{"id":23938,"date":"2016-09-20T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23938"},"modified":"2016-09-20T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:25:37","slug":"open-thread-9202016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/open-thread-9202016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/20\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My sleeping schedule is way out of whack.&#160; The mornings have been very chilly here, so I&#8217;ve been warming under the covers and sleeping.&#160; Then when night comes, it&#8217;s super sticky with very high humidity, and I can&#8217;t sleep.&#160; I could live with a swing shift schedule, but medical mayhem cannot.&#160; The nerve pain is greatly improved, but side effects remain.&#160; Of course, it&#8217;s too soon to tell.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:37 (average 4:59).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-09-20-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here are the results from our Fantasy Football league.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2Scores\" 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=\"2Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2Standings\" 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=\"2Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I actually won one last week.&#160; Patty Monster, Vivian, and Rob are tied for the lead.&#160; Don&#8217;t forget to be ready in time for Thursday Night Football, like I did last week.<\/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\/09\/mary-poppins-quits-over-non-living-wage.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>Mary Poppins Quits Over Non-Living Wage <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/embed\/c2deb9a5e8\" 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 Funny Or Die, Kristen Bell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/c2deb9a5e8\/mary-poppins-quits-with-kristen-bell\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Poppins Quits with Kristen Bell<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/funnyordie\" target=\"_blank\">Funny Or Die<\/a><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Pretty accurate, IMHO!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/9\/19\/1571882\/-Christie-knew-about-bridge-lane-closures-prosecutors-say\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, fresh off his weekend of being called out for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/9\/19\/1571836\/-Republicans-push-three-blindingly-dishonest-post-birther-talking-points\" target=\"_blank\">lying about Donald Trump&#8217;s birtherism<\/a>, is seeing one of his own scandals blow up again. Two of Christie\u2019s former underlings are on trial for the George Washington Bridge lane closures, and prosecutors opened the trial by saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/20\/nyregion\/bridgegate-trial.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;smid=nytcore-ipad-share\" target=\"_blank\">Christie knew what his aides were doing<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Prosecutors from the United States attorney\u2019s office said that two of the alleged co-conspirators in the case, David Wildstein and Bill Baroni, had bragged to the governor about the lane closings, and that they had been done to \u201cmess\u201d with the mayor of Fort Lee because he had declined entreaties to endorse the governor\u2019s re-election.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor, Vikas Khanna, instantly advised the jury that they should not consider the actions of \u201cothers\u201d or wonder why they were not charged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rachael has more:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7zS7r1I8NlA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">PIGnocchio knew!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/right-wing\/trump-loving-firefighter-canned-after-advocating-make-slavery-legal-again\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>D]ell Rapids, South Dakota firefighter was relieved of his duties after a social media post where he encouraged reinstituting slavery.<\/p>\n<p>John Nygaard reportedly posted several racist posts on Facebook that sparked outrage from Dell Rapids residents, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksfy.com\/content\/news\/Dell-Rapids-firefighter-relieved-of-duties-after-racist-comments-393919681.html\" target=\"_blank\">KSFY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fire him! There&#8217;s too much risk that this deplorable Republican won&#8217;t do his job, depending on race.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0920Cartoon\" 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=\"0920Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0920Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sleeping schedule is way out of whack.&#160; The mornings have been very chilly here, so I&#8217;ve been warming under the covers and sleeping.&#160; Then when night comes, it&#8217;s super sticky with very high humidity, and I can&#8217;t sleep.&#160; I could live with a swing shift schedule, but medical mayhem cannot.&#160; The nerve pain is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/open-thread-9202016\/' 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-23938","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\/23938","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=23938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}