{"id":29770,"date":"2017-10-06T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29770"},"modified":"2017-10-06T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:23:50","slug":"open-thread-1062017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/06\/open-thread-1062017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/6\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m feeling much better today, but I hope the Immodium does not convert the Republicosis to Republicitis.&#160; I never made it to NFL yesterday, so I never learned that one of my best fantasy players, Gronkowski, was IA last night, so that may cause me to be foot-flattened.&#160; Wendy says thank you for your condolences.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:54 (average 5:00).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-06-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=lfhL-XEeL-8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos?disable_polymer=1\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Senator Elizabeth Warren calls for a clean Dream Act<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lfhL-XEeL-8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Like Liz, we stand with our Dreamers. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6lKnobwrXQ8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos?disable_polymer=1\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>GOP Candidate Michael Snyder Says Vegas Shooting Was Probably An Antifa Attack On Trump Supporters<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6lKnobwrXQ8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What a load of Nazi BS! Older, white, Ammosexual, multi-millionaire\u2026 Is that the profile of an anti-fascist protestor? We don&#8217;t know the killer&#8217;s political views yet, but if I had to guess, I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s the profile of a Republican. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/puerto-rico-issues-travel-ban-on-malignant-narcissists\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/rex-tillerson-says-he-remains-fully-committed-to-morons-agenda\" target=\"_blank\">Twice<\/a>: <\/font>Calling the move an \u201curgent response to recent unfortunate events,\u201d Puerto Rico has issued a sweeping travel ban on malignant narcissists, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on Wednesday, Customs and Border Protection officials at Puerto Rico\u2019s ports of entry will be equipped with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM\u2013V) issued by the American Psychiatric Association, and will be instructed to look for symptoms of malignant narcissism in those attempting to enter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf port officials encounter a visitor who has a pompous and arrogant demeanor, needs the constant admiration of others, and is unwilling to empathize with others\u2019 feelings, wishes, or needs, that visitor will be denied entry,\u201d a Puerto Rican government statement read.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">and<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Attempting to pour cold water on reports of a rift between him and Donald Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters on Wednesday that he remains \u201cfully committed to this moron\u2019s agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will always be people in Washington eager to stir controversy when there is none,\u201d Tillerson said, at a hastily called press conference at the State Department. \u201cI am standing here today to tell you that I am on the same page as this idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elaborating on that point, the former oil-company C.E.O. stressed that he and Trump were in agreement on a broad range of issues. \u201cFrom North Korea to Iran to China, there is no daylight between me and this imbecile,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the first, Andy must be reporting straight news.&#160; In the second, if Andy is accurate, both morons and imbeciles will be suing Tillerson for defamation of character.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1006Cartoon\" 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=\"1006Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1006Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling much better today, but I hope the Immodium does not convert the Republicosis to Republicitis.&#160; I never made it to NFL yesterday, so I never learned that one of my best fantasy players, Gronkowski, was IA last night, so that may cause me to be foot-flattened.&#160; Wendy says thank you for your condolences. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/06\/open-thread-1062017\/' 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-29770","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\/29770","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=29770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}