{"id":30217,"date":"2017-11-08T12:22:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30217"},"modified":"2017-11-08T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:22:52","slug":"open-thread-1182017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/open-thread-1182017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/8\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Store to Door just delivered groceries, and I put then away.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening.&#160; I seem to be coming down with a cold, so please pardon my brevity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:37 (average 5:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-08-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=WtjhHKka4jc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos?disable_polymer=true\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Guess Who Celebrated Election Night With Trump<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WtjhHKka4jc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">May the Fuhrer be Saterized. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/poll-trump-accomplishing-little-in-final-year-as-president\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump has accomplished little or nothing in his final year as President, a new poll finds.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, a majority of Americans believe that Trump has made no progress on the economy, terrorism, or other key issues in his Presidency\u2019s dwindling final days.<\/p>\n<p>More troubling for Trump, the poll shows that Americans have lost confidence in his ability to salvage his Presidency before his imminent departure from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Davis Logsdon, a history professor at the University of Minnesota, said that Trump\u2019s failure to accomplish anything of substance during his last year in office is a problem that has plagued other lame-duck Presidents.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From Andy&#8217;s keyboard to God&#8217;s eyes! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/07\/world\/americas\/mass-shootings-us-international.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>When the world looks at the United States, it sees a land of exceptions: a time-tested if noisy democracy, a crusader in foreign policy, an exporter of beloved music and film.<\/p>\n<p>But there is one quirk that consistently puzzles America\u2019s fans and critics alike. Why, they ask, does it experience so many mass shootings?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, some speculate, it is because American society is unusually violent. Or its racial divisions have frayed the bonds of society. Or its citizens lack proper mental care under a health care system that draws frequent derision abroad.<\/p>\n<p>These explanations share one thing in common: Though seemingly sensible, all have been debunked by research on shootings elsewhere in the world. Instead, an ever-growing body of research consistently reaches the same conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The only variable that can explain the high rate of mass shootings in America is its astronomical number of guns.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click Through for much more. Although the number of guns is skyrocketing, the number of gun-owning households remains constant. That shows that Republican Ammosexuals are compiling arsenals. Given their propensity for &quot;2nd Amendment Solutions&quot;, that trend threatens us all. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1108Cartoon\" 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=\"1108Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1108Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Store to Door just delivered groceries, and I put then away.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening.&#160; I seem to be coming down with a cold, so please pardon my brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:37 (average 5:42).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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