{"id":24128,"date":"2016-10-09T12:18:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24128"},"modified":"2016-10-09T12:57:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:57:16","slug":"open-thread-1092016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/09\/open-thread-1092016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/9\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy just left.&nbsp; We perfumed the TomCat, did the dreaded task, cooked and cleaned.&nbsp; Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; My Broncos meditate at Atlanta, and the game will be televised here, so I&#39;m rushing.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.&nbsp; I have a long appointment with an eye specialist to see what can be done for my double vision.&nbsp; I will be gone most of the day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">s took me 3:43 (average 5:04).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-10-09-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. 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\/10\/snl-day-off-for-trumps-campaign-manager.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>:<\/font> SNL- A Day Off for Trump&#39;s Campaign Manager<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zjbc15X1zSM\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cute, but I thought another clip was more relevant.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5sYGjoUcusM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>VP Debate Cold Open &#8211; SNL<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sYGjoUcusM\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That sounded just like trump.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/republican-party-could-recover-as-early-as-2096-experts-say\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In what is being described as a best-case scenario, some political experts are predicting that the Republicans could once again be a viable political party as early as the year 2096.<\/p>\n<p>Davis Logsdon, the head of the University of Minnesota&rsquo;s political-science department, said on Saturday that the eighty-year time frame for the Republican Party to recover was &ldquo;admittedly optimistic, but still doable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not going to be easy, and they have very little margin for error,&rdquo; Logsdon said. &ldquo;But if they do everything right and a lot of things cut their way, they could be up and running as a somewhat serviceable political party as early as 2096.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to the political strategist Tracy Klugian, however, Logsdon&rsquo;s 2096 target date for the Republicans&rsquo; comeback is &ldquo;laughably upbeat.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In order for the G.O.P. to become even a marginally functional political party again, all memory of the 2016 campaign will have to be obliterated,&rdquo; Klugian said. &ldquo;That means everyone who witnessed it will have to be dead, and probably those people&rsquo;s children, and their children&rsquo;s children, too. I wouldn&rsquo;t bet on the Republican Party recovering any earlier than the year 2132.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, That&#39;s horrible!! 2132 is MUCH TOO SOON!!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1009Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1009Cartoon.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"1009Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy just left.&nbsp; We perfumed the TomCat, did the dreaded task, cooked and cleaned.&nbsp; Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; My Broncos meditate at Atlanta, and the game will be televised here, so I&#39;m rushing.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.&nbsp; I have a long appointment <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/09\/open-thread-1092016\/' 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-24128","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\/24128","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=24128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}