{"id":21525,"date":"2016-04-29T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21525"},"modified":"2016-04-29T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T21:04:18","slug":"open-thread-4292016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/29\/open-thread-4292016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/29\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I arrived at OSP at about 5:30 to attend my guys\u2019 annual banquet for half of over 100 prisoners in the group and their family guests.&#160; The other half is next month.&#160; The food was good and I talked to several of my guys and their families about how well they were doing and how their families should take pride in them and their accomplishments.&#160; The President (inside) then went to the podium and addressed the assembly about me.&#160; He talked about how long I had been coming in, about how I had almost died and lost my leg, about all the help I had provided for them over the years and about how fortunate they are that I am able to return on a limited basis,&#160; I felt both surprised and overwhelmed.&#160; I went to the front, took the mike and said a few words about how I consider working with such men a privilege, not a sacrifice,. thanked them for their welcome, and promised to keep working become able to expand my role over time.&#160; When I returned home, I had a snack and went to bed,&#160; It usually takes me a while to fall asleep, but I was out as soon as my head hit the pillow.&#160; Today, I\u2019ve already had a nap and plan to rest.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:53 (average 5:05).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-04-29-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverbroncos.com\/news-and-blogs\/article-1\/Broncos-select-QB-Paxton-Lynch-after-trading-up-in-2016-NFL-Draft\/582acc98-8213-4b04-95b9-60481355e30f\" target=\"_blank\">DenverBroncos.com<\/a>: <\/font>Standing tall at 6-feet-7-inches, Lynch was dynamic for the Tigers in his three seasons as their starting quarterback. In his best year, his junior season, he completed 66.8 percent of his passes for 3,778 yards with 28 touchdowns and just four interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch, a first team All-AAC selection in 2015, threw for 8,865 yards and 59 touchdowns in 38 career games at Memphis. The signal caller led the Tigers to bowl games in his last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch also has some wheels, compiling 687 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Bl3doOvVvms?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">May the Holy Ellipsoid Orb bathe Lynch&#160; and all his teammates in its divine light!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/04\/27\/1520769\/-Retired-cop-accidentally-shoots-himself-and-his-doctor-while-showing-off-his-gun-during-examination\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Another responsible gun owner, this time it was a retired NYPD officer who just didn\u2019t feel safe enough to go to the doctor\u2019s office without his trusty <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7ny.com\/news\/doctor-retired-officer-wounded-in-accidental-shooting-at-li-office\/1311573\/\" target=\"_blank\">tool:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to Nassau County police, the 77-year-old retired officer was in the office when he removed his licensed 10 mm semi-automatic pistol to show to the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>The weapon accidentally discharged a round which struck the owner in the thigh and continued through his leg, striking the doctor in the right foot.<\/p>\n<p>Both victims were taken to an area hospital for treatment of their nonlife threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This Republican ammosexual is so stupid that he actually shot the guy who could have treated him.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YHausS4Vc2g&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a> email): <font color=\"#000000\">Rush Getting Flushed<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YHausS4Vc2g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Relegate him it a soap box on a street corner\u2026 but NOT MY street corner.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0429Cartoon\" 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=\"0429Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0429Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I arrived at OSP at about 5:30 to attend my guys\u2019 annual banquet for half of over 100 prisoners in the group and their family guests.&#160; The other half is next month.&#160; The food was good and I talked to several of my guys and their families about how well they were doing and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/29\/open-thread-4292016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","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\/21525","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=21525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}