{"id":36972,"date":"2019-07-05T08:27:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36972"},"modified":"2019-07-05T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:27:19","slug":"open-thread-7-5-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/05\/open-thread-7-5-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/5\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a muggy, lazy day, here at the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy and I stuffed ourselves on ribs.&nbsp; I fell asleep, before the fireworks started and slept through them.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a slow day for news.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not going to write a Bone Spurs article about how Revolutionary War &#8220;citizens&#8221; stormed the airports at Ft. McHenry.&nbsp; Therefore. this is my only article today, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; Later I have to wrap the TomCat around more ribs.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:15 (average 6:28).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-05-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=4to6Ct37qgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>4th of July &#8211; National Anthem New Verse<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4to6Ct37qgw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Don! Those are the core values, upon which Republicans are trampling. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wmMS9XVIa00&amp;list=PLy_AmnYLyvV_MKycRRtpwc7p0iScyG0tp&amp;index=13&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>Pink &#8211; Dear MR President OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wmMS9XVIa00\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah! The memories! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/high-temperatures-break-records-in-alaska-as-climatologists-warn-of-global-warming-264441489b7f\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Anchorage, Alaska, broke its own state record on the Fourth of July, recording a high of 90 degrees Fahrenheit \u2014 five degrees above the previous record of 85 degrees Fahrenheit, set in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service in Anchorage <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/product.php?site=NWS&amp;issuedby=AFC&amp;product=AFD&amp;format=CI&amp;version=1&amp;glossary=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warned<\/a> of high temperatures earlier this week, explaining that a building high-pressure ridge would blanket the state in a heat wave. Climate researchers have said the unprecedented high temperatures are \u201cunusual.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s entirely possible that the warmest temperature ever recorded in Anchorage could be exceeded three to five days in a row,\u201d Brian Brettschneider, a climate researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/baked-alaska-record-high-temperatures-expected-during-unusual-heat-wave-ncna1026491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s the definition of unusual.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I sadly suspect that the Republican Reich has the following solution. They will soon me marketing the corpses of extinct species as 1% gourmet food. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoons<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0705Cartoon.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Pam may not see this, because she is in Kenya.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0705Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a muggy, lazy day, here at the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy and I stuffed ourselves on ribs.&nbsp; I fell asleep, before the fireworks started and slept through them.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a slow day for news.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not going to write a Bone Spurs article about how Revolutionary War &#8220;citizens&#8221; stormed the airports at Ft. 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