{"id":29987,"date":"2017-10-24T12:49:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29987"},"modified":"2017-10-24T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:49:06","slug":"open-thread-10242017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/open-thread-10242017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/24\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m feeling much better today.&#160; I think I was just overly tired in addition to fall allergies that seem to bother me every year around this time.&#160; I planned my grocery list and placed my order with Store to door.&#160; The sun is hitting the wall, and I may actually have to crank on the AC because of it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:35 (average 5:47).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the latest from our own fantasy football league, <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"7Scores\" 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=\"7Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/7Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"7Standings\" 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=\"7Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/7Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats to Seth, who is the active leader.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don&#8217;t be caught off guard by Sunday&#8217;s early morning game in London.<\/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=J92mYMPlPTQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>John Kelly and Sarah Huckabee Sanders Must Resign<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/J92mYMPlPTQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I fully agree with Keith, but the list of people who should resign, because they are indefensible, hateful liars, includes the entire Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_mkieNJGFKs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SenatorJeffMerkley\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Merkley Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Climate Disruption Quiz Episode 5<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_mkieNJGFKs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I was five for five. How about you? Jeff has forgotten very little about the environment, but he has forgotten more than Republicans ever learned, by choice. Oregon leads the way! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-says-he-is-only-president-in-history-with-courage-to-stand-up-to-war-widows\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Calling himself \u201cunbelievably brave,\u201d Donald Trump said on Monday that he is the only President in U.S. history with the courage to stand up to war widows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at guys like Obama and Clinton and the Bushes, when it came to war widows, they all blinked,\u201d he said. \u201cFor years, we weren\u2019t winning at widows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Trump said, he has made defeating war widows one of his top priorities as President. \u201cForget about Iran and China and Little Rocket Man,\u201d he said. \u201cThis country has been pushed around by war widows for far too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that Senator John McCain, who has mocked the President\u2019s draft-dodging during Vietnam, has \u201cnever shown an ounce of courage when it comes to fighting war widows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, that just may be exactly how the Orange Outrage and his Republican Reich see it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1024Cartoon\" 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=\"1024Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1024Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling much better today.&#160; I think I was just overly tired in addition to fall allergies that seem to bother me every year around this time.&#160; I planned my grocery list and placed my order with Store to door.&#160; The sun is hitting the wall, and I may actually have to crank on the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/open-thread-10242017\/' 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-29987","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\/29987","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=29987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}