{"id":37711,"date":"2019-09-21T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37711"},"modified":"2019-09-21T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T16:45:00","slug":"open-thread-9-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/21\/open-thread-9-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/21\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a tired day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; My hiatal hernia has been giving me nasty heartburn.&nbsp; Fortunately I see the doctor on Monday.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, but she won&#8217;t be here until mid-PM.&nbsp; Her son is retuning to Spain, and she&#8217;s driving him to the airport in Seattle in the morning.&nbsp; Therefore I&#8217;ll be in the saddle tomorrow, but not Monday.&nbsp; Weekend Hugs! for 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 4:05 (average 6:17).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-09-21-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\/09\/0921Cartoon.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=YiKBREMvGrk\" 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>Millions Stage Global Strike To Protest Climate Change<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YiKBREMvGrk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos! We haven&#8217;t seen kids like this since I was a 1960s activist. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Also from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j199L9dFv-A\" 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>Lawrence: The GOP Silence Is Deafening Re: Whistleblower\u2019s \u201cUrgent Concern\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/j199L9dFv-A\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">No matter how heinous, the Republican Reich has had a consistent response to their members&#8217; crimes for years: IOKIYAR! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/09\/21\/trumps-new-argument-hes-immune-from-all-criminal-investigation-in-new-tax-return-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salon.com<\/a>: <\/font>[L]awyers for President Trump argue that the president is immune from all criminal investigations in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/19\/politics\/tax-records-trump-lawsuit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal lawsuit<\/a> seeking to block New York prosecutors from obtaining his tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Trump sued his longtime accounting firm Mazars USA and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance on Thursday, after Vance&#8217;s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/09\/19\/trump-sues-manhattan-da-and-mazars-usa-to-block-prosecutors-from-obtaining-his-tax-returns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subpoenaed the firm<\/a> to demand eight years of the president\u2019s personal and corporate tax returns.  <\/p>\n<p>Department of Justice guidelines say a president cannot be prosecuted while in office, as former special counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/05\/06\/hundreds-former-prosecutors-say-trump-wouldve-been-charged-with-obstruction-if-he-wasnt-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Mueller made clear<\/a>. But Trump\u2019s personal attorneys are now going well beyond that by arguing that he also cannot be \u201cinvestigated \u2026 or otherwise subjected to the criminal process.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;d say their swastikas are showing! <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 tired day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; My hiatal hernia has been giving me nasty heartburn.&nbsp; Fortunately I see the doctor on Monday.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, but she won&#8217;t be here until mid-PM.&nbsp; Her son is retuning to Spain, and she&#8217;s driving him to the airport in Seattle in the morning.&nbsp; Therefore <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/21\/open-thread-9-21-2019\/' 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-37711","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\/37711","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=37711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}