{"id":36484,"date":"2019-05-11T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36484"},"modified":"2019-05-11T10:44:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T17:44:43","slug":"open-thread-5-11-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/11\/open-thread-5-11-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/11\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the problem.&nbsp; It&#8217;s 90\u00b0 weather.&nbsp; CCC has not gotten my own AC to me.&nbsp; They did give me a loaner unit, but jury rigged the installation.&nbsp; There a 2&#8243; square of open window in a place I can&#8217;t reach to patch or plug.&nbsp; Worse yet, the exhaust tube does not seal properly, so some of the hot air is venting into the room instead of being pumped outside.&nbsp; It was over 80\u00b0 here last night.&nbsp; My COPD is horrid.&nbsp; Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow.&nbsp; This is today&#8217;s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:48 (average 4:51).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-11-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\">Four from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RealTime\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Time Channel<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZfXEb23rmGo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monologue: The Resistance is Futile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZfXEb23rmGo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When pigs fly out of Putin&#8217;s ass? We know one has flown in: Trump&#8217;s nose. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xsrmu-_UR_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congressman Tim Ryan<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/w6GPX0InNgE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tim should not be confused with the infamous Lyin&#8217; Ryan. I think he&#8217;s in it to build name recognition for the future. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xsrmu-_UR_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Lewis: Why Government is Good<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xsrmu-_UR_A\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The only time that government is the problem is when the Republican Reich destroys it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4417xGlly24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Rule: The Great Wife Hope<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4417xGlly24\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of the two, Melania is worse off than Jerry. <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\/2014\/05\/0511Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the problem.&nbsp; It&#8217;s 90\u00b0 weather.&nbsp; CCC has not gotten my own AC to me.&nbsp; They did give me a loaner unit, but jury rigged the installation.&nbsp; There a 2&#8243; square of open window in a place I can&#8217;t reach to patch or plug.&nbsp; Worse yet, the exhaust tube does not seal properly, so some <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/11\/open-thread-5-11-2019\/' 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-36484","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\/36484","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=36484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}