{"id":37329,"date":"2019-08-11T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37329"},"modified":"2019-08-11T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T15:41:44","slug":"open-thread-8-11-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/11\/open-thread-8-11-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/11\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy WWWendy day here in the CatBox, so I&#8217;m in a big rush.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:07 (average 4:49).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-11-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=FJJ0rWru86o\" 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>After mass shootings, a turning point in the gun debate?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FJJ0rWru86o\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m afraid that, when the Tangerine Terrorist says &#8220;intelligent background checks&#8221;, he means ethnic background only, <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GpGEeneO-t0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Crimson and Clover &#8211; Tommy James &amp; The Shondells<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/GpGEeneO-t0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Back in the day, this was my favorite tune.&nbsp; Ah\u2026 The memories! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-retweets-epstein-conspiracy-theory-claiming-clinton-connection-n1041146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump retweeted a conspiracy theory Saturday evening alleging without evidence that former President Bill Clinton was connected to the death of wealthy financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, hours after Epstein was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein-found-dead-nyc-jail-n1041081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found dead by apparent suicide in his federal prison cell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Died of SUICIDE on 24\/7 SUICIDE WATCH ? Yeah right! How does that happen,&#8221; Terrence K. Williams, a conservative commentator and comedian, wrote in the message retweeted by Trump. In a two-minute-long selfie video recording, Williams alleged that the Clintons were responsible for Epstein&#8217;s death.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans routinely blame the Clintons for Crimes they committed themselves. <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\/2016\/08\/0811Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy WWWendy day here in the CatBox, so I&#8217;m in a big rush. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:07 (average 4:49).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): After mass shootings, a turning point in the gun debate? &nbsp; I&#8217;m afraid that, when <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/11\/open-thread-8-11-2019\/' 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-37329","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\/37329","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=37329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}