{"id":37290,"date":"2019-08-06T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37290"},"modified":"2019-08-06T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T17:34:57","slug":"open-thread-8-6-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/06\/open-thread-8-6-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/6\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another tired day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I woke up and could not get back to sleep.&nbsp; Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; I have a meeting with a prison volunteer friend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:10 (average 5:06).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-06-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=Ze720nnybSI\" 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>White Nationalist Domestic Terror Reaches Crisis Point For U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ze720nnybSI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These murders should be called Republican White Nationalist Domestic Terror, because Republicans are the ones who aid and abet the hatred that gives rise to them. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YE1q4Ea9b4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>How Fox pushed the white supremacist &#8220;replacement&#8221; conspiracy theory<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YE1q4Ea9b4Y\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is pure bullshit, as the path to citizenship is long and hard. But what else could we expect from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/link-found-between-gun-violence-and-cowardly-politicians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>There is a \u201csignificant link\u201d between gun violence and cowardly politicians, a new study from the University of Minnesota asserts.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which is raising eyebrows with its startling conclusions, finds that the most reliable predictor of gun violence is the \u201cprevalence of quiveringly fearful politicians in positions of power.\u201d\u2026  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026While the study\u2019s authors paint a bleak picture of nations with \u201ccoward-rich\u201d leadership, they offer a recommendation to remedy this dire state of affairs.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile censoring movies or video games would have no measurable effect on gun violence, major strides can be made by replacing cowards in government with non-cowards,\u201d the study suggests, noting that this theory could be tested as early as 2020.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Who could have ever guessed? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0806Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another tired day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I woke up and could not get back to sleep.&nbsp; Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; I have a meeting with a prison volunteer friend. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:10 (average 5:06).&nbsp; To do it, click <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/06\/open-thread-8-6-2019\/' 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-37290","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\/37290","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=37290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}