{"id":30099,"date":"2017-10-31T13:25:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30099"},"modified":"2017-10-31T13:25:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:25:46","slug":"open-thread-10312017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/31\/open-thread-10312017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/31\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Let me apologize in advance if I&#8217;m short or make typos today.&#160; Between going out yesterday, trying to keep track of the news, and watching last night&#8217;s religious tragedy, I&#8217;m feeling very wiped out, but there&#8217;s work here that needs to be done.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:07 (average 9:21).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-31-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1030Broncos19-Chiefs29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1030Broncos19-Chiefs29\" 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=\"1030Broncos19-Chiefs29\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1030Broncos19-Chiefs29_thumb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Worthless stinking Orb!<\/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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8Scores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"8Scores\" 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=\"8Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8Scores_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8Standings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"8Standings\" 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=\"8Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8Standings_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats to Seth, Vivian and I, the leaders among active players.&#160; Condolences to Jack, who is buried in Sasquatch toe jams.<\/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=r8WKlg7jOtY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>We Have Indictments! Has Christmas Come Early?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/r8WKlg7jOtY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When I wrote yesterday&#8217;s lead, I said that it would be outdated, before I published it. Woooo Hoooo!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LCaNoThm9Lc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LCaNoThm9Lc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dayyum!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/30\/us\/military-transgender-ban.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a White House policy barring military service by transgender troops, ruling that it was based on \u201cdisapproval of transgender people generally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia found the administration\u2019s justification for the ban, which was set to take effect in March 2018, to be suspect and likely unconstitutional. She ruled that the military\u2019s current policy should remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is absolutely no support for the claim that the ongoing service of transgender people would have any negative effective on the military at all,\u201d the judge wrote in a strongly worded, 76-page ruling. \u201cIn fact, there is considerable evidence that it is the discharge and banning of such individuals that would have such effects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to the judge!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1031Cartoon\" 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=\"1031Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1031Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every year it gets harder to clean the coal dust from my white patches<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me apologize in advance if I&#8217;m short or make typos today.&#160; Between going out yesterday, trying to keep track of the news, and watching last night&#8217;s religious tragedy, I&#8217;m feeling very wiped out, but there&#8217;s work here that needs to be done. 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