{"id":33726,"date":"2018-09-16T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33726"},"modified":"2018-09-16T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T21:08:35","slug":"open-thread-9-16-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/16\/open-thread-9-16-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/16\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 My Broncos are entertaining the Raiders.\u00a0 Sadly, it won&#8217;t be televised here.\u00a0 May the blessed Orb shine its holy light on your team, unless they wear an eye patch.\u00a0 I play Pam in fantasy football.\u00a0 She&#8217;s already kicking my ass.\u00a0 WWWendy is due in less than an hour.\u00a0 We have lots of chores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">WWWendy was 40 min&#8217; late today, so I&#8217;m running late and am extra pooped.\u00a0 She says Hi to all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:00 (average 4:38).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-16-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oRi3LYQuwas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Final Straw R.E.M. &#8211; Trump Protest Song<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oRi3LYQuwas?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This was over 18 months ago, when we knew nothing about the outrages he and the Republican Reich have committed since. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/trump-paranoid-mattis-secretly-democrat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TPM<\/a>: <\/span>The relationship between President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary James Mattis has deteriorated to the point where Trump is worried that Mattis is secretly a Democrat, according to a Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/15\/us\/politics\/jim-mattis-trump-defense-relationship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump still publicly stands by his defense secretary, the Times paints a picture of a president who is increasingly resentful of Mattis\u2019 apolitical stance and the perception that Mattis is the only adult in the room.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Mattis is reportedly getting tired of having to be that adult. He clashed with Trump over NATO and war games with South Korea, and the hiring of national security advisor deputy Mira Ricardel has further strained his relationship with the White House.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In truth, I do not like Mad Dog. That said, if Orange Adolf fires him, there will be no adults in the room. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/george-bush-stumps-for-gop-but-no-ted-cru_us_5b9dc1dee4b04d32ebf92bb1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/span>Former President George W. Bush is headlining fundraisers for GOP candidates facing tough challenges ahead of the midterm elections. He won\u2019t, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2018-elections\/2018\/09\/12\/former-president-george-w-bush-hosts-fundraisers-vulnerable-republicans-including-two-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">be appearing on behalf<\/a> of Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from his home state of Texas, The Dallas Morning News reported.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Crawford Caligula is the most stupid Republican Resident to complete at least one four year term. But even the man that could not understand <em>My Pet Goat<\/em> isn&#8217;t stupid enough to campaign for Cruz! Go, Beto! Go! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0916Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 My Broncos are entertaining the Raiders.\u00a0 Sadly, it won&#8217;t be televised here.\u00a0 May the blessed Orb shine its holy light on your team, unless they wear an eye patch.\u00a0 I play Pam in fantasy football.\u00a0 She&#8217;s already kicking my ass.\u00a0 WWWendy is due in <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/16\/open-thread-9-16-2018\/' 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-33726","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\/33726","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=33726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}