{"id":33082,"date":"2018-07-13T13:05:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33082"},"modified":"2018-07-13T13:05:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T20:05:46","slug":"open-thread-7-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/open-thread-7-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/13\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here at the CatBox the heat wave continues.&#160; It&#8217;s so bad I smell like Saturday night on late Thursday morning.&#160; TGIF, and I get to cross your path today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:40 (average 4:07).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-13-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=oeW4R3fp5W8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Was John Kelly Really Just Hangry [sic] At NATO Breakfast?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oeW4R3fp5W8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! Who stole Kelly&#8217;s breakfast? Or could it be that Upchuckabee-Sanders was, as usual, lying? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RD-MblaUZtI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: 7 Truths About Immigration<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RD-MblaUZtI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Right on the Right, the Republican Reich, is full of racist Trump crap! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/queen-elizabeth-says-bone-spurs-will-prevent-her-from-meeting-trump\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Queen Elizabeth II has cancelled a scheduled Friday meeting with Donald J. Trump after complaining of a \u201cflare-up of bone spurs,\u201d Buckingham Palace has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement took many royal watchers by surprise, because in her sixty-six-year reign the Queen had never before complained of bone spurs.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to the Queen\u2019s spokesman, Peter Rhys-Willington, Elizabeth had intentionally kept her chronic bone-spur condition a closely guarded secret until now. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oh Andy! The poor Queen! I suggest that she flush one Trump and get lots of bed rest. <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\/07\/0713Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at the CatBox the heat wave continues.&#160; It&#8217;s so bad I smell like Saturday night on late Thursday morning.&#160; TGIF, and I get to cross your path today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:40 (average 4:07).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Was John <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/open-thread-7-13-2018\/' 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-33082","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\/33082","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=33082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}