{"id":33398,"date":"2018-08-14T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33398"},"modified":"2018-08-14T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:23:28","slug":"open-thread-8-14-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/open-thread-8-14-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/14\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I got my test results back today, and Megan was very happy with them.&#160; My A1C is 7.0 and everything else is in the good range.&#160; The weather is horrid with 100\u00b0 forecast, 52% humidity, and severe haze from the many wildfires in Oregon and southern Washington.&#160; The picture below is a color picture from 8 AM here.&#160; Take back Fitzwalkerstan!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0814Haze\" 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=\"0814Haze\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0814Haze.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:05 (average 5:37).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-14-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=cPjrj24HW7c\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The movement to protect LGBTQ people from conversion therapy<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cPjrj24HW7c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From what I can understand, as an outsider, LGBTQ kids are exactly the way God made them. Ban conversion therapy! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X4wahx7J2Do\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Despite All The Scandal, Carl Paladino Is Back<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/X4wahx7J2Do?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Whether Collins or Paladino, I see little difference between them. In different ways, they are equally deplorable.&#160; Go Nate McMurray! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-says-white-house-is-no-place-for-lying-lowlife-from-reality-show\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Blasting his former colleague Omarosa Manigault, Donald J. Trump said on Monday that \u201cthe White House is no place for a lying lowlife from a reality show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were impressed by Omarosa because they saw her on a TV show,\u201d Trump told reporters from his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. \u201cWell, I\u2019ve got news for you: being on a reality show does not qualify you to work in the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explaining why he considered her a \u201clowlife,\u201d Trump said, \u201cShe\u2019s rude, abrasive, and offensive. Having someone like that in the White House is an embarrassment to our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But worst of all, Trump said, was Omarosa\u2019s lying, which he called \u201cconstant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe can\u2019t go a day without lying, and what\u2019s more, she\u2019s narcissistic and paranoid,\u201d he said. \u201cA psycho like that shouldn\u2019t be allowed anywhere near the Situation Room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! If that&#8217;s straight news, he&#8217;s right! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/sacha-baron-cohen-tricks-dan-roberts-sucking-toy?src=newsletter1095188\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>British actor Sacha Baron Cohen has once again punked right-wing America spectacularly on his show, &quot;Who Is America?&quot; This time, his mark \u2014 pro-gun activist Dan Roberts \u2014 was tricked into aggressively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/08\/pro-gun-activist-duped-sucking-fight-terrorism-latest-sacha-baron-cohen-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">sucking a sex toy<\/a> on camera.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, who is the founder of Youth Shooters of America and who has accused the Parkland shooting survivors of &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/08\/pro-gun-activist-duped-sucking-fight-terrorism-latest-sacha-baron-cohen-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">emotional blackmail<\/a>,&quot; was being instructed on how to survive being captured by terrorist militants, with Cohen disguised as his Israeli anti-terror expert character, Erran Morad.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yH6WFMnr50M\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yH6WFMnr50M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LMAO!! I suspect that Republican Ammosexual, Dan Roberts, thought Sacha was his Fuhrer, Trump, in disguise. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0814Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Unanimously ratified by our Founding Fathers to flummox Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the opposite of real authentic Christians.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my test results back today, and Megan was very happy with them.&#160; My A1C is 7.0 and everything else is in the good range.&#160; The weather is horrid with 100\u00b0 forecast, 52% humidity, and severe haze from the many wildfires in Oregon and southern Washington.&#160; The picture below is a color picture from <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/open-thread-8-14-2018\/' 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-33398","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\/33398","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=33398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}