{"id":29075,"date":"2017-08-19T13:54:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T20:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29075"},"modified":"2017-08-19T14:07:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T21:07:33","slug":"open-thread-8192017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/19\/open-thread-8192017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/19\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I overslept this morning and have been running behind ever since.&#160; Tonight my Broncos go to worship in San Francisco.&#160; Rumor has it that their opponents are all tight ends and wide receivers. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile-1.png\" \/>&#160; I shall be meditating on the Holy Ellipsoid Orb, of course.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:10 (average 5:05).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-19-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; The color is putrid!&#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=uBAAzC0KtsU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Still Making Excuses for Trump? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uBAAzC0KtsU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Am I the only one experiencing Deja vu? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/8\/17\/1690924\/-MSNBC-host-calls-out-Trump-adviser-on-the-facts-and-then-slam-dunks-him\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Brad Thomas is the author of The Trump Factor\u2014whatever the hell that is\u2014and an advisory member of Trump\u2019s league-of-people-who-are-disappointing-their-families. He was on Velshi and Rhule\u2019s MSNBC show trying to do some damage control for the Trump administration after a slew of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/8\/15\/1689807\/-Three-CEOs-sever-Trump-ties-after-Charlottesville-where-are-the-others\" target=\"_blank\">CEOs decided being a part of the president of the United States\u2019<\/a> council was bad for business. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-n207T6LGW4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">All journalists should nail Republican liars to prevent them from spewing their disingenuous propaganda just like that! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-says-sun-equally-to-blame-for-blocking-moon\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Attacking the media for its \u201cvery unfair\u201d coverage of Monday\u2019s solar eclipse, Donald J. Trump said on Saturday that the sun was equally to blame for blocking the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fake news is covering the eclipse from the sun\u2019s side instead of the moon\u2019s side, but if you look at it from the moon\u2019s side the sun is blocking the moon\u2019s side,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are so many sides you can\u2019t count all the sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Trump tore into the sun itself, calling it a \u201cshowboat\u201d for its role in the solar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sun thinks the world revolves around it,\u201d Trump said. \u201cSad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, after this week, even that could be straight news. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0819Cartoon\" 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=\"0819Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0819Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I overslept this morning and have been running behind ever since.&#160; Tonight my Broncos go to worship in San Francisco.&#160; Rumor has it that their opponents are all tight ends and wide receivers. &#160; I shall be meditating on the Holy Ellipsoid Orb, of course. 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