{"id":33420,"date":"2018-08-17T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T21:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33420"},"modified":"2018-08-17T14:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T21:17:12","slug":"open-thread-8-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/17\/open-thread-8-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/17\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m running late.\u00a0 I fell asleep this morning and slept through lunch hour, so I&#8217;m way behind.\u00a0 Tomorrow is the online draft for our fantasy football league.\u00a0 I expect to publish normally.\u00a0 The sun has hit the wall, and the CatBox heated right up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:58 (average 5:23).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-17-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2bgTi1IXDYA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part 2 of CONFOUNDS THE SCIENCE (SEQUEL)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2bgTi1IXDYA?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">On a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high)\u2026 50! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rMH1pjLFv9o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Robert Reich: Trump&#8217;s Trade Wars<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rMH1pjLFv9o?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. And even the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, knows better than this, but the Republican Reich is too cowardly to risk a tantrum from Putin&#8217;s Piddle Puppet. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/08\/17\/grandmother-tased-georgia-police-cutting-flowers\/1017125002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/span>Georgia police are defending an officer&#8217;s decision to use a taser on a 87-year-old elderly woman using a knife to cut dandelions.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials say the woman, Martha Al-Bishara, should have followed orders. But Al-Bishara does not speak English and did not understand the officer&#8217;s request, her family says.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Clearly the Republican Party controls Georgia police policy. Do we need Stacey Abrams there or what? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0817Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running late.\u00a0 I fell asleep this morning and slept through lunch hour, so I&#8217;m way behind.\u00a0 Tomorrow is the online draft for our fantasy football league.\u00a0 I expect to publish normally.\u00a0 The sun has hit the wall, and the CatBox heated right up. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:58 (average 5:23).\u00a0 To do <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/17\/open-thread-8-17-2018\/' 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-33420","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\/33420","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=33420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}