{"id":33182,"date":"2018-07-22T10:40:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T17:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33182"},"modified":"2018-07-22T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T17:40:49","slug":"open-thread-7-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/22\/open-thread-7-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/22\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WWWendy is due in a half hour and we have a busy morning planned.&#160; Tomorrow I have to go to the hospital for my annual preventive Cat-Scan for cancer.&#160; I should be home before the severe heat of the day, but the dye they inject usually leaves me feeling queasy.&#160; Please don&#8217;t be surprised, if I publish the Personal Update and that&#8217;s all.&#160; I will not be sending links messages at Care2.&#160; Portland is under an Excessive Heat Watch.&#160; WWWendy kindly offered to do the dreaded task by herself, so I can finish early and rest.&#160; I need to be in the lobby at 6:00 AM in the morning.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:23 (average 5:18).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-22-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=fMSbR2zHs8s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Rachel Maddow: We Have To Assume Russians Recorded Trump-Putin Meeting<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fMSbR2zHs8s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Nobody farts in Russia without the FSB recording it for Putin [R-RU]. That&#8217;s the way Trump wants his control to be here in the US! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/health\/index.ssf\/2018\/07\/trans_woman_denied_hormones_ar.html\" target=\"_blank\">NOLA<\/a>: <\/font>A CVS pharmacist refused to fill an Arizona transgender woman&#8217;s hormone prescription on the basis of moral grounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/scottsdale\/2018\/07\/20\/hilde-hall-arizona-transgender-woman-speaks-out-after-being-denied-hormone-prescription\/805381002\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Arizona Republic.<\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/lgbt-rights\/transgender-rights\/my-pharmacist-humiliated-me-when-he-refused-fill-my-hormone\" target=\"_blank\">Hilde Hall<\/a> said she was &quot;elated&quot; when her doctor handed her the prescription for her first round of hormone medication, the Arizona Republic reported. <strong>However, instead of walking out of the Fountain Hills CVS with her treatment in hand, Hall said she was denied her hormones and &quot;loudly questioned&quot; by the pharmacist as to why she had the prescription<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The pharmacist also refused to give Hall her prescription note back, according to Arizona Republic, and she left the store feeling &quot;mortified.&quot;<\/strong> Hall told her doctor, who sent the order to a Walgreens instead, where Hall was able to get the prescription filled.<\/p>\n<p>According to Arizona Republic, CVS apologized for the incident in a statement&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And CVS damn well should apologize, and the pharmacist should be fired and lose his license.&#160; Imagine the Republican Reaction, if a pharmacist denied Trump the Preparation H he uses as face cream. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/julian-assanges-departure-ecuador-embassy-london-imminent\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/07\/21\/ecuador-will-imminently-withdraw-asylum-for-julian-assange-and-hand-him-over-to-the-uk-what-comes-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Greenwald has a piece up at the Intercept<\/a> declaring that Julian Assange\u2019s tenure at Ecuador\u2019s London embassy may be coming to an end very soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ecuador\u2019s President Lenin Moreno traveled to London on Friday for the ostensible purpose of speaking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org\/summit\" target=\"_blank\">2018 Global Disabilities Summit<\/a>(Moreno has been confined to a wheelchair since being shot in a 1998 robbery attempt). The concealed, actual purpose of the President\u2019s trip is to meet with British officials to finalize an agreement under which Ecuador will withdraw its asylum protection of Julian Assange, in place since 2012, eject him from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and then hand over the WikiLeaks founder to British authorities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now it is Glenn Greenwald, so take it with an appropriately large grain of salt, but apparently this has been in the works for some time.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope Greenwald isn&#8217;t blowing smoke up our butts, as he so frequently has. However, I&#8217;d love to see Assange [R-BS] face comeuppance for his crimes. <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\/07\/0722Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWWendy is due in a half hour and we have a busy morning planned.&#160; Tomorrow I have to go to the hospital for my annual preventive Cat-Scan for cancer.&#160; I should be home before the severe heat of the day, but the dye they inject usually leaves me feeling queasy.&#160; Please don&#8217;t be surprised, if <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/22\/open-thread-7-22-2018\/' 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-33182","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\/33182","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=33182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}