{"id":40652,"date":"2020-08-06T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T17:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40652"},"modified":"2020-08-06T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T17:46:14","slug":"open-thread-8-6-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/06\/open-thread-8-6-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 8\/6\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a cool day here in the CatBox with 77\u00b0 forecast, and humid as hell.  It’s also a busy day, as Store to Door is delivering my groceries.  I have to unpack and put them away.  I had other things to do, so I have no time for a morning nap.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.  In the morning WWWendy will be destinking the vile TomCat, changing my patch, doing chores and gooping.  Then we go to the hospital, where Evelyn, my Oncologist, will interpret my PET scan.  I’ve seen the results, and to me, they look pretty bleak.  But I guess I should not be disappointed that I’m dying.  That’s what dying people do.  In addition, Becky, my palliative care specialist will talk to us, and I expect her to increase my Fentanyl patches from 12.5 mg to 25 mg.   Saturday WWWendy and WWKristen are going to the mountains until Tuesday morning.  Diana, my home palliative care nurse, changed her schedule to change my patch on Monday.  Then WWWendy will come a day late on Tuesday.  Crazy enough?  Have a great day!<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:32 (average 5:48).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0806TrumpVirusMap\"<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

US Cases: 4,975,279
US Deaths: 161,660<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Despite how many times you hear \u201cwhat goes on the internet, stays on the internet\u201d some people just don\u2019t learn. Deleting a photo doesn\u2019t make it go away, yet infamous Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. seems to think otherwise. Again, Falwell has deleted s<\/a>omething on social media\u2014but this time<\/a> not because of its obvious racism, but its bizarre nature.<\/p>\n

The photo posted on Falwell\u2019s Instagram was captured and shared to Twitter<\/a> by Houston Chronicle reporter Robert Downen before it was deleted. <\/p>\n

\"0806FalwellJr\" <\/p>\n

Hat-Tip and kudos to JD for suggesting this subject. When I lived in Phoenix, a close friend (platonic, not carnal or professional) was an exclusive call girl. She told me that when there were conventions of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the polar opposite of real authentic Christians) in town, she and her friends had to import girls from Las Vegas. There weren’t enough hookers in Phoenix to meet the demand for their services. As he parties on his yacht, bought with funds bilked from his victims, Falwell shows that he’s as big a hypocrite as his father was. Of course, that’s a Republican trait.  RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From ProPublica<\/a>: <\/font>A teenage girl carrying her baby arrived at the U.S. border this summer and begged for help. She told federal agents that she feared returning to Guatemala. The man who raped her she said had threatened to make her \u201cdisappear.\u201d <\/p>\n

Then, advocates say, the child briefly vanished \u2014 into the custody of the U.S. government, which held her and her baby for days in a hotel with almost no outside contact before federal officers summarily expelled them from the country. <\/p>\n

Similar actions have played out along the border for months under an emergency health order the Trump administration issued in March. Citing the threat of COVID-19, it granted federal agents sweeping powers to almost immediately return anyone at the border<\/a>, including infants as young as 8 months. Children are typically entitled to special protections under the law<\/a>, including the right to have their asylum claims adjudicated by a judge. <\/p>\n

Under this new policy, the administration is not deporting children \u2014 a proceeding based on years of established law that requires a formal hearing in immigration court. <\/p>\n

It is instead expelling them \u2014 without a judge\u2019s ruling and after only a cursory government screening and no access to social workers or lawyers, sometimes not even their family, while in U.S. custody. The children are not even granted the primary registration number by which the Department of Homeland Security tracks all immigrants in its care, making it \u201cvirtually impossible\u201d to find them, Efre\u0301n C. Olivares, a lawyer with the Texas Civil Rights Project, wrote in a court declaration arguing that the practice is illegal. <\/p>\n

This travesty is criminal and deplorable, typical of both Trump* and the racist Republican Reich! On a related note, I’ve been watching and highly recommend Immigration Nation<\/a> on Netflix, which Trump* and Barrf tried to ban. It makes me want to scream in anger and cry at the same time.  RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From YouTube<\/a> (a blast of protest): <\/font>Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)<\/font><\/p>\n