{"id":37223,"date":"2019-07-30T09:39:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37223"},"modified":"2019-07-30T09:39:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:39:34","slug":"open-thread-7-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/30\/open-thread-7-30-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/30\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a muggy day here in the crappy old CatBox.&nbsp; I assume that the Cat Scan showed nothing bad.&nbsp; It was an unpleasant experience, because I had to guzzle over a liter of cat pee, and when it was over they lied to me.&nbsp; They said there is no cat.&nbsp; Who should I think did the Cat Scan a <em>dawg<\/em>?!!? <em>Dawgs<\/em> are for eating, not scanning!&nbsp; I should be in the saddle today and tomorrow.&nbsp; Thursday is moving Day. I&#8217;ll post a minimal Personal Update early in the Morning and, if my Friday morning cable installation is smooth, another on Friday PM.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be back on the weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:11 (average 4:45).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-30-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>. 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=LCAzRLcc3ts\" 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>\u2018No Evidence\u2019 Trump DNI Pick Ratcliffe Prosecuted A Terrorism Case<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LCAzRLcc3ts\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Director of National Intelligence ought to have some. This sycophant creep has none. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qSY0jMmygaM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>FORGETTYSBURG ADDRESS &#8211; A Sandy and Richard Riccardi Parody<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qSY0jMmygaM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Love it Don! You pegged Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten perfectly! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/john-cornyn-texas-senator-shows-he-has-no-respect-for-american-intellect-6b2dbcea5413\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Imagine the utter contempt that Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) must hold for the American people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain and again, Democrats have refused to join Republicans in guaranteeing coverage for pre-existing conditions,\u201d Cornyn tweeted Monday morning. The tweet was in response to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stating it had been two years since Senate Democrats blocked President Donald Trump from repealing critical health care rules\u2026  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act \u2014 a law that, among other things, ensured that insurance companies can no longer discriminate against people with preexisting conditions.  <\/p>\n<p>Every single Senate Democrat voted for these protections for people with preexisting conditions. Every single Senate Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/votes\/111-2009\/s396\">opposed these protections<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cornhole Cornyn is doing what Republicans do best: lie. <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\/0730Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a muggy day here in the crappy old CatBox.&nbsp; I assume that the Cat Scan showed nothing bad.&nbsp; It was an unpleasant experience, because I had to guzzle over a liter of cat pee, and when it was over they lied to me.&nbsp; They said there is no cat.&nbsp; Who should I think did <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/30\/open-thread-7-30-2019\/' 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-37223","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\/37223","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=37223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}