{"id":36551,"date":"2019-05-23T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36551"},"modified":"2019-05-23T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T16:48:10","slug":"open-thread-5-23-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/23\/open-thread-5-23-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/23\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m feeling quite tired today.&nbsp; WWWendy was late, because she stopped to inspect the new apartment on the way.&nbsp; There are some bathroom issues to correct, but otherwise, I&#8217;ll have more room than ever.&nbsp; We activated my iPhone, and that did not go well, but aster 30 minutes with tech support, it&#8217;s up and running.&nbsp; Then I transferred my contacts and erased the old phone.&nbsp; I finally got to bed about three hours late.&nbsp; No wonder I&#8217;m pooped, here in the tiny old CatBox.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:50 (average 5:16).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-23-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=9pQxoJO73pE\" 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>Chuck Schumer: Donald Trump Bailed On Meeting To Throw Rose Garden Tantrum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9pQxoJO73pE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten never intended to make an infrastructure deal. The staged deception in the Rose Garden was a failed attempt to project the blame for the failure of the Republican Reich to agree on a doable plan onto Democrats, who do have a plan. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WEhKSWYGluk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Climate change is making allergy season worse<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WEhKSWYGluk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That means that I can blame the carbon-loving Republican Reich for the sickness I&#8217;ve had this spring. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/5\/22\/1859744\/-GOP-lawmaker-allegedly-punched-wife-for-undressing-too-slowly-for-sex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>How any Republican can get even one woman\u2019s vote is beyond me. What they do in the halls of government is bad enough, and then there\u2019s shit like this.<\/p>\n<p>According to recent media reports, Doug McLeod, a Mississippi state representative, was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly punching his wife in the face. Why did he do it? Because she undressed too slowly when he wanted to have sex with her.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and he\u2019d been drinking. Probably a lot.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/mississippi-gop-call-mcleod-resignation-punch-wife-allegation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Talking Points Memo:<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After McLeod allegedly hit his wife, she ran to another woman\u2019s room to hide from her husband. McLeod allegedly banged on the door and threatened the other woman that he\u2019d \u201ckill her [expletive] dog\u201d if she didn\u2019t let him in.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d he allegedly said when the cops showed up. At one point, deputies said they couldn\u2019t understand what McLeod was saying because his speech was too slurred. They found blood in the couple\u2019s bedroom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McLeod was charged with misdemeanor violence and is out on $1,000 bond.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans consider women to be property, so they think abusing wives is their right. <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\/0523Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling quite tired today.&nbsp; WWWendy was late, because she stopped to inspect the new apartment on the way.&nbsp; There are some bathroom issues to correct, but otherwise, I&#8217;ll have more room than ever.&nbsp; We activated my iPhone, and that did not go well, but aster 30 minutes with tech support, it&#8217;s up and running.&nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/23\/open-thread-5-23-2019\/' 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-36551","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\/36551","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=36551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}