{"id":36528,"date":"2019-05-18T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36528"},"modified":"2019-05-18T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T15:36:15","slug":"open-thread-5-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/18\/open-thread-5-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/18\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I did not sleep as well last night, probably because I overslept the night before, but I&#8217;m still improving slowly, and at least I have this Open Thread for you.&nbsp; My phone won&#8217;t be delivered until Monday, so WWWendy will bring it Wednesday.&nbsp; She will be here tomorrow.&nbsp; I&#8217;m hoping to be back in the saddle by Monday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s Took me 3:26 (average 5:20.)&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-18-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=AT73vf64pAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Liberal Redneck &#8211; Bama Bortion Ban<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AT73vf64pAI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Trae. I favor political abortion of all Republican office holders from <em>dawg<\/em> catcher up. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dd8-32MD07s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RealTime\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Time Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Monologue: Barefoot and Pregnant<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Dd8-32MD07s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL! To watch the rest of Bill&#8217;s show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RealTime\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/17\/world\/australia\/election-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Scott Morrison, Australia\u2019s conservative prime minister, won his first full term in office on Saturday, confounding expectations that the country\u2019s voters were ready for a change in course after six years of tumultuous leadership under his party.<\/p>\n<p>The polls had pointed to a loss for Mr. Morrison\u2019s right-leaning coalition for months.  <\/p>\n<p>With a handful of seats still looking too close to call, it remained possible that Mr. Morrison would have to lead a minority government, rather than retaining outright control.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I trust condolences are in order for my Oz friends. <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\/0518Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not sleep as well last night, probably because I overslept the night before, but I&#8217;m still improving slowly, and at least I have this Open Thread for you.&nbsp; My phone won&#8217;t be delivered until Monday, so WWWendy will bring it Wednesday.&nbsp; She will be here tomorrow.&nbsp; I&#8217;m hoping to be back in the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/18\/open-thread-5-18-2019\/' 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-36528","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\/36528","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=36528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}