{"id":30210,"date":"2017-11-07T12:26:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30210"},"modified":"2017-11-07T12:26:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:26:47","slug":"open-thread-1172017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/07\/open-thread-1172017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/7\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m on an unusual schedule this morning.&#160; I woke up, like usual, at 5:00.&#160; I had a bad case of Republicosis, so I dressed, got out of bed, and motored down to the bathroom in record time.&#160; I almost didn&#8217;t make.&#160; I&#8217;ve been back three more times and taken two doses ode Immodium AD.&#160; I feel like going back to bed, but I dare not do so, before the Imodium kicks in.&#160; So I&#8217;ll do all my blogging early and hope I can lie down later.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:43 (average 5:27).&#160; To do it, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-07-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">click here<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">.&#160; How did you do?<\/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, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"9Scores\" 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=\"9Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/9Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I would not have won, were I playing an attended team.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"9Standings\" 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=\"9Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/9Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Seth, Vivian and I lead the league.&#160; Jack, who appears to be AWOL, is in the cellar.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FG1N-WljuDw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> (<\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">): Trump is Lying About Russia<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#160;<\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FG1N-WljuDw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course Trump is both lying and guilty. We&#8217;re just waiting for the shoe to drop and to see who does what about it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/addictinginfo.com\/2017\/11\/07\/multiple-witnesses-confirm-the-pee-pee-tapes-are-real\/\" target=\"_blank\">Addicting Info<\/a>:<\/font> In his infamous dossier, former British spy Michael Steele alleged that Trump had paid prostitutes to come up to his room and urinate on one another on a bed that Barack and Michelle Obama once shared. Steele claimed at the time that the incident was filmed and would be used by the Kremlin as \u201ckompromat\u201d (compromising material).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/worldnews\/2015\/paul-wood-david-bloom-award\">Award-winning<\/a> British journalist Paul Wood reports for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2017\/08\/forget-charlottesville-russia-is-still-the-true-trump-scandal\/\">The Spectator<\/a> that not only do multiple witnesses confirm the pee pee tape, but there are more extreme recordings of Donald Trump than just a couple of Russian girls urinating:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I heard of Russian kompromat \u2014 compromising material \u2014 on Trump from two sources months before the Steele dossier came to light.<\/p>\n<p>There are, though, reports of witnesses in the hotel who corroborate Steele\u2019s reporting. These include an American who\u2019s said to have seen a row with the hotel security over whether the hookers would be allowed up to Trump\u2019s suite. The dossier\u2019s account of hookers in a Moscow hotel room was the subject of gossip among politicians and intelligence people for months before it was published.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNow <strong>claims are circulating of more tapes showing more extreme behavior<\/strong>. Expect these allegations to emerge in due course,\u201d Wood says cryptically.&#160; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have no desire to see Putin&#8217;s Piddle Puppet on the pee-pee tapes myself, but I want them on display for everyone to see.&#160; I want then on the news, and I want them on a wide-screen outside every Republican Supply-side pseudo-Church in the country. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AJHLOplNBdY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Photo Finish In Race For Virginia<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AJHLOplNBdY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">See Cartoon, please. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1107Cartoon\" 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=\"1107Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1107Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on an unusual schedule this morning.&#160; I woke up, like usual, at 5:00.&#160; I had a bad case of Republicosis, so I dressed, got out of bed, and motored down to the bathroom in record time.&#160; I almost didn&#8217;t make.&#160; I&#8217;ve been back three more times and taken two doses ode Immodium AD.&#160; I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/07\/open-thread-1172017-2\/' 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-30210","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\/30210","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=30210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}