{"id":37144,"date":"2019-07-23T10:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37144"},"modified":"2019-07-23T10:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:01:01","slug":"open-thread-7-23-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/open-thread-7-23-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/23\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy week here in the crappy old CatBox.&nbsp; Yesterday TriMet recertified my chair and I for another three years.&nbsp; Unless I go back to the shiny new CatBox&nbsp; with WWWendy, my next trip out is Monday.&nbsp; I have a Cat Scan.&nbsp; The IV contrast is bad enough, but I HATE having to drink the oral contrast, which I call Cat Pee.&nbsp; Today and tomorrow are the coolest days of the heat wave (low to mid 80\u00b0s).&nbsp; Enjoy your day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:53 (average 4:29).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-23-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>A Pic from the Shiny New CatBox<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0723MadronaWWW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0723MadronaWWW\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0723MadronaWWW\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0723MadronaWWW_thumb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What gorgeous scenery!<\/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=Xg0HTkco7_o\" 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>Boris Johnson wins vote, expected to be UK prime minister<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Xg0HTkco7_o\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Poor UK! Boris Brexit is a Bridiot! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/07\/22\/deficit-don-budget-red-ink-trump-1426696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump may have to hand out some new nicknames \u2014 for himself \u2014 after endorsing a bipartisan budget deal with Congress: \u201cTrillion Dollar Trump?\u201d \u201cDeficit Don?\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>With a new bipartisan budget deal that does nothing to cut federal spending, Trump is on track for another $1 trillion deficit this year. And there\u2019s no reason to believe the following fiscal year will be any different, with ballooning deficits from higher spending, the 2017 tax cuts \u2014 Trump&#8217;s signature legislative achievement, which slashed revenue \u2014 and none of the entitlement reforms long preached by Republican leaders on Capitol Hill.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is only one reasonable solution. It is undoing a decade of Republican welfare for the super-rich, combined with a steep wealth tax. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trumps-bid-to-become-born-again-fails-as-jesus-turns-down-friend-request\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The billionaire Donald J. Trump\u2019s bid to become a born-again Christian failed over the weekend after Jesus Christ turned down his friend request, campaign officials have acknowledged.  <\/p>\n<p>Jesus, who has not generally been active on Facebook, made a rare appearance on the social network on Monday to announce His decision to ignore the presumptive Republican nominee\u2019s request for a personal relationship with Him.  <\/p>\n<p>In a brief post, Jesus offered the following explanation: \u201cJust everything.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The turndown from Jesus Christ, the inspiration behind one of the world\u2019s most prominent religions, caps what has been a tough month for the Trump campaign.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Look Andy, that is just not credible. Trump would never try to befriend the real Jesus. Trump&#8217;s Jesus is a GOP invention, Republican Supply-side Jesus, whose gospel of greed, hate, racism, violence and death matches his own beliefs and those of the pseudo-Christians in 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\/0723Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy week here in the crappy old CatBox.&nbsp; Yesterday TriMet recertified my chair and I for another three years.&nbsp; Unless I go back to the shiny new CatBox&nbsp; with WWWendy, my next trip out is Monday.&nbsp; I have a Cat Scan.&nbsp; The IV contrast is bad enough, but I HATE having to drink <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/open-thread-7-23-2019\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37144","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=37144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}