{"id":24010,"date":"2016-09-28T13:18:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24010"},"modified":"2016-09-28T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:18:32","slug":"open-thread-9282016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/open-thread-9282016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/28\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ve decided to stop taking Cymbalta, so my system will be clear for the next option, when I see Megan on Friday.&#160; It&#8217;s been a week and a half, none of the side effects has abated, and as my system has gotten used to it, it has become less effective at blocking phantom pain.&#160; I was up with it most of the night.&#160; Today is a busy one.&#160; Store to Door is coming this afternoon with my grocery delivery, and I&#8217;ll have to unpack and put it away.&#160; Later Wendy is coming to de-stink the TomCat.&#160; Tomorrow and Friday may be days with only a Personal Update.&#160; Tomorrow I have to go to the Tri-Met office to prove my disability for Lift Bus authorization renewal.&#160; I wonder if they think I might have grown my leg back.&#160; Friday is my appointment with Megan.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:45 (average 4:35).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-09-28-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\/funny-or-die-trumps-great-temperament.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>Funny or Die: Trump&#8217;s Great Temperament <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/embed\/a5754ae257\" 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, Nate Dern\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/a5754ae257\/trump-s-great-temperament\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s Great Temperament<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/funnyordie\" target=\"_blank\">Funny Or Die<\/a><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Not funny, but spot-on!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-threatens-to-skip-remaining-debates-if-hillary-is-there\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Plunging the future of the 2016 Presidential debates into doubt, Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday morning that he would not participate in the remaining two debates if Hillary Clinton is there.<\/p>\n<p>Trump blasted the format of Monday night\u2019s debate by claiming that the presence of Clinton was \u201cspecifically designed\u201d to distract him from delivering his message to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I said something, she would say something back,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was rigged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also lambasted the \u201cunderhanded tactics\u201d his opponent used during the debate. \u201cShe kept on bringing up things I said or did,\u201d he added. \u201cShe is a very nasty person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen, Andy. I can see the possibility that he might tuck tail and run away.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/9\/27\/1574974\/-Paul-Ryan-raves-about-Trump-s-debate-performance-but-gets-weaselly-on-Miss-Piggy?detail=email&amp;link_id=2&amp;can_id=7c64f55588334faf361d1837600872c9&amp;source=email-trump-and-hannity-are-likely-regretting-debate-plea-to-call-hannity-for-back-up-on-iraq-claims&amp;email_referrer=trump-and-hannity-are-likely-regretting-debate-plea-to-call-hannity-for-back-up-on-iraq-claims&amp;email_subject=trump-and-hannity-are-likely-regretting-debate-plea-to-call-hannity-for-back-up-on-iraq-claims\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>House Speaker Paul Ryan once again showed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/09\/trump-first-debate-performance-paul-ryan-228784\" target=\"_blank\">what a total weasel he is<\/a> in his assessment of Donald Trump\u2019s debate performance. Ryan offered up a glowing review:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI saw Donald Trump give a spirited voice to those of us who don\u2019t like the status quo, and I see emerging in front of us the potential for what a unified Republican government can get you, which can be the solutions,\u201d Ryan said at a news conference Tuesday. \u201cI think he passed a number of thresholds&#8230; and showed that for 90 minutes he could go toe-to-toe with Hillary Clinton.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With Lyin&#8217; Ryan, the truth of his statements is easy to discern. When he speaks, the opposite of what he says is true.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0928Cartoon\" 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=\"0928Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0928Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to stop taking Cymbalta, so my system will be clear for the next option, when I see Megan on Friday.&#160; It&#8217;s been a week and a half, none of the side effects has abated, and as my system has gotten used to it, it has become less effective at blocking phantom pain.&#160; I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/open-thread-9282016\/' 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-24010","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\/24010","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=24010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}