{"id":37084,"date":"2019-07-18T08:11:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T15:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37084"},"modified":"2019-07-18T08:11:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T15:11:17","slug":"open-thread-7-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/18\/open-thread-7-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/18\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m exhausted.&nbsp; I missed my nap yesterday and was in my chair from 5:00 AM until 6:00 PM, breaking only for the ride over and back in Wendy&#8217;s truck.&nbsp; But it is now a done deal at last.&nbsp; I signed my name at least 50 times, paid my rent, and took possession of the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; I have the keys, at last, and moving day is two weeks from today.&nbsp; Woooo Hoooo!!!&nbsp; This will be today&#8217;s only article, with no links messages on Care2, but it&#8217;s a bit more than I intended.&nbsp; Why? Sam!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:55 (average 8:31).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-18-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>: From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Frontal Network<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BaBagXzHXk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Late Shrill with Samantha Bee (feat. Tammy Duckworth)<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-BaBagXzHXk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">God, I&#8217;ve missed Sam.&nbsp; Is her summer break over? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l31zZHfSUjA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Rundown of Trump\u2019s Racist Racisms<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/l31zZHfSUjA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sam was wrong about one thing.&nbsp; The Fuhrer ends sentences with propositions, not prepositions. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PgK4QDi2ZZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Got Friends in High Places<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PgK4QDi2ZZ8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Penis shampoo dispenser? Literotica in a Taxes file? Dang! Is Sam a perv? \ud83d\ude09 Calling Epstein a pervert is understatement. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon <\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0718Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m exhausted.&nbsp; I missed my nap yesterday and was in my chair from 5:00 AM until 6:00 PM, breaking only for the ride over and back in Wendy&#8217;s truck.&nbsp; But it is now a done deal at last.&nbsp; I signed my name at least 50 times, paid my rent, and took possession of the shiny <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/18\/open-thread-7-18-2019\/' 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-37084","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\/37084","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=37084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}