{"id":29459,"date":"2017-09-14T10:24:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T17:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29459"},"modified":"2017-09-14T10:35:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T17:35:19","slug":"open-thread-9142017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/14\/open-thread-9142017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/14\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m enjoying another morning without the AC on, but I know that I will have to close the window and turn it back on as soon as the sun hits the wall.\u00a0 I slept pretty well last night, but feel as though I had been up all night.\u00a0 I still have a lot of catching up to do.\u00a0 Fantasy football players, have your lineup set before this evening.\u00a0 Staff, I have used up my free <em>New Yorker<\/em> articles for September, so it you want to post Andy, go for it.<\/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 3:11 (average 4:40).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-14-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=Wpz-8l4Dijc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/span>The Media Doesn\u2019t Understand What Trump is Doing<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wpz-8l4Dijc?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Perhaps we should raid ESPN to get commentators for political news. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kzqMssU0qco\" 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>Porn Stars Hate Ted Cruz<\/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\/kzqMssU0qco?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Probably TMI, but very true. They also hate the Fuhrer, except as a foul target. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Word<\/a>: <\/span><strong>Did Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi roll Trump on DACA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After their second big meeting with Pres. Trump, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi say he agreed to enshrine DACA protections into law without a border wall\u2014but the White House scrambled to refute that on Twitter. Ron Klain &amp; Jonathan Capehart join Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_dechucknancy_170913\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Schumer and Pelosi are telling the truth. As soon as Trump&#8217;s handlers realized he had caved-in to superior intellect, they sent Sarah Upchuckabee Sanders to exercise her PhD in Bullshitology. El Fuhrer no tiene cojones!! <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\/0914Cartoon.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=\"0914Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0914Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"0914Cartoon\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m enjoying another morning without the AC on, but I know that I will have to close the window and turn it back on as soon as the sun hits the wall.\u00a0 I slept pretty well last night, but feel as though I had been up all night.\u00a0 I still have a lot of catching <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/14\/open-thread-9142017\/' 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-29459","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\/29459","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=29459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}