{"id":23823,"date":"2016-09-10T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23823"},"modified":"2016-09-10T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T21:21:22","slug":"open-thread-9102016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/10\/open-thread-9102016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/10\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running way late today.&#160; After a sleepless night, I had to take a nap this morning.&#160; Then I needed to scan some documents, and my scanner won&#8217;t work.&#160; I&#8217;ve been trying to solve the problem for the last three hours without success.&#160; Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be late too because it&#8217;s a Wendy day and a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:26 (average 5:07).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-09-10-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.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: Rachel and I disagree.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_brt_160909\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t believe him.&#160; She does.&#160; If I&#8217;m right, Trump is a criminal seditionist, and is not fit to be President. If she&#8217;s right, Trump is an idiot, and is not fit to be President.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/9\/8\/1568194\/-Multiple-Charities-Tell-WaPo-s-Fahrenthold-They-Didn-t-Receive-Donations-Trump-Fnd-Reported-To-IRS\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/david-a-fahrenthold\" target=\"_blank\">David Farenthold<\/a><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> has done a brilliant job of exposing Trump\u2019s grandiose lies about his charitable giving. Now it appears that multiple charities are telling him they never received donations the Trump Foundation claimed on IRS submissions.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Claiming deductions for funds not donated is criminal tax fraud.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/gary-johnson-vows-to-get-tough-on-east-korea\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In an appearance Friday on CNN, Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Presidential nominee, promised that as President he would get tough on East Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis behavior is unacceptable,\u201d he said. \u201cThe East Koreans are making us look like idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While stressing that he remained, for the most part, an isolationist, he said, \u201cI will do everything in my power as President to support our allies in West Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO!!!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0910Cartoon\" 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=\"0910Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0910Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running way late today.&#160; After a sleepless night, I had to take a nap this morning.&#160; Then I needed to scan some documents, and my scanner won&#8217;t work.&#160; I&#8217;ve been trying to solve the problem for the last three hours without success.&#160; Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be late too because it&#8217;s a Wendy day and a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/10\/open-thread-9102016\/' 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-23823","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\/23823","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=23823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}