{"id":24062,"date":"2016-10-03T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24062"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:02:11","slug":"open-thread-1032016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/open-thread-1032016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/3\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I slept well again last night in the cool weather we&#8217;re having.&#160; I have a nurse, a social worker, and a trainee visiting me this morning from the Providence Elder at Home Program.&#160; Megan referred them, as she thinks they might have some services for me, like, if I catch the flu, I could see a nurse or PA here rather than suffering long Lift waits when I&#8217;m sick.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:55 (average 5:00).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-10-03-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1002Broncos27-Buccaneers7\" 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=\"1002Broncos27-Buccaneers7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1002Broncos27-Buccaneers7.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/10\/dany-targaryens-first-political-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\">From KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>Dany Targaryen&#8217;s first political speech <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/embed\/5f6d788298\" 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=\"&#39;from Dany2016 Vs. I&#39;m With Cer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/5f6d788298\/dany-targaryen-s-first-political-speech\" target=\"_blank\">Dany Targaryen&#8217;s first political speech<\/a> &#8211; watch more <a title=\"on Funny Or Die\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">funny videos<\/a><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We may be hearing from Rump Dump&#8217;s next wife.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/9\/30\/1576113\/-If-You-Tell-Me-You-Are-Supporting-Trump-I-Already-Know-Seven-Things-About-You\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Tell me you are conservative.&#160; Tell me you are Christian. Tell me you are Republican. Tell me any of these things, and I won&#8217;t make too many assumptions about you. Sure, I may assume you go to church every Sunday, eat red meat, and get most of your news from Fox and Friends, but beyond that, I will withhold judgment on the kind of person you are until I get to know you. In fact, as a Southern white male veteran who lives in a very rural area, most of the people in my circles are of the right-leaning variety. I can attest that most people are fairly decent when you get to know them. <\/p>\n<p>This equation changes when you tell me unequivocally that you are voting for Trump. Instantly, I know there are certain things about you and your character that I can assume that I wouldn&#8217;t if you told me you supported any other GOP candidate. Ain\u2019t none of them good.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me you are a strong Trump supporter, then you are telling me:<\/p>\n<h6>1.&#160; You want to be ruled, not governed.<\/h6>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/01\/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533\" target=\"_blank\">single trait that predicts the Trump supporter<\/a> has nothing to do with race, income, or education. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts found that the top predictor of whether a voter supports Trump is his or her proclivity towards authoritarianism. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Authoritarians obey. They rally to and follow strong leaders. And they respond aggressively to outsiders, especially when they feel threatened. From pledging to \u201cmake America great again\u201d by building a wall on the border to promising to close mosques and ban Muslims from visiting the United States, Trump is playing directly to authoritarian inclinations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So spare me your lectures about market freedoms or any constitutional rights you claim to hold dear. You want a dictator in the style of Putin, which pretty much makes you <strong>anti-American<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared one of the seven things and, and it&#8217;s quite astute. The other six are spot-on defining traits that are just as deplorable. Click through.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/03\/world\/europe\/brexit-talks-march-theresa-may-britain.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Outlining a timetable for Britain to leave the European Union in the spring of 2019, Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday put immigration at the center of her strategy for withdrawal, suggesting that Britain could be headed for a \u201chard Brexit,\u201d or clean break, from the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech at the start of the Conservative Party\u2019s annual convention here, Mrs. May said Britain would formally begin exit negotiations by the end of March. Those talks will be governed by a two-year deadline unless all members of the bloc agree to prolong them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/15\/world\/europe\/theresa-may-britain-brexit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Previously, Mrs. May had said<\/a> only that the talks, under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisbon-treaty.org\/wcm\/the-lisbon-treaty\/treaty-on-European-union-and-comments\/title-6-final-provisions\/137-article-50.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article 50<\/a> of a European Union treaty, would not begin before the end of this year \u2014 a delay designed to buy time for the government to work out its negotiating stance.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Mrs. May also began to lay down her priorities for a deal on withdrawal, known as Brexit, including the power to control immigration and reject European Union rules that allow people to move and settle across national frontiers.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope that the sane people in UK can get the xenophobic, Republican-equivalent BRIDIOTS out of power, before they do irreparable damage to both the UK and the EU.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1003Cartoon\" 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=\"1003Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1003Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slept well again last night in the cool weather we&#8217;re having.&#160; I have a nurse, a social worker, and a trainee visiting me this morning from the Providence Elder at Home Program.&#160; Megan referred them, as she thinks they might have some services for me, like, if I catch the flu, I could see <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/open-thread-1032016\/' 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-24062","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\/24062","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=24062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}