{"id":36453,"date":"2019-05-09T09:26:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36453"},"modified":"2019-05-09T09:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T16:26:21","slug":"open-thread-5-9-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/09\/open-thread-5-9-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/9\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The heat wave continues here in the CatBox with record highs forecast for the next three days: 86\u00b0, 90\u00b0 and 90\u00b0.&nbsp; I&#8217;m very tired, because I was up late last night.&nbsp; Wendy was a couple hours late.&nbsp; Her dad passed yesterday.&nbsp; In spite of her grief, she came to do my care anyway, God bless her.&nbsp; Please remember her and her family in your kind wishes and prayers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:34 (average 4:59).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-09-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=9D-kiUdBC5g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Senate Judiciary Democrats Submit Question List For Robert Mueller<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9D-kiUdBC5g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They&#8217;re making a list. They&#8217;re checking it twice. Will Lindsey Poo hide who&#8217;s been naughty, not nice? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9kxrBv9hgZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>):&nbsp; <\/font>Speaker Nancy Pelosi: &#8220;We do have a little jail down in the basement of the capital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9kxrBv9hgZA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don&#8217;t even clean that jail. Just fill it with Barrf! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/facebook-co-founder-says-zuckerberg-not-accountable-calls-government-break-n1003606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>: <\/font>A co-founder of Facebook called for the government to break up the tech giant in an op-ed article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thursday in The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Facebook that exists today is not the Facebook that we founded in 2004,\u201d Chris Hughes, who started Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg in their Harvard dorm, told NBC News after the op-ed was published.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the one that we have today I think is far too big. It&#8217;s far too powerful. And most importantly, its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is not accountable,\u201d Hughes said of his former business partner.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. <strong>UNPLUG<\/strong>!! <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\/2018\/05\/0509Cartoon.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A blast from the past.&nbsp; In 2014 the HRCC gave the title to Sheeple who donated.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat wave continues here in the CatBox with record highs forecast for the next three days: 86\u00b0, 90\u00b0 and 90\u00b0.&nbsp; I&#8217;m very tired, because I was up late last night.&nbsp; Wendy was a couple hours late.&nbsp; Her dad passed yesterday.&nbsp; In spite of her grief, she came to do my care anyway, God bless <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/09\/open-thread-5-9-2019\/' 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-36453","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\/36453","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=36453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}