{"id":30354,"date":"2017-11-18T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T20:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30354"},"modified":"2017-11-18T12:32:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T20:32:44","slug":"open-thread-11-18-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/18\/open-thread-11-18-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/18\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Day by day, I continue to improve, but I had to miss my morning nap, because I have Republicosis and am waiting for the Immodium AD to set in.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos worship in Cincinnati, but the game is not televised here.&#160; May my Broncos eat some Trump-stripped kitties!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:15 (average 4:24).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-18-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=6Dsxw3GC3vo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SenatorJeffMerkley\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Merkley Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Senator Merkley Calls for Immediate Action to Restore CHIP Funding<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6Dsxw3GC3vo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every penny spent on saving children&#8217;s lives is a penny Republicans can&#8217;t give to a billionaire. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/11\/16\/1716157\/-Conservative-lawmaker-resigns-after-consensual-inappropriate-behavior-with-a-man-in-his-office\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Republican Ohio state legislator Wes Goodman describes himself on his Twitter bio as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wesleygoodman?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">&quot;Christian. American. Conservative. Republican.&quot;<\/a> The self-described \u201cfamily values\u201d conservative with a history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2017\/11\/family-values-legislator-quits-caught-sex-man-office\/\" target=\"_blank\">anti-LGBTQ stances<\/a> has resigned after admitting he engaged in sex with a man in his Ohio office. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20171115\/inappropriate-behavior-with-man-in-his-office-led-to-ohio-lawmakers-ouster\" target=\"_blank\">The Columbus Dispatch:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>State Rep. Wes Goodman, who consistently touted his faith and conservative values, abruptly resigned late Tuesday after being confronted with evidence of inappropriate conduct with another man inside his Riffe Center office, the second Ohio lawmaker to fall within a month.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, R-Clarksville, met Tuesday afternoon with the Cardington Republican soon after the speaker became aware of an incident from weeks ago in the lawmaker\u2019s office that, sources said, involved a male in a consensual situation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently someone witnessed the affair, and Republicans wasted no time demanding his resignation<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What hypocrites Republicans are! Roy Moore is OK, but Goodman has to go. Would a some gent please give Roy Moore a BJ?&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P_t924nP6Gk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Senators Orrin Hatch &amp; Sherrod Brown Get In Tax Reform Shouting Match<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/P_t924nP6Gk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hatch is such a lying sack of shit in this case. If he&#8217;s sick of the attacks, he should stop goose-stepping behind billionaires. <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\/1118Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1118Cartoon\" 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=\"1118Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1118Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day by day, I continue to improve, but I had to miss my morning nap, because I have Republicosis and am waiting for the Immodium AD to set in.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos worship in Cincinnati, but the game is not televised here.&#160; May my <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/18\/open-thread-11-18-2017\/' 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-30354","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\/30354","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=30354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}