{"id":30145,"date":"2017-11-03T12:40:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T19:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30145"},"modified":"2017-11-03T12:40:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T19:40:05","slug":"open-thread-1132017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/03\/open-thread-1132017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/3\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day for me.&#160; I&#8217;m skipping my morning nap as I have so much writing to do, so please pardon my brevity.&#160; I&#8217;m also preparing for National Barf Day tomorrow.&#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 5:10 (average 8:37).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-03-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=XBYnJh45WS8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/PBSNewsHour\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">PBS Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Elizabeth Warren says 2016 Democratic primary was rigged<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XBYnJh45WS8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">See my Open Thread from yesterday. Liz admitted it and wants to face it, understand it and make sure it never happens again, exactly like I recommended yesterday. Great minds really do fall in the same ditch. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/poll-americans-were-sort-of-hoping-mueller-would-arrest-someone-new-every-day\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>After a memorable Monday, in which the special counsel announced criminal charges against three men associated with Donald Trump\u2019s campaign, millions of Americans were sort of hoping that Robert Mueller would arrest someone new every day, a new poll indicates.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, Monday\u2019s news that Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and George Papadopoulos had been charged may have unfairly raised Americans\u2019 expectations that Mueller would be generating new arrests at the rate of at least three a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonday was one of the happiest days of my life,\u201d one poll respondent said. \u201cIt started out great with Manafort and Gates, and then, bam, out of nowhere, Papadopoulos. I guess I started hoping all days would be like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, One a day just isn&#8217;t enough! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/entertainment\/article182497536.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Miami Herald<\/a>: <\/font>This person managed to do the impossible: Shut down the Twitter account of the most powerful man in the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday, Trump\u2019s digital mouthpiece vanished from cyberspace at around 6:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>If you were looking for the president\u2019s latest diatribe, you got the notice, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Walldo\/status\/926221336451497984\" target=\"_blank\">Sorry<\/a>, that page <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DNqarnaW4AAuExU.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t exist<\/a>!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Whoever that employee was, give him\/her a promotion and a raise! <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\/1103Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1103Cartoon\" 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=\"1103Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1103Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day for me.&#160; I&#8217;m skipping my morning nap as I have so much writing to do, so please pardon my brevity.&#160; I&#8217;m also preparing for National Barf Day tomorrow.&#160; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:10 (average 8:37).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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