{"id":40378,"date":"2020-07-10T11:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40378"},"modified":"2020-07-10T11:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T18:09:38","slug":"open-thread-7-10-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/10\/open-thread-7-10-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/10\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a busy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; We\u2019ve arranged to have a palliative care nurse to come change my pain patch when WWWendy is away.&nbsp; We\u2019re still searching for a shower aide.&nbsp; Wish me luck.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update or Open Thread.&nbsp; It\u2019s a WWWendy stink, patch, and shower day.&nbsp; TGIF!<\/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 5:30).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-07-10-CE2504A965A9\">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\/07\/0710Cartoon.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=\"500\" title=\"0710TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0710TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0710TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalepidemics.org\/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression\/\">Map Reference<\/a>&nbsp; (click through for interactive map).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">US Cases: 3,221,938<br \/>US Deaths: 135,869<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2020\/07\/stop-getting-tested-ohio-gop-lawmaker\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">Ohio state Rep. Nino Vitale (R) on Tuesday encouraged his constituents to \u201cstop getting tested\u201d for COVID-19.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, Vitale suggested that the government is using COVID-19 tests to create a \u201cdictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you tired of living in a dictatorship yet?\u201d Vitale asked. \u201cThis is what happens when people go crazy and get tested. STOP GETTING TESTED!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is giving the government an excuse to claim something is happening that is not happening at the magnitude they say it is happening,\u201d he continued. \u201cHave you noticed they never talk about deaths anymore, just cases? And they never talk about recoveries. They just keep adding to numbers they have been feeding us from over 3 months ago!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is that typically Republican or what? And the rabid Nazi Republican Sheeple said BAA-A-A-A-A-A!!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bpAoh2MaNS4\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/repadamschiff\/videos\">Adam Schiff Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">Rep. Schiff on MSNBC: With Trump, Justice Delayed is National Security Denied<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bpAoh2MaNS4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With criminal Fuhrer Trump* Justice is ALWAYS delayed, and national security is ALWAYS denied.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xBG6IaSQCpU&amp;list=PLjT3Z589ba7O4FKkLD1JVSimlvFMkROWU&amp;index=3&amp;t=0s\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast played at Woodstock): <font color=\"#000000\">Santana:SOUL SACRIFICE:Woodstock Music Festival, August, 1969<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xBG6IaSQCpU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dedicated to all who were at Woodstock or wanted to be. 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<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a busy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; We\u2019ve arranged to have a palliative care nurse to come change my pain patch when WWWendy is away.&nbsp; We\u2019re still searching for a shower aide.&nbsp; Wish me luck.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update or Open Thread.&nbsp; It\u2019s a WWWendy stink, patch, and shower <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/10\/open-thread-7-10-2020\/' 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":[3704,3779,3762,3913,3712,3746,3751,3721,3774,3848,3718,4031,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-courts","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-insanity","tag-gop-lies","tag-gop-sheeple","tag-injustice","tag-music","tag-national-security","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\/40378","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=40378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}