{"id":29706,"date":"2017-10-01T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T17:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29706"},"modified":"2017-10-01T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T17:11:54","slug":"open-thread-1012017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/open-thread-1012017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/1\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Welcome to October.&#160; Wendy may be here before I finish writing.&#160; It&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos will be televised.&#160; May the blessed Orb shine its holy light on your team, unless they wear an eye-patch in California.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update, as I have an appointment with Christine for my cataract surgery four week follow up.&#160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:28 (average 5:23).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-01-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=7e4vFMJmBIc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Chaos President Cold Open<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7e4vFMJmBIc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! They act almost as Republican as the Republicans. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/9\/29\/1702659\/-Judge-rules-Black-Lives-Matter-cannot-be-sued-by-police-officer-and-Fox-News-is-not-happy-about-it\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The widespread anger and outrage this week incited by Donald Trump\u2019s comments on the NFL protests has once again shown how hypocritical and racist so many Americans are. Americans, Republicans in particular, are all for free speech but when black people exercise it, it sends some of them into a violent frenzy. It doesn\u2019t matter who is doing the protesting, whether it\u2019s black athletes or ordinary black citizens\u2014they find any excuse to paint black protest as a danger to safety and democracy. <\/p>\n<p>This is especially true if violence occurs at a protest. Recently, a police officer in Baton Rouge tried to sue Black Lives Matter for injuries he sustained during a protest against police brutality in July 2016. Along with suing DeRay Mckesson, an activist who attended the rally, the officer claimed that Black Lives Matter and Mckesson were responsible for inciting the violence that caused him harm. On Thursday, a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/09\/29\/black-lives-matter-cannot-be-sued-by-louisiana-police-officer-federal-judge-rules\/?utm_term=.220930857834\" target=\"_blank\">ruled<\/a> that the officer cannot sue Black Lives Matter and threw the case out. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If a crime was committed against the officer, and he was not injured in the process if committing police brutality, then he needs to sue the individual, who injured him. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/30\/us\/politics\/nancy-pelosi-new-washington.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Representative Nancy Pelosi might have retired from Congress had Hillary Clinton been elected, content that she was leaving the government in capable female hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the reasons I stayed here is because I thought Hillary Clinton would win, we\u2019d have a woman president and so there would be a woman not at a seat at the table, but at the head of the table for the world,\u201d said Ms. Pelosi, the liberal Californian and longtime leader of House Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to have a woman president,\u201d she said in an interview for the New York Times podcast \u201cThe New Washington.\u201d \u201cBut when we didn\u2019t, then I couldn\u2019t walk away and say, O.K., just let all the men have the seats at the table that are making decisions for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Nancy Pelosi was Speaker, I called for her resignation on several occasions, because she is more centrist than progressive and more corporatist than democratic socialist. However, she is an effective Minority Leader. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1001Cartoon\" 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=\"1001Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1001Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And look how much worse Lyin&#8217; Ryan is than Agent Orange was!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to October.&#160; Wendy may be here before I finish writing.&#160; It&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos will be televised.&#160; May the blessed Orb shine its holy light on your team, unless they wear an eye-patch in California.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update, as <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/open-thread-1012017\/' 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-29706","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\/29706","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=29706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}