{"id":24004,"date":"2016-09-27T13:07:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24004"},"modified":"2016-09-27T13:07:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:07:24","slug":"open-thread-9272016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/open-thread-9272016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/27\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Last night I watched, and slept poorly afterwards.&#160; Fortunately, I had the foresight to place George on the other side of the room.&#160; That let me avoid using him as a receptacle during hours of Rump Dump Rectumite retching.&#160; Seriously, the temperature reached 92\u00b0 here yesterday with super-high humidity.&#160; I slept poorly, because it was way too sticky for comfort.&#160; Today&#8217;s Short Takes also involve the debate.&#160; It is thoroughly dominating the news.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:27 (average 5:14).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-09-27-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&#8217;s the latest in 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=\"3Scores\" 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=\"3Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/3Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Did Pam kick my kitty-kitty butt, or what?!!?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"3Standings\" 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=\"3Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/3Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats to Rob, who sits alone atop the league.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/more-americans-expected-to-self-medicate-than-for-any-other-debate-in-history\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>As the nation awaits the first faceoff between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday night, more Americans are expected to self-medicate than for any other Presidential debate in history.<\/p>\n<p>With over a hundred million people projected to watch the debate, roughly sixty million of them will be barely sentient after ingesting what they deem to be the necessary dose of intoxicants.<\/p>\n<p>Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, estimated on Monday that the level of self-medication for the Trump-Clinton debate could be seven hundred per cent greater than for the first Obama-Romney debate, in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stakes seem higher this time,\u201d Logsdon said. \u201cThere\u2019s a sense that, depending on the outcome of tonight\u2019s debate, all human life on the planet could be in peril.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy!! The one who should have self-medicated, but didn&#8217;t, is Rump Dump Trump!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/trump-clinton-interruption-debate\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>It didn&#8217;t take long for Donald Trump to interrupt Hillary Clinton during Monday night&#8217;s debate, with the first interruption happening less than 15 minutes in. And once it started, he just couldn&#8217;t stop.<\/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\/l7tGC1ybvcg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">51 Times!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/main\/2016\/09\/voters-nationally-say-clinton-won-debate-5140.html\" target=\"_blank\">Public Policy Polling<\/a>: <\/font>PPP&#8217;s post debate survey, sponsored by VoteVets Action Fund, finds that voters nationally think Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the debate, 51\/40. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most important for Clinton is that among young voters, who she has under performed with, 63% think she won the debate to only 24% for Trump. 47% of voters in that age group said the debate tonight made them more likely to vote for her, to only 10% who say it made them less likely to vote for her. For Trump with that group on the other hand, only 23% said the debate made them more likely to vote for him to 39% who said it made them less likely to. <\/p>\n<p>Clinton also won the debate by particularly wide margins with women (54\/36) and voters who are either African American or Latino (77\/13). Among white voters the debate was basically a draw with Trump coming out ahead 47\/45.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Speaking as a Caucasian, I&#8217;m thoroughly ashamed that so many white voters preferred Rump Dump Trump.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0927Cartoon\" 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=\"0927Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0927Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched, and slept poorly afterwards.&#160; Fortunately, I had the foresight to place George on the other side of the room.&#160; That let me avoid using him as a receptacle during hours of Rump Dump Rectumite retching.&#160; Seriously, the temperature reached 92\u00b0 here yesterday with super-high humidity.&#160; I slept poorly, because it was <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/open-thread-9272016\/' 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-24004","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\/24004","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=24004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}