{"id":30073,"date":"2017-10-29T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T19:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30073"},"modified":"2017-10-29T12:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T19:42:02","slug":"open-thread-10292017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/29\/open-thread-10292017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/29\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy is due in about an hour, and when she arrives, I shall stop writing and finish when she leaves.&#160; Tomorrow I&#8217;m meeting an old friend, with whom I do volunteer work, for lunch.&#160; Depending on how long I&#8217;m gone, I may have no more than a Personal Update.&#160; May the holy Ellipsoid Orb shine its blessed light on your team.&#160; My Broncos play the Chiefs in the Monday night game. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:08 (average 5:55).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-29-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=EKV-wXwacas\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Matt Barber Cites Hoax News Story To Link LGBTQ Activists To Pedophilia<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EKV-wXwacas?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Contrary to the this Republican liar&#8217;s claims, there is no link, between homosexuality and pedophilia, but <a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2014\/01\/09\/startling-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\">93% of all pedophiles describe themselves as &#8216;religious&#8217;<\/a>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-middle-finger-motorcade-flip-potus-695622\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump&#8217;s motorcade departing from the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia had an extra add-on Saturday, after the president spent the 96th day of his presidency visiting one of his own properties. That addition came in the form of a female cyclist, who had one goal in mind: to flip off the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Pool reporters first noticed the cyclist trailing the motorcade before she managed to snake her way next to the president\u2019s car just outside of the Trump National Golf Club. &quot;A female bicyclist along the motorcade route, just outside the golf course, traveling in the right lane repeatedly extended her middle left finger towards POTUS,&quot; the pool stated.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Whoever she is, I&#8217;m sure glad that she had her cortisone shot, if she needed one!&#160; <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-1.png\" \/>&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/excited-crowd-outside-muellers-office-awaits-first-arrest\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands has gathered outside the office of Robert Mueller in eager anticipation of the special counsel\u2019s first arrest in the Russia probe.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes after news was leaked that charges had been filed, Americans from across the country descended on Mueller\u2019s office to witness firsthand what many called the beginning of the end of the nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe this day has finally come,\u201d Carol Foyler, who drove from North Carolina, said. \u201cMy husband is having surgery today, but I didn\u2019t want to miss this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, millions of us wait with high anticipation. <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\/1029Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1029Cartoon\" 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=\"1029Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1029Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy is due in about an hour, and when she arrives, I shall stop writing and finish when she leaves.&#160; Tomorrow I&#8217;m meeting an old friend, with whom I do volunteer work, for lunch.&#160; Depending on how long I&#8217;m gone, I may have no more than a Personal Update.&#160; May the holy Ellipsoid Orb shine <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/29\/open-thread-10292017\/' 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-30073","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\/30073","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=30073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}