{"id":39622,"date":"2020-05-02T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39622"},"modified":"2020-05-02T10:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:47:58","slug":"open-thread-5-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/02\/open-thread-5-2-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/2\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s another painful day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Hopefully next week\u2019s radiation therapy will reduce pain from my spinal cancer.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy Day, so please expect no more than an Open Thread or a Personal Update.&nbsp; Monday is a Radiation Oncology Day.&nbsp; Dr. Seung will be measuring me under Cat Scan for Friday\u2019s irradiation.&nbsp; I do have a special article planned for Monday, but I\u2019ll write it in advance.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:48 (average 5:00).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-05-02-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: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; background-image: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0502Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" title=\"0502TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0502TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0502TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/michigan-governor-arrogantly-forcing-residents-to-remain-alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, is \u201carrogantly forcing the residents of her state to remain alive,\u201d Attorney General William Barr charged on Friday.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>In a blistering takedown of the Democratic governor, Barr said that Whitmer was \u201cdepriving Michiganders of their constitutionally enshrined right to die before their time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hinting that the Justice Department could soon file a lawsuit against Whitmer, Barr alleged that her \u201cunhinged obsession with keeping her state\u2019s residents breathing\u201d represented \u201cgovernment overreach at its worst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! That Democrat sure is blatant in her audacity! How dare she keep people alive, against the wishes of criminal Fuhrer Trump* and his pet monkey (apologies to simians everywhere), Barrf?!!?&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9zoiTTvDjGg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CSPAN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CSPAN Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany: &#8220;I will never lie to you.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9zoiTTvDjGg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That was criminal Fuhrer Trump&#8217;s* new mouthpiece&#8217;s first lie as Press Secretary.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dypv4SLyAfg&amp;list=PLkjEvMJpFKeWFaJB9ssO7kvmnCcbuYDL-&amp;index=36&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">The Beatles-She\u00b4s leaving home<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Dypv4SLyAfg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s another painful day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Hopefully next week\u2019s radiation therapy will reduce pain from my spinal cancer.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy Day, so please expect no more than an Open Thread or a Personal Update.&nbsp; Monday is a Radiation Oncology Day.&nbsp; Dr. Seung will be measuring me under Cat Scan for Friday\u2019s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/02\/open-thread-5-2-2020\/' 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":[3708,3704,3721,3709,3718,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-39622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-gop-lies","tag-humor","tag-music","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-video","tag-vote-blue","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\/39622","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=39622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}