{"id":37161,"date":"2019-07-24T09:20:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37161"},"modified":"2019-07-24T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:20:34","slug":"open-thread-7-24-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/24\/open-thread-7-24-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/24\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day, here in the crappy old CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries and I&#8217;ll have to put them away.&nbsp; WWWendy isn&#8217;t coming to destink the sweaty TomCat until tomorrow.&nbsp; She is vacationing at the coast.&nbsp; I&#8217;m so, so jealous, because it&#8217;s 10\u00b0 &#8211; 15\u00b0 cooler there.&nbsp; Happy Hump day to all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone P<\/strong><strong>uzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:45 (average 5:14).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-24-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=7FpTrkSN-xc\" 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>Robert Reich: The Real Reason for Impeachmen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7FpTrkSN-xc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. There is only one valid reason not to impeach the Fuhrer of the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich. That reason is Pence. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bFNuJorG0zk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">American Held By Immigration Released After Three Weeks<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bFNuJorG0zk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich would love to deport Latino citizens, who were born here. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/queen-elizabeth-moving-to-canada?bxid=5bea12573f92a404696710df&amp;cndid=24434635&amp;esrc=NYR_BOROWITZ_BLOG&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Borowitz_072319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Queen Elizabeth II is moving to Canada \u201cimmediately\u201d and should take up full-time residence there by the end of the week, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen offered no reason for the move, but the palace indicated that she had been packing her bags for the past several weeks.  <\/p>\n<p>In a sign that the Queen\u2019s decision is irrevocable, the palace revealed that her beloved corgis had already been flown to Toronto.  <\/p>\n<p>In a brief farewell statement to the British people, the Queen explained why she had chosen Canada as her new home. \u201cWe speak the language, and our picture\u2019s on the money there,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! Queen Lizzie has the right idea. Perhaps we should all follow suit. <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\/0724Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day, here in the crappy old CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries and I&#8217;ll have to put them away.&nbsp; WWWendy isn&#8217;t coming to destink the sweaty TomCat until tomorrow.&nbsp; She is vacationing at the coast.&nbsp; I&#8217;m so, so jealous, because it&#8217;s 10\u00b0 &#8211; 15\u00b0 cooler there.&nbsp; Happy Hump day to all. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/24\/open-thread-7-24-2019\/' 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-37161","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\/37161","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=37161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}