{"id":33296,"date":"2018-08-03T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33296"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:36:18","slug":"open-thread-8-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/03\/open-thread-8-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/3\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today is my last relatively cool day, until the sun hits the wall, so I&#8217;m enjoying the fresh air, which I love, while I can.\u00a0 I was so exhausted that I overslept and awakened two hours later than my norm, so I&#8217;m just working through, despite my frequent yawns.\u00a0 On the test, I am cancer free, my lungs are no more damaged from COPD that they were last year and are clear.\u00a0 Everything else is healthy.\u00a0 It was the best result I could have had, and they even apologized for not allowing me to play with the cat that did the CAT-scan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:37 (average 5:52).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-03-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=8AnyD6fRFOc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Lawrence On Ivanka Trump\u2019s Absence On Border Children<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8AnyD6fRFOc?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">More than one Republican has said that it&#8217;s ok for Republicans who disagree with Trump, like Ivanka, to justify supporting Trump too. Thank you, Lawrence, for deflating such a vile argument. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UI4g_amOTSg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What a new Supreme Court means for abortion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UI4g_amOTSg?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That explains it in terms that even a Republican could understand, unless they willfully misunderstand, as they so often do. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/02\/world\/europe\/pope-death-penalty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>Pope Francis has declared the death penalty wrong in all cases, a definitive change in church teaching that is likely to challenge Catholic politicians, judges and officials who have argued that their church was not entirely opposed to capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Before, church doctrine accepted the death penalty if it was \u201cthe only practicable way\u201d to defend lives, an opening that some Catholics took as license to support capital punishment in many cases.<\/p>\n<p>But Francis said executions were unacceptable in all cases because they are \u201can attack\u201d on human dignity, the Vatican announced on Thursday, adding that the church would work \u201cwith determination\u201d to abolish capital punishment worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Kudos to Pope Francis, an authentic Christian. Nominally Catholic politicians, who are really Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, have lost their excuse to demand that we execute another non-white jay-walker for Republican Supply-side Jeebus!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0803Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">WTG Cousin Pole <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-catface\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/wlEmoticon-catface.png\" alt=\"Cat face\" \/>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my last relatively cool day, until the sun hits the wall, so I&#8217;m enjoying the fresh air, which I love, while I can.\u00a0 I was so exhausted that I overslept and awakened two hours later than my norm, so I&#8217;m just working through, despite my frequent yawns.\u00a0 On the test, I am cancer <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/03\/open-thread-8-3-2018\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296","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=33296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}