{"id":33676,"date":"2018-09-11T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33676"},"modified":"2018-09-11T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:50:36","slug":"open-thread-9-11-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/open-thread-9-11-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/11\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m not running A\/C in the CatBox, and may be able to leave it off all day.&#160; Outside my window, liquid drops are falling from the sky on occasion.&#160; I&#8217;ve seen this before, and know I should know what it is, but it&#8217;s been so long that I just can&#8217;t recall.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:25 (average 6:31).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-11-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the latest from our own Fantasy Football League, <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\">Lefty Blog Friends<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1Scores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1Scores\" 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=\"1Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1Scores_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats to Pam, me, and Patty Monster!&#160; Condolences to the Squatch, WWWendy, and Vivian.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1Standings\" 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=\"1Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We hit the ground running!<\/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=ZRP193-6Zak\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Pat Robertson Establishes A &#8216;Shield Of Protection&#8217; Against Hurricane Florence<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZRP193-6Zak?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You folks in the Southeast are well and truly screwed! When he targeted gay people with a hurricane in 1986, God proved she has a sense of humor. Hurricane Bonnie damaged Robertson&#8217;s Virginia Beach HQ. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lAoAJixDYn8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">The Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Colbert To Bob Woodward: What Do You Fear Most?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lAoAJixDYn8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I will get the book when it goes Audible. When that happens, whether I recover my sanity is an open question. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/chuck-grassley-kavanaugh-questions-town-hall\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>With D.C. appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s Supreme Court hearings over, and his record of <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2018\/09\/judge-brett-kavanaugh-should-be-impeached-for-lying-during-his-confirmation-hearings.html\" target=\"_blank\">lies to the Senate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/07\/politics\/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-birth-control\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">legal extremism<\/a> laid bare for all to see, voters are demanding answers from their senators.<\/p>\n<p>One senator who seems highly unwilling to talk about the issue is Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. In fact, at a town hall in Osceola, Grassley was bombarded with so many Kavanaugh questions that he started imploring the attendees to ask about something else.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you folks are wondering why we&#8217;re talking about Kavanaugh all the time, if somebody came here to talk about tariffs, somebody came here to talk about budgets, somebody came here to talk about something else, raise your hand,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why am I not surprised? Snake in the Grassley needs to be retired&#8230; permanently. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0911Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not running A\/C in the CatBox, and may be able to leave it off all day.&#160; Outside my window, liquid drops are falling from the sky on occasion.&#160; I&#8217;ve seen this before, and know I should know what it is, but it&#8217;s been so long that I just can&#8217;t recall. 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