{"id":24184,"date":"2016-10-13T13:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24184"},"modified":"2016-10-13T13:29:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:29:06","slug":"open-thread-10132016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/open-thread-10132016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/13\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tonight is a special holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, as my Broncos are meditating with the Chargers.&#160; I&#8217;m hurrying to complete my tasks and finish my supper before it starts,&#160; Go Broncos!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:05 (average 4:50).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-10-13-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\/10\/fod-cure-for-being-woman.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>FOD: The Cure for Being a Woman<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/embed\/31b74c4a2c\" 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 Carrie McCrossen, Langan Kingsley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/31b74c4a2c\/womanhood-the-cure-for-being-a-woman-commercial\" target=\"_blank\">The Cure For Being A Woman<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/funnyordie\" target=\"_blank\">Funny Or Die<\/a><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They&#8217;d better hide this from Republicans. They&#8217;re stupid enough to believe it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/10\/11\/1580943\/-Carly-Simon-gives-permission-to-use-You-re-So-Vain-in-anti-Trump-video-with-only-one-lyric-change\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>This is just fun. Legendary singer, songwriter, musician and activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlysimon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Carly Simon<\/a> has given her permission and blessings for her classic song \u201cYou\u2019re So Vain\u201d to be used in a video that mocks the conceit of Republican nominee Donald Trump. This marks the first time Simon has allowed her 1972 hit to be used for political purposes. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/carly-simon-donald-trump-youre-so-vain-song-political-advert-attack-a7353861.html\" target=\"_blank\">spokesman for Simon said<\/a> the singer is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;alarmed at the prospect of Donald Trump reaching the White House and has joined other creative voices in making a definitive statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jKaiedK9SFc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Love it!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/13\/us\/politics\/gop-reaction-donald-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Stung by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/10\/us\/politics\/republicans-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">a fierce backlash<\/a> from Donald J. Trump\u2019s ardent supporters, four Republican members of Congress who had made headlines for demanding that Mr. Trump leave the presidential race retreated quietly this week, conceding that they would still probably vote for the man they had excoriated just days before.<\/p>\n<p>From Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the only member of the Republican leadership in either chamber who had disavowed Mr. Trump, to Representative Scott Garrett of New Jersey, who is in a difficult re-election fight, the lawmakers contorted themselves over Mr. Trump. Some of them would not mention him by name, preferring instead to affirm their support for the generic \u201cRepublican ticket,\u201d still grasping for a middle ground.<\/p>\n<p>They said that if Mr. Trump would not make way for his running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, to lead the party after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/08\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-women.html\" target=\"_blank\">the release of a recording<\/a> on Friday showing Mr. Trump bragging about groping women, they had little choice but to vote for their embattled nominee. But the collective about-face owed less to his refusal to exit a race in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/12\/us\/politics\/early-voting-registration.html\" target=\"_blank\">ballots are already being cast<\/a> than to the fury his supporters unleashed at the defectors at rallies and on social media.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Once again, the Republican Party owns Trump, and Trump owns the Republican Party. They are the same.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1013Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1013Cartoon\" 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=\"1013Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1013Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is a special holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, as my Broncos are meditating with the Chargers.&#160; I&#8217;m hurrying to complete my tasks and finish my supper before it starts,&#160; Go Broncos!! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:05 (average 4:50).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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