{"id":33459,"date":"2018-08-22T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33459"},"modified":"2018-08-22T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:50:31","slug":"open-thread-8-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/22\/open-thread-8-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/22\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries.&#160; They are running late.&#160; The weather today is a little worse than yesterday.&#160; In a late afternoon surprise yesterday, I went out to look at a room in the Alder, a few blocks away from my current location.&#160; The room is about the same size, and may be workable.&#160; The next step is to see if I can fit the income requirements.&#160; When I returned home my eyes were on fire.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:47 (average 8:58).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-22-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=pwAITgkso6I\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>A sampling of Mike Cernovich&#8217;s vile commentary (that he&#8217;d like you to forget)<\/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\/pwAITgkso6I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">CernoBITCH is currently touring Arizona with Kelly Ward, the Republican candidate for US Senate. If Trump sees this, he&#8217;ll be working in the White House. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_iRyahe4UFk\" 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: Memo to the Press<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_iRyahe4UFk?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 criminal. And there&#8217;s another way to cover the Fuhrer. Put him under the seat in an outhouse, and leave him, until it&#8217;s full. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-after-giuliani-offers-to-be-his-lawyer\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Michael D. Cohen decided on Tuesday to plead guilty to a host of financial crimes shortly after Rudolph Giuliani offered to be his lawyer on a pro-bono basis, Giuliani confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Jake Tapper, on CNN, the former New York City mayor said that he had offered to give Cohen \u201cthe kind of defense that only I am capable of giving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minute I said that, the blood drained from his face and he was out of there like a shot,\u201d Giuliani said. \u201cIt was the strangest thing I\u2019d ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! If Rudy 9\/11 was my lawyer, I&#8217;d cop a plea in a heartbeat!! <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\/2016\/08\/0822Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries.&#160; They are running late.&#160; The weather today is a little worse than yesterday.&#160; In a late afternoon surprise yesterday, I went out to look at a room in the Alder, a few blocks away from my current location.&#160; The room is about the same size, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/22\/open-thread-8-22-2018\/' 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-33459","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\/33459","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=33459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}