{"id":37414,"date":"2019-08-22T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37414"},"modified":"2019-08-22T09:54:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:54:52","slug":"open-thread-8-22-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/open-thread-8-22-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/22\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; Later, Store to Door delivers groceries, which I get to put away.&nbsp; Cherry season is over.&nbsp; Now the cherries I get can be found in Garcia.&nbsp; This evening, WWWendy comes to destink the TomCat and do chores.&nbsp; Yesterday, the power chair tech diagnosed shot bearings in both front wheels.&nbsp; The rear wheels are the drive wheels.&nbsp; They had to order the parts and will return as soon as they come in.&nbsp; I thought the chair was about to fall apart, but it&#8217;s just so noisy that it even bothers neighbors on the way to the elevator.&nbsp; Squeaky Hugs!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:27 (average 8:58).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-22-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><font color=\"#0000ff\"><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\/0822Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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=LXt1B_XSJ90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">ACT NATURALLY &#8211; A Parody<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LXt1B_XSJ90\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Don! When you assault us with a grotesque image like that, don&#8217;t we deserve a <strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong>? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e9wbFbVMA3s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Full Frontal Rewind: Gun Control (36 min.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/e9wbFbVMA3s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sam could not be more spot-on! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/8\/20\/1880236\/-Gay-conservative-group-loses-members-following-pathetic-endorsement-of-Trump-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>It\u2019s unclear exactly how big the Log Cabin Republicans group is, but it\u2019s now down by a couple following the resignation of two members over the gay conservative group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/8\/16\/1879505\/-Gay-conservative-group-Log-Cabin-Republicans-embarrassingly-endorses-Trump-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pathetic endorsement<\/a> of Trump 2020. \u201cIt saddens me greatly to say that today, I am ending my association with Log Cabin Republicans, an organization I\u2019ve been heavily involved with for the last decade\u2014including serving as president of the D.C. chapter for three years,\u201d Robert Turner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2019\/08\/19\/former-d-c-log-cabin-head-leaves-group-over-trump-endorsement\/\">wrote<\/a> in a Facebook post. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for me, there\u2019s no more fight left,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe national board\u2019s endorsement of Trump, and their subsequent and hollow WaPo op-ed, is a step too far. And this leaves me sad.\u201d There\u2019s a lot about this that\u2019s sad, but it\u2019s all self-inflicted, because the group didn\u2019t have to endorse Trump, or anyone for that matter. The group sat out 2016 and could have decided to do the same again in 2020, but jumped on the Trump Train even though the car plainly reads \u201cno gays allowed\u201d on the outside.  <\/p>\n<p>Turner wasn\u2019t alone either, following the resignation of another member, Jennifer Horn, over the group\u2019s endorsement. \u201cThere is no world where I can sit down at the dining room table and explain to my children that I just endorsed Donald Trump for president,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/08\/20\/her-gop-group-endorsed-trump-so-she-resigned-she-wouldnt-able-look-her-children-eye\/?arc404=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she told The Washington Post.<\/a> \u201cIt is contrary to everything that I have ever taught them about what it means to be a good, decent, principled member of society.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The leaders of the Log Cabin Republicans are as nuts as their Fuhrer. the members should move their cabin out of the Republican Party. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; Later, Store to Door delivers groceries, which I get to put away.&nbsp; Cherry season is over.&nbsp; Now the cherries I get can be found in Garcia.&nbsp; This evening, WWWendy comes to destink the TomCat and do chores.&nbsp; Yesterday, the power chair tech diagnosed shot bearings <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/open-thread-8-22-2019\/' 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-37414","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\/37414","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=37414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}