{"id":23893,"date":"2016-09-16T13:34:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T20:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23893"},"modified":"2016-09-17T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:06:12","slug":"open-thread-9162016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/open-thread-9162016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/16\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ll be leaving in a few minutes for my PCP appointment with Megan.&#160; She&#8217;ll call in a prescription to my mail order pharmacy and I&#8217;ll have a new med for nerve pain by Tuesday or Wednesday.&#160; Light at the end of the tunnel looks so good.&#160; I apologize for mot reminding out fantasy football players about last night&#8217;s game between the Jets and the Bills.&#160; I&#8217;ve been so busy that I forgot to check the schedule.&#160; I know that I caught me, as I failed to plug-in the wide receiver I intended to start.&#160; It cost me 15 fantasy points.&#160; ARGH!!&#160; I&#8217;ll finish this when I return.&#160; This is my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m back.&#160; Megan put me on Cymbalta, so if I start promoting Rump Dump Trump, that&#8217;s why.&#160; I think it might help with the nerve pain, if it doesn&#8217;t make me crazy&#8230; um&#8230; crazier.<\/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 4:38).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-09-16-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k_m5AlsQqcs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/kristen-bell-has-cheap-labor-your.html#.V9v8lq1ejfZ\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>): <\/font>Pinksourcing With Kristen Bell | Celebs Have Issues Ep. 1 <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/k_m5AlsQqcs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sadly, it&#8217;s damn accurate!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/9\/15\/1570466\/-This-ad-from-Missouri-Democrat-Jason-Kander-is-one-of-the-best-we-ve-ever-seen\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The NRA recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/09\/09\/1568099\/-Morning-Digest-James-Zadroga-s-father-slams-Scott-Garrett-for-opposing-aid-to-9-11-responders#9\" target=\"_blank\">launched an ad<\/a> portraying Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Jason Kander as weak on gun rights, which is usually an effective argument in conservative states like this. But Kander\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-wqOApBLPio\" target=\"_blank\">must-see response commercial<\/a> is one for the books.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-wqOApBLPio?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The evil incumbent, Roy Blunt (R-MO) is up 3.4 points in the polls. I&#8217;d love to see him get his Ammosexual butt kicked.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/16\/opinion\/missouri-the-shoot-me-state.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>In an alarming victory for the gun lobby, Missouri\u2019s Republican-controlled Legislature voted Wednesday to override Gov. Jay Nixon\u2019s veto and enact a wholesale retreat from gun safety in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The law will let citizens carry concealed weapons in public without a state gun permit, criminal background check or firearms training. It strips local law enforcement of its current authority to deny firearms to those guilty of domestic violence and to other high-risk individuals. And it establishes a dangerous \u201cstand your ground\u201d standard that will allow gun owners to shoot and claim self-defense based on their own sense of feeling threatened.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The author is correct to call MO the &quot;Shoot Me&quot; State.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0916Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0916Cartoon\" 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=\"0916Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0916Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be leaving in a few minutes for my PCP appointment with Megan.&#160; She&#8217;ll call in a prescription to my mail order pharmacy and I&#8217;ll have a new med for nerve pain by Tuesday or Wednesday.&#160; Light at the end of the tunnel looks so good.&#160; I apologize for mot reminding out fantasy football players <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/open-thread-9162016\/' 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-23893","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\/23893","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=23893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}