{"id":33615,"date":"2018-09-05T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T20:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33615"},"modified":"2018-09-05T13:14:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T20:14:26","slug":"open-thread-9-5-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/open-thread-9-5-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/5\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running a bit late, because Store to Door just delivered groceries, and I put them away.&#160; It&#8217;s the second and hottest day of a four day heat wave.&#160; The high will be in the mid 90\u00b0s and the humidity is 52%.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening and I&#8217;m more than ready!&#160; Happy Hump Day!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:00 (average 4:46).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-05-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=cO4WJIdf78I\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Ayanna Pressley Poised To Make History With Historic House Seat<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cO4WJIdf78I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Ayanna! May the trend continue! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jgrRE0oH8zQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WashingtonPost\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Unraveling President Trump&#8217;s top 5 claims | The Fact Checker<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jgrRE0oH8zQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wouldn&#8217;t it be easier to just put up a goose egg for his true claims? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/white-man-hopes-to-land-job-without-background-check\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: \\<\/font>A fifty-three-year-old white man from Washington, D.C., is hoping to land a six-figure job for life without being subjected to a thorough background check, the man confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The man, Brett Kavanaugh, said that he was \u201cpretty chill\u201d about his upcoming job interview because he had been assured that \u201canything super damaging\u201d had been removed from his H.R. file.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s some stuff in my past\u2014especially, like, from the nineties\u2014that would be kind of heinous if anyone looked into it,\u201d Kavanaugh said. \u201cFortunately, I know someone in H.R. and he took, like, a hundred thousand pages out of my file.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Washington native said that he had been assured that his job interview would be led by a group of other white men who \u201cwon\u2019t ask me anything too hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hmmm\u2026. I see Andy has been watching the hearing. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/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\/2018\/09\/0905Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0905Cartoon\" 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=\"0905Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0905Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Vintage 2011 and still valid.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running a bit late, because Store to Door just delivered groceries, and I put them away.&#160; It&#8217;s the second and hottest day of a four day heat wave.&#160; The high will be in the mid 90\u00b0s and the humidity is 52%.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening and I&#8217;m more than ready!&#160; Happy Hump Day!! 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