{"id":29436,"date":"2017-09-12T13:35:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29436"},"modified":"2017-09-12T13:35:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:35:36","slug":"open-thread-9122017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/12\/open-thread-9122017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/12\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I didn&#8217;t get the sleep I had hoped I would.&#160; It was just to hot and sticky.&#160; Today is the last hot one, before several days of more temperate weather.&#160; Please pardon my brevity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:50 (average 4:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-12-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0911Broncos24-Chargers21\" 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=\"0911Broncos24-Chargers21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0911Broncos24-Chargers21.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Phew!&#160; They came so close to screwing the pooch that I damn near had a heart attack!&#160; They blocked a field goal with 1 second on the clock.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here are the results from our league, <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1Scores\" 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=\"1Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1Standings\" 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=\"1Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats to Pam and Seth for being in first and second.&#160; Condolences to our beloved Sasquatch, who has nobody under her big feet.&#160; Don&#8217;t forget to set your lineup by Thursday night.<\/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=_c0wOXVTtXE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>How Did Trump Remember 9\/11?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_c0wOXVTtXE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s obvious enough. His handlers frog-marched him to the microphone to make his canned statement, but without power, profit, or pussy for him to grab, he had no real interest. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/cbs-criticized-for-airing-graphic-horror-program-without-viewer-advisory\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>CBS ignited a firestorm of controversy on Sunday night after it broadcast a shockingly graphic horror program [<em>Bannon<\/em>] without any viewer advisory.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of viewers who unwittingly tuned in to the highly upsetting program recoiled in revulsion and took to social media to rip CBS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s appalling to think that you would even consider broadcasting such a thing at seven o\u2019clock, when children could be watching,\u201d one viewer wrote. \u201cShame on CBS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another irate viewer complained that he was \u201cin total disbelief\u201d that CBS would air such disturbing content with no warning preceding it. \u201cI may never get those nightmarish images out of my head,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! They should have included a <strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong> <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/9\/10\/1697517\/-Trump-s-response-to-Hurricane-Irma-I-m-going-to-ask-for-a-speed-up-on-dramatic-tax-cuts\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>As Hurricane Irma sweeps up the western Florida coast, the Trump &quot;administration&quot; will be wasting no time in demanding &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/trump-congress-tax-reform-speed-up-irma?utm_content=bufferce784&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">&quot;dramatic tax cuts.&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe will discussing our plan for dramatic tax cuts and tax reform. And I think now with what\u2019s happened with the hurricane, I\u2019m going to ask for a speed-up,\u201d Trump said at the opening of a cabinet meeting at Camp David. \u201cI wanted a speed-up anyway but now we need it even more so.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If billionaires were injuring their backs carrying excess money to the bank, Republicans would still propose tax cuts that rip wealth from the poor, the middle class, hurricane victims, and especially YOU to provide even more welfare for the 0.1%. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0912Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0912Cartoon\" 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=\"0912Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0912Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">After 16 years, neither does his successor.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get the sleep I had hoped I would.&#160; It was just to hot and sticky.&#160; Today is the last hot one, before several days of more temperate weather.&#160; Please pardon my brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:50 (average 4:30).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Religious Ecstasy: Phew!&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/12\/open-thread-9122017\/' 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-29436","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\/29436","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=29436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}