{"id":44443,"date":"2021-07-13T07:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=44443"},"modified":"2021-07-12T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T03:24:50","slug":"open-thread-for-july-13-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/13\/open-thread-for-july-13-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for July 13, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was reasonably calm, and I got some things done, but still have some de-cluttering to do. I did succeed in setting up my meds for the ext two weeks so that all I have to do is remember to take them &#8211; and I&#8217;m fairly good at that.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon (After all, it&#8217;s Tuesday)\u00a0 &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/13Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/13Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/13Cartoon-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/07\/Denver-hotel-Guns-Arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; Sixteen Weapons, Tons Of Ammo Found In Hotel Room Near Coors Field<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; A maid working at Denver&#8217;s Maven Hotel tipped off law enforcement about weapons in one of the rooms there. Police got a search warrant, found 16 long guns, body armor, and over a thousand rounds of ammunition in the room, which featured a balcony overlooking the downtown area. The Maven Hotel is not too far from Coors Field, which will host the All-Star game on Tuesday.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/07\/Denver-hotel-Guns-Arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for preliminary details<\/a> (which may get updaed). The sad thing is that if I hadn&#8217;t seen &#8220;Coors Field&#8221; I might have passed ths by.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/562582-judge-grills-attorneys-facing-potential-sanctions-over-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill &#8211; Judge grills attorneys over suit challenging Michigan results<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; &#8220;I need to point out here that my concern is that the counsel here have submitted affidavits that suggest and make the public believe that there was something wrong with the election and that is what this is all about,&#8221; said the judge, who was appointed by former President Obama. &#8220;That&#8217;s what these affidavits were designed to show, that there was something wrong in Michigan, there was something wrong in Wayne County.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/562582-judge-grills-attorneys-facing-potential-sanctions-over-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for some of the back-and-forth<\/a>. Kudos to Judge Parker. We need more of this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/neighbors-see-trump-waiting-by-mailbox-for-reinstatement-notice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neighbors See Trump Waiting by Mailbox for Reinstatement Notice<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Mr. Klugian said that he sympathized with Trump because he remembered \u201cchecking the mail a lot when I first retired&#8230;. If you don\u2019t have anything to do, the mail becomes kind of the high point of your day,\u201d he said. \u201cHe has to get into gardening or volunteering. Something. He can\u2019t go on like this.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/neighbors-see-trump-waiting-by-mailbox-for-reinstatement-notice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details<\/a>. Sounds like straight news to me, but with Andy &#8230; how can you tell?<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/keep-falling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/keep-falling.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/keep-falling-162x300.jpg 162w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/keep-falling-554x1024.jpg 554w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/keep-falling-81x150.jpg 81w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was reasonably calm, and I got some things done, but still have some de-cluttering to do. I did succeed in setting up my meds for the ext two weeks so that all I have to do is remember to take them &#8211; and I&#8217;m fairly good at that. Cartoon (After all, it&#8217;s Tuesday)\u00a0 &#8211; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/13\/open-thread-for-july-13-2021\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3712,4321,3709,4115],"class_list":["post-44443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-guns","tag-humor","tag-justice","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\/44443","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}