{"id":32871,"date":"2018-06-28T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T19:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32871"},"modified":"2018-06-28T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T19:35:22","slug":"open-thread-6-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/28\/open-thread-6-28-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/28\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m feeling very tired.&#160; WWWendy was picking up her son at the airport in Seattle.&#160; His flight from Spain was late, so she pulled in here over 90 minutes late.&#160; We had extra work in preparation for her vacation, and I had bought beef ribs as a going away present, so I got to bed way late.&#160; Then I had to miss my morning rest to get the grocery order from Store to Door.&#160; My fingers are fighting me to find the right keys.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:56 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-28-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=ivNFrbH2OYk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Mitch McConnell&#8217;s Supreme About Face<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ivNFrbH2OYk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s our last chance to laugh about it. Crying Time starts in 5 minutes. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2018\/06\/28\/north-korea-upgrades-nuclear-research-facility-despite-trump-kim-summit-satellite-images-show\/741015002\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>North Korea is upgrading a major nuclear research facility despite President Donald Trump&#8217;s claim that leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to disarm, according to new satellite images and a research paper published by a North Korea monitoring group. <\/p>\n<p>Experts at 38 North, a website affiliated with the Stimson Center in Washington D.C. devoted to analysis of North Korea, concluded the images show that &quot;improvements to the infrastructure at North Korea&#8217;s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center are continuing at a rapid pace.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The satellite images are from June 21. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s OK with the Fuhrer, as long as KIM keeps stroking his ego. Republicans are treating friends like enemies, and enemies like friends. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/27\/world\/europe\/bolton-moscow-putin-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump plans to meet President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia next month in a one-on-one summit meeting, a politically sensitive encounter that could exacerbate strains with NATO allies even if it eases tensions between the United States and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>It would be the first formal summit meeting specifically for Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin, who have met twice at annual gatherings of world leaders. And it comes at a particularly delicate moment, with midterm elections looming in the United States and the special counsel\u2019s investigation of Mr. Trump\u2019s ties to Russia grinding on.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Putin needs to give Trump his orders, possibly including whom to nominate for SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD). <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\/2015\/06\/0628Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling very tired.&#160; WWWendy was picking up her son at the airport in Seattle.&#160; His flight from Spain was late, so she pulled in here over 90 minutes late.&#160; We had extra work in preparation for her vacation, and I had bought beef ribs as a going away present, so I got to bed <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/28\/open-thread-6-28-2018\/' 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-32871","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\/32871","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=32871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}