{"id":23705,"date":"2016-08-30T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23705"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:13:02","slug":"open-thread-8302016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/open-thread-8302016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/30\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the first day in weeks that I&#8217;ve made it until Noon without having to turn on the A\/C.&#160; I took a much-needed nap, and am ready for more.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:36 (average 5:45).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-08-30-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:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/how-isis-really-feels-about-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>How ISIS Really Feels About Trump<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/embed\/f5c09609c1\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 640px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left\"><a title=\"from Aasif Mandvi, Nate Dern\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/f5c09609c1\/how-isis-really-feel-about-donald-trumps-extreme-vetting-with-aasif-mandvi\" target=\"_blank\">How ISIS Really Feels About Trump<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/funnyordie\" target=\"_blank\">Funny Or Die<\/a><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have no doubt that the Daesh would be almost as happy to see Rump Dump in the White House, as Putin would.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/grassley-lame-duck-confirmation\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) &#8212; the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and thus a major player in the GOP Senate&#8217;s refusal to confirm President Obama&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee &#8212; opened the door to confirming Judge Merrick Garland in a lame-duck session, even as he continued to defend Republicans&#8217; stance that the successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia should be chosen by the next president.<\/p>\n<p>At a question and answer session in Sioux City Monday, Grassley told attendees that, &quot;It had nothing to do with Garland,&quot; but there was an &quot;understanding&quot; that Supreme Court vacancies that opened in up in a president&#8217;s final year should not be filled by that president, <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/grassley-in-sioux-city-says-surprising-trump-victory-can-happen\/article_a4a8c858-56c5-570b-b06a-c194b3e381c1.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Sioux City Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, he added, his blockade on considering Garland might lift if enough of his GOP colleagues express a desire to push the judge through after the election.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is what Snake in the Grassley is actually saying. If Clinton wins the election, and if Democrats win control of the Senate, Republicans are likely to confirm Garland, a moderate appointee, so that Hillary cannot replace the currently sizzling Injustice Sturmbannf\u00fchrer Scalia with a more liberal Justice than Garland would be. Once the election is over, I hope Obama will remove Garland&#8217;s name from nomination, since Obama originally nominated him as someone he thought Republicans might accept.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/08\/29\/grifter-trump-outraged-fellow-grifter-steals-1-million-marks.html\" target=\"_blank\">PoliticusUSA<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump and his for-profit presidential campaign thought they had the market cornered after winning the Republican nomination, but an enterprising fellow grifter invaded Trump\u2019s turf and stole $1 million from his supporters (marks).<\/p>\n<p>Because Donald Trump has no digital campaign operation to speak of, a grifter by the name of Ian Hawes was able to establish a super PAC and begin raising money by running a contest that promised the winner would get to have dinner with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The money came pouring in, but there was a problem. Donors (marks) thought that they were giving to the Trump campaign. Democrats have run fundraising contests like this one for years, so donors (marks) were easily fooled into believing that the man who lives in Trump Tower would come down from his penthouse and share a quick trip through the McDonalds drive thru with them.<\/p>\n<p>The donors (marks) never read the fine print of the contest that stated that the super PAC was only going to purchase two tickets to a future Trump fundraiser. There was no dinner alone with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was livid that someone was smart enough to exploit his donors (marks) better than he could so he did what Donald Trump does best. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO!!<\/strong> Stupid <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-blacksheep\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Black Sheep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wlEmoticon-blacksheep-2.png\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-blacksheep\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Black Sheep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wlEmoticon-blacksheep-2.png\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-blacksheep\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Black Sheep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wlEmoticon-blacksheep-2.png\" \/>!!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0830Cartoon\" 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=\"0830Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0830Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first day in weeks that I&#8217;ve made it until Noon without having to turn on the A\/C.&#160; I took a much-needed nap, and am ready for more. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:36 (average 5:45).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From KP Daily Funnies: How <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/open-thread-8302016\/' 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-23705","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\/23705","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=23705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}