Order Make It Worse?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aHSa87ypMbI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s not news to me that Trump is a coward. Cowardice is what bullies do. Note that 11 million children still cry in misery in GOP Gulags. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/6\/20\/1773799\/-Obama-to-America-We-have-to-do-more-than-say-this-isn-t-who-we-are-We-have-to-prove-it\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>It is World Refugee Day, and President Barack Obama just posted his thoughts on the matter. It is also transcribed below\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Today is World Refugee Day.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to have been born in America, imagine for a moment if circumstance had placed you somewhere else. Imagine if you&#8217;d been born in a country where you grew up fearing for your life, and eventually the lives of your children. A place where you finally found yourself so desperate to flee persecution, violence, and suffering that you&#8217;d be willing to travel thousands of miles under cover of darkness, enduring dangerous conditions, propelled forward by that very human impulse to create for our kids a better life.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the reality for so many of the families whose plights we see and heart-rending cries we hear. And to watch those families broken apart in real time puts to us a very simple question: are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents\u2019 arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together? Do we look away, or do we choose to see something of ourselves and our children?<\/p>\n<p>Our ability to imagine ourselves in the shoes of others, to say \u201cthere but for the grace of God go I,\u201d is part of what makes us human. And to find a way to welcome the refugee and the immigrant \u2013 to be big enough and wise enough to uphold our laws and honor our values at the same time \u2013 is part of what makes us American. After all, almost all of us were strangers once, too. Whether our families crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we\u2019re only here because this country welcomed them in, and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, how our last names sound, or the way we worship. To be an American is to have a shared commitment to an ideal \u2013 that all of us are created equal, and all of us deserve the chance to become something better.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the legacy our parents and grandparents and generations before created for us, and it\u2019s something we have to protect for the generations to come. But we have to do more than say \u201cthis isn\u2019t who we are.\u201d We have to prove it \u2013 through our policies, our laws, our actions, and our votes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen and Kudos to Obama! Republicans celebrated World Refugee day by listening to the screams from GOP gulags for refugee children. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/06\/drunk-high-airline-passenger-gives-nazi-salute-tries-strangle-pilot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>[A]n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/drunken-northern-ireland-passenger-gave-nazi-salute-and-assaulted-easyjet-pilot-37028396.html\" target=\"_blank\">inebriated airline passenger who gave a Nazi salute and tried to strangle his flight\u2019s pilot<\/a> was jailed and made bail for the physical altercation involving multiple airline employees.<\/p>\n<p>The Belfast Telegraph reported that 51-year-old Paul Anthony Burgoyne became erratic and disorderly when a flight attendant asked him to raise his window blind so the plane could take off at the Belfast International Airport earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right, mein Fuhrer,\u201d Burgoyne, originally from Northern Ireland, told the attendant before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/06\/anti-muslim-protester-gives-heil-hitler-nazi-salute-cries-abuse-detained-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">giving a Nazi salute<\/a>. The captain came down during the altercation, and that\u2019s when the passenger began yelling at the pilot, telling him he was going to punch him.<\/p>\n<p>Burgoyne eventually tried to grab the pilot by the throat and missed, grabbing his collar instead.<\/p>\n<p>After being ejected from the plane, the passenger attempted to commandeer a \u201ctug vehicle\u201d and managed to grab its wheel and joystick before being physically hauled off of it. He then tried to fight another airline employee before being arrested, and police reports indicated he was under the influence of both drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rumor has it that this individual is being rushed through immigration to fill a high level staff position for Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/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\/2017\/06\/0621Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Vintage 2011.&#160; Still fits.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cooler today, but it will take a couple days for the building to lose the heat.&#160; The restrooms and hallways are still in the 80\u00b0s, and the CatBox would be too, if I didn&#8217;t keep it buttoned up and the AC on.&#160; I&#8217;m ready for another shower, but that&#8217;s three days away.&#160; My guy <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/21\/open-thread-6-21-2018\/' 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-32790","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\/32790","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=32790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}