{"id":23711,"date":"2016-08-31T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23711"},"modified":"2016-08-31T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:27:10","slug":"open-thread-8312016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/open-thread-8312016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/31\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I took a nap this morning and still need more, but at least I&#8217;m enjoying the cool.&#160; It&#8217;s a busy day, as I&#8217;m waiting for a grocery delivery and have to put them away.&#160; Then Wendy will be coming to de-stink the TomCat.&#160; Tomorrow, I may be late in getting my articles up, as I have to collect all the data and make the graphics for Friday&#8217;s Monthly Report.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:43 (average 5:16).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-08-31-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\/trumps-doctor-is-scientist-from.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>Trump&#8217;s Doctor Is The Scientist From Independence Day (ft. Brent Spiner) <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/embed\/b437c8f8ea\" 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 Brent Spiner, Phil Rosenthal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/b437c8f8ea\/donald-trumps-doctor-dr-bornstein-is-the-scientist-from-independence-day-with-brent-spiner\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s Doctor Is The Scientist From Independence Day (ft. Brent Spiner)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/funnyordie\" target=\"_blank\">Funny Or Die<\/a><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Having four sphincters instead of a heart explains how he became a Republican Rectumite!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/obama-pays-mexico-five-billion-dollars-to-keep-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>President Barack Obama defended his decision on Wednesday to issue a payment of five billion dollars to Mexico to compel that nation to retain custody of Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The payment, which will be delivered to the Mexican government in hard American currency by Wednesday afternoon, will insure that Trump will remain in Mexico for the rest of his natural life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been assured by the government of Mexico that Mr. Trump will be well taken care of and, if he proves to be a productive member of their society, will be provided a pathway to Mexican citizenship,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>While the transfer of funds to Mexico sparked howls of protest from some Trump supporters, it was hailed by congressional Democrats, as well as by over a hundred Republicans currently running for re\u00eblection, including Arizona Senator John McCain.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy!! That would be cheap at double the price!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/8\/29\/1564939\/-Is-Earth-getting-a-long-distance-call\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a><\/font>: <\/p>\n<p>Someone wake Mr. Fermi, and tell him the paradox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/not-saying-aliens-signal-traced-194522566.html\">may be resolved<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>SETI researchers are buzzing about a strong spike in radio signals that seemed to come from the direction of a sunlike [<em>sic<\/em>] star in the constellation Hercules, known as HD 164595.<\/p>\n<p>The signal conceivably fits the profile for an intentional transmission from an extraterrestrial source \u2013 but it could also be a case of earthly radio interference, or a microlensing [<em>sic<\/em>] event in which the star\u2019s gravitational field focused stray signals coming from much farther away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is far from the first time that researchers have received a signal that at first looked hopeful, only to discover that it was either an Earthly source masquerading as extraterrestrial, or the result of some natural phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope it turns out to be real. I would be a real shame for a universe as large as ours to be completely devoid of intelligent life.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0831Cartoon\" 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=\"0831Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0831Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a nap this morning and still need more, but at least I&#8217;m enjoying the cool.&#160; It&#8217;s a busy day, as I&#8217;m waiting for a grocery delivery and have to put them away.&#160; Then Wendy will be coming to de-stink the TomCat.&#160; Tomorrow, I may be late in getting my articles up, as I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/open-thread-8312016\/' 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-23711","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\/23711","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=23711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}