{"id":33175,"date":"2018-07-21T13:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33175"},"modified":"2018-07-21T13:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T20:01:59","slug":"open-thread-7-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/21\/open-thread-7-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/21\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It was cool in the CatBox early this morning, but the sun hit the wall at 7:00 AM, and I had to button up and go to A\/C at 7:30.&#160; We have 90\u00b0s weather forecast for the rest of the month and beyond.&#160; UGH!&#160; On Monday morning I have my annual preventive Cat-Scan for cancer.&#160; Those things are a rip-off, because I never get to play with the other cat.&#160; In any case, please expect no more than a Personal Update Monday.&#160; I hope you are enjoying your weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:25 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-21-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=FKOf07X3ceM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why Donald Trump&#8217;s Legal Team Would Leak Cohen Playmate Hush Money Tape<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FKOf07X3ceM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree with Rachel that the Trump team leaked the tape. Hell! If he had a copy, Trump would leak the Moscow pee-pee tape to distract attention from the Helsinki blowjob. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/leaders-of-isis-and-al-qaeda-puzzled-why-trump-has-not-invited-them-to-white-house\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The leaders of isis and Al Qaeda said on Friday that they were totally perplexed as to why Donald J. Trump had not yet invited them to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The terror chiefs said that, as sworn enemies of the United States, they had certainly attacked the country enough to warrant an invitation for an official visit, and possibly a state dinner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe we haven\u2019t done anything to directly undermine their democracy\u2014I get that,\u201d Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of isis, said. \u201cBut we\u2019ve been nemeses of America for years, and that ought to be worth something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda, said that he also feels snubbed. \u201cNo invitation. Not even a save-the-date,\u201d he said. \u201cAt this point, I\u2019d settle for the White House Easter Egg Roll, but I\u2019m not counting on anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Do you think the Tangerine Traitor is losing his memory? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health-department-removes-website-language-on-sex-discrimination-121e7cb580b6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services changed or removed information on its website about sex discrimination, <a href=\"http:\/\/sunlightfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CCR-9-HHS-OCR-1557-180716.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> a new report from the Sunlight Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for Civil Rights altered this information on several webpages on Section 1557, part of the Affordable Care Act that relates to sex discrimination, between March and August 2017, according to the nonprofit focused on government transparency. Now, mentions of sex discrimination on the basis of gender identity, that relate to requirements for health services for transgender people, \u201csex stereotyping,\u201d and termination of pregnancy are gone.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Discrimination is now formally approved in the Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0721Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0721Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0721Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was cool in the CatBox early this morning, but the sun hit the wall at 7:00 AM, and I had to button up and go to A\/C at 7:30.&#160; We have 90\u00b0s weather forecast for the rest of the month and beyond.&#160; UGH!&#160; On Monday morning I have my annual preventive Cat-Scan for cancer.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/21\/open-thread-7-21-2018\/' 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-33175","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\/33175","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=33175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}