{"id":23992,"date":"2016-09-25T12:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23992"},"modified":"2016-09-25T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:45:48","slug":"open-thread-9252016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/25\/open-thread-9252016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/25\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">After another sleepless night and a busy day of housework with Wendy, I&#8217;m just wiped out, so this is my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took mw 3:08 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-09-25-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.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/9\/23\/1573396\/-Every-girl-woman-and-the-men-who-love-and-support-us-should-see-this-new-Hillary-Clinton-ad\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>If you have not yet seen this new campaign ad for Hillary Clinton, take some time out to watch it. Then share it with everyone you know.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vHGPbl-werw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rump Dump is a misogynist extraordinaire, and he&#8217;s not the president we want for our sons either.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/25\/business\/media\/presidential-debate-audience.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The uniquely uncivil presidential campaign is about to produce one of the biggest civic gatherings in decades: For 90 minutes on Monday night, a polarized nation will pause to watch the first head-to-head encounter between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The total audience, network executives and political strategists say, could be as high as 100 million viewers \u2014 Super Bowl territory. That would surpass the 80 million who watched Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in 1980, the record for a presidential debate, and rank among television benchmarks like the finales of \u201cMASH\u201d and \u201cCheers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Trump stays on script, it could be difficult, unless the moderators call him on his lies. If he starts reacting, it will get very ugly, which could be great for Hillary.&#160;&#160; And I do so hope Hillary does not get overconfident and trip over her&#8230; um&#8230; self.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/trump-gennifer-flowers-at-debate-mark-cuban\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>After Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign seated notorious Donald Trump troll Mark Cuban in the front row of the first presidential debate, Trump fired back by threatening to invite Gennifer Flowers, who accepted.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Next, he&#8217;ll invite Anthony Weiner&#8217;s weiner.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0925Cartoon\" 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=\"0925Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0925Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After another sleepless night and a busy day of housework with Wendy, I&#8217;m just wiped out, so this is my only article today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took mw 3:08 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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