{"id":29351,"date":"2017-09-07T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29351"},"modified":"2017-09-08T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:20:50","slug":"open-thread-972017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/07\/open-thread-972017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/7\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">When it rains, it pours. I&#8217;m about to leave for an emergency extraction, because I broke a tooth earlier this morning.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to finish my writing when I return.\u00a0 <strong>ARGHOW<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m back from the dentist, have three teeth left, am $315 lighter, and am mumbling and sucking gauze.\u00a0 I really needed this!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">On Care2 the Glitch Monster seems to be in charge of news.\u00a0 Trying to open an individual C2NN article in Firefox, most of the page whites out.\u00a0 After about a minute, I get a message saying a website is slowing down my browser, and asking me to wait or stop it.\u00a0 After choosing stop it, I can interact with the page without difficulty.\u00a0 Chrome does not work at all, and neither does Edge, so Firefox is the only way to get in. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/ark-wysiwyg-comment-editor\/plugins\/arkemoticonssk\/img\/01.gif\" alt=\"01\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:56 (average 4:54).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-07-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1P-xJmU5vZo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why We Must Talk About Trump\u2019s Mental Health | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1P-xJmU5vZo?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The irony here is that any poll from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, is based on a sample that is skewed right, so most of the respondents were Republicans or right-leaning Independents. Of course he&#8217;s crazy! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wtmq2EVsJys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FunnyorDie\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Funny or Die Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Trump Prays About DACA On National Prayer Day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wtmq2EVsJys?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I bet they had to clean his real prayer up to arrive at the more politically correct version shown above. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All in<\/a>: <\/span><strong>If there were a category 6 hurricane, Irma would be it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meteorologist Paul Douglas joins Chris Hayes to help explain why Hurricane Irma is so enormous &#8211; and what we can expect.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_dirmadouglas_170906\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As this happens, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcreport.org\/2017\/09\/06\/with-irma-bearing-down-homeowners-face-loss-of-federal-flood-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump and the Republican Party are cancelling Floridians&#8217; federal flood insurance<\/a>. I pray for them. The only positive thing about this is that, if it destroys Mar a Lago, my atheist friends will convert instantly. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" alt=\"Winking smile\" \/> <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0907Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0907Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0907Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"0907Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it rains, it pours. I&#8217;m about to leave for an emergency extraction, because I broke a tooth earlier this morning.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to finish my writing when I return.\u00a0 ARGHOW!! I&#8217;m back from the dentist, have three teeth left, am $315 lighter, and am mumbling and sucking gauze.\u00a0 I really needed this! On Care2 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/07\/open-thread-972017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29351","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\/29351","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=29351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}