{"id":37404,"date":"2019-08-19T07:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37404"},"modified":"2019-08-19T07:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:20:59","slug":"open-thread-8-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/19\/open-thread-8-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/19\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming in an hour and we have lots of chores to do.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure I won&#8217;t have time to post this until after she leaves.&nbsp; This is my only article today.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect only a Personal Update.&nbsp; I have an appointment with my Oncologist to go over the results of my Cat Scan.&nbsp; Update:&nbsp; She&#8217;ll be late<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:54 (average 5:05).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-19-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/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\/0819Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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=Tm4BrZjY_Sg&amp;list=PLvCvQKDJNRNY8rTuYvAEnereF4AGQf9hs&amp;index=51&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>America &#8211; A horse with no name (clip HQ)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Tm4BrZjY_Sg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ayDyh8fjtww\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCrj-0FxK19tgUR2EbHkBBGg\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Dream Big, Fight Hard<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ayDyh8fjtww\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I just love that woman! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-friends\/fox-news-correspondent-uses-heather-heyers-murder-fearmonger-about-anti-fascist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>One day after a rally put on by the violent far-right group was met with protests by anti-fascist activists, Fox &amp; Friends Sunday ran two segments fearmongering about anti-fascist activists (\u201cantifa\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>In these two segments, Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins downplayed the death of Heather Heyer and claimed that Heyer was affiliated with antifa; Jenkins would go on to suggest that new laws were needed in order to prosecute such anti-fascist protesters in Oregon as domestic terrorists.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What pure, despicable, Nazi bullshit from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming in an hour and we have lots of chores to do.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure I won&#8217;t have time to post this until after she leaves.&nbsp; This is my only article today.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect only a Personal Update.&nbsp; I have an appointment with <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/19\/open-thread-8-19-2019\/' 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-37404","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\/37404","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=37404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}