{"id":33722,"date":"2018-09-15T12:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33722"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:51:18","slug":"open-thread-9-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/15\/open-thread-9-15-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/15\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have no idea why, but I could not fall asleep last night, and I dozed for a couple hours at most, so don&#8217;t be surprised, if I typo.&#160; In theory, the AC should stay off all day, but the sun just came out, so I&#8217;ll have to see if it stays.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:31 (average 5:33).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-15-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=n33odauHOwA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Mueller Secures Full Cooperation, Guilty Plea From Paul Manafort (19 min.)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/n33odauHOwA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Would anyone be surprised that Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten, aka the Tweeting Traitor, is about to smell a big stinky Manafart? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/14\/politics\/anita-hill-brett-kavanaugh-allegations\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font>Anita Hill called on the federal government to implement a &quot;fair and neutral&quot; way to investigate sexual misconduct complaints after allegations surfaced against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh this week.<\/p>\n<p>Hill, who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of workplace sexual harassment during his confirmation hearing back in 1991, said she has seen &quot;firsthand what happens when such a process is weaponized against an accuser and no one should have to endure that again.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Then a law professor at the University of Oklahoma, Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that she had been sexually harassed by Thomas when she worked with him at the Education Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Thomas denied the allegations and he was confirmed to the bench.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">At the time there were three more women, who wanted to testify against Thomas. They were denied, and Republicans pushed through the confirmation instead. We need to stop Pervert Kava-Nazi first! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trumps-calls-to-manafort-going-straight-to-voice-mail\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump placed \u201ca large number\u201d of phone calls to his former campaign manager Paul Manafort on Friday morning, and all of them went straight to voice mail, White House sources have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the number of voice-mail messages that Trump left for Manafort was somewhere in the range of twelve to three hundred.<\/p>\n<p>Trump reportedly continued to leave messages for Manafort until his mailbox was full, after which Trump hurled his phone across the room, narrowly missing Mike Pence\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! What a crime! Did he really have to miss Pence?!!? <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\/0915Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why, but I could not fall asleep last night, and I dozed for a couple hours at most, so don&#8217;t be surprised, if I typo.&#160; In theory, the AC should stay off all day, but the sun just came out, so I&#8217;ll have to see if it stays. Jig Zone Puzzle: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/15\/open-thread-9-15-2018\/' 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-33722","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\/33722","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=33722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}