{"id":39667,"date":"2020-05-07T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39667"},"modified":"2020-05-07T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:46:18","slug":"open-thread-5-7-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/open-thread-5-7-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread 5\/7\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a busy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries this afternoon, and I have to put them away.&nbsp; Tomorrow please expect no more than an Open Thread or Personal Update.&nbsp; It\u2019s my day to get zapped with Radiation.&nbsp; WWWendy is taking me.&nbsp; When I return, I plan to have some chili con goop, so the green cloud I send north to Squatch will be radioactive.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:11 (average 5:48).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-05-07-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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0507Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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=\"350\" title=\"0507TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0507TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0507TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Cases: 1,266,785<br \/>Deaths: 74,962<br \/>Recovered: 213,138<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/05\/theyre-trying-to-squash-me-report-details-the-feds-brazenly-seizing-medical-supplies-despite-official-denials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">A new report from Vanity Fair\u2019s Diana Falzone published Wednesday recounts a series of stories in which the federal government has allegedly seized <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/05\/how-the-federal-government-took-control-of-the-ppe-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal protective equipment<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> \u2014 desperately needed during the coronavirus crisis \u2014 from private hands.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>One businessman who owns a medical equipment supply firm said the FBI contacted him on the suspicion he was price-gouging, which he said his profit margins disproved. But his future shipments of N95 masks, which he planned to sell to \u201cfire departments, nursing homes, and EMT departments,\u201d were seized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he said. Vanity fair reported that the document officials used to seize his orders cited President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order claiming authority to determine the allocation of COVID-19 resources.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the Republican Reich, every billionaire that wants PPE can get it. That&#8217;s why Republicans steal PPE supplies from heroes.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qvM5bpoLwlA\" 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 color=\"#000000\">Parallels Between Gun Rights Debate And Virus Debate<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qvM5bpoLwlA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The NRA and Republican billionaires have one thing in common. Both don&#8217;t give a damn how many Americans their policies murder, as long as their money and power increase!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9755RnDqMFQ&amp;list=PLkjEvMJpFKeWFaJB9ssO7kvmnCcbuYDL-&amp;index=58&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">Brian Hyland &#8211; Sealed with a Kiss with Lyrics<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9755RnDqMFQ\" 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! <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 color=\"#0000ff\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a busy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries this afternoon, and I have to put them away.&nbsp; Tomorrow please expect no more than an Open Thread or Personal Update.&nbsp; It\u2019s my day to get zapped with Radiation.&nbsp; WWWendy is taking me.&nbsp; When I return, I plan to have some <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/open-thread-5-7-2020\/' 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":[3763,3704,3913,3711,3736,3924,3718,3970,3969,3743,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-39667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-ammosexuals","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-greed","tag-gop-murder","tag-music","tag-nra","tag-ppe","tag-republican-reich","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\/39667","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=39667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}