{"id":36498,"date":"2019-05-14T09:23:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36498"},"modified":"2019-05-14T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:23:52","slug":"open-thread-5-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/14\/open-thread-5-14-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/14\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m still sick. The heat wave ended yesterday, and, of course they installed my AC.&nbsp; I have good news.&nbsp; In a couple weeks, they are moving ne to Madrona Studios.&nbsp; The units are larger than I had at the Henry and much larger than here.&nbsp; They have full kitchenettes, bathrooms, and central heating and A\/C.&nbsp; Now I just need to recover enough to move.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:57 (average 5:02).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-14-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=mcZVleu_L1E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: Why We Need a Wealth Tax<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mcZVleu_L1E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, are screwing the American people. Fleece the greedy bastards. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/05\/14\/barr-prosecutor-russia-probe-origins-1319878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was \u201clawful and appropriate,\u201d a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Barr appointed John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to conduct the inquiry, the person said. The person could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.  <\/p>\n<p>Durham\u2019s appointment comes about a month after Barr told members of Congress he believed \u201cspying did occur\u201d on the Trump campaign in 2016. He later said he didn\u2019t mean anything pejorative and was gathering a team to look into the origins of the special counsel\u2019s investigation.  <\/p>\n<p>Barr provided no details about what \u201cspying\u201d may have taken place but appeared to be alluding to a surveillance warrant the FBI obtained on a former Trump associate, Carter Page, and the FBI\u2019s use of an informant while the bureau was investigating former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.  <\/p>\n<p>Trump and his supporters have seized on both to accuse the Justice Department and the FBI of unlawfully spying on his campaign.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I had a feeling Barrf wound commit this travesty for his Fuhrer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-urges-americans-to-boycott-chinese-goods-and-just-buy-things-at-walmart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Asking for their solidarity in his trade war with China, Donald Trump is urging Americans to boycott Chinese goods and \u201cjust buy things at Walmart.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Trump made his request via Twitter, where he told his fellow-citizens that it was their \u201cpatriotic duty\u201d to punish China by buying as many goods at Walmart as possible.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go to a great american store like Walmart, you\u2019ll find lots of cheap sportswear, shoes, and other items for you and your family to enjoy,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cWhat better way to show China that we don\u2019t need their dumb stuff!\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! If Wal-Fart was any more Chinese, their greeters would say &#8220;Ni Hao&#8221;. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0514Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still sick. The heat wave ended yesterday, and, of course they installed my AC.&nbsp; I have good news.&nbsp; In a couple weeks, they are moving ne to Madrona Studios.&nbsp; The units are larger than I had at the Henry and much larger than here.&nbsp; They have full kitchenettes, bathrooms, and central heating and A\/C.&nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/14\/open-thread-5-14-2019\/' 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-36498","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\/36498","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=36498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}