{"id":33859,"date":"2018-09-29T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33859"},"modified":"2018-09-29T12:37:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T19:37:05","slug":"open-thread-9-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/29\/open-thread-9-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/29\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m very tired, but I&#8217;m feeling a bit better, as it&#8217;s cooler and the Republicosis is almost gone.&#160; I hope that you are enjoying your weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:42 (average 4:44).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-29-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=9gwNM7Li5f8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>LA Times: FBI&#8217;s Brett Kavanaugh Probe Won&#8217;t End With Dr. Ford&#8217;s Allegation<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9gwNM7Li5f8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is wonderful news.&#160; We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Republicans Flake, Collins and Murkowski. If they had not refused to goose-step, Bought Bitch Mitch would have ignored the Judiciary Committee and shoved Pervert Kavanookie onto SCROTUS (Republican Unconstitutional VD). We may yet stop him now. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q5V1JoneYPQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Sam Doesn&#8217;t Need A Show To Vent About Brett Kavanaugh<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Q5V1JoneYPQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Does Sam have a unique talent for stripping away the BS or what? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/28\/technology\/facebook-hack-data-breach.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Facebook, already facing scrutiny over how it handles the private information of its users, said on Friday that an attack on its computer network had exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million users.<\/p>\n<p>The breach, which was discovered this week, was the largest in the company\u2019s 14-year history. The attackers exploited a feature in Facebook\u2019s code to gain access to user accounts and potentially take control of them.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The only way to win with Facebook is not to play. <strong>UNPLUG<\/strong>!! <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\/2017\/09\/0929Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very tired, but I&#8217;m feeling a bit better, as it&#8217;s cooler and the Republicosis is almost gone.&#160; I hope that you are enjoying your weekend. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:42 (average 4:44).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): LA Times: FBI&#8217;s Brett Kavanaugh <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/29\/open-thread-9-29-2018\/' 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-33859","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\/33859","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=33859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}