{"id":23950,"date":"2016-09-22T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23950"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:37:53","slug":"open-thread-9222016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/open-thread-9222016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/22\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Although I tired myself out yesterday, I still could not sleep last night or this morning, so I need to rest today.&#160; This is today&#8217;s only article from me, and I won&#8217;t be sending link messages on Care2.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:51 (average 4:21).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-09-22-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\/09\/that-darn-trump-episode-2-what-do-you.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><strong>That Darn Trump! Episode 2: What Do You Have To Lose? <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Animated Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/a-WafsvSp50?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m not sure about its value as humor, but it sure is accurate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iWjtKssnkew\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Warren Presses FBI On Financial Crisis Case | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iWjtKssnkew?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lizzie raises some great points. I also want to know why the Banksters that caused the crisis were not prosecuted.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/09\/20\/1572375\/-Pam-Bondi-logic-I-had-to-take-Donald-Trump-s-money-or-it-would-have-looked-like-a-bribe\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>&#8230;Bondi\u2019s first political opponent in 2010, former state senator and federal prosecutor Dan Gelber, recently said she should at least have returned the check to Trump while the New York case was pending.<\/p>\n<p>But Bondi on Tuesday said she didn\u2019t return the check because it would have looked as if it were a bribe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL!! If you believe that, then I blew the fart, because holding it in would have looked like I ate Chile.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0922Cartoon\" 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=\"0922Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0922Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republican Supply-side Jesus and Jesus are exact opposites.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I tired myself out yesterday, I still could not sleep last night or this morning, so I need to rest today.&#160; This is today&#8217;s only article from me, and I won&#8217;t be sending link messages on Care2. 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