{"id":33580,"date":"2018-09-02T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33580"},"modified":"2018-09-02T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T19:26:01","slug":"open-thread-9-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/02\/open-thread-9-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/2\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another cool morning here in the CatBox, but with a high in the 80\u00b0s, I&#8217;ll have to button up when the sun hits the wall.&#160; WWWendy is due in about thirty minutes, and I&#8217;ll finish this after she leaves.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WWWendy just left, and I&#8217;m so pooped I&#8217;m bleary eyed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:46 (average 5:47).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-02-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=gp5JCrSXkJY&amp;index=3&amp;list=PL0CG3s7fbEXBeXO-WNo1snMfcXNQQA1o0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (A blast from the past): <\/font>Buffalo Springfield &#8211; For What It&#8217;s Worth 1967<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gp5JCrSXkJY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I see this one as a memory of the importance of resistance. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/01\/us\/racist-robocall-andrew-gillum.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Racist robocalls targeting Andrew Gillum, the first black nominee for Florida governor from a major party, have been placed to residents from an out-of-state white supremacist entity.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gillum, 39, the Tallahassee mayor and a progressive candidate who won an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/28\/us\/politics\/florida-arizona-election-results.html\">upset victory<\/a> in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, will face Representative Ron DeSantis, 39, a Republican who embraced the style and policies of President Trump, in the November election.<\/p>\n<p>In the audio of one robocall placed on Friday and obtained by The New York Times, a man pretending to be Mr. Gillum can be heard talking in the exaggerated accent of a minstrel performer. \u201cWell hello there,\u201d it begins, \u201cI is Andrew Gillum.\u201d He then talks for a little over a minute about mud huts and unfair policing practices, and asks repeatedly for the listener\u2019s vote. In the background are the sounds of drums and monkeys.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the best that Republicans have to offer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/09\/ted-cruzs-supporters-surrounded-beto-yard-signs-theye-freaking-raging-campaign-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>[S]upporters of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) have been deluged by signs for challenger Beto O\u2019Rourke and are furious at his campaign for mismanaging the situation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article217558005.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper, Beto\u2019s distinctive black-and-white yards signs have \u201cseemingly dominated the landscape\u201d in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz\u2019s signs are rarely spotted, and his supporters are reportedly \u201cincreasingly agitated,\u201d partly because Cruz\u2019s campaign refuses to prove his supporters with signs.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hey Cruz! Put a Beto sign in Uranus! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"CruzUranus\" 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=\"CruzUranus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CruzUranus.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><\/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\/2017\/09\/0902Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another cool morning here in the CatBox, but with a high in the 80\u00b0s, I&#8217;ll have to button up when the sun hits the wall.&#160; WWWendy is due in about thirty minutes, and I&#8217;ll finish this after she leaves. WWWendy just left, and I&#8217;m so pooped I&#8217;m bleary eyed. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/02\/open-thread-9-2-2018\/' 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-33580","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\/33580","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=33580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}