{"id":29829,"date":"2017-10-11T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29829"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T19:58:10","slug":"open-thread-10112017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/open-thread-10112017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/11\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have a busy day today.&#160; I&#8217;m writing earlier than normal, because I&#8217;m waiting for a grocery delivery from Store to Door.&#160; When it arrives, I&#8217;ll put the groceries away, have lunch and finish writing.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening to destink the putrid TomCat.&#160; Even though today&#8217;s high is forecast at 57\u00b0, 100% humidity makes me sticky.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:40 (average 4:23).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-11-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Offer<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We need a player to take over Pam&#8217;s league leading team in out fantasy football league.&#160; If you&#8217;d like to do it, please email me (see contact me under Links in left column) with the email address you use (or want to use) for nfl.com fantasy.<\/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=n8uGav3kz1s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">What Mike Pence\u2019s Cynical Anthem Stunt Cost<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/n8uGav3kz1s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Keith has a point. When it comes to wasting YOUR money on their own luxuries, nobody excels like the $1,232,943,000.00, and still counting, Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O_q87Tp6yC8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">RWW News: Rick Wiles Says &#8216;You Don&#8217;t Have The Right To Worship Lucifer In This Country&#8217;<\/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\/O_q87Tp6yC8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As a Christian, I have no wish to worship Lucifer, his teased hair, his orange face, his tiny hands, his pee-soaked body, or his Putin-ravished butt. However, if I was sick enough to want to do that, it is my right, no matter what that Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian liar says. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/10\/8\/1705144\/-Trump-Brags-About-His-Poor-Stupid-Supporters-Paying-His-Legal-Bills\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>There are primarily two types of poor people in this country: <\/p>\n<p>1. Those who are struggling because they have an entire power structure rigged against them<\/p>\n<p>2. Those who have no money because they are, frankly, morons<\/p>\n<p>We fight for those in the first category. The second category might as well be referred to as Trump supporters, and I simply don\u2019t have any empathy for proudly ignorant, dirt poor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MIggDyEWrJE\" target=\"_blank\">uneducated<\/a> racists who are currently getting swindled right now by a supposed \u201cbillionaire.\u201d&#160; <\/p>\n<p>President Cheeto just tweeted that <em>\u201cThe RNC is taking in far more $\u2019s than the Dems, and much of it by my wonderful small donors.\u201d<\/em>&#160; He was referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-supporters-eager-to-drain-the-swamp-help-fill-gop-coffers\/2017\/10\/05\/ec214f22-a53d-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?utm_term=.f8c50315e2fa\" target=\"_blank\">this article in theWashington Post<\/a> [<em>sic<\/em>]\u2014which I suppose he forgot that he called FAKE NEWS just a few days ago. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump is using money donated to his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee <strong>to pay for his lawyers<\/strong> in the probe of alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you believe Trump, he is uber-wealthy and doesn\u2019t need anybody\u2019s help to pay his bills. So either he is lying, or gets some kind of kick out of poor dupes donating to help pay his legal fees. Either way, he mocks them and proves our point that they do indeed deserve our scorn. At least when we mock them, we don\u2019t swindle them.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">At different times the Fuhrer has denied doing this and bragged about doing it. Republicans, Trump is an expert at sheeple-fleecing, so bend over and say BAA-A-A-A-A-A! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1011Cartoon\" 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=\"1011Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1011Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a busy day today.&#160; I&#8217;m writing earlier than normal, because I&#8217;m waiting for a grocery delivery from Store to Door.&#160; When it arrives, I&#8217;ll put the groceries away, have lunch and finish writing.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening to destink the putrid TomCat.&#160; Even though today&#8217;s high is forecast at 57\u00b0, 100% humidity <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/open-thread-10112017\/' 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-29829","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\/29829","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=29829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}