{"id":33282,"date":"2018-08-02T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33282"},"modified":"2018-08-02T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:07:37","slug":"open-thread-8-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/02\/open-thread-8-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/2\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m leaving soon for my Oncologist appointment and am hurrying to finish before I go.&#160; I slept poorly and am very tired.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:48 (average 5:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-02-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=St4ItinZNLY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Liberal Redneck &#8211; Campaign Ads\/Vote for Tristan<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/St4ItinZNLY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Time to replace Trump with Gayman-Frenchname! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/millions-of-americans-denied-groceries-after-failing-to-provide-id\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Millions of Americans were foiled in their attempts to purchase groceries on Wednesday after failing to provide the proper government-issued I.D. cards.<\/p>\n<p>From coast to coast, food-seeking scofflaws were turned away from supermarkets, convenience stores, and fruit markets as they tried to circumvent the nation\u2019s long-standing grocery I.D. laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that Americans have been required to show I.D. to buy food for years, it\u2019s amazing that people still try to get away with this,\u201d Carol Foyler, a supermarket cashier in Fresno, California, said. \u201cIt\u2019s always, \u2018Oh, I left my food I.D. in my other pants,\u2019 or some B.S. like that. Believe me, I\u2019ve heard it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Cleveland, Ohio, a man attempting to buy a loaf of bread, two yogurts, and a bottle of Fanta tried to use another consumer\u2019s food I.D. to make the purchase, but was busted by sharp-eyed security personnel.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, are you making fun of the Fuhrer, or is this what we can expect if Republicans stay in power? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-sessions-russia-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday to end the special counsel\u2019s inquiry into Russia\u2019s interference in the 2016 election, issuing an unambiguous directive on Twitter to shut down an investigation that even now is scrutinizing his tweets for evidence of obstruction.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If that isn&#8217;t Obstruction of Justice, what is? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0802Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">96 DAYS!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m leaving soon for my Oncologist appointment and am hurrying to finish before I go.&#160; I slept poorly and am very tired. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:48 (average 5:51).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck &#8211; Campaign Ads\/Vote for Tristan &#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/02\/open-thread-8-2-2018\/' 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":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-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\/33282","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=33282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}