{"id":29559,"date":"2017-09-23T11:54:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29559"},"modified":"2017-09-23T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:54:51","slug":"open-thread-9232017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/23\/open-thread-9232017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/23\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m rushing to get two articles written, before I have to leave for my appointment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:42 (average 4:38).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-23-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=6LH3XeDlUwQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">RWW News: Jim Bakker Urges Rich People To Buy A Million Dollars Worth Of Survival Food Buckets<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6LH3XeDlUwQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If those $millions are about to become worthless, than why is Jim Bakker scamming so hard to get that money? It&#8217;s because the most spiritual activity that Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians perform, with the exception of lynching, is fleecing the sheeple. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/people-who-feared-obama-would-take-their-guns-happy-to-have-trump-take-their-health-care\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Americans who feared that Barack Obama would come for their guns are happy that Donald Trump is coming for their health care, a new report finds.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews conducted across the country, people expressed satisfaction that, by taking away their ability to see a doctor rather than their ability to shoot people, the federal government \u201cfinally has its priorities straight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t get a night\u2019s sleep, worrying about Obama taking away my guns,\u201d Carol Foyler, a gun owner from Kentucky, said. \u201cNow that we have a President who\u2019s just taking away my family\u2019s health care, I can breathe easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harland Dorrinson, a gun fancier from Wyoming, concurred. \u201cIn Europe, everyone has health care and no one has guns,\u201d he said. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t pay me to live there.\u201d Noting that thousands of people die in hospitals every year, he added, \u201cHealth care has killed more people than guns have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wow, Andy. You have captured the mentality of deplorable Republican sheeple. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/22\/opinion\/tom-price-private-jets.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, is a longtime proponent of slashing entitlements. He might consider starting with his own.<\/p>\n<p>Since May, American taxpayers have spent upward of $300,000 to treat his apparent allergy to commercial air travel. Mr. Price has taken more than 24 flights on private jets to cities including Nashville and San Diego, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/09\/21\/tom-price-private-charter-plane-flights-242989\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>. When we last checked, those towns still had major international airports.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance, Mr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/09\/19\/tom-price-chartered-planes-flights-242908\" target=\"_blank\">Price chartered a jet<\/a> to travel about 150 miles from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia. It cost $25,000. An Amtrak ticket could have been had for less than $100. Or he could have used the two-and-a-half-hour drive to listen to an audiobook \u2014 perhaps a thoughtful examination of wealth and political power, like \u201cDark Money\u201d by Jane Mayer or \u201cRepublic, Lost\u201d by Lawrence Lessig.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Price is hardly the only Trump cabinet member to have racked up a big tab while the administration has supposedly been draining the swamp. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/14\/opinion\/mnuchin-funds-honeymoon.html?mcubz=3\" target=\"_blank\">Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin<\/a> (estimated personal net worth: $300 million or more) requested a government plane to ferry him and his new wife, Louise Linton, on their European honeymoon this summer. The jet would have cost taxpayers $25,000. An hour.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans promised to drain the swamp. But when alligators slither to the edge to promise swamp draining, only fools believe them. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0923Cartoon\" 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=\"0923Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0923Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rushing to get two articles written, before I have to leave for my appointment. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:42 (average 4:38).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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