{"id":33628,"date":"2018-09-07T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T17:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33628"},"modified":"2018-09-07T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T17:17:49","slug":"open-thread-9-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/open-thread-9-7-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/7\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s the last day in the heat wave, and should only reach the mid 80\u00b0s, but the humidity is 68%. My streaming Prime Video is acting up, so I&#8217;m trying to do all my blogging in the morning to leave the afternoon free for a phone appointment from tech support.&#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 3:13 (average 4:54).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-07-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=xVBMnGZPmJE\" 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: How You Can Stop Trump&#8217;s Lie Machine<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xVBMnGZPmJE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. Until I saw the end, I thought that to boycott Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Faux Noise, advertisers, you need to watch it to list them. <strong>PHEW<\/strong>!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/nation-stunned-that-there-is-someone-in-white-house-capable-of-writing-an-editorial\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Millions of Americans were startled by the revelation on Wednesday afternoon that there was someone working in the Trump White House capable of writing an entire editorial, reports indicate.<\/p>\n<p>In a nation already rocked by a series of bombshells since Labor Day, the news that an anonymous senior White House official had the command of the English language necessary to compose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/opinion\/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html\" target=\"_blank\">seemingly coherent Op-Ed<\/a> piece suitable for publication in a major newspaper was perhaps the most improbable development of all.<\/p>\n<p>Davis Logsdon, a professor of linguistics at the University of Minnesota, said that a team of language experts under his supervision has studied the Op-Ed word by word and is \u201cin a state of disbelief\u201d that someone currently working for Donald J. Trump could have written it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are complete sentences, there are well-structured paragraphs, there is subject-verb agreement,\u201d he said. \u201cThis does not appear to be the work of any White House staffer we\u2019re familiar with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy does have a point. The Times must have faked it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/2018\/09\/07\/former-state-senator-sentenced-to-18-years-in-prison-for-bribery-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nation of Change<\/a>: <\/font>Found guilty on 15 counts, including conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering, former Arkansas State Senator Jonathan Woods was sentenced Wednesday to serve more than 18 years in federal prison. In addition, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks sentenced Woods to serve three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay over $1.6 million in restitution.<\/p>\n<p>While serving as Arkansas state senator from 2013 to 2015, Woods and other Arkansas legislators, including former State Representative Micah Neal, accepted bribes from officials at nonprofit entities in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in government grants. According to the evidence presented at trial, Ecclesia College\u2019s former president, Oren Paris III, also bribed Woods by hiring Woods\u2019s friend to an administrative position at the college.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">May Woods be a trailblazer for all Republican politicians. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/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\/2017\/09\/0907Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the last day in the heat wave, and should only reach the mid 80\u00b0s, but the humidity is 68%. My streaming Prime Video is acting up, so I&#8217;m trying to do all my blogging in the morning to leave the afternoon free for a phone appointment from tech support.&#160; TGIF! 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