{"id":32837,"date":"2018-06-23T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T18:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32837"},"modified":"2018-06-23T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T18:51:42","slug":"open-thread-6-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/23\/open-thread-6-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a cool morning here in the CatBox with a hot afternoon forecast, and a very hot day tomorrow, so I&#8217;m skipping my morning rest to do most of my work in the cool of the day.&#160; I&#8217;m still feeling tired out.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:31 (average 5:06).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-23-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=-MSBbey6gs4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Reefer Madness Reaches Canada<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-MSBbey6gs4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">No wonder the Squatch has been particularly frisky lately! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dJRnhr6PDXw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>MR FORTY-FIVE Parody of Mrs Robinson by Simon &amp; Garfunkel<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dJRnhr6PDXw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That one could go on for hundreds of stanzas. To support Don Caron, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=o9jWwZ0ax0xSbgMd17CwnBLpyPh8MTUyOTg0ODY4OEAxNTI5NzYyMjg4&amp;v=dJRnhr6PDXw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fparodyproject.com%2Fsupportus&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WC4UXCOCvqI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>):&#160; <\/font>Rep. Ted Lieu forces the House to hear the cries of immigrant children<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WC4UXCOCvqI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Rep. Ted Lieu! Republicans are too cowardly to listen to the effects of their evil ways. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/bar-officially-cannot-be-lowered\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A group of scholars who have been monitoring the descent of the bar over the past few decades have concluded that the bar can no longer be lowered, the scholars announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The academics, led by Professor Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, published their conclusion after their research definitively found that the bar had finally dropped to its lowest possible position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who thought the bar still had room to be lowered, our findings resoundingly contradict that assumption,\u201d Logsdon said. \u201cThe bar is now essentially flush with the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! I disagree. The bar is subterranean. <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\/2017\/06\/0623Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cats know how to deal with Republican mice!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a cool morning here in the CatBox with a hot afternoon forecast, and a very hot day tomorrow, so I&#8217;m skipping my morning rest to do most of my work in the cool of the day.&#160; I&#8217;m still feeling tired out. 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