{"id":37079,"date":"2019-07-17T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37079"},"modified":"2019-07-17T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:30:45","slug":"open-thread-7-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/17\/open-thread-7-17-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/17\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m hurrying, because I have an horrendously busy day.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries, and I have to put them away.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming 2.5 hours early to take me to the Madrona Studios, sign the lease, pay money, and get keys.&nbsp; That means I&#8217;ll shower, eat and get to bed late.&nbsp; In the process, I&#8217;ll lose almost all my nap time.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll need a recovery day.&nbsp; Hurried Hump Day Hugs!<\/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 4:37).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-17-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=ce-WDst5H_w\" 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>BLAME OBAMA &#8211; Parody<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ce-WDst5H_w\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Don! You have me confused! Is the Republican national sport blaming Obama, or hating non-whites, women and LGBTQ? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Qq8LQqT_bw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: How Corporate Welfare Hurts You<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8Qq8LQqT_bw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, The Republican Reich loves nothing more than taking YOUR money and giving it to billionaires. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/16\/nyregion\/eric-garner-case-death-daniel-pantaleo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A contentious, yearslong debate inside the Justice Department over whether to bring federal civil rights charges against an officer in the death of Eric Garner ended on Tuesday after Attorney General William P. Barr ordered that the case be dropped.<\/p>\n<p>The United States attorney in Brooklyn, Richard P. Donoghue, announced the decision one day before the fifth anniversary of Mr. Garner\u2019s death at the hands of police officers on Staten Island. <\/p>\n<p>The case had sharply divided federal officials and prompted national protests over excessive force by the police. <\/p>\n<p>Bystanders filmed the arrest on their cellphones, recording Mr. Garner as he gasped \u201cI can\u2019t breathe,\u201d and his death was one of several fatal encounters between black people and the police that catalyzed the national Black Lives Matter movement. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is that sick or what? Barrf must have donned his robes and hood for that one. <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\/07\/0717Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hurrying, because I have an horrendously busy day.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries, and I have to put them away.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming 2.5 hours early to take me to the Madrona Studios, sign the lease, pay money, and get keys.&nbsp; That means I&#8217;ll shower, eat and get to bed late.&nbsp; In the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/17\/open-thread-7-17-2019\/' 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-37079","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\/37079","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=37079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}