{"id":37345,"date":"2019-08-14T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37345"},"modified":"2019-08-14T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:16:38","slug":"open-thread-8-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/14\/open-thread-8-14-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/14\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My Windows 10 installation is still somewhat buggy, after the update from hell, but I just don&#8217;t have time to waste another day dealing with their horrid customer support.&nbsp; Today is a WWWendy day.&nbsp; From force of habit, I keep thinking it&#8217;s a grocery day too, but grocery day is Thursday in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; I slept poorly last night.&nbsp; I had to get up for an Alka-Seltzer.&nbsp; That hiatal hernia has been acting up, and I feel tired.&nbsp; Hump Day Hugs to all!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:56 (average 5:27)(mouse still flaky).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-14-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=q0dQAUb22WA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: Is America Becoming a Third World Country?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/q0dQAUb22WA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. If the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, has their way, we will become a fourth world country. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ft11XYXRSEc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Do What Now &#8211; ICEcapades in the Mississippi Heat  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ft11XYXRSEc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trae is spot-on, but it makes me sick to compare this racist Republican hatred to the gorgeous production on ice that thrilled me so, when I was a child. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/endangered-polar-bear-demands-face-to-face-meeting-with-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>One day after the White House took steps to weaken the Endangered Species Act, an irate polar bear has demanded a face-to-face meeting with Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The bear, who was described as \u201clivid\u201d by his spokesperson, has already begun his journey from the Arctic to Washington to express his deep dissatisfaction with Trump.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been ravenously hungry because of the destruction of his habitat,\u201d the bear\u2019s spokesperson said. \u201cThe latest news about the Endangered Species Act has not improved his mood.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! How could the poor creature possibly bear such a vile encounter? <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\/2016\/08\/0814Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Windows 10 installation is still somewhat buggy, after the update from hell, but I just don&#8217;t have time to waste another day dealing with their horrid customer support.&nbsp; Today is a WWWendy day.&nbsp; From force of habit, I keep thinking it&#8217;s a grocery day too, but grocery day is Thursday in the shiny new <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/14\/open-thread-8-14-2019\/' 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-37345","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\/37345","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=37345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}