{"id":29787,"date":"2017-10-07T12:49:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29787"},"modified":"2017-10-07T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T19:49:36","slug":"open-thread-1072017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/07\/open-thread-1072017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/7\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day.&#160; It&#8217;s cool, but very humid.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and my Broncos are bye.&#160; So may the blessed Orb shine its holy light on your team.&#160; Tomorrow is also a Wendy day, so I&#8217;ll be rushing and brief.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:46 (average 6:05).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-07-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=r9j7T8TTdDw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos?disable_polymer=1\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Roots of Trump\u2019s Prejudice<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/r9j7T8TTdDw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Like Keith, I heard it about both Blacks and Puerto Ricans in NYC in the 1960s, but by then I had already rejected my father&#8217;s racism and was a civil rights activist. Since Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten is only two years older than me, he has no excuse. Republicans are racist by choice. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/devos-defends-trump-would-a-moron-hire-me?mbid=nl_Borowitz%2010062017%20Experimental&amp;CNDID=24434635&amp;spMailingID=12088644&amp;spUserID=MTMzMTgyNDM5NjgyS0&amp;spJobID=1260512976&amp;spReportId=MTI2MDUxMjk3NgS2\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos offered a spirited defense of her boss\u2019s intelligence on Friday, bluntly asking reporters, \u201cWould a moron hire me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy intelligence can be very intimidating,\u201d DeVos said. \u201cAnd if Donald Trump was a moron, he would not want to be around people who are intelligenter than him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As evidence that Trump does not feel inferior around highly intelligent people, DeVos singled out other members of Trump\u2019s Cabinet. &quot;Leave me out of it for a second,\u201d she said. \u201cIf Donald Trump was such a blithering idiot, why would he have hired Rick Perry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Would a moron hire her? In a word, Andy, YES!&#160; One did!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6hPQ-39wr1g\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">How America Overlooked The Russia Election Hack In One Crazy Day<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6hPQ-39wr1g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This was a date that shall live in infamy! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1007Cartoon\" 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=\"1007Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1007Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day.&#160; It&#8217;s cool, but very humid.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and my Broncos are bye.&#160; So may the blessed Orb shine its holy light on your team.&#160; Tomorrow is also a Wendy day, so I&#8217;ll be rushing and brief. 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