{"id":33234,"date":"2018-07-28T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33234"},"modified":"2018-07-28T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T20:15:26","slug":"open-thread-7-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/28\/open-thread-7-28-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/28\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here in the CatBox, the heat wave goes on and on and on.\u00a0 Thank goodness WWWendy comes tomorrow to destink the foul TomCat!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jog Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:53 (average 5:26).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-28-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7pmq9ngxlmQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WashingtonPost\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why hundreds of migrant children are still separated from their parents<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7pmq9ngxlmQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Trump is just the symptom. The Republican Party is the disease. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-h9YKaizalk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Right-wing media panic over Democrats acknowledging health care, housing, and jobs as rights<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-h9YKaizalk?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, has a BS in Bullshitology. For this campaign, they get a PhD! (Piled Higher and Deeper) <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/politics\/portland-climate-change-tax-makes-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KATU TV<\/a>: <\/span>Portland residents will be voting on a so-called climate-change tax this November.<\/p>\n<p>An initiative qualified Friday that would tax businesses to fund renewable energy projects.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would create a 1-percent tax on retailers with national sales over a billion dollars if those businesses do at least $500,000 in sales in the city of Portland each year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I like the idea of a tax for green energy, and I will probably vote for it, but I&#8217;d rather see the tax on boutique firms that serve the 1%, like yacht sales and high end country clubs instead of retail that will pass the cost to mainstream Portlanders. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-family-flees-to-moscow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>Bringing a tumultuous chapter of American history to an abrupt conclusion, Donald J. Trump and three of his adult children fled to Moscow in the early hours of Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by Ivanka, Eric, and Don, Jr., Trump boarded a specially chartered Aeroflot plane to take him to his new home in Moscow, a nondescript apartment building that also houses the former N.S.A. employee Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n<p>Trump reportedly was in a tremendous hurry to catch the plane and left behind only a one-sentence note, reading, \u201cTHERE WAS NO COLUSION [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yay, Andy! Oh No!! They forgot to take Pence! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0728Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0728Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"0728Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the CatBox, the heat wave goes on and on and on.\u00a0 Thank goodness WWWendy comes tomorrow to destink the foul TomCat! Jog Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:53 (average 5:26).\u00a0 To do it, click here.\u00a0 How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): Why hundreds of migrant children are still <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/28\/open-thread-7-28-2018\/' 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-33234","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\/33234","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=33234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}