{"id":37470,"date":"2019-08-27T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37470"},"modified":"2019-08-27T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T16:26:14","slug":"open-thread-8-27-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/27\/open-thread-8-27-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/27\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I doubt that I can finish and put this up before the power chair repair tech arrives.&nbsp; If I can I will.&nbsp; The high today is forecast at 97\u00b0, a record for this date.&nbsp; This will be my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 4:09. To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-27-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\/2015\/08\/0827Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Reminder<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The draft for our fantasy football league, <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">, is scheduled for this Saturday, Aug 31, at 10 AM PDT, 11 AM MDT, 12 Noon CDT, 1 PM EDT.&nbsp; Please be there, Squatch, Patty Monster, Vivian, Pam, and Wendy! Hugs!!<\/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=FEpwkaJQh1k\" 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>Trump An Incoherent Spectacle At G7; W.H. Struggles To Clean Up  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FEpwkaJQh1k\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Danish Parliamentarian was far more deferential than the Fart-face Fuhrer deserves. He could not have second thoughts about everything, until he has a first thought about anything. For Republican staffers, a BS in Bullshitology is no longer enough. They need a PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper). <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-blasts-media-for-reporting-things-he-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, tore into the media on Thursday for what he called its \u201cextremely unfair practice\u201d of reporting the things he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll say something at a rally and I look out and see all these TV cameras taking every word down,\u201d Trump told Fox News\u2019s Sean Hannity. \u201cNo one in politics has ever been subjected to this kind of treatment.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable and, frankly, very unethical,\u201d he added.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! Straight news again!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/08\/trump-admin-official-reveals-why-shes-refusing-to-work-for-the-president-any-longer-and-warns-of-a-growing-exodus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Bethany Milton spent 11 years working for the U.S. federal government as a consular officer in the Foreign Service. But in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/26\/opinion\/trump-state-department.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed for the New York Times<\/a>, Milton explains that this summer, she finally decided to leave the State Department \u2014 and the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back was hearing supporters of President Donald Trump chanting, \u201cSend her back, send her back\u201d in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar during a recent rally.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen President Trump\u2019s supporters chanted, \u2018Send her back!,\u2019 I took that as a charge for me as well,\u201d Milton asserts. \u201cI asked the Trump Administration to send me back from my overseas posting, shipping home the family, foreign language textbooks and various tchotchkes from \u2018shithole countries\u2019 that I\u2019ve collected in my years as a United States diplomat. I am joining a growing list of Foreign Service officers who refuse to serve this administration any longer.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Milton, in her op-ed, explains that she has a long resum\u00e9 with the federal government. From 2014-2016, for example, she \u201coversaw immigrant visa processing at the U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai, India\u201d \u2014 and she \u201coversaw immigrant visa operations in Kigali, Rwanda, from 2018 to 2019.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Milton recalls that when she joined the U.S. State Department in 2008, she sat through some presentations as part of her orientation. And in one of them, she was told, \u201cThe day you can no longer publicly support your administration\u2019s policies is the day you need to resign.\u201d And for Milton, she writes in her op-ed, that day came when she found the \u201cSend her back, send her back\u201d chants intolerable.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Milton, and to all public servants, who have determined that keeping their career is less important than maintaining their integrity by refusing to be part of a Republican Reich. <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>I doubt that I can finish and put this up before the power chair repair tech arrives.&nbsp; If I can I will.&nbsp; The high today is forecast at 97\u00b0, a record for this date.&nbsp; This will be my only article today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 4:09. 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