{"id":29514,"date":"2017-09-19T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29514"},"modified":"2017-09-19T12:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:41:03","slug":"open-thread-9192017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/open-thread-9192017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/19\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">My dang printer is on the fritz again.\u00a0 I think I know what&#8217;s wrong, that the cable connection jostled loose when Wendy was cleaning.\u00a0 I think I can work around it until tomorrow night.\u00a0 Today I&#8217;m missing my morning nap, because I cannot print my grocery list, which I usually read to Store to Door from bed.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll just publish and go down for my afternoon nap a bit earlier.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a cool rainy day, and I&#8217;m thoroughly enjoying the cool air washed clean of smoke.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time for Trump to take a vacation in Puerto Rico.\u00a0 God help everyone else.<br \/>\n<\/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 2:48 (average 4:43).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-19-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here are the latest results from our fantasy football league, <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Scores:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"2Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2Scores.jpg\" alt=\"2Scores\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If Pam had reamed my poor kitty butt any worse, I&#8217;d think she was a Republican!! <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-sicksmile\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wlEmoticon-sicksmile.png\" alt=\"Sick smile\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile-3.png\" alt=\"Winking smile\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Standings:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"2Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2Standings.jpg\" alt=\"2Standings\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Congrats to Pam and Patty Monster, who lead the league. Condolences to our beloved Sasquatch who STILL has nobody under her BIG feet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Players, please have your lineup set by Thursday night.<\/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=SGAQ1HmVaGo\" 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;\">Trump, Russia, and the Facebook Factor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SGAQ1HmVaGo?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If the Fuhrer does resign, as Keith suggests, pseudo-Pence will pardon him very quickly. If both resign, Lyin&#8217; Ryan will pardon both. <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>GOP gives up on bipartisanship, backs new Obamacare repeal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is pushing a new ACA repeal-replace bill that has gained GOP backing but violates his own &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Test.&#8221; Fmr. Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Andy Slavitt and Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin join Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_crepeal_170918\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If we can stop RepubliCare, with its guaranteed death benefit, one more time, the reconciliation window will be closed for another year. This time, for the worst bill of all, Republicans have set aside ninety seconds total for debate.\u00a0 Call your Senators!\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/mueller-rents-giant-warehouse-to-store-evidence-against-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>Robert Mueller is renting a massive warehouse facility in suburban Virginia to accommodate the approximately forty cubic tons of evidence against Donald Trump that the independent counsel\u2019s investigation is generating on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>Employing over two thousand workers in a warehouse the size of seven football fields, the Mueller investigation has become the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Working twelve-hour shifts, the members of Mueller\u2019s evidence-storage team rarely leave the warehouse, where the punishing task of filing mountains of evidence against Trump proceeds around the clock.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sorry, Andy. I just can&#8217;t buy that one. The space and staff size you suggest are just tiny fractions of the actual resources needed to store the evidence against Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0919Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0919Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"0919Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dang printer is on the fritz again.\u00a0 I think I know what&#8217;s wrong, that the cable connection jostled loose when Wendy was cleaning.\u00a0 I think I can work around it until tomorrow night.\u00a0 Today I&#8217;m missing my morning nap, because I cannot print my grocery list, which I usually read to Store to Door <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/open-thread-9192017\/' 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-29514","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\/29514","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=29514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}