{"id":37195,"date":"2019-07-26T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37195"},"modified":"2019-07-26T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:40:53","slug":"open-thread-7-26-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/26\/open-thread-7-26-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/26\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I feel very tired.&nbsp; I woke up at midnight and felt so uncomfortable, due to the humidity (now 86%) that I could not get back to sleep.&nbsp; At least today is the last 90\u00b0+ day in the crappy old CatBox.&nbsp; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:12 (average 5:20).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-26-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=B0mcRVuRwHM\" 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\">Neal Katyal On How To Prosecute A Sitting President<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/B0mcRVuRwHM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;d love to see a state prosecutor indict the SOB and his whole clan. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/25\/us\/politics\/federal-executions-death-penalty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The federal government will resume executions of death row inmates after a nearly two-decade hiatus, Attorney General William P. Barr said Thursday, countering a broad national shift away from the death penalty as public support for capital punishment has dwindled.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement reversed what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/30\/us\/white-house-balks-on-ending-death-penalty.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had been essentially a moratorium<\/a> on the federal death penalty since 2003. Five men convicted of murdering children will be executed in December and January at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., Mr. Barr said, and additional executions will be scheduled later.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What else could we expect from Barrf? He demonstrated, once again, that Republicans are pro-death. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/republicans-defend-trumps-decision-to-give-putin-office-space-at-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a sign that Donald J. Trump\u2019scontrol over the Republican Party is now complete, congressional Republicans on Thursday defended his decision to give the Russian President Vladimir Putin office space at the White House.  <\/p>\n<p>A newly emboldened Trump told reporters that he had furnished Putin with a corner-office suite and secretarial staff to use whenever the Russian President is in town. \u201cHe says he plans to be here more and more,\u201d Trump said\u2026.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026At the U.S. Senate, a visibly angry Senator Lindsey Graham called allegations that there was anything improper about Trump giving office space to Putin \u201ctotally unfair, disgusting, and vile.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ok, Andy\u2026 Where&#8217;s the humor? Where&#8217;s the satire? That&#8217;s just straight news! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0726Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel very tired.&nbsp; I woke up at midnight and felt so uncomfortable, due to the humidity (now 86%) that I could not get back to sleep.&nbsp; At least today is the last 90\u00b0+ day in the crappy old CatBox.&nbsp; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:12 (average 5:20).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/26\/open-thread-7-26-2019\/' 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-37195","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\/37195","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=37195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}