{"id":37168,"date":"2019-07-25T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37168"},"modified":"2019-07-25T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:58:47","slug":"open-thread-7-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/25\/open-thread-7-25-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/25\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The next couple days, here in the stinky old CatBox promise to be most uncomfortable, with highs in the 90\u00b0s.&nbsp; The humidity is now 87%.&nbsp; When WWWendy de-stinks the rancid TomCat later this afternoon.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be dripping sweat by the time I get back to the room from the shower room.&nbsp; ARGH!!&nbsp; On the plus side, one week to go.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:20 (average 5:14).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-25-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=WHwvP6t0l4I\" 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>Mueller Knocks Down Trump\u2019s \u2018No Obstruction\u2019 Claim<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WHwvP6t0l4I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I thought the second hearing was far better than the first. For those, who listened carefully, the substance we needed was there. However, the optics stunk. Unfortunately for optics is the limit to the attention span of far too many voters. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/24\/us\/asylum-ruling-tro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to continue accepting asylum claims from all eligible migrants arriving in the United States, temporarily thwarting the president\u2019s latest attempt to stanch the flow of migrants crossing the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jon S. Tigar of the United States District Court in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction against a new rule that would have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-asylum-rule.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">effectively banned asylum claims<\/a> in the United States for most Central American migrants, who have been arriving in record numbers this year. It would have also affected many migrants from Africa, Asia and other regions.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Judge Tigar. We are a nation of refugees. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/07\/conservative-group-says-it-has-no-idea-how-a-presidential-seal-doctored-to-include-a-russian-symbol-ended-up-behind-trump-during-his-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>On Tuesday, July 23 \u2014 the day before former special counsel Robert Mueller publicly testified before Congress \u2014 President Donald Trump was the victim of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-spoke-in-front-of-presidential-seal-edited-with-symbols-of-russia-and-golf?ref=home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apparent practical joke<\/a> that referenced Russia as well as his interest in golf.  <\/p>\n<p>At a student summit hosted by the right-wing group Turning Point USA, Trump spoke in front of a presidential seal \u2014 which, on the surface, appeared normal. But upon examination, it became apparent that the seal had been altered in two ways: the eagle had two heads (not unlike Russia\u2019s national symbol), and the bird is holding golf clubs rather than its usual arrows.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0725seal\" 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=\"0725seal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0725seal.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\">  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Was it a prank, or was it the Fuhrer&#8217;s design? <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\/2014\/07\/0725Cartoon.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A blast from the past.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next couple days, here in the stinky old CatBox promise to be most uncomfortable, with highs in the 90\u00b0s.&nbsp; The humidity is now 87%.&nbsp; When WWWendy de-stinks the rancid TomCat later this afternoon.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be dripping sweat by the time I get back to the room from the shower room.&nbsp; ARGH!!&nbsp; On the plus <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/25\/open-thread-7-25-2019\/' 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-37168","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\/37168","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=37168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}