{"id":33735,"date":"2018-09-17T13:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T20:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33735"},"modified":"2018-09-17T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:02:31","slug":"open-thread-9-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/open-thread-9-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/17\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yesterday was such a busy day that I got to bed late and did not get enough sleep, so I&#8217;m quite tired.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a cool day, but it&#8217;s sunny enough that I&#8217;ll need to button-up by mid afternoon.\u00a0 OGIM!!<\/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 5:11 (average 6:37).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-17-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0916-Broncos20-Raiders19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0916-Broncos20-Raiders19.jpg\" alt=\"0916-Broncos20-Raiders19\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What a last seconds relief!\u00a0 It would have been really glum, had the lost because a couple zebras, who seemed to have Raider patches on their eyes, cost them two TDs!<\/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=0abm_P0PnOY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/span>ODE TO A LIAR &#8211; Parody of I Never Say<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0abm_P0PnOY?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Brilliant, Don! There has never been a bigger liar than Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/americans-want-alert-system-enabling-mueller-to-text-them-when-this-emergency-is-over?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20091618&amp;amp;CNDID=24434635&amp;amp;spMailingID=14258250&amp;amp;spUserID=MTMzMTgyNDM5NjgyS0&amp;amp;spJobID=1481325775&amp;amp;spReportId=MTQ4MTMyNTc3NQS2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>Millions of Americans do not want Donald J. Trump to text them that there is an emergency, but \u201cvery strongly\u201d want Robert Mueller to text them when this current emergency is over, a new poll shows.<\/p>\n<p>fema\u2019s about-to-be-launched \u201cPresidential alert\u201d system drew a sharply negative reaction in the poll, with a majority of Americans saying that they would burn, smash, or otherwise pulverize their phones in advance of the first text that Trump attempts to send them.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, and by a wide margin, Americans said that they wanted an alert system that would enable Mueller to text them \u201cthe second he knows this shit show is over,\u201d the poll indicates.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dang Andy!! This year would be nice! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/16\/us\/politics\/michigan-democrats-labor-unions-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>It\u2019s not the smokestacks that mark this part of southeast Michigan as a labor stronghold, or even the boxy union halls.<\/p>\n<p>To Michelle LaVoy, a city treasurer running for the State Legislature, it\u2019s the way people say \u201cunion\u201d as shorthand for \u201cdecent job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy husband works at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yfai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yanfeng<\/a>,\u201d Carolina Ricci, perched outside her front door, told Ms. LaVoy, referring to a nearby auto parts plant. \u201cHe\u2019s got the union, he\u2019s a steward. But we still struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. LaVoy, strait-laced in affect and business casual in dress, doesn\u2019t present as a working-class hero. But she is trying, hard, and her pitch has a distinctly Norma Rae vibe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be getting our fair share,\u201d Ms. LaVoy told Ms. Ricci, echoing a refrain that many Americans are using this election year. She wants more money for roads. More money for unions. More money in workers\u2019 paychecks.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Amen Michelle LaVoy!!\u00a0 Democrats need to run on what their OWN constituents need, in addition to opposing Republican policies. <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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0917Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was such a busy day that I got to bed late and did not get enough sleep, so I&#8217;m quite tired.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a cool day, but it&#8217;s sunny enough that I&#8217;ll need to button-up by mid afternoon.\u00a0 OGIM!! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:11 (average 6:37).\u00a0 To do it, click here.\u00a0 How did <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/open-thread-9-17-2018\/' 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-33735","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\/33735","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=33735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}