{"id":29837,"date":"2017-10-12T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29837"},"modified":"2017-10-12T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:32:00","slug":"open-thread-10122017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/open-thread-10122017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/12\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I was happy to have my shower yesterday, but sad to see that Wendy is having a hard time.\u00a0 As the responsible one in the family, she&#8217;s stuck with all the work that follows her sister&#8217;s passing and all the sorrow that attends that work.\u00a0 She told me she appreciates your hugs, prayers, and greetings.\u00a0 Please continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:19 (average 5:51).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-12-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Fantasy Football Update<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I am unable to find a replacement for Pam in our fantasy football league, so on Monday Night, I&#8217;m going to go in as Manager and drop all her players.\u00a0 They will be available to claim on waivers on Tuesday.\u00a0 After this weekend, all teams playing her empty team will win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T0Qo1oXrQ74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FunnyorDie\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Funny or Die Channel<\/a>): <\/span>What Your Political Bubble Looks Like From The Other Side<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/T0Qo1oXrQ74?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s cute, but the red is nowhere near as hateful as it is in reality. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-knocked-out-in-first-round-of-white-house-iq-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>In an I.Q.-test tournament devised by Donald Trump to determine the smartest person in his Administration, Trump suffered a humiliating defeat on Tuesday, getting knocked out in the first round by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had personally created the brackets for the tournament, which he had hoped would lead to an I.Q.-championship showdown between him and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was determined to face Betsy in the first round,\u201d a White House source said of Trump. \u201cHe thought it would be like a bye week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump was stung by DeVos\u2019s upset win, however, and lashed out at the I.Q. test itself, calling it both \u201cfake\u201d and \u201crigged,\u201d according to the source.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dang, Andy! That sounds like straight reporting to me! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/11\/us\/politics\/kirstjen-nielsen-homeland-security-secretary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>President Trump said on Wednesday that he intended to name Kirstjen Nielsen, a top White House aide, to lead the Department of Homeland Security, elevating a former homeland security official in the George W. Bush administration who has lately worked to impose order in Mr. Trump\u2019s chaotic West Wing.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump announced his choice in a statement that noted Ms. Nielsen\u2019s \u201cextensive professional experience in the areas of homeland security policy and strategy, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure and emergency management.\u201d She is the first nominee for the homeland security post who had served in the department, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, Ms. Nielsen would replace John F. Kelly, who was homeland security secretary until he left in July to serve as the White House chief of staff and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/28\/us\/politics\/john-kelly-chief-of-staff-donald-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bring discipline and direction<\/a> to a West Wing plagued by disorganization and infighting. Mr. Kelly had drafted Ms. Nielsen to be his chief of staff at the Homeland Security department, and when the president plucked him for the White House, he brought her as his No. 2.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I understand that several long term Homeland Security employees are talking about quitting if Nielson is confirmed. In her previous posting to Homeland Security, during the Bush Reich, she helped Crawford Caligula botch his Katrina response. In spite of that high level of incompetence, she may be the piddle pervert&#8217;s most qualified appointee yet.\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1012Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"1012Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1012Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"1012Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was happy to have my shower yesterday, but sad to see that Wendy is having a hard time.\u00a0 As the responsible one in the family, she&#8217;s stuck with all the work that follows her sister&#8217;s passing and all the sorrow that attends that work.\u00a0 She told me she appreciates your hugs, prayers, and greetings.\u00a0 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/open-thread-10122017\/' 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-29837","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\/29837","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=29837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}