{"id":24326,"date":"2016-10-23T11:24:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24326"},"modified":"2016-10-23T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:24:25","slug":"open-thread-10232016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/23\/open-thread-10232016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/23\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m already tired.&#160; I was up at 5:00, eating and starting my research.&#160; Wendy arrived at 7:00.&#160; After she scrubbed and buffed the TomCat, we cleaned the counters and floors,&#160; collected and filled out 20+ pages of information to apply for my insulin manufacturers senior assistance program, made a casserole for the week, and made potato&#8217;s and eggs for brunch.&#160; As I write, I&#8217;m listening to the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb in the background.&#160; My pillow is calling.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:07 (average 5:40).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-10-23-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">chick 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=T5klsqxyW9A\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheYoungTurks\" target=\"_blank\">TYT Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump&#8217;s Epic Fail With Salma Hayek!! <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/T5klsqxyW9A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Considering what Rump Dump considers important and the size of her implants, her height was never even slightly important to him.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-kjyltrKZSY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton Third Debate Cold Open &#8211; SNL<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-kjyltrKZSY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That was all too close to the real one!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/23\/opinion\/sunday\/a-chance-to-unseat-marco-rubio.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Just months ago, Senator Marco Rubio was seen by the Republican establishment as one of its best hopes for taking back the White House. Now, Representative Patrick Murphy, a second-term congressman, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/21\/us\/politics\/widening-attack-on-gop-obama-targets-marco-rubio-in-florida.html\" target=\"_blank\">within striking distance<\/a> of defeating Mr. Rubio in the senator\u2019s race to keep his seat.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I am proud to endorse Patrick Murphy against Marco &quot;Border Booter&quot; Rubio (R-FL), infamous for goose-stepping with the Republican Party in support of their hatred of and bigotry against Latinos.<\/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\/1023Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1023Cartoon\" 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=\"1023Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1023Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m already tired.&#160; I was up at 5:00, eating and starting my research.&#160; Wendy arrived at 7:00.&#160; After she scrubbed and buffed the TomCat, we cleaned the counters and floors,&#160; collected and filled out 20+ pages of information to apply for my insulin manufacturers senior assistance program, made a casserole for the week, and made <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/23\/open-thread-10232016\/' 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-24326","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\/24326","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=24326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}