{"id":33513,"date":"2018-08-28T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33513"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:59:23","slug":"open-thread-8-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/28\/open-thread-8-28-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/28\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My semi-annual eye torture was a success, as there is no evidence of the cancer.&#160; I&#8217;m still a little blurry and quite tired, because the day is an ordeal.&#160; We have a two day heat wave: Low 90\u00b0s today and mid 80\u00b0s tomorrow.&#160; Hopefully I&#8217;ll see normally (for me) by then.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:21 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-28-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=8L5U_LpTaYw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">What Happens If Democrats Take The House<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8L5U_LpTaYw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If we take the House, everyone in the Trump Reich will have to lawyer-up. In self-defense, nobody new will go to work there. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pjOFq9JRxgE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW CHANNEL<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Jim Bakker Won&#8217;t Wear A Trump Hat For Fear Of &#8216;Being Murdered In The Street&#8217;<\/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\/pjOFq9JRxgE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He wouldn&#8217;t be murdered in the street, but pigeons love the earth sufficiently to target Trump hats from any altitude. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/mueller-rents-giant-warehouse-to-store-evidence-against-trump\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Robert Mueller is renting a massive warehouse facility in suburban Virginia to accommodate the approximately forty cubic tons of evidence against Donald Trump that the independent counsel\u2019s investigation is generating on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>Employing over two thousand workers in a warehouse the size of seven football fields, the Mueller investigation has become the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Working twelve-hour shifts, the members of Mueller\u2019s evidence-storage team rarely leave the warehouse, where the punishing task of filing mountains of evidence against Trump proceeds around the clock.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! 40 tons a day? That&#8217;s ALL?!!? <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\/2017\/08\/0828Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My semi-annual eye torture was a success, as there is no evidence of the cancer.&#160; I&#8217;m still a little blurry and quite tired, because the day is an ordeal.&#160; We have a two day heat wave: Low 90\u00b0s today and mid 80\u00b0s tomorrow.&#160; Hopefully I&#8217;ll see normally (for me) by then. 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