{"id":29906,"date":"2017-10-18T12:53:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29906"},"modified":"2017-10-18T12:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:53:36","slug":"open-thread-10182017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/18\/open-thread-10182017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/18\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day for me.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries, and will finish writing, after I put them away and have lunch.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening to de-stink the sweaty TomCat.&#160; Perhaps I should have warned her to bring a gas mask.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:04 (average 5:05).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-18-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ounKrA5oOuQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump is F*cking Crazy<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ounKrA5oOuQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have a small bone to pick with Keith\u2026 a VERY small bone. Keith needs to find another expletive to pair with &#8216;crazy&#8217;. &#8216;F*cking&#8217; requires far more meat than Putin&#8217;s Piddle Pervert has. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/obama-begins-calling-american-people-to-console-them-about-trump-being-president\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Former President Barack Obama has started calling every person in America to offer consolation about Donald Trump being President, Obama has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something I meant to do right after the Inauguration,\u201d Obama said, during a brief break from the phone calls. \u201cI feel terrible that I didn\u2019t get to it sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former President said that, although the phone calls are a small gesture, he felt that he had to do whatever he could to extend his sympathy about Trump being President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of pain out there that a phone call from me can never fix,\u201d he said. \u201cStill, I want people to know that I care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thanks, Andy! It&#8217;s about time Obama got around to doing that! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/17\/us\/politics\/alexander-murray-deal-obamacare-subsidies.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Two leading senators, hoping to stabilize teetering health insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act, reached a bipartisan deal on Tuesday to fund critical subsidies to insurers that President Trump moved just days ago to cut off.<\/p>\n<p>At the White House, virtually as the deal was being announced, Mr. Trump voiced support for it while insisting that he would try again to repeal President Barack Obama\u2019s signature health law.<\/p>\n<p>The plan by the senators, Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, and Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, would fund the subsidies for two years, a step that would provide at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-congress-obamacare-insurance-subsidies.html\">short-term certainty to insurers<\/a>. The subsidies, known as cost-sharing reduction payments, reimburse insurance companies for lowering deductibles, co-payments and other out-of-pocket costs for low-income customers.<\/p>\n<p>Without them, insurance companies said, premiums for many customers purchasing plans under the Affordable Care Act would shoot up, and with profits squeezed, some of the companies would probably leave the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my view, this agreement avoids chaos,\u201d Mr. Alexander said, \u201cand I don\u2019t know a Democrat or a Republican who benefits from chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are several things about this deal that I do not like, but I think I prefer it to the Republican plan to eliminate cost sharing reduction payments. I&#8217;ll reserve judgment, until I can count the beans in the can.&#160; Getting it through the House might be impossible.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1018Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1018Cartoon\" 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=\"1018Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1018Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And are they sad that we did, or what?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day for me.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries, and will finish writing, after I put them away and have lunch.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening to de-stink the sweaty TomCat.&#160; Perhaps I should have warned her to bring a gas mask. 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