{"id":32864,"date":"2018-06-27T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32864"},"modified":"2018-06-27T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:51:27","slug":"open-thread-6-27-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/27\/open-thread-6-27-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/27\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s temperate outside,but the sun hit the wall early, so I&#8217;m buttoned up with the AC for the day.&#160; Store to Door did not deliver the last 1\/3 of my grocery order.&#160; They are bringing it tomorrow, but it screwed up my day.&#160; It&#8217;s my last evening with WWWendy, before her Texas vacation.&#160; I&#8217;m feeding her ribs.&#160; I&#8217;m in a rush.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:10 (average 4:34).&#160; To do it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-27-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=CKOPooTwXEo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Beats Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley In Primary<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CKOPooTwXEo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uRk1moc-Dw8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: Is Trump the Worst President in History?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uRk1moc-Dw8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! For the first time in my memory, the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is wrong. The Fuhrer never has been, is not, and never will be a President. Correcting the terminology, he is the worst Resident in history, and Robert&#8217;s conclusion is spot-on. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/foreigners-unsure-why-anyone-would-want-to-travel-to-us-at-this-point\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Shortly after the United States Supreme Court upheld Donald J. Trump\u2019s controversial travel ban, millions of people from other countries expressed puzzlement that anyone would want to travel to the United States at this juncture.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews with people from around the world, respondents said that the travel ban struck them as unnecessary, because the United States was not currently on the list of the top hundred countries to which they would consider travelling.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to name the reasons they felt that a travel ban was superfluous, many of those interviewed cited the United States\u2019s gun violence and crumbling infrastructure, as well as its broken educational and health-care systems, while others singled out its President\u2019s startling disrespect for democratic norms and human rights.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, this isn&#8217;t satire, is it? <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\/0627Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now Kennedy is resigning!&#160; Gloom!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s temperate outside,but the sun hit the wall early, so I&#8217;m buttoned up with the AC for the day.&#160; Store to Door did not deliver the last 1\/3 of my grocery order.&#160; They are bringing it tomorrow, but it screwed up my day.&#160; It&#8217;s my last evening with WWWendy, before her Texas vacation.&#160; I&#8217;m feeding <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/27\/open-thread-6-27-2018\/' 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-32864","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\/32864","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=32864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}