{"id":40560,"date":"2020-07-28T07:20:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40560"},"modified":"2020-07-28T07:20:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:20:58","slug":"open-thread-7-28-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/28\/open-thread-7-28-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/28\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox, and this is my only article today.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to the hospital for a PET scan.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll get the results on Friday 8\/7.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and I have to renew my lease.&nbsp; It&#8217;s routine, but the paperwork takes over an hour.&nbsp; I should be back in the saddle on Thursday.&nbsp; Tomorrow or Thursday, musical blasts will return to protest music.&nbsp; Have a great day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:13 (average 4:49).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-07-28-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\/07\/0728Cartoon.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\" title=\"0728TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0728TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0728TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"424\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">US Cases: 4,434,185<br \/>US Deaths: 150,500<br \/>World Cases: 16,687,767<br \/>World Deaths: 657,451<br \/>Trump&#8217;s* Share of World Deaths: 22.9%<br \/>US Share of World Population: 4.3%<\/font><\/strong>  <\/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=izkEypgfgm4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Casket carrying John Lewis arrives at the Capitol Rotunda<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/izkEypgfgm4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Because of him and Dr. King, non-violent freedom fighters are standing on the shoulders of giants! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2VxopRaVBic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/msnbc\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>&#8216;Never, Ever Give Up Or Give In&#8217;: Remembering John Lewis As His Words Echo In The Capitol  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2VxopRaVBic\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch should not have been allowed to use Lewis&#8217; memory for a photo-op, at the same time he still blocks all the legislation, which Lewis struggled to enact. Criminal Fuhrer Trump* opted not to attend, thank God! Why? He&#8217;s a damn racist Republican SOB!&nbsp; That&#8217;s why!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z_4y47Eh0xw&amp;list=PLjQiYwUmJpSzrKi5pIW_5_kF3dJyrGO5h&amp;index=39&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from civil rights): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Get On Board, Children &#8211; Willie Peacock<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/z_4y47Eh0xw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Support Black Lives Matter! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox, and this is my only article today.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to the hospital for a PET scan.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll get the results on Friday 8\/7.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and I have to renew my lease.&nbsp; It&#8217;s routine, but the paperwork takes over an hour.&nbsp; I should be <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/28\/open-thread-7-28-2020\/' 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":[3704,4043,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-civil-rights","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\/40560","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=40560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}