{"id":37282,"date":"2019-08-05T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37282"},"modified":"2019-08-05T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:39:29","slug":"open-thread-8-5-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/05\/open-thread-8-5-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/5\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a scorcher here in the shiny new CatBox, with 94\u00b0 forecast.&nbsp; With the big A\/C it&#8217;s hard to finds a balance, because the big windows conduct a lot of heat when the PM sun hits.&nbsp; I have to cover half the vents to keep it blowing on me at the computer (see pic). I should be in the saddle until Wed.&nbsp; OGIM!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle: <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">day&#8217;s took me 4:29 (average 6:44).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-05-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>). How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Where I spend most of my time<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0805MComp\" 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=\"0805MComp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0805MComp.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\"><\/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=Nm-9UHKo9kg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Castro: NRA&#8217;s answer is more guns, but think about this<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Nm-9UHKo9kg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Before they became a front for the gun Industry, I was as NRA Sharpshooter with Nine Bars. I left, but I&#8217;m not against guns. I am against Republican Ammosexuals, who commit mass shootings, and the Republican politicians that help them! Support gun licensing! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/08\/05\/cloudflare-cuts-service-for-online-forum-8chan-after-el-paso-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNBC<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>U.S. cybersecurity company Cloudflare said on Monday it was terminating services to online message board 8chan after the suspected gunman in the weekend\u2019s El Paso shooting appeared to have used the website before he went on a rampage.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just sent notice that we are terminating 8chan as a customer effective at midnight tonight Pacific Time,\u201d Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/new.blog.cloudflare.com\/terminating-service-for-8chan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a blog post<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a suspected shooter was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/08\/04\/investigators-reasonably-confident-texas-suspect-left-anti-immigrant-screed-tipped-off-before-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said to have posted an anti-immigrant and anti-government screed<\/a> on the forum before opening fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, which left at least 20 people dead and another 26 wounded.  <\/p>\n<p>His post was deleted from one of 8chan\u2019s forums after the shooting started, but forum users archived the document, which contained a link to a PDF version, NBC News reported.  <\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, cited in his note that the gunman who killed 51 people at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March was an inspiration, according to NBC News.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That begs this question: why in hell didn&#8217;t Cloudflare refuse to do business with 8chan Republican Nazi terrorists to begin with? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/08\/here-are-5-ways-donald-trump-has-made-gun-violence-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font><strong>5. Trump\u2019s 2019 budget cut funds to state background check systems.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>Trump has said that he wanted to help improve background checks, but it seems he doesn\u2019t want it bad enough to pay for the cost. <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/president-trump-improve-background-checks-budget-calls-cuts\/story?id=53216967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In Feb. 2018, the White House released its budget proposal<\/a>, which called for a $12 million cut to funds given to states to update their background check database. Just two days later, a gunman opened fire on the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people.  <\/p>\n<p>The gun lobby spent more than $55 million to elect Donald Trump and NRA allies in Congress in 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/everytown.org\/press\/the-facts-trump-administration-has-already-weakened-u-s-gun-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everytown for Gun Safety<\/a> reported prior to the mid-term election in 2018.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the fifth of five things Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten has done to make gun violence worse. Click through for the other four. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cartoon<\/font><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0805Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a scorcher here in the shiny new CatBox, with 94\u00b0 forecast.&nbsp; With the big A\/C it&#8217;s hard to finds a balance, because the big windows conduct a lot of heat when the PM sun hits.&nbsp; I have to cover half the vents to keep it blowing on me at the computer (see pic). 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