{"id":29880,"date":"2017-10-15T12:48:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T19:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29880"},"modified":"2017-10-15T12:48:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T19:48:46","slug":"open-thread-10152017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/15\/open-thread-10152017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/15\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy is due in about 25 minutes to de-stink the TomCat and help with housework, so I&#8217;ll write until she arrives and finish after she leaves.&#160; Today id a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are worshiping with the Giants in the night game, so I&#8217;ll eat supper early and be in full meditation mode afterwards.&#160; May the holy Orb shine its blessed light on your team, unless they claim to be oversized.&#160; Tomorrow I have an appointment to pick up and adjust my glasses.&#160; It won&#8217;t take long, but by the time we factor in the lift bus, I&#8217;ll be gone for around four hours.&#160; I&#8217;ll publish, if I can, but I may have only a Personal Update.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy just left.&#160; She thanks you all for your kindness, and JD for the earrings that she will wear watching football this afternoon.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:09 (average 4:24).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-15-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=PfVobgfXE34\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump Trucker Rally Cold Open<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PfVobgfXE34?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Alec led his Pence around by the nose just like the Fuhrer does his Pence. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/10\/12\/1705902\/-Former-Wharton-Professor-Donald-Trump-Is-the-Dumbest-Goddam-Student-I-Ever-Had\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Late Professor William T. Kelley taught Marketing at Wharton School of Business and Finance, University of Pennsylvania, for 31 years, ending with his retirement in 1982.&#160; Dr. Kelley, who also had vast experience as a business consultant, was the author of a then-widely used textbook called Marketing Intelligence &#8212; The Management of Marketing Information (originally published by P. Staples, London, 1968).&#160; Dr. Kelley taught marketing management to both undergraduate and graduate students at Wharton. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/emeritus\/memoriam\/Kelley.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.upenn.edu\/<\/a>\u2026&#160; Dr. Bill was one of my closest friends for 47 years when we lost him at 94 about six years ago.&#160; Bill would have been 100 this year.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump was an undergraduate student at Wharton for the latter two of his college years, having been graduated in 1968. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2015\/08\/donald-trump-wharton-classmates\" target=\"_blank\">www.thedp.com\/<\/a>\u2026&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that \u201cDonald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.\u201d&#160; I remember his emphasis and inflection \u2014 it went like this \u2014 \u201cDonald Trump was the <strong>dumbest goddam<\/strong> student I <strong>ever<\/strong> had.\u201d&#160; Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure.&#160; Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump\u2019s arrogance when he told of this \u2014 that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Isn&#8217;t it a shame that the state of Ivy League education was such that Kelly and his fellow profs passed Trump anyway, instead of flunking the dumb SOB? And why didn&#8217;t the Electoral College flunk him out?!!? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/14\/world\/australia\/australia-adani-carmichael-coal-mine.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>In a desolate corner of northeastern Australia, about 100 miles from the nearest town, a grassy stretch of prime grazing land sits above a vein of coal so rich and deep that it could be mined for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government is considering a proposal to build one of the world\u2019s largest coal mines in this remote locale, known as the Galilee Basin, where acacia and eucalyptus trees grow wild between scattered creeks.<\/p>\n<p>An Indian conglomerate, the Adani Group, has asked for a taxpayer-financed loan of as much as $800 million to make the enormous project viable, promising to create thousands of jobs in return.<\/p>\n<p>But the plan has met intense opposition in Australia and abroad, focusing attention on a question with global resonance: Given the threat of climate change and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bp.com\/content\/dam\/bp\/en\/corporate\/pdf\/energy-economics\/statistical-review-2017\/bp-statistical-review-of-world-energy-2017-full-report.pdf\">the slowing global demand<\/a> for coal, does the world really need another giant mine, especially at the public\u2019s expense?<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope that the Land of Oz will prefer green energy. Aussies, would it be feasible to invest that $800 million in a giant solar farm or wind farm? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1015Cartoon\" 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=\"1015Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1015Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">2017 Russian Missiles Discovered in Washington DC.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy is due in about 25 minutes to de-stink the TomCat and help with housework, so I&#8217;ll write until she arrives and finish after she leaves.&#160; Today id a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are worshiping with the Giants in the night game, so I&#8217;ll eat supper early and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/15\/open-thread-10152017\/' 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-29880","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\/29880","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=29880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}