{"id":36534,"date":"2019-05-21T09:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36534"},"modified":"2019-05-21T09:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:10:59","slug":"open-thread-5-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/open-thread-5-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/21\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I slept well, so I&#8217;m trying top crawl back in the saddle, but just barely.&nbsp; Tomorrow will depend on how I feel then.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:46 (average 7:30).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-21-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=sRwUVovtdr0\" 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>Robert Reich: Why We Must Legalize Marijuana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sRwUVovtdr0\" 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 racist Republican Reich, will crap their pants, if Democrats steal their theme song: <em>This Bud&#8217;s for You<\/em>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2N7KdawxrVI\" 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 May Be Preparing Pardons for Servicemen Accused of War Crimes! Fox News Thinks it&#8217;s GREAT!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2N7KdawxrVI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">US Service people are among the most honorable in the world. I think one reason is their adherence to a strict code of military justice. If Republican&#8217;s undermine that code, we will lose that credibility forever. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/20\/us\/politics\/kris-kobach-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Access to a government jet 24 hours a day. An office in the West Wing, plus guaranteed weekends off for family time. And an assurance of being made secretary of homeland security by November.<\/p>\n<p>Those were among a list of 10 conditions that Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state, has given to the White House if he is to become the administration\u2019s \u201cimmigration czar,\u201d a job President Trump has been looking to create to coordinate immigration policy across government agencies. The list was described by three people familiar with it.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">ARGH! Kobitch:immigration::Eichmann:Transportation. What a Republican wet dream! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><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\/0521Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slept well, so I&#8217;m trying top crawl back in the saddle, but just barely.&nbsp; Tomorrow will depend on how I feel then. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:46 (average 7:30).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Why We Must Legalize Marijuana <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/open-thread-5-21-2019\/' 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-36534","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\/36534","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=36534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}