{"id":29589,"date":"2017-09-25T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T20:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29589"},"modified":"2017-09-25T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T20:07:31","slug":"open-thread-9252017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/25\/open-thread-9252017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/25\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have another busy day.&#160; My interface with my banks via Quicken is not working properly.&#160; I have hated that program for years.&#160; Is anyone using a good Quicken alternative for PC?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:03 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0924Broncos16-Bills26\" 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=\"0924Broncos16-Bills26\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0924Broncos16-Bills26.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I didn&#8217;t see it, but I hear it was ugly.<\/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=_6_gLlFK2tA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FunnyorDie\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Funny or Die Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Republican Tax Plan: Who Gets The Money?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_6_gLlFK2tA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The writers sure understand Republican tax policy, but they made one major mistake.&#160; Because they had the idea, we can expect to see overpriced Trump Vodka on the shelves, as soon as Chinese factories can mass produce it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/john-mccain-on-cancer-diagnosis-its-a-very-poor-prognosis-w505192\" target=\"_blank\">US Magazine<\/a>: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/john-mccain-to-return-to-senate-for-health-care-vote-details-w493965\" target=\"_blank\">As previously reported, McCain, 81,<\/a> was diagnosed with cancer during the summer. &quot;Sen. John McCain underwent a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix,&quot; a statement from his family and the Mayo Clinic read on July 14. &quot;Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/senator-john-mccain-diagnosed-with-brain-cancer-daughter-meghans-tribute-w493264\" target=\"_blank\">The Arizona senator underwent surgery in July<\/a> for the brain tumor and has completed his first round of chemotherapy treatment. He told CBS that he asked doctors to &quot;tell it to me straight&quot; when they updated him on his condition.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As you know, doctors are interesting,&quot; he said on 60 Minutes. &quot;Some say 3 percent, some say 14 percent. You know it\u2019s \u2014 it&#8217;s a very poor prognosis. So I just said, &#8216;I understand. Now we&#8217;re going to do what we can, get the best doctors we can find and do the best we can, and at the same time celebrate with gratitude a life well lived.&#8217;&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think the time has come to retire the nickname, McConJob, which I gave McCain, at the time he abandoned most of his ethical principles, as required to win the Republican nomination for President. Thank you, Senator McCain, for refusing to goose-step with the Reich and opposing RepubliCare. Thoughts and prayers to you and yours. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/advertisers-are-dropping-sean-hannity\/218015\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>The Associated Press (AP) just published a report that looked at the first few weeks of Media Matters\u2019 Stop Hannity effort and discussed the effect it\u2019s having on Sean Hannity\u2019s advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Media Matters launched a Stop Hannity advertiser education effort. Hannity isn\u2019t just a partisan talking head with a television show. He\u2019s a full-blown propagandist and has been exposed for actively coordinating with the Trump administration to promote President Donald Trump\u2019s interests, even if that means lying to his own audience. Hannity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/what-seth-rich-conspiracy-theory-why-it-matters-and-why-sean-hannity-must-be-one-pay-price\/217498\" target=\"_blank\">aggressively<\/a> promoted the conspiracy theory about the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/30\/how-sean-hannity-became-champion-seth-rich-conspiracy-theory\/216684\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Rich<\/a> &#8212; which happened to help deflect attention from a negative storyline about Trump &#8212; even after Fox had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/23\/fox-news-retracts-online-seth-rich-report-while-hannity-keeps-pushing-conspiracy\/216613\" target=\"_blank\">retracted<\/a> its own story\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Media Matters said some dozen advertisers have told the organization they will not purchase commercials in Hannity\u2019s show in the future; some have current contracts and are staying put until those commitments are completed.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s a start. Tell Hannity&#8217;s advertisers that, as long as they support him, you won&#8217;t support them.&#160; For the advertiser list, <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.net\/news\/politics\/124909\/hannity-advertisers-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160;&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0925Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0925Cartoon\" 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=\"0925Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0925Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A day of mourning for Republicans.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have another busy day.&#160; My interface with my banks via Quicken is not working properly.&#160; I have hated that program for years.&#160; Is anyone using a good Quicken alternative for PC? Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:03 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Religious Agony: I didn&#8217;t see <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/25\/open-thread-9252017\/' 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-29589","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\/29589","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=29589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}