{"id":36426,"date":"2019-05-06T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36426"},"modified":"2019-05-06T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:19:14","slug":"open-thread-5-6-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/open-thread-5-6-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/6\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a hot day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; The normal high is 62\u00b0.&nbsp; For the next week, we&#8217;ll be 20\u00b0+ over that and pushing 90\u00b0.&nbsp; I&#8217;m feeling a little better, but am staying down to be sure.&nbsp; Prayers for Wendy, please.&nbsp; Her niece&#8217;s memorial service was last night, and her father will pass any day.&nbsp; OGIM!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:46 (average 5:08).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-06-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=0lTczPEG8iI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LastWeekTonight\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Week Tonight Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Lethal Injections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0lTczPEG8iI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are two categories of nations: nations that do not execute prisoners and barbaric nations. End state sponsored murder, especially by slow torture. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T16OEUJ0Z8A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dollemore\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesse Dollemore Channel<\/a>): <\/font>TRUMP IS FREAKING OUT!!! Robert Mueller to Testify Before Congress on May 15th!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/T16OEUJ0Z8A\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen. I bet Barrf is freaking out along with his Fuhrer! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2019\/05\/06\/one-million-species-face-extinction-un-panel-says-humans-will-suffer-result\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Up to 1 million plant and animal species are on the verge of extinction, with alarming implications for human survival, according to a United Nations report released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s findings underscore the conclusions of previous scientific studies that say human activity is wreaking havoc on the wild kingdom, threatening the existence of living things ranging from giant whales to small flowers and insects that are almost impossible to see with the naked eye.  <\/p>\n<p>But the global report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services goes a step further than previous studies by linking the loss of species to humans and analyzing its effect on food and water security, farming and economies.  <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/context\/ipbes-global-report-species-extinction-rate-is-accelerating\/f724e478-da85-4e89-83f9-f663c496f08c\/?utm_term=.6c6230b31315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the U.N. global report: Species extinction rate is accelerating<\/a>]  <\/p>\n<p>According to the report, more plants and animals are threatened with extinction now than any other period in human history. Nature\u2019s current rate of decline is unparalleled, it says, and the accelerating rate of extinctions \u201cmeans grave impacts on people around the world are now likely.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A catastrophe that could wipe out all life on earth is an ELE (extinction level event). The Republican Party is an ELE. <strong>RESIST<\/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\/05\/0506Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a hot day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; The normal high is 62\u00b0.&nbsp; For the next week, we&#8217;ll be 20\u00b0+ over that and pushing 90\u00b0.&nbsp; I&#8217;m feeling a little better, but am staying down to be sure.&nbsp; Prayers for Wendy, please.&nbsp; Her niece&#8217;s memorial service was last night, and her father will pass any day.&nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/open-thread-5-6-2019\/' 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-36426","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\/36426","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=36426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}