{"id":33340,"date":"2018-08-08T13:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T20:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33340"},"modified":"2018-08-08T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T20:09:04","slug":"open-thread-8-8-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/open-thread-8-8-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/8\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s murderously hot today.&#160; Store to Door delivered groceries.&#160; I worked up a sweat putting them away, because I was not close enough to the AC.&#160; WWWendy comes tonight, and I really need my shower, but I&#8217;ll need another by morning.&#160; ARGH!&#160; Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:46 (average 7:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-08-CE2504A965A9\">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=RnrDjVtZctQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Alex Jones repeatedly threatens people with violence<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RnrDjVtZctQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bust this Republican for conspiracy to commit hate crimes!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/08\/07\/aclu-immigrants-asylum-violence-766101\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to remove asylum protections for victims of domestic and gang violence.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU is arguing against \u201cexpedited removal\u201d policies, put forth by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, that it says \u201cgenerally\u201d deny claims of violence of that nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a naked attempt by the Trump administration to eviscerate our country\u2019s asylum protections,\u201d Jennifer Chang Newell, managing attorney with the ACLU\u2019s Immigrants\u2019 Rights Project, said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s clear the administration\u2019s goal is to deny and deport as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000165-166b-d296-a16f-d77fe6ea0000\">lawsuit<\/a>, Grace v. Sessions, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in conjunction with the Center for Gender &amp; Refugee Studies at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the attorney general overturned asylum protections for certain victims of violence, effectively reversing a push by the Obama administration to provide refuge to women with credible claims of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to the ACLU. Beauregard&#8217;s only quality is his recusal. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/californians-puzzled-by-trumps-failure-to-blame-wildfires-on-hillary\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Californians were baffled on Monday by a series of tweets by Donald J. Trump in which he utterly failed to blame the state\u2019s current wildfires on Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews with residents up and down the Golden State, Californians agreed with the assessment of Harland Dorrinson, a Modesto native, that Trump\u2019s failure to pin the fires on Clinton was \u201cnothing short of bizarre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he said that there wasn\u2019t enough water to put out the fires, I naturally assumed he was going to accuse Hillary Clinton of sneaking into California and somehow stealing all of our water,\u201d Dorrinson said. \u201cIt was so confusing when he didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that the wildfires would be a perfect opportunity for Trump to accuse Hillary of being anti-water and pro-fire, but he didn\u2019t even mention her,\u201d Tracy Klugian, who lives in San Jose, said. \u201cMaybe he\u2019s really distracted by all this Russia stuff and he\u2019s off his game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! I hope he&#8217;s too busy pacing in his cell to be distracted soon. <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\/0808Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s murderously hot today.&#160; Store to Door delivered groceries.&#160; I worked up a sweat putting them away, because I was not close enough to the AC.&#160; WWWendy comes tonight, and I really need my shower, but I&#8217;ll need another by morning.&#160; ARGH!&#160; Happy Hump Day! 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