{"id":24402,"date":"2016-10-29T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T20:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24402"},"modified":"2016-10-29T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T20:23:40","slug":"open-thread-10292016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/29\/open-thread-10292016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/29\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m back in the saddle, but the next week is so very busy that I&#8217;ll be intermittent.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are meditating at home against the Chargers and it will be televised here.&#160; May the Divine Orb blast the Chargers in the butt with their own lightning bolts and shine its blessed light on the other teams, especially my Broncos.It&#8217;s also a Wendy day, so don&#8217;t be surprised if I publish late.&#160; Today, I&#8217;m feeling so ground down, that I&#8217;m made it a point to include humor in both articles.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:02 (average 5:55).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-10-29-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=P8GXFpIwxT8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why Donald Trump is Obsessed with Dictators<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/P8GXFpIwxT8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These dictators are the Republicans that would serve as models for Trump in a Rump Dump Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/10\/hamilton-parody-hillary-rodham-clinton.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>Hamilton Parody: Hillary Rodham Clinton!<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EWtIGEZevDw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Like they said, lets flush the orange turd.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/comey-praises-brave-f-b-i-agents-who-had-to-touch-anthony-weiners-computer\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>James Comey, the embattled director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presided over a special ceremony on Friday evening to commend the brave F.B.I. agents who had to touch Anthony Weiner\u2019s computer.<\/p>\n<p>In awarding the commendations to the agents, whom Comey called \u201cthe bravest men and women this country has to offer,\u201d the F.B.I. director criticized the political uproar that he said had overshadowed \u201ctheir selfless acts of heroism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese agents have performed far and beyond the call of duty,\u201d a visibly angry Comey said. \u201cI know we\u2019re eleven days away from an election and tensions are running high, but we shouldn\u2019t let that subtract in any way from what these brave agents did with their own hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! I know there is nothing of substance here, but the way Republicans and the pie in the sky set will spin false equivalence around this, I really wish he had an Oscar Mayer Weiner!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1029Cartoon\" 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=\"1029Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1029Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in the saddle, but the next week is so very busy that I&#8217;ll be intermittent.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are meditating at home against the Chargers and it will be televised here.&#160; May the Divine Orb blast the Chargers in the butt with <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/29\/open-thread-10292016\/' 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-24402","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\/24402","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=24402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}