{"id":30113,"date":"2017-11-01T12:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30113"},"modified":"2017-11-01T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:21:26","slug":"open-thread-1112017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/01\/open-thread-1112017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/1\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have a very busy day today.&#160; In addition to my normal research and writing I need to change the poll.&#160; I also need to make the graphics and collect the data for Friday&#8217;s Monthly Report.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for a grocery delivery from Store to Door and need to but the food away.&#160; Tonight Wendy is coming to destink the TomCat.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect only a Personal Update.&#160; I have an appointment with Amanda, my Prosthetist, to finish getting George&#8217;s adjustments and replacement parts for the year.&#160; Thoughts and prayers for all harmed in or because of the terrorist attack.&#160; Remember that both this terrorist and the more common Republican terrorists are right wing religious extremists who would force their hatred, control and dogma on others.&#160; The only difference is which religion they abuse and misrepresent.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:09 (average 5:01).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-01-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=wNbvCKqSgx0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Did Trump Spot the Indictment\u2019s Most Damning Phrase?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wNbvCKqSgx0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tick\u2026 Tick\u2026 Tick\u2026 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/fox-to-offer-twenty-four-hour-coverage-of-bill-clintons-impeachment\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Calling it a story \u201ctoo hot for the other cable-news networks to handle,\u201d Fox News Channel announced on Tuesday that it would begin airing twenty-four-hour coverage of Bill Clinton\u2019s 1998\u201399 impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Fox anchor Sean Hannity announced the programming change, telling viewers that Fox would devote all its resources to reporting the Clinton impeachment to the exclusion of all other news stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis story has everything: sex, lies, and misdeeds at the highest levels of our government,\u201d Hannity said. \u201cWe are planning to flood the zone to bring it to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! You mean they are going to change <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">from their coverage of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s impeachment? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/166914862620\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich<\/a>: <\/font>The robbers are the American oligarchs who bankroll the Republican Party, and who are plotting the biggest heist in American history \u2013 a massive tax cut estimated to be up to 5.8 t<a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2017%2F09%2F28%2F5-trillion-question-for-trump-tax-plan-how-to-pay-for-it.html&amp;t=NjU3YjNlY2VlYWEyMTIyMTJlMTZjZTkzNmQ5NmFiMWExZGNhM2E5ZixoUWVFVHU1Wg%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F166914862620&amp;m=1\" target=\"_blank\">rillion<\/a> dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Around <a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taxpolicycenter.org%2Fpublications%2Fpreliminary-analysis-unified-framework%2Ffull&amp;t=OTI0MGI5YTIyNDg2MDNjZjY1YWQwMjgxM2VmMTIzNGIxYzAxZTZhNCxoUWVFVHU1Wg%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F166914862620&amp;m=1\" target=\"_blank\">80 percent<\/a> of it will benefit the richest 1 percent, according to the Tax Policy Center. <\/p>\n<p>Trump is busily distracting America with his explosive tweets and incendiary tantrums \u2013 blasting Republican senators Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, NFL players who take the knee, Dreamers, refugees, immigrants, transgender people, the media, \u201crocket man,\u201d Hillary Clinton, Obama, NAFTA, Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump bomb is hugely damaging \u2013 unleashing hate, threatening democratic institutions, isolating America in the world.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>But none of this seems to bother Republicans in Congress, except for a handful of Senators who won\u2019t be running again. That\u2019s because congressional Republicans are concentrating their efforts on pulling off the giant heist for their rich patrons. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for the rest. The Reich on the left could not be more right. <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\/11\/1101Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1101Cartoon\" 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=\"1101Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1101Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very busy day today.&#160; In addition to my normal research and writing I need to change the poll.&#160; I also need to make the graphics and collect the data for Friday&#8217;s Monthly Report.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for a grocery delivery from Store to Door and need to but the food away.&#160; Tonight Wendy <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/01\/open-thread-1112017-2\/' 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-30113","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\/30113","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=30113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}