{"id":33346,"date":"2018-08-09T12:27:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33346"},"modified":"2018-08-09T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:27:19","slug":"open-thread-8-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/09\/open-thread-8-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/9\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The heat here at the CatBox is horrid.&#160; Last night at bedtime (8:30) it was still 92\u00b0 with 49% humidity.&#160; I slept poorly and feel 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 3:52 (average 5:46).&#160; To di it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-09-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=ALHH8zPXkuk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Nunes On Secret Tape: Brett Kavanaugh Vote, Then Rod Rosenstein Impeachment &#8211; 20 min.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ALHH8zPXkuk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Could it be that in Washington DC, Nunes has to keep his head so far up his Fuhrer&#8217;s butt that his neck is brown. The only way I know to defeat this Republican criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice is to flip the House. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WqjdsfMPl_A\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: Why Right-to-Work is Wrong<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WqjdsfMPl_A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is trying to create a right for rich employers to make workers bend over and grab their ankles. Support labor! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/republicans-outspent-democrats-in-ohio-by-a-hundred-million-rubles\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>With Tuesday\u2019s special election in Ohio still too close to call, Republican officials in the state acknowledged that they outspent Democrats to the tune of a hundred million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Harland Dorrinson, a spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party, told reporters on Wednesday that if the G.O.P. ekes out a win, it will have been worth all of the Russian currency the Party threw at the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can talk ground game all you want, but, at the end of the day, you can\u2019t buy TV and radio ads without rubles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dorrinson credited the Republican congressional-campaign committee for what he called a \u201chighly successful ruble-raising effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, that&#8217;s great investigative journalism! <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\/0809Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat here at the CatBox is horrid.&#160; Last night at bedtime (8:30) it was still 92\u00b0 with 49% humidity.&#160; I slept poorly and feel very tired. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:52 (average 5:46).&#160; To di it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Nunes On Secret Tape: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/09\/open-thread-8-9-2018\/' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33346","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\/33346","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=33346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}