{"id":33644,"date":"2018-09-08T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T19:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33644"},"modified":"2018-09-08T12:53:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T19:53:40","slug":"open-thread-9-8-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/08\/open-thread-9-8-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/8\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s relatively cool here in the CatBox with a high around 80\u00b0, but the humidity is 70%.&#160; The sun hit the wall a few minutes ago, so I had to fire up the AC.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos will be entertaining the evil Seachickens, so I&#8217;ll be glued to the TV.&#160; May the Orb shine its holy light on your team, unless they are Chicken of the Sea.<\/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 4:24).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-08-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=Mzv6w1ZhAnc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>What? 10 Years Old Already?? Thank You For Watching!<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mzv6w1ZhAnc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have been watching, since the beginning, and thank God for Rachel! She has done more to deepen my understanding of issues than any other commentator. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/09\/08\/brett-kavanaughs-perjury-avalanche-50-years-in-the-making\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salon.com<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been a flood of disturbing, formerly secret emails surfacing to and from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but one of these is not like the others:&#160; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/06\/us\/politics\/kavanaugh-leaked-documents.html\" target=\"_blank\">Emails leaked to the New York Times<\/a> showing that Kavanaugh expressed doubts about whether Roe v. Wade was &quot;settled law&quot; in 2003, contradicting what he <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/social-justice\/can-anything-prevent-roe-v-wade-from-being-overturned\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly told Senator Susan Collins<\/a> last month. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/387988906\/Booker-Confidential-Kavanaugh-Hearing\" target=\"_blank\">Emails released by Senator Corey Booker<\/a> dealing with racial profiling and affirmative action, included a 2001 thread in which Kavanaugh described affirmative action regulations at the Department of Transportation&#8217;s as a &quot;naked racial set-aside.&quot; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorLeahy\/status\/1037788206111043587\" target=\"_blank\">Emails highlighted by Senator Patrick Leahy<\/a> showing Kavanaugh involved in the nomination of the controversial Judge William Pryor, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorLeahy\/status\/1037788199463084033\" target=\"_blank\">giving the lie to Kavanaugh\u2019s sworn testimony<\/a> at his appeals court hearings in 2004.&#160; As Leahy noted, \u201cHe testified \u2014 repeatedly \u2014 that he &quot;was not involved in handling his nomination. Thanks to documents released at 3 a.m. this morning, we now know that\u2019s not true.&quot; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If he is confirmed, the third item is grounds for impeachment, when Democrats have both House and Senate. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-demands-to-know-who-put-entering-crazytown-sign-on-oval-office-door\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Trump demanded on Friday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions investigate who put a sign reading \u201cEntering Crazytown, U.S.A.\u201d on the door to the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Trump reportedly noticed the sign for the first time Friday morning, and became enraged after asking Kellyanne Conway, the counsellor to the President, to read what it said to him.<\/p>\n<p>According to White House insiders, determining the creator of the sign could prove difficult, because between seventy and a hundred White House staffers have been known to use the word \u201cCrazytown\u201d to describe their work environment.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Can you tell us who was stupid enough to tell Trump what the sign said? <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\/2014\/09\/0908Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">No more pardons for Republican Residents!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s relatively cool here in the CatBox with a high around 80\u00b0, but the humidity is 70%.&#160; The sun hit the wall a few minutes ago, so I had to fire up the AC.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos will be entertaining the evil Seachickens, so <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/08\/open-thread-9-8-2018\/' 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-33644","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\/33644","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=33644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}