{"id":33306,"date":"2018-08-04T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T19:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33306"},"modified":"2018-08-04T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T19:46:53","slug":"open-thread-8-4-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/open-thread-8-4-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/4\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The heat is back and the sun hit the wall early.&#160; I&#8217;m tired.&#160; ARGH!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:52 (average 7:34).&#160; To do it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-04-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=PjhLpMWBdVk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Rob Reiner: We Have Archie Bunker In The White House<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PjhLpMWBdVk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m not sure that comparison with the Fuhrer is fair to Archie, but if anyone should know, it&#8217;s Meathead. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ipE_dCep318\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Accused Russian Agent\u2019s Alleged Fun Times With Donald Trump Associate<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ipE_dCep318?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She seems to have dionked virtually every extreme right Republican of note. I wonder if she made it to the one with tiny hands, etc. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/ted-cruz-now-serious-danger-scrappy-and-insurgent-campaign-beto-orourke\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) \u2014 who was once seen as the Republican Party&#8217;s best chance to defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential primary \u2014 is now in serious danger of being defeated by a Democrat in the race for his Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative firebrand is now neck-and-neck with challenger Beto O&#8217;Rourke, a relative unknown in Texas who has run a fierce campaign to oust the sitting senator. Not only would the win be a victory for those critical of Cruz, who has a deeply polarizing effect on the populace and is reportedly disliked even by his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/26\/politics\/lindsey-graham-ted-cruz-dinner\/index.html\">GOP<\/a> colleagues \u2014 but if O&#8217;Rourke comes out ahead in November, Democrats will have a much better chance of taking control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Go, Beto! Go! How sweet would that be? <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\/2016\/08\/0804Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat is back and the sun hit the wall early.&#160; I&#8217;m tired.&#160; ARGH!! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:52 (average 7:34).&#160; To do it. click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Late Show Channel): Rob Reiner: We Have Archie Bunker In The White House &#160; I&#8217;m not sure that comparison <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/open-thread-8-4-2016\/' 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-33306","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\/33306","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=33306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}