{"id":37210,"date":"2019-07-27T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T17:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37210"},"modified":"2019-07-27T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T17:18:28","slug":"open-thread-7-27-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/27\/open-thread-7-27-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/27\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I slept poorly last night here in the crappy old CatBox because of the extreme humidity (now 85%).&nbsp; I feel very tired.&nbsp; Please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2 both Tomorrow and Monday.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and after de-stinking the smelly TomCat, we start packing.&nbsp; Monday is my annual Cat Scan with contrast to ascertain that the eye-cancer I suffered did not metastasize.&nbsp; It doubles as a COPD check.&nbsp; I expect another clean bill of health, but I&#8217;ll be very pissed off, if I don&#8217;t get to play with the cat doing the scan.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:19 (average 4:56).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-27-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=2nKCBq09OYE\" 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\">Detained American Teen Speaks About His Ordeal<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2nKCBq09OYE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This example of Republican Latino-hatred is horrific. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2019\/07\/supreme-court-pentagon-cash-border-wall-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slate<\/a>: <\/font>There were likely big celebrations at the White House Friday night as the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2019\/07\/justices-allow-government-to-go-ahead-with-funding-for-border-wall\/#more-288360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave the green light<\/a> for the Trump administration to <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/26\/politics\/supreme-court-pentagon-border-wall-construction\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build parts of the wall along the Mexican border<\/a>. In a 5-4 ruling, the court\u2019s conservative justices overturned a lower court decision and said the administration could begin using the money while the case proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>Even though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/18pdf\/19a60_o75p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the ruling<\/a> was only one paragraph long, the conservative justices hinted pretty clearly they would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/26\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-border-wall-trump.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely side with the administration in the future<\/a> by saying that those challenging the White House use of the funds didn\u2019t seem to have a right to do so. On the opposite end, three of the four more liberal justices on the court\u2014Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan\u2014said they <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/5d893d388c254c7fa83a1570112ae90e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would have blocked the funds for now<\/a>. Justice Stephen Breyer, meanwhile, said he would have allowed preparatory work but not actual construction that would be difficult to undo if the White House lost the case further down the line.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">SCROTUS (Republican Anti-Constitutional VD) strikes again! They are allowing the Fuhrer to steal benefits, equipment, and training that our troops need and deserve to waste money on the bogus Republican wall. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/7\/25\/1874431\/-Trump-loving-Republican-challenging-Rep-Omar-faces-felony-theft-charges-from-shoplifting-arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font> <\/p>\n<p>Republicans are really drawing the best people these days. For example, take Daniella Stella, the Trump-loving Minnesota woman who is trying to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota\u2019s 5th Congressional District. She has fully embraced the ridiculously absurd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/post\/this-gop-challenger-to-ilhan-omar-100-stands-with-qanon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qanon conspiracy theories<\/a> (read more about that below.)  <\/p>\n<p>But, it turns out the congressional hopeful also has a criminal history. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/25\/danielle-stella-republican-ilhan-omar-charged-felony-qanon-trump?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a> has the goods:  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Stella is accused of stealing 279 items valued at $2,327.97 from a Target store in Edina, to the south-west of Minneapolis, on 8 January this year. She was arrested for the alleged theft after security staff called the police.  <\/p>\n<p>A criminal complaint filed to Hennepin county district court alleged Stella was seen leaving the store without paying for most of her haul, after \u201cscanning only a few other items\u201d that were valued at about $50.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>$2,327.97 from a Target? That\u2019s a lot of stolen stuff. It\u2019s hard to imagine executives or employees of Minneapolis-based Target Stores supporting her election campaign.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The Target theft wasn\u2019t her first time getting busted for shoplifting.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What do I think? I think the prospect of being in the House had her salivating with GOP greed. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0727Cartoon\" 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=\"0727Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0727Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slept poorly last night here in the crappy old CatBox because of the extreme humidity (now 85%).&nbsp; I feel very tired.&nbsp; Please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2 both Tomorrow and Monday.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and after de-stinking the smelly TomCat, we start packing.&nbsp; Monday <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/27\/open-thread-7-27-2019\/' 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-37210","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\/37210","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=37210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}