{"id":37472,"date":"2019-08-28T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37472"},"modified":"2019-08-28T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:29:15","slug":"open-thread-8-28-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/open-thread-8-28-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/28\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today is the last day of the worst part of the heat wave with 96\u00b0 forecast.&nbsp; I slept poorly and feel very tired.&nbsp; Yesterday the tech did a great job on my power chair!&nbsp; I&#8217;m out $330, but the chair is whisper quiet, and I no longer have to hide from neighbors.&nbsp; Tonight is a WWWendy night.&nbsp; That&#8217;s a good thing, because the TomCat is in desperate need of destinking.&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 3:04 (average 4:52). To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-28-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\/2016\/08\/0828Cartoon.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=xLXaBx9lPgQ\" 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 Admin Looks To Eject Medically Vulnerable Immigrant Kids<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xLXaBx9lPgQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dear Mon and Dad. Here&#8217;s our gift to you. Your kid&#8217;s going to die. Love, the Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kJjQX59tMHE\" 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: 9 Ways to Stay Sane During the Primaries<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kJjQX59tMHE\" 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. Just remember, when the primaries are over, vote against the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich! Vote Blue, No Matter Who! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2019\/08\/watch-voting-machine-automatically-changes-selection-of-ms-governor-candidate-to-his-opponent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>In a video posted to Facebook this Tuesday morning, a Mississippi voter showed what appeared to be a glitch in a voting machine being used for the state\u2019s GOP governor primary runoff, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/08\/27\/voting-machine-problems-video-changing-vote-bill-waller-tate-reeves-ms-election-governor-runoff\/2129515001\/?fbclid=IwAR2RFlFrTu--MwFHtj-UNyEOeIGE4H4DQdzbbyEpIkPoC-wnIp822XkLvUc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clarion Ledger reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the video [<em>Facebook delinked<\/em>] posted by Sally Kate Walker, the voting machine\u2019s touch screen changed the selection from Republican candidate Bill Waller Jr. to his opponent and fellow Republican Tate Reeves.  <\/p>\n<p>The two are in a GOP primary run-off to face Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood in the November general election.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans are just practicing for 11\/2020. <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>Today is the last day of the worst part of the heat wave with 96\u00b0 forecast.&nbsp; I slept poorly and feel very tired.&nbsp; Yesterday the tech did a great job on my power chair!&nbsp; I&#8217;m out $330, but the chair is whisper quiet, and I no longer have to hide from neighbors.&nbsp; Tonight is a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/open-thread-8-28-2019\/' 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-37472","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\/37472","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=37472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}