{"id":33479,"date":"2018-08-24T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33479"},"modified":"2018-08-24T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:08:44","slug":"open-thread-8-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/24\/open-thread-8-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/24\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This morning I opened my window and turned off my AC.&#160; As long as the sun never hits the wall, it will stay off.&#160; Kitty Kitty one-legged happy dance time.&#160; My Broncos play Washington tonight in preseason game three.&#160; It will not be televised here.&#160; May the holy Ellipsoid Orb shine its blessed light on my Broncos, relocate the Redskins to Tel Aviv, and change their name to the Foreskins.&#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 3:47 (average 4:37).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-24-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=p9vZVFeEx44\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WashingtonPost\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Opinion | Trump is facing worse than Watergate. I should know.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/p9vZVFeEx44?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree. Nixon:Trump::Jaywalker:Serial Killer! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KGKcKkPzI3o\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: Unchecked and Unbalanced<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/KGKcKkPzI3o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, have turned over their balls to Putin&#8217;s Puppet. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=23&amp;v=sb6cmLDMEQg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (Hat-Tip Animae for the idea): <\/font>The 2018 leadership spill in numbers<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sb6cmLDMEQg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Condolences to the people of Australia on your new Republican PM instead of having Labour. But at least your Republicans are nowhere near as evil as ours are. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE LABOUR<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0824Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans are far more destructive.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I opened my window and turned off my AC.&#160; As long as the sun never hits the wall, it will stay off.&#160; Kitty Kitty one-legged happy dance time.&#160; My Broncos play Washington tonight in preseason game three.&#160; It will not be televised here.&#160; May the holy Ellipsoid Orb shine its blessed light on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/24\/open-thread-8-24-2018\/' 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-33479","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\/33479","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=33479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}