{"id":36892,"date":"2019-06-26T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36892"},"modified":"2019-06-26T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:50:40","slug":"open-thread-6-26-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/open-thread-6-26-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/26\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a strange but busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; The weather is temperate, but muggy, and grass pollen is still very high.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries later, and I have to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; That WWWendy won&#8217;t be here until tomorrow evening makes it strange.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 4:44).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-06-26-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=fJFBu-EUcvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WashingtonPost\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Hannah Explains: How to check your gender bias while watching the primary debates<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fJFBu-EUcvo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While, I think I can make an honest evaluation about which candidate is best for America, must I check my opinion that it&#8217;s about time we put a woman in the Oval Office? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xV0WQEz4LjU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCrj-0FxK19tgUR2EbHkBBGg\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s plan to protect our democracy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xV0WQEz4LjU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She has a plan for that. As usual, it&#8217;s impeccable. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/26\/politics\/eric-trump-chicago-restaurant-spit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font>Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump, said Tuesday he was spat on by an employee at a Chicago-area restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was purely a disgusting act by somebody who clearly has emotional problems,&#8221; the President&#8217;s third child told conservative site Breitbart News [<em>Breitfart delinked<\/em>] by phone Tuesday evening.  <\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Police Department was on the scene and assisted Secret Service, per CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CPD was on scene and assisting the United States Secret Service with a law enforcement matter. Any and all inquiries regarding a federal protectee must be directed to the Secret Service,&#8221; Guglielmi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJGuglielmi\/status\/1143721720622149633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>A United States Secret Service spokesperson declined to comment to CNN, and did not respond to inquiries on whether charges had been filed.  <\/p>\n<p>Eric Trump cast blame for the incident, which took place at upscale cocktail bar and restaurant Aviary, more broadly on the Democratic Party.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, spit? The attacker got a letter wrong. An H would have been better than the P. \ud83d\ude09 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/25\/us\/politics\/border-funding-vote.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A divided House voted on Tuesday to send $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid to the border to address horrific conditions facing a crush of migrants, attaching significant rules on how the money could be spent in the first action by Democrats to rein in President Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown.  <\/p>\n<p>But the package \u2014 which passed by a vote of 230 to 195 nearly along party lines, only after Democratic leaders toughened restrictions on the money to win over liberal skeptics \u2014 faces a tough path to enactment. A similar measure with many fewer strings binding Mr. Trump has drawn bipartisan support in the Senate. And the House bill faces a veto threat from White House advisers, who regard the Senate bill as the surest way to speed the needed aid to strapped agencies dealing with the migrant influx.  <\/p>\n<p>Hours before the House bill passed, Mr. Trump said that he did not like some of the restrictions that lawmakers were seeking to place on the humanitarian funding, but that he badly needed the resources.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump and the Republican Reich do not want funding that stipulates how children have proper food, living conditions and medical care. The Reich has been charging taxpayers and paying cronies $750 per day per child for cement floors, no showers, too little junk food, and no medical care. <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\/2015\/06\/0626Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a strange but busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; The weather is temperate, but muggy, and grass pollen is still very high.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries later, and I have to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; That WWWendy won&#8217;t be here until tomorrow evening makes it strange.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day! 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