{"id":33358,"date":"2018-08-10T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33358"},"modified":"2018-08-10T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:43:09","slug":"open-thread-8-10-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/10\/open-thread-8-10-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/10\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here at the CatBox the heat wave goes on.&#160; It will only be low 90\u00b0s today, but the building is so super-heated that I can feel heat from the hallway through the door, and the outside wall is a radiator all day and night.&#160; Tomorrow will be high 70\u00b0s, but the heat will be right back, before the building has time to cool.&#160; ARGH!!&#160; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:44 (average 4:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-10-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=tPSthrVt8GU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Laura Ingraham&#8217;s Fox News show is a toxic cesspool<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tPSthrVt8GU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Whether Laura is wearing her swastika or her sheet and hood, she exemplifies Republican family values. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JFQyAIOA7Ks\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: Trump and the Art of the No Deal<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JFQyAIOA7Ks?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich in the left, Robert Reich, is right. The next time the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, offers candidates, say &quot;No Deal!&quot; <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-projected-to-pick-up-seventy-seats-in-prison\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a development that could dramatically change the composition of the federal penitentiary system, Republicans are projected to pick up as many as seventy seats in prison, a leading incarceration expert said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrognostication is an inexact science,\u201d Davis Logsdon, who studies conviction rates of corrupt politicians for the University of Minnesota\u2019s Guilt Project, said. \u201cHaving said that, if current indictment trends hold up, the Republicans could be flipping at least seventy key prison seats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Logsdon broke down criminal cases against Republicans into likely convictions, likely acquittals, and toss-ups, and found that the G.O.P.\u2019s path to the magic number of seventy new prison cells was \u201cvery doable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to his projections, Republicans are running for prison \u201cespecially well\u201d in districts where the G.O.P. member of Congress was an early supporter of Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, you&#8217;re breaking my heart! Only 70?!!? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0810.Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0810.Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0810.Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0810.Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Betsy DeVos is so proud!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at the CatBox the heat wave goes on.&#160; It will only be low 90\u00b0s today, but the building is so super-heated that I can feel heat from the hallway through the door, and the outside wall is a radiator all day and night.&#160; Tomorrow will be high 70\u00b0s, but the heat will be right <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/10\/open-thread-8-10-2018\/' 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-33358","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\/33358","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=33358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}