{"id":33790,"date":"2018-09-23T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33790"},"modified":"2018-09-23T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T19:49:08","slug":"open-thread-9-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/23\/open-thread-9-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 9\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a cool day, so I think I can get away with no AC.  WWWendy is due in 15 minutes.  When we finish our tasks, I plan to spend my day in religious meditation on the wonder of the holy Ellipsoid Orb.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:21 (average 4:38).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Six of Republican Rep. Paul Gosar’s nine siblings set tongues wagging in Arizona and beyond with some of the more memorable ads of the year, urging voters of the state’s 4th congressional district to boot him from office in November.<\/p>\n

The brothers and sisters instead encouraged voters to cast their ballots for the congressman\u2019s Democratic opponent, David Brill, who surfaced the three spots on his YouTube page Friday. They quickly went viral.<\/p>\n

One ad \u2014 entitled, \u201cA Family Defends Its Honor\u201d \u2014 opens with David Gosar, a lawyer.<\/p>\n

All relatives of Republican politicians, pundits, and goose-steppers should do that. RESIST<\/strong>!! VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n

Kavanaugh and the W.H. have both denied conspiring with Ed Whelan on his bullshit hit piece but\u2026<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cOn Sunday, Ford noticed that \u2014 even before her name became public \u2014 Whelan appeared to be seeking information about her.<\/em><\/p>\n

That morning, Ford alerted an associate via email that Whelan had looked at her LinkedIn page, according to the email, which was reviewed by The Post. LinkedIn allows some subscribers to see who views their pages. Ford sent the email about 90 minutes after The Post shared her name with a White House spokesman and hours before her identity was revealed in <\/em>a story posted on its website<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

A White House spokesman said Friday that neither Kavanaugh nor anyone in the White House gave Ford\u2019s name to Whelan before it was disclosed by The Post. Whelan did not respond to a request for comment on how he first learned of Ford\u2019s identity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now we know how Christine was outed. Pervert Trump and Pervert Kava-Nazi had it done. RESIST<\/strong>!! VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Just as he did several weeks ago to prepare for his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, Brett M. Kavanaugh was back inside a room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building \u2014 again facing questioners readying him for a high-stakes appearance in the Senate. <\/p>\n

This time, the questions were much different. An array of White House aides, playing the role of various senators on the Judiciary Committee, quizzed Kavanaugh last week about his sex life and other personal matters in an attempt to prepare him for a hearing that would inevitably be uncomfortable. <\/p>\n

In his answers during the practice runs, aides said, Kavanaugh condemned sexual assault and carefully avoided seeming to discredit Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor in Northern California<\/a> who has accused the nominee of pinning her to a bed, groping her and putting his hand over her mouth to stifle her screams as he tried to take off her clothes at a drunken high school party in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

But Kavanaugh grew frustrated when it came to questions that dug into his private life, particularly his drinking habits and his sexual proclivities, according to three people familiar with the preparations, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. He declined to answer some questions altogether, saying they were too personal, these people said.<\/p>\n

Hmmmm\u2026. Does Pervert Kava-Nazi have other victims? RESIST<\/strong>!! VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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It’s a cool day, so I think I can get away with no AC.  WWWendy is due in 15 minutes.  When we finish our tasks, I plan to spend my day in religious meditation on the wonder of the holy Ellipsoid Orb. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:21 (average 4:38).  To do it, click […]<\/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-33790","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\/33790","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=33790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}