{"id":24053,"date":"2016-10-02T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T19:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24053"},"modified":"2016-10-02T12:20:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T19:20:15","slug":"open-thread-1022016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/02\/open-thread-1022016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/2\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy just left.&#160; After de-stinking the TomCat, we changed George&#8217;s rubber sleeve that rolls onto Stumpy.&#160; Then we played with it to get the correct angle for the pin to lock.&#160; Then we took a walk in the hallway.&#160; This was the first time I&#8217;ve done that, since before my eye cancer surgery, so I walked only 100 feet, with Wendy pushing my chair behind.&#160; Then we swept and mopped the floors, reorganized the freezer and shelves and cleaned the counters and sills.&#160; We made a several day container of spaghetti with sauce, meat, sausage and veggies.&#160; Finally we made eggs and hash browns for lunch.&#160; She was amused that, when I went to see Megan and was weighed, I had successfully transferred two pounds of fat from my butt to hers.&#160; I call that The Southern Exposure Project.&#160; While writing, I am also meditating on the holy Ellipsoid Orb.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:46 (average 4:24).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-10-02-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:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/canadians-rally-against-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Gazette<\/a> (Hat-Tip Squatch): <\/font>&#8230;It turns out some Canadians, after watching months of bombastic campaigning south of the border, are mobilizing to do something \u2014 anything \u2014 to stop Trump. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump poses a serious threat to our world,\u201d said Glyn Lewis, co-founder of a group called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/canadiansrallyingagainsttrump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadians Rallying Against Trump<\/a> (CRAT) that was officially launched Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs good neighbours, and global citizens, we can\u2019t sit idle. Not when the election is this close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for a great read. That&#8217;s CRAT against CRAP, eh?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/10\/snl-1st-clnton-trump-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>SNL: 1st Clnton-Trump Debate <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-nQGBZQrtT0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Alec is a good actor, but nobody is good enough to convey evil in that magnitude.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/9\/30\/1576312\/-Wow-Darrell-Issa-threatens-to-sue-Democratic-opponent-over-ad-and-has-lawyers-beg-for-an-apology\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Amazing. Republican Rep. Darrell Issa spent years wasting millions of dollars in taxpayer money to conduct bogus \u201cinvestigations\u201d of the Obama administration that never went anywhere. But just like a classic bully\u2014just like <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/presidential-campaign\/279356-memo-to-bushes-other-gop-holdouts-get-on-the-trump\" target=\"_blank\">his idol, Donald Trump<\/a>, in fact\u2014he can dish it out but can&#8217;t take a punch.<\/p>\n<p>Issa, who represents California\u2019s 49th Congressional District in suburban San Diego, faces his toughest re-election campaign in forever, thanks to Daily Kos-endorsed Democrat Doug Applegate, a retired Marine colonel who, unlike his opponent, isn\u2019t afraid of the rough and tumble. Applegate recently started airing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rrii1jNAe-I\" target=\"_blank\">his first TV ad of the race<\/a>, a hard-hitting spot in which he directly links Issa to Trump. After playing a clip of Trump declaring \u201cI\u2019m really rich. Nobody knows the system better than me,\u201d a narrator explains that Issa likewise \u201cgamed the system to line his own pockets steering millions in taxpayer money to help properties he owned,&quot; relying on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/15\/us\/politics\/15issa.html\" target=\"_blank\">very negative 2011 New York Times piece<\/a> about Issa\u2019s self-dealing for factual support.<\/p>\n<p>So how did Issa react? Like the cowardly whiner that he is, he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/325949346\/CA-49-Letter-From-Darrell-Issa-to-Doug-Applegate\" target=\"_blank\">threatening to file a lawsuit alleging that Applegate has defamed him<\/a>! Seriously, no one in politics ever does this. It\u2019s insane. But Issa&#8217;s serious: He even sent the Applegate campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/325949330\/CA-49-Darrell-Issa-Complaint\" target=\"_blank\">a draft of his complaint<\/a> that he&#8217;s ready to file in court at a moment\u2019s notice if Applegate doesn\u2019t cower before him.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the ad.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Rrii1jNAe-I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">CA 49th has too long been in thrall to that deplorable Republican, Issa the Assa. We endorse Doug Applegate!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/trump-pressured-second-wife-to-pose-nude-for-playboy\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>In a totally unexpected development, we learn today that back in the early 90s Donald Trump pressured his then-girlfriend, future wife and futurer ex-wife to pose nude in Playboy. Trump even negotiated a mega payday for the nude photo shoot.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump personifies the Republican view of women. They are chattel to be exploited for pleasure and profit.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1002Cartoon\" 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=\"1002Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1002Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Flashing back to 2013, when Republicans celebrated shutting down the US government.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy just left.&#160; After de-stinking the TomCat, we changed George&#8217;s rubber sleeve that rolls onto Stumpy.&#160; Then we played with it to get the correct angle for the pin to lock.&#160; Then we took a walk in the hallway.&#160; This was the first time I&#8217;ve done that, since before my eye cancer surgery, so I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/02\/open-thread-1022016\/' 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-24053","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\/24053","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=24053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}