{"id":33385,"date":"2018-08-12T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T19:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33385"},"modified":"2018-08-12T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T19:05:48","slug":"open-thread-8-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/12\/open-thread-8-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/12\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The CatBox is cooling for two more hours.&#160; Then it&#8217;s back to the 90\u00b0s and 100\u00b0s for at least ten days.&#160; WWWendy is due in half an hour.&#160; After my shower, I&#8217;m taking her to Subway.&#160; Tomorrow I have routine fasting labs and a follow up with Megan, my PCP.&#160; Please expect no more than a Personal Update, and I will not be distributing links messages on Care2.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:34 (average 4:37).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-12-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0811P-Broncos28-Vikings42\" 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=\"0811P-Broncos28-Vikings42\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0811P-Broncos28-Vikings42.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank the Orb it&#8217;s only pre-season!<\/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=yUdpj3gJofQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (a Blast from Long Ago): <\/font>Voting machine (Bush vs. Kerry)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yUdpj3gJofQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you think that Republicans won&#8217;t do the same thing in 2018, you need to derectumize your head. Demand paper! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/rep-collins-suspends-re-election-campaign-following-indictment-613f6d64-70b1-42c2-b5e8-e7cf8bb5972d.html\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) has announced [<em>tweeting twit delinked<\/em>] he is suspending his re-election campaign after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/chris-collins-republican-congressman-arrested-securities-fraud-71141b38-b9e1-4d5d-b984-aaaac469e45d.html\" target=\"_blank\">charged with<\/a> insider trading stemming from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/chris-collins-gop-lawmakers-innate-immunotheraputics-026904c0-4f2f-41c6-aef6-3846330be45d.html\" target=\"_blank\">sale of shares<\/a> in a company called Innate Immunotherapeutics.<\/p>\n<p>Collins explains the suspension is in the &quot;best interests of his constituents&quot; and will fill out the remaining months of his term.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Good riddance to the first Republican Congressional criminal to openly support his Fuhrer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/08\/charlottesville-heather-heyer-unite-right\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones<\/a>: <\/font>A year ago this weekend, Charlottesville was overrun with Confederate flags, swastikas, and torch-carrying white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>While much of the anniversary has been overrun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/opposition-groups-organize-to-counter-sundays-planned-white-supremacist-rally\/2018\/08\/10\/550869ae-9cb3-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">with news<\/a> about Unite the Right\u2019s planned protest on Sunday in Washington, DC, many are using the weekend to honor Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old anti-racist counter-protester who was killed last year in Charlottesville when a suspected white nationalist drove a car into the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0812Heather\" 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=\"0812Heather\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0812Heather.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">God bless those who knew and loved Heather and all murdered by the Republican Reich! <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\/12.Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"12.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=\"12.Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/12.Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This cartoon is from 8\/12\/2013.&#160; The Republican sellout to Russia began long before Trump took over the Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CatBox is cooling for two more hours.&#160; Then it&#8217;s back to the 90\u00b0s and 100\u00b0s for at least ten days.&#160; WWWendy is due in half an hour.&#160; After my shower, I&#8217;m taking her to Subway.&#160; Tomorrow I have routine fasting labs and a follow up with Megan, my PCP.&#160; Please expect no more than <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/12\/open-thread-8-12-2018\/' 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-33385","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\/33385","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=33385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}