{"id":24304,"date":"2016-10-21T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T20:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24304"},"modified":"2016-10-21T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T20:56:21","slug":"open-thread-10212016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/21\/open-thread-10212016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/21\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Courtney, aka Lady Torquemada, put me through some hard paces this morning.&#160; Fatigue was exacerbated by a malfunctioning thermostat that kept the temperature about 15\u00b0 too high.&#160; On the way home I went to the bank.&#160; After lunch I discovered that Politics Plus has been offline most of the day due to a DDoS attack against DNS servers, and thousands of sites are still down all over the country, so I&#8217;m not sure when I can publish this.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:35 (average 3:54).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-10-21-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pz_o0LgP8xQ\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>How \u201cFalse Equivalence\u201d Ruins Trump-Clinton News Coverage <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pz_o0LgP8xQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">False-equivalence is especially popular with Russian propagandists and their 3rd party dupes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eWTL8bAsaRo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>These Insane Excuses From Trump&#8217;s Surrogates Are Deplorable | The Closer with Keith Olbermann | <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eWTL8bAsaRo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I am soooo glad Keith is back!!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=imO82SK4__k\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CSPAN\" target=\"_blank\">CSPAN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Hillary Clinton FULL REMARKS at Al Smith Dinner (C-SPAN) <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/imO82SK4__k\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;d call that a Rump Dump roast!&#160; 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