{"id":37390,"date":"2019-08-17T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T17:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37390"},"modified":"2019-08-17T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T17:16:44","slug":"open-thread-8-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/17\/open-thread-8-17-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/17\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day in the shiny new CatBox and I still have lots of Chores to do, so please pardon my brevity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:42 (average 5:23).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-17-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Taken from my bed last night<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0817ViewfrimBed\" 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=\"0817ViewfrimBed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0817ViewfrimBed.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=t--r_sqw-Uw\" 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><font color=\"#000000\">Republicans Block FEC Probe Of NRA&#8217;s Russia Money And President Donald Trump<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/t--r_sqw-Uw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans are doing everything possible to throttle every investigation into everything. Why? It&#8217;s because they know that, if a crime exists, they&#8217;re guilty. Start with treason and work down from there. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hzq7onekPlw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/jstreetdotorg\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J Street Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Rise to the Moment<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Hzq7onekPlw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I thoroughly support this organization. <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/jstreet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J Street<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> is what AIPUKE could have been, if their leaders truly cared for peace in Israel and the well-being of Jews and others there, instead of pushing the policies of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the polar opposite of real authentic Christians).&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/denmark-offers-to-buy-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>After rebuffing Donald J. Trump\u2019s hypothetical proposal to purchase Greenland, the government of Denmark has announced that it would be interested in buying the United States instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we have stated, Greenland is not for sale,\u201d a spokesperson for the Danish government said on Friday. \u201cWe have noted, however, that during the Trump regime pretty much everything in the United States, including its government, has most definitely been for sale.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDenmark would be interested in purchasing the United States in its entirety, with the exception of its government,\u201d the spokesperson added.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy. They should wait. If Russia is successful in stealing the White House again in 2020 for the Putin&#8217;s Pee-pee Pervert, the value of the nation will drop to below fifty cents. <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\/08\/0817Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day in the shiny new CatBox and I still have lots of Chores to do, so please pardon my brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:42 (average 5:23).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Taken from my bed last night: Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Republicans Block <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/17\/open-thread-8-17-2019\/' 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-37390","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\/37390","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=37390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}