{"id":33758,"date":"2018-09-19T13:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33758"},"modified":"2018-09-19T13:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:05:52","slug":"open-thread-9-19-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/open-thread-9-19-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/19\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries, and they are running late.&#160; When they arrive, I&#8217;ll have to break to unpack them, put them away, and eat lunch.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening to destink the TomCat and do chores.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Groceries done.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:20 (average 4:43).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-19-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=qPn460LMz_g\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Black, Queer, Feminist \u2014 and Unapologetic<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qPn460LMz_g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree. We&#8217;re all in the same basket, except the people who control the Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0oH59RfqTlc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Chuck Grassley Responds To Brett Kavanaugh Accuser\u2019s Request For FBI Probe<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0oH59RfqTlc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Party Operatives that attacked Christine need to wear jump suits, as orange as their Fuhrer&#8217;s ass! The Republicans on the committee should be tied under their Fuhrer&#8217;s Russian Hookers. Lindsey Poo should bare his butt to Putin, like his Fuhrer does. I fully believe, agree with, and support Christine. Late Update: Republicans are refusing to budge.&#160; I guess Republicans think that what happens at Georgetown Prep should stay at Georgetown Prep, to quote an infamous pervert.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/women-sign-letter-support-blasey-ford\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Just under 600 women alumnae of the high school that Christine Blasey Ford attended in Bethesda, Maryland have signed an open letter indicating their support for the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape in high school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/9\/18\/17869998\/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-holton-arms\" target=\"_blank\">Vox News reported.<\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>While the women said they did not know anything about the specific allegations that Blasey Ford has made against Kavanaugh, they called her experience \u201call too consistent with stories we heard and lived\u201d while attending Holton-Arms High School. The signees are students who attended the private girls school between 1962 and 2018, according to Vox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as Dr. Ford\u2019s specific allegations, it is inconsequential\/irrelevant to us whether anyone has heard them before, and in no way affects our belief that she is telling the truth,\u201d Kate Gold, a class of 2005 graduate who was part of the group that first circulated the letter, told Vox. \u201cWhat we are referring to in our letter is the nearly ubiquitous experience of high school girls as they try to navigate coming of age in a society dominated by toxic masculinity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They should all be called to testify. <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\/0919Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries, and they are running late.&#160; When they arrive, I&#8217;ll have to break to unpack them, put them away, and eat lunch.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening to destink the TomCat and do chores. Groceries done. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:20 (average 4:43).&#160; To do <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/open-thread-9-19-2018\/' 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-33758","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\/33758","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=33758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}