{"id":29448,"date":"2017-09-13T11:50:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29448"},"modified":"2017-09-13T11:50:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:50:17","slug":"open-thread-9132017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/13\/open-thread-9132017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/13\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I slept poorly again last night, because of the heat and extreme humidity.&#160; In fact, I overslept this morning, so I missed my nap.&#160; Today, I was able to turn off the AC for the first time in weeks.&#160; I may be able to leave it off, as long as the sun does not hit the wall.&#160; I expect Store to Door to deliver groceries within an hour, so there&#8217;s no point in trying to nap until this afternoon.&#160; It may be October, before I&#8217;m caught up on my sleep deficit.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:56 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-13-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=xH_ihozcg7o\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Mueller is Zeroing in on Trump\u2019s Cover Up<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xH_ihozcg7o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How wonderful! Trump&#8217;s blood is in the water, and Mueller is a shark. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U5A9X3BG9Ok\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Hotter Seas &amp; Bigger Storms<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U5A9X3BG9Ok?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican position is that this is not an appropriate change to discuss climate change. What more appropriate time could there be? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/porn-industry-irrevocably-damaged-by-association-with-ted-cruz\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The pornography industry has likely suffered permanent damage as a result of its unfortunate association with the Texas senator Ted Cruz, industry sources said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Porn, which takes in annual profits of fifteen billion dollars, could see those revenues decimated if, as some industry experts fear, users begin to have intrusive thoughts involving Senator Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor porn producers, this is a crisis with no simple solution,\u201d Harland Dorrinson, an industry insider, said. \u201cIf you warn viewers not to think about Ted Cruz, there\u2019s a real danger that that\u2019s all they\u2019ll think about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the hours since porn first became associated with the Texas senator, traffic to porn sites has plummeted in what industry sources are ruefully calling \u201cthe Cruz effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! I&#8217;m no connoisseur of porn, but seeing Cruz cavorting with his TRUS would cause my kitty dingles to retreat and not come out again for months!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0913Cartoon\" 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=\"0913Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0913Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slept poorly again last night, because of the heat and extreme humidity.&#160; In fact, I overslept this morning, so I missed my nap.&#160; Today, I was able to turn off the AC for the first time in weeks.&#160; I may be able to leave it off, as long as the sun does not hit <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/13\/open-thread-9132017\/' 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-29448","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\/29448","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=29448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}