{"id":33320,"date":"2018-08-06T13:41:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33320"},"modified":"2018-08-06T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:41:41","slug":"open-thread-8-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/06\/open-thread-8-6-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/6\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a murderous day here in the CatBox.&#160; Today&#8217;s high should be high 90\u00b0s.&#160; Last night at bedtime, it was still 91\u00b0 and over 50% humidity.&#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 3:07 (average 5:06).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-06-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Holy Ellipsoid Orb is about to bless the earth with its divine light once again. The live online draft for our own fantasy football league, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">, is on Saturday, August 18, at 9 AM PDT (10 AM MDT, 11 AM CDT, 12 Noon EDT).&#160; I strongly recommend that players log into the league and participate in a mock draft between now and then.&#160; If you cannot attend, the league will draft for you.&#160; See you then!<\/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=QhC6kIA0EM8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: The Biggest Threat to Our Democracy (That You Haven&#8217;t Heard Of)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QhC6kIA0EM8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! For once, the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is half wrong! While an Article V Constitutional convention, being pushed by the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is a BIG threat to our democracy, I had heard of it. Consider the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheLibertyAmendments\/comments\/1kp28y\/the_liberty_amendments\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty Amendments<\/a> (Hat-Tip Freya), that are really the Tyranny Amendments. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/05\/politics\/trump-tweet-trump-tower-meeting\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, amid his latest tweetstorm about the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump turned his focus to the now-infamous June 2016 meeting between his top advisers and several Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what he said: [pervert delinked]<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics &#8211; and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And Trump&#8217;s lawyers grimace&#8230; [<em>emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Drip\u2026 Drip\u2026 Drip\u2026 Click through for the complete timeline on that conspiratorial meeting. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/oliver-north-vows-to-raise-money-for-the-nra-by-selling-arms-to-iran\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Asserting that \u201cheroic measures\u201d were needed to save the National Rifle Association from financial catastrophe, the N.R.A.\u2019s president, Oliver North, announced plans to sell arms to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran needs weapons, and, Lord knows, we have a lot of weapons lying around,\u201d North told reporters on Sunday. \u201cThis is the definition of a win-win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North said that he came up with the idea of selling arms to Iran because \u201cthe Iranians were always great to deal with\u201d and \u201cnever cared where the money was going to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, coming from Ollie, I believe it. He has priors. <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\/2015\/08\/0806Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I made this in 2011.&#160; It&#8217;s been right ever since.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a murderous day here in the CatBox.&#160; Today&#8217;s high should be high 90\u00b0s.&#160; Last night at bedtime, it was still 91\u00b0 and over 50% humidity.&#160; ARGH!! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:07 (average 5:06).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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