{"id":36925,"date":"2019-06-30T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36925"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:19:37","slug":"open-thread-6-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/30\/open-thread-6-30-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/30\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I spent four hour in blog maintenance, a large part of which was installing security software and filters incoming traffic and block Republican and Russian bots that are attacking the site thousands of times per hour.&nbsp; (ADMINISTRATORS:&nbsp; If it says your Name and\/or Password are on their &#8220;bots might have it&#8221; list, it will warn you to change your password.&nbsp; If you are locked out, email me to assign you a new password).&nbsp; I&#8217;m feeling much better now, after flushing half the Republican Party.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; It will be a WWWendy day.&nbsp; I&#8217;m late and rushing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:13 (average 5:34).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-06-30-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=b4G7GIvLvgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Biden letters reveal he resisted this desegregation tactic<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/b4G7GIvLvgw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">His misstatements on this subject have caught up to him. Biden should come clean, apologize and withdraw. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b4G7GIvLvgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Elizabeth Warren speaks at 2019 Rainbow Push Coalition Convention<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QJ0rDnoi8A4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As usual, Liz scored 11 on the 1 to 10 scale. She&#8217;s still my #1.&nbsp; Kamala moved up to #2.&nbsp; Bernie fell to #3. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/joe-biden-gay-waiter-comments-democratic-election-seattle-medina-a8981351.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Independent<\/a>: <\/font>Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has been challenged by members of the crowd after suggesting that mocking a \u201cgay waiter\u201d was seen as socially acceptable five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Biden made the remarks at a fundraising event hosted by former Microsoft president Jon Shirley in the wealthy Seattle suburb of Medina, which is home to billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The former vice president suggested that half a decade ago, someone at a business lunch could poke fun at a gay waiter and others at the table would silently sit by.  <\/p>\n<p>But some in the crowd interjected by saying: \u201cNot in Seattle\u201d.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why can&#8217;t he have an event without a gaffe? He&#8217;s just that far out of touch. <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\/06\/0630Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I spent four hour in blog maintenance, a large part of which was installing security software and filters incoming traffic and block Republican and Russian bots that are attacking the site thousands of times per hour.&nbsp; (ADMINISTRATORS:&nbsp; If it says your Name and\/or Password are on their <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/30\/open-thread-6-30-2019\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36925","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\/36925","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=36925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}