{"id":29524,"date":"2017-09-20T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29524"},"modified":"2017-09-20T12:34:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:34:59","slug":"open-thread-9202017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/open-thread-9202017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 9\/20\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my groceries.  They should be here shortly.  Wendy will be here this evening, and shower time cannot come soon enough.  My printer is working again.  It turns out that all it needed was a reboot.  Tomorrow I have an appointment with Amanda, my Prosthetist, to pick up my replacement new shoes make the final determinations on maintaining George and his supplies.  Therefore please expect no more that a Personal Update.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:26 (average 4:59).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In what some security experts fear could be a high-stakes war of Elton John lyrics, minutes after Donald Trump called Kim Jong Un \u201cRocket Man,\u201d the North Korean dictator responded by calling Trump \u201cHonky Cat.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he issued the Elton John-based attack, Kim warned that he had an extensive collection of the singer-songwriter\u2019s albums and was prepared to weaponize every lyric in them.<\/p>\n

Dang Andy! Nuke the SOB! Testing nuclear weapons is bad enough, but comparing Putin’s Pervert to a CAT is an intolerable act of war! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n

Sweet merciful everything. GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who represents a traditionally Republican seat in Southern California that swung sharply against Donald Trump last year, has always been a nutcase, but now he’s taken his loony toons act to grand new heights<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Rohrabacher isn’t buying that conspiracy theory, but he’s deep into another\u2014that Democrats were behind last month’s white nationalist riots in Charlottesville, Va. Oh, and calling them white nationalist riots is a liberal media deceit, he said.<\/p>\n

"It’s all baloney," Rohrabacher said.<\/p>\n

Under Rohrabacher’s scenario, a former "Hillary and Bernie supporter" got Civil War re-enactors to gather under the guise of protecting a Robert E. Lee statue there.<\/p>\n

"It was a setup for these dumb Civil War re-enactors," Rohrabacher said. "It was left-wingers who were manipulating them in order to have this confrontation" and to "put our president on the spot."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No wonder Unterreichsfuhrer Rohrabacher is Putin’s favorite. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Senate Republicans, abandoning a key fiscal doctrine, agreed on Tuesday to move forward on a budget that would add to the federal deficit in order to pave the way for a $1.5 trillion tax cut over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n

The Republican lawmakers, under mounting pressure to score a legislative win on taxes, say a tax cut of this magnitude will stimulate economic growth enough to offset any deficit impact.<\/p>\n

How many times have we heard that lie before? They aren’t telling us that the taxes paid by billionaires will plummet, but a Republican tax cut will mean YOU and I pay more in taxes. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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