{"id":29658,"date":"2017-09-29T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29658"},"modified":"2017-09-29T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:23:51","slug":"open-thread-9292017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/open-thread-9292017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/29\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Please pardon my brevity.&#160; One of the other tenants overloaded the power and kept knocking my AC out.&#160; Eventually the clerk found which one and helped him spread the load, but I missed sleep during and more sleep after, because I was so tense.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:47 (average 4:44).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-29-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=Je_S2NPBcQ4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>):&#160; <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Trump&#8217;s Nine Russia Scandals<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Je_S2NPBcQ4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Imagine, if you will, the wailing and gnashing of teeth we would see from Republican hypocrites had they had 1\/10 this much filth on Obama. And there&#8217;s still much more that we do not yet know. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4oUstpbfIlk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">RWW News: Jack Posobiec Recruits 4chan To Help Him Harass A Veteran<\/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-nocookie.com\/embed\/4oUstpbfIlk?rel=0&amp;controls=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And these Republican Nazis claim to be patriots. What a crock! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/betsy-devos-says-she-did-math-on-trumps-tax-plan-and-it-will-save-nation-eleventy-krillion\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a ringing endorsement from the Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos said on Thursday that she did the math on Donald Trump\u2019s tax plan and that she estimates it will save the United States roughly eleventy krillion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took out a pencil and paper and figured it out the old-fashioned way,\u201d DeVos told reporters. \u201cI wound up going through a lot of paper, because eleventy krillion has ten hundredteen zeroes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeVos stressed that the eleventy-krillion figure was actually a conservative estimate. \u201cThe exact number was between eleventy and ninety-quelve, but I rounded down to eleventy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy!! She sure is using her PhD in Bullshitology! <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\/0929Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0929Cartoon\" 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=\"0929Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0929Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope that <em>dawg<\/em> gives Roy Moore a triple dose!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please pardon my brevity.&#160; One of the other tenants overloaded the power and kept knocking my AC out.&#160; Eventually the clerk found which one and helped him spread the load, but I missed sleep during and more sleep after, because I was so tense. 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