{"id":33464,"date":"2018-08-23T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33464"},"modified":"2018-08-23T13:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:49:04","slug":"open-thread-8-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/open-thread-8-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The weather here in the CatBox is cooler, but very muggy.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t get any cross ventilation, because the building is so super heated that the hallways are still high 80\u00b0s.\u00a0 WWWendy comes this evening.\u00a0 After today, our schedule will be back to normal.<\/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 3:47 (average 5:14).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-23-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zmYrui8XcuY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WashingtonPost\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not just misleading. Not merely false. A lie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zmYrui8XcuY?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten is around much longer, he&#8217;ll break Pinocchio&#8217;s nose! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rCyD2a46rNk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheNewYorkTimes\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Coal Miner to Trump: \u201cCoal Mining Isn\u2019t Coming Back\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rCyD2a46rNk?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The only people stupid enough to believe that it is coming back are sheeple addicted to the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/paul-manafort-trial-juror-says-one-holdout-prevented-conviction-on-all-counts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a>: <\/span>The first juror in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/paul-manafort-trial-verdict-eight-counts-today-2018-08-17-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Manafort&#8217;s trial<\/a> to speak out says prosecutors almost got the 18 guilty verdicts they wanted. Paula Duncan told Fox News that one juror caused a mistrial on 10 of the charges against the president&#8217;s former campaign chairman.<\/p>\n<p>In her interview, Duncan said she voted to convict him because the evidence was &#8220;overwhelming.&#8221; She described a taxing and emotional deliberation process and said the discussions brought some jurors to tears.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to Duncan, she and her peers worked to convince the lone dissenting juror, but ultimately failed to prevent a split verdict Tuesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;There was one holdout,&#8221; Duncan said. &#8220;We laid it out in front of her again and again and she still said that she had a reasonable doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Evidently, she was a sheeple. Otherwise, she would not have had a so-called &#8220;reasonable doubt&#8221;, without a reason to have it. We&#8217;re lucky she didn&#8217;t trash the other eight too! <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\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0823Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather here in the CatBox is cooler, but very muggy.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t get any cross ventilation, because the building is so super heated that the hallways are still high 80\u00b0s.\u00a0 WWWendy comes this evening.\u00a0 After today, our schedule will be back to normal. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:47 (average 5:14).\u00a0 To do <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/open-thread-8-23-2018\/' 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-33464","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\/33464","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=33464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}