{"id":33270,"date":"2018-07-31T13:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33270"},"modified":"2018-07-31T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:22:41","slug":"open-thread-7-31-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/31\/open-thread-7-31-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/31\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here in the CatBox the heat wave goes on and on and on.&#160; Last night, when I went to bed, the temperature was still 90\u00b0.&#160; Starting Thursday, we may have a few cooler days.&#160; I get my CAT-Scan results formally on Thursday, but I saw them posted online.&#160; I don&#8217;t speak all the medical lingo, but I could tell that I do not have cancer and that I am still a cat.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:37 (average 4:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-31-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=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/state\/2018\/07\/29\/house-speaker-paul-ryan-will-fundraise-tomorrow-with-rep-greg-walden-just-outside-portland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Willamette Week<\/a>: <\/font>U.S. Rep. Greg Walden is hosting a fundraiser with the top Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>For between $2,500 and $25,000 a person, donors can attend the dinner event at Wilsonville location that was not named on the invitation. (Larger donations gets you photos.)<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will attend. The proceeds will go to Walden, National Republican Campaign Committee and the Republican National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The secrecy of the location, in a suburban town 17 miles south of Portland, suggests Walden is seeking Portland dollars and ease of access\u2014without risking a blue-city backlash.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Well, that explains last night&#8217;s crappy air quality. Note how in Portland, Republican leaders are too cowardly to show their faces openly. They sneak into town and skulk away the same day. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WKZ2r8u34r4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Roy Moore Is Sacha Baron Cohen&#8217;s Latest Target<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WKZ2r8u34r4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">ROTF! Somebody needs to arrange for Sacha to sit down with Trump, Putin&#8217;s Pervert! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-45018513\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Blueprints for 3D-printed guns, published online four days early amid last-minute attempts to ban them, have been downloaded thousands of times.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The designs were not due to be made public until Wednesday, following a ruling from the US Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>But blueprints for nine types of gun were uploaded to the Defense Distributed website on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now that the files are online, I have no doubt that Republican Ammosexuals and terrorists everywhere have created hundreds of online copies. Any ruling against posting those files is now irrelevant. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/racist-complains-his-life-ruined-after-video-stalking-black-man-and-calling-him-n\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Columbus business owner Jeff Whitman is whining that his life is &quot;ruined&quot; after video of him hurling racial slurs at a stranger went viral.<\/p>\n<p>Whitman followed Charles Lovett for two miles to his home after an apparent driving incident.<\/p>\n<p>Lovett recorded the conversation, in which Whitman can be seen saying,&#160; \u201cI just want to let you know what a n&#8212;&#8211; you are.&quot;\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20180729\/theodore-decker-racist-words-blow-back-on-man-family-and-business\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Dispatch<\/a> reports: [about people who saw the video Lovett posted]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They shared [Whitman&#8217;s] image online, overloaded his voicemail and flooded consumer websites like Yelp with hundreds of negative reviews, complete with images of the Ku Klux Klan and Hitler.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m out of business, I\u2019m completely out, I\u2019m done, I\u2019ll never work in Columbus again,\u201d Whitman whined of the hateful verbal assault he describes as a &quot;mistake.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Isn&#8217;t good news about Republicans a pleasure to hear?&#160; Woooo Hoooo Karma! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0731Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the CatBox the heat wave goes on and on and on.&#160; Last night, when I went to bed, the temperature was still 90\u00b0.&#160; Starting Thursday, we may have a few cooler days.&#160; I get my CAT-Scan results formally on Thursday, but I saw them posted online.&#160; I don&#8217;t speak all the medical lingo, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/31\/open-thread-7-31-2018\/' 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-33270","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\/33270","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=33270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}