{"id":30204,"date":"2017-11-06T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30204"},"modified":"2017-11-06T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:02:01","slug":"open-thread-1162017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/open-thread-1162017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/6\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I just returned from my appointment with Megan, and I&#8217;m a certified A-1 prime Puddy Tat.&#160; That&#8217;s my only medical appointment this week.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:41 (average 4:54).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-06-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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1105Broncos23-Eagles51\" 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=\"1105Broncos23-Eagles51\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1105Broncos23-Eagles51.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My Broncos would have gotten bird shat anyway, but a couple zebras played with the birds.<\/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=AOGTLvxEKMM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>A Year Without a President<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AOGTLvxEKMM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the Left is RIGHT! We may not have a President, but we do have a Fuhrer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/white-house-claims-flynns-job-was-to-make-coffee-when-papadopoulos-was-busy\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The White House called an unscheduled press briefing on Sunday to clarify Michael T. Flynn\u2019s role in the Trump campaign, claiming that his job consisted entirely of making coffee when George Papadopoulos was busy with other matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, we would ask for coffee and George was otherwise occupied,\u201d the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said. \u201cAt that point, Michael Flynn would step in and make that coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked what role Flynn\u2019s son, Michael G. Flynn, played in the campaign, Sanders indicated that he, too, was involved in coffee-making to the exclusion of all other responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, that&#8217;s less absurd than any of the balderdash coming from the Fuhrer and his Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/05\/us\/church-shooting-texas.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A gunman clad in all black, with a ballistic vest strapped to his chest and a military-style rifle in his hands, opened fire on parishioners at a Sunday service at a small Baptist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/05\/us\/sutherland-springs-texas-church-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\">church in rural Texas<\/a>, killing at least 26 people and turning this tiny town east of San Antonio into the scene of the country\u2019s newest mass horror.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman was identified by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TxDPS\/status\/927510924906332161\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Department of Public Safety<\/a> as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26. Mr. Kelley, who lived in New Braunfels, Tex., died shortly after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>He had served in the Air Force at a base in New Mexico but was court-martialed in 2012 on charges of assaulting his wife and child. He was sentenced to 12 months\u2019 confinement and received a \u201cbad conduct\u201d discharge in 2014, according to Ann Stefanek, the chief of Air Force media operations.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the attack was unclear on Sunday, but the grisly nature of it could not have been clearer: Families gathered in pews, clutching Bibles and praying to the Lord, were murdered in cold blood on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kelley started firing at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs not long after the Sunday morning service began at 11 a.m., officials said. He was armed with a Ruger military-style rifle, and within minutes, many of those inside the small church were either dead or wounded. The victims ranged in age from 5 to 72, and among the dead were several children, a pregnant woman and the pastor\u2019s 14-year-old daughter. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the state\u2019s history. At least 20 more were wounded.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We know very little about this Republican ammosexual, except that Texas Republicans granted him a concealed carry permit illegally, due to his domestic violence conviction history. <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\/1106Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1106Cartoon\" 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=\"1106Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1106Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from my appointment with Megan, and I&#8217;m a certified A-1 prime Puddy Tat.&#160; That&#8217;s my only medical appointment this week. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:41 (average 4:54).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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