{"id":29483,"date":"2017-09-16T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T20:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29483"},"modified":"2017-09-16T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T20:28:40","slug":"open-thread-9162017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/16\/open-thread-9162017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/16\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a super muggy day here in Portland, and we have four cool days starting tomorrow.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day and I shall be meditating upon the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are hosting the Cowboys in the afternoon game, but it will not be televised here. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-cryingface\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Crying face\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wlEmoticon-cryingface.png\" \/>&#160; I play Pam in our fantasy football league, which she leads, and she&#8217;s going to be damn tough to beat.&#160; May the Ellipsoid Orb shine it&#8217;s holy light on your team, unless they are known for cow pucky! <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\/09\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile-1.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:08 (average 4:38).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-16-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=Hsrvoehgvew\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Sen. Jeff Merkley Backs Medicare for All<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hsrvoehgvew?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Jeff! Oregon leads the way! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/in-stunning-new-deal-with-democrats-trump-agrees-to-be-impeached\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In his most stunning deal yet with Democratic leaders, Donald Trump agreed on Friday to be impeached by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Emerging from an Oval Office meeting with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a beaming Trump touted the deal for his imminent removal from office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChuck and Nancy and I got a deal done on impeachment,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt was a good deal and it was a fast deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that the Democrats had convinced him that agreeing to be impeached would make him soar in popularity. \u201cPeople are going to love me for doing this,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey\u2019re going to love it on all the channels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL Andy! He&#8217;s dumb enough, but Lyin&#8217; Ryan would balk, unless he could impeach Pence too. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Pence, up to his neck in Russia scandal, losing press secretary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Maddow looks at the growing list of White House departures, adding Mike Pence&#8217;s press secretary to the list, and noting the striking number of lies Pence has told about aspects of the Trump Russia scandal. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_apence_170915\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Pence is clearly guilty of Obstruction of Justice and much more. If we can just win the House next year, we can remove the Reich from power. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0916Cartoon\" 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=\"0916Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0916Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a super muggy day here in Portland, and we have four cool days starting tomorrow.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day and I shall be meditating upon the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are hosting the Cowboys in the afternoon game, but it will not be televised here. &#160; I play Pam in our fantasy football <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/16\/open-thread-9162017\/' 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-29483","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\/29483","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=29483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}