{"id":29918,"date":"2017-10-19T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T20:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29918"},"modified":"2017-10-19T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T20:34:47","slug":"open-thread-10192017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/open-thread-10192017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/19\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s been another busy day.&#160; I scheduled medical appointments, and lift bus rides.&#160; I ordered a new cover for Stumpy.&#160; Last night, I asked Wendy to measure my circumference three inches back from the tip.&#160; You should have seen the look on her face, when she asked me what on earth for.&#160; So I told her.&#160; She was most relieved, I was talking about Stumpy. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-angel\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Angel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wlEmoticon-angel.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:15 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-19-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=kiBWP2vSjB8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FunnyorDie\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Funny or Die Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Republican Tax Plan: How Much Does Jared Kushner Get?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kiBWP2vSjB8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They got that right! How much does Kushner get? Too! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/11th-hour-with-Brian-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">11th Hour<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><strong>Fmr. CIA boss Brennan: World may wonder if Trump&#8217;s just reckless<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, fmr. CIA Director John Brennan takes on Trump&#8217;s foreign policy &#8211; issuing dire warnings on the threat of war with North Korea and Russia&#8217;s involvement in the 2016 election. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_bwms_brennan_171018\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For a former CIA Director to make such a public statement is unprecedented. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-obamacare-subsidies-tweet-opposition.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump on Wednesday backed away from his endorsement of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/17\/us\/politics\/alexander-murray-deal-obamacare-subsidies.html\" target=\"_blank\">bipartisan Senate proposal to stabilize health insurance markets<\/a>, throwing the legislative effort into doubt even as the chief architect of the deal predicted that it would become law before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The latest actions by the White House confused Republicans on Capitol Hill and irked Democrats \u2014 but in the end, their effect was not clear. The effort to calm roiled insurance markets appears destined for a showdown in December, when supporters of the compromise, drafted by Senators Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, and Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, will have the most leverage.<\/p>\n<p>The mixed signals began Tuesday, when Mr. Trump appeared to give his blessing to the deal to restore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-obamacare-executive-order-health-insurance.html\" target=\"_blank\">subsidies to health insurers<\/a> that he said days before he would cut off. Mr. Alexander and Ms. Murray agreed on legislation that would continue federal payments to insurance companies through 2019 to reimburse them for discounts that they are required to provide to millions of low-income people who have coverage under the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I just received an email from Jeff Merkley [D-OR] that he supports it, but as I said yesterday, the chance of passage is slim at best. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1019Cartoon\" 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=\"1019Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1019Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been another busy day.&#160; I scheduled medical appointments, and lift bus rides.&#160; I ordered a new cover for Stumpy.&#160; Last night, I asked Wendy to measure my circumference three inches back from the tip.&#160; You should have seen the look on her face, when she asked me what on earth for.&#160; So I told <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/open-thread-10192017\/' 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-29918","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\/29918","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=29918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}