{"id":36625,"date":"2019-05-30T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36625"},"modified":"2019-05-30T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T17:02:24","slug":"open-thread-5-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/30\/open-thread-5-30-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/30\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m feeling frustrated this morning.&nbsp; I just received an auto-reply that the person at CCC, who&#8217;s supposed to be organizing my move, is out of the office until Monday.&nbsp; That not only leaves me hanging, but also, means that I cannot move next week.&nbsp; Now it will have to wait until the week after.&nbsp; ARGH!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:52 (average 5:41).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-30-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=XJgb11B_Lvg\" 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><font color=\"#000000\">Mitch McConnell Blocks Bills To Combat Election Interference<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XJgb11B_Lvg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bought Bitch Mitch and the Republican Reich want Russian interference. They are depending on their Russian masters&#8217; help to stay in power. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From Oregon: In Lynn&#8217;s Honor<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0530BigfootFootprints\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0530BigfootFootprints\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0530BigfootFootprints.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"455\"><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s about time someone gave our Sasquatch the credit she deserves. Oregon leads the way! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/mueller-stirs-controversy-by-urging-americans-to-read\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/font>: The special counsel Robert Mueller ignited a firestorm of controversy on Wednesday by recommending that millions of Americans read.  <\/p>\n<p>Mueller, seemingly oblivious to the uproar he was about to create, repeatedly commented that there was valuable information available to the American people only by reading a long book.  <\/p>\n<p>At the White House, sources said that Donald J. Trump was furious about Mueller\u2019s statement because he interpreted the special counsel\u2019s pro-reading message as a thinly veiled attack on him.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hate to say it, but Andy has a very valid point. Expecting American voters to read is a tall order, and expecting Republican sheeple to read is pure comedy. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0530Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t like the devices, but love the contents.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling frustrated this morning.&nbsp; I just received an auto-reply that the person at CCC, who&#8217;s supposed to be organizing my move, is out of the office until Monday.&nbsp; That not only leaves me hanging, but also, means that I cannot move next week.&nbsp; Now it will have to wait until the week after.&nbsp; ARGH! <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/30\/open-thread-5-30-2019\/' 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":[35,3,141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-plus","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-141-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\/36625","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=36625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}