{"id":30041,"date":"2017-10-27T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30041"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:59:41","slug":"open-thread-10272017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/open-thread-10272017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/27\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I must have been really tired, because, after sleeping well last night, I slept most if the morning too.&#160; There is no improvement in my trigger finger, but I don&#8217;t expect any for a few days.&#160; It&#8217;s a sunny day, and even though it&#8217;s only 66\u00b0, the room is getting too hot from the sun hitting the wall.&#160; TGIF!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:01 (average 5:01).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-27-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=aWcmdunTwSU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FunnyorDie\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Funny or Die Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Republican Tax Plan: How The Koch Brothers Are Robbing America<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aWcmdunTwSU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans are Koch suckers by definition. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-signs-new-travel-ban-preventing-republican-senators-from-fleeing\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an emergency travel ban preventing Republicans from fleeing the United States Senate.<\/p>\n<p>In a sombre Oval Office ceremony, a grim-faced Trump signed the ban, which he said would remain in effect \u201cuntil we figure out what the hell is going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The executive order calls for the relocation of three hundred Border Patrol officers from the Mexican border to Washington, D.C., in order to form what Trump called \u201ca human ring of steel\u201d around the Capitol Building.<\/p>\n<p>Under the travel ban, Republican senators will be permitted to leave their seats in the Senate chamber for meals and bathroom breaks but will be strictly forbidden from speaking to journalists in the building\u2019s corridors.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, is this supposed to be satire? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/seth-meyers-reveals-what-rights-endless-obsession-hillary-clinton-really-about\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers criticized Republicans and right-wing media for trying to keep the focus on attacking Hillary Clinton even when no credible reason exists.<\/p>\n<p>The conservatives&#8217; latest nonsense claim is that Clinton was colluding with Russia. Why she would try to collude with Russia to her own detriment is never really explained.<\/p>\n<p>But the right-wing media doesn&#8217;t care about the facts, only keeping the focus on a perceived villain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right would rather talk about Hillary Clinton than Trump,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cThat\u2019s because the right, in the Trump era, doesn\u2019t have coherent principles or an ideology. It just has enemies. Which is why they prefer to inhabit an alternate reality where Hillary Clinton is president. And what little you will hear about Trump won\u2019t be negative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3EhQoG0Epxg\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3EhQoG0Epxg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Seth! Kudos! <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\/1027Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1027Cartoon\" 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=\"1027Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1027Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And we are still the incarceration nation to our shame.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must have been really tired, because, after sleeping well last night, I slept most if the morning too.&#160; There is no improvement in my trigger finger, but I don&#8217;t expect any for a few days.&#160; It&#8217;s a sunny day, and even though it&#8217;s only 66\u00b0, the room is getting too hot from the sun <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/open-thread-10272017\/' 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-30041","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\/30041","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=30041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}