{"id":40704,"date":"2020-08-10T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40704"},"modified":"2020-08-10T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T18:16:08","slug":"open-thread-8-10-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/10\/open-thread-8-10-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/10\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a hot, busy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m waiting for Diana, my palliative care nurse, to come change my patch, hopefully at about 9:30 AM.\u00a0 I&#8217;m already running late, because I overslept.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, but it will not affect my publishing as she won&#8217;t be back from Eastern Oregon until mid-afternoon tomorrow.\u00a0 I texted WWKristen, who is with her and promised they will both stay safe and naughty.\u00a0 Oh God, it&#8217;s Monday!\u00a0 Update:\u00a0 Diana came and changed my patch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:12 (average 4:49).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-08-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0810Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"0810TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/0810TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" alt=\"0810TrumpVirusMap\" width=\"750\" height=\"503\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalepidemics.org\/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click for interactive map<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">US Cases: 5,201,873<br \/>\nUS Deaths: 165,626<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4HI-Ny11ZcE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Georgia teen says school used students as guinea pigs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4HI-Ny11ZcE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The school administrators were goose-stepping behind their beloved Nazi leader, criminal Fuhrer Trump*. Now that her suspension has been lifted, nine students have already tested positive for Trump* virus, and this GOP crime has been exposed, threats of physical violence are SOP for the Republican Reich!\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PTapJv9jhh0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/msnbc\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Biden Leads In 2020 Battleground Map<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PTapJv9jhh0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">May God protect the truth of his projection from the Republican Reich collusion with Trump&#8217;s* boss, Putin [R-RU]. Help God with your vote!\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AHQ7N9lEl_E&amp;list=PLg2SA6O8kKilps1rGUG4v8yyq_0289tFn&amp;index=9&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast of protest): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Nasty Man&#8221; by Joan Baez<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AHQ7N9lEl_E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Joan is seven years older than I am. I&#8217;m so glad she&#8217;s still with is. Kudos to left-wing protestors!\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a hot, busy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m waiting for Diana, my palliative care nurse, to come change my patch, hopefully at about 9:30 AM.\u00a0 I&#8217;m already running late, because I overslept.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, but it will not affect my publishing as she won&#8217;t be back from Eastern Oregon until <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/10\/open-thread-8-10-2020\/' 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":[3704,3913,3915,3781,3711,3717,4030,3718,3817,3739,3743,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-education","tag-elections","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-violence","tag-k-12","tag-music","tag-poll","tag-protest","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\/40704","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=40704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}