{"id":30001,"date":"2017-10-25T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30001"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:52:47","slug":"open-thread-10252016-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/open-thread-10252016-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/25\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day for me, because I&#8217;m waiting for a grocery delivery from Store to Door.&#160; When they arrive, I&#8217;ll stop writing, put them away, make lunch and eat.&#160; Then I&#8217;ll finish writing, publish, and do my online blogging.&#160; This evening Wendy is coming to de-stink&#160; the TomCat.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update from me.&#160; I have a medical appointment for a cortisone shot in my left hand.&#160; That hurts almost as bad as watching a Republican win, but so does the trigger finger it will correct.&#160; I will be back on Friday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:34 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-25-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=ObJMQAl0u9s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Is Donald Trump Paying Hush Money?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ObJMQAl0u9s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Consider how cheap Trump is. He grips a quarter so tight that the eagle shits.&#160; He must be desperate. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=otY397MD9EU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Rick Wiles Says A Foreign Army Will Invade America If We Don&#8217;t Shut Down Planned Parenthood<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/otY397MD9EU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you listen carefully, you can hear the voices Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians proclaiming their affirmation: BAAA-A-A-A-A! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-cancels-entire-schedule-to-focus-on-choosing-insulting-nickname-for-bob-corker\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump cancelled his entire schedule on Tuesday to focus all his energy on choosing an insulting nickname for the Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, aides have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Trump rejected his first attempt at a demeaning moniker for the senator, \u201cliddle\u2019 Bob Corker,\u201d because he felt that he had used the \u201cliddle\u2019 \u201d construction too much in the past and feared that it was getting old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President has very high standards for the insulting nicknames he uses,\u201d an aide explained. \u201cHe was not about to settle for \u2018liddle\u2019.\u2019 \u201d Trump thought he had a winner when he came up with \u201cCorker the Porker,\u201d until aides pointed out that the Republican senator from Tennessee has an average physique, to which such an insult would not accurately apply.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Come on Andy! You KNOW he divided the day between Bob Corker and Jeff Flake. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1025Cartoon\" 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=\"1025Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1025Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">So much for God&#8217;s opinion!<\/font> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day for me, because I&#8217;m waiting for a grocery delivery from Store to Door.&#160; When they arrive, I&#8217;ll stop writing, put them away, make lunch and eat.&#160; Then I&#8217;ll finish writing, publish, and do my online blogging.&#160; This evening Wendy is coming to de-stink&#160; the TomCat.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect no more than <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/open-thread-10252016-2\/' 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-30001","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\/30001","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=30001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}