{"id":37483,"date":"2019-08-30T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37483"},"modified":"2019-08-30T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:23:59","slug":"open-thread-8-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/30\/open-thread-8-30-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/30\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a hectic day, here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; I had a difficult time finding stories to cover.&nbsp; Most of the media is in holiday-weekend dead time.&nbsp; Please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread tomorrow and Sunday.&nbsp; Tomorrow is our fantasy football league draft, and Sunday is a WWWendy day with lots to do.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re traveling, please stay safe, and TGIF 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 4:07 (average 5:45).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-30-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\/0830Cartoon.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=qDuzIcbMOeo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/AdamSchiff\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Schiff Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Rep Schiff on ABC 7: Congress Will Find Out if Trump is Financially Beholden to Russia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qDuzIcbMOeo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m all for &#8220;finding out&#8221;, since we already know that he is Putin&#8217;s Puppet. Then what are you going to do about it? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0S13mP_pfEc&amp;list=PLvCvQKDJNRNY8rTuYvAEnereF4AGQf9hs&amp;index=71&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>Del Shannon &#8211; Runaway<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0S13mP_pfEc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is one of the first songs I learned to play on the guitar. Ah\u2026 the memories!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/8\/28\/1882054\/-Trumps-shows-support-for-troops-by-declaring-their-kids-born-overseas-non-citizens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>There&#8217;s a lot that this administration has done that&#8217;s gobsmackingly heinous, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/citizenship-immigration-trump-uscis-dhs-1ccec980-190a-405f-97cd-70b4eacc8481.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this is extreme<\/a>. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/policymanual\/updates\/20190828-ResidenceForCitizenship.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new memo<\/a> posted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Wednesday declares that children born overseas to U.S. military members and government employees won&#8217;t be automatically considered citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, people serving their country overseas, including in the military and in the diplomatic corps and every other foreign posting, will have to apply for citizenship for any of their children born outside of the U.S., starting Oct. 29. The memo says the USCIS is changing the definition of &#8220;residing in the United States&#8221; to mean being born in the U.S., disqualifying children born to U.S. citizens at overseas military bases or diplomatic facilities. Parents are going to have to prove their citizenship and residency in order to pass it on to their children.  <\/p>\n<p>Way to support the troops, Trump.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To Republicans, our troops are just cannon-fodder.&nbsp; Real support for then comes only from Democrats. <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 a hectic day, here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; I had a difficult time finding stories to cover.&nbsp; Most of the media is in holiday-weekend dead time.&nbsp; Please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread tomorrow and Sunday.&nbsp; Tomorrow is our fantasy football league draft, and Sunday is a WWWendy <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/30\/open-thread-8-30-2019\/' 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-37483","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\/37483","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=37483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}