{"id":37140,"date":"2019-07-22T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37140"},"modified":"2019-07-22T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:50:59","slug":"personal-update-7-22-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/22\/personal-update-7-22-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update &#8211; 7\/22\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is my only article today, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; I should be back in the saddle until next Sunday and Monday.&nbsp; The heat yesterday was severe.&nbsp; My A\/C made it bearable, but not by much.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll probably need to leave before I publish this, so I&#8217;ll do it when I return.&nbsp; OGIM!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Back!&nbsp; It was quite painless.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:04 (average 5:18).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-22-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/07\/its-not-just-trumps-racism-its-the-radical-republicans-who-stand-with-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>The only thing more disgusting than having to suffer Donald Trump\u2019s outwardly racist remarks\u2014complete with double-downs and repetitions\u2014is watching Washington refuse to own them.<\/p>\n<p>Trump continued on with his attacks on four vocal, left-leaning, first-year congresswomen, expressing feigned surprise that people have found the words racist. Does he really think we are that dumb or societally deaf?  <\/p>\n<p>The four struck back, of course, with just enough partisan talk to allow various congressional Republicans to try to redefine the matter as one of adverse politics rather than race\u2014conveniently overlooking the fact that the four are women of color. The Republicans who make it to television seem to take an unusually smarmy delight in casting the four\u2014and all Democrats, while they are at it, as socialists bent on destroying the nation.  <\/p>\n<p>And in Congress, Republicans chose to attack Speaker Nancy Pelosi for using the word \u201cracist\u201d on the floor toward a condemnation resolution rather than deal with the content.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump&#8217;s racism merely reflects the racism of the Republican Reich. <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\/0722Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my only article today, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; I should be back in the saddle until next Sunday and Monday.&nbsp; The heat yesterday was severe.&nbsp; My A\/C made it bearable, but not by much.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll probably need to leave before I publish this, so I&#8217;ll do it when I return.&nbsp; OGIM! <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/22\/personal-update-7-22-2019\/' 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-37140","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\/37140","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=37140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}