{"id":33874,"date":"2018-09-30T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T19:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33874"},"modified":"2018-09-30T12:32:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T19:32:43","slug":"open-thread-9-30-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/open-thread-9-30-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/30\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is my only article today, and I won&#8217;t be sending links messages on Care2.&#160; WWWendy went to the beach with a high school buddy, who is visiting family in Vancouver, WA, so she wont be coming until this evening.&#160; Also, it&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, even though my Broncos don&#8217;t worship until Monday Night, when they visit the Chiefs.&#160; Finally, the news is dominated by contradicting accounts on whether and how much the Republican Reich is interfering with the FBI investigation of Pervert Kavanookie.&#160; I&#8217;ll wait until I actually know what&#8217;s going on.&#160; In any case, I&#8217;ll be up late this evening doing chores, so I&#8217;m resting today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:10 (average 5:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-30-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=VRJecfRxbr8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Kavanaugh Hearing Cold Open<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VRJecfRxbr8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a lot like the real thing! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dFTJNhwjg4s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>It&#8217;s Up to You<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dFTJNhwjg4s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right, and the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, needs to go! It&#8217;s up to YOU! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/30\/sen-elizabeth-warren-says-she-will-take-hard-look-presidential-run\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said Saturday that she plans to \u201ctake a hard look\u201d at running for president in 2020 after the midterm elections in November, her most explicit acknowledgment yet of her national ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Warren made the statement in response to a question about a possible presidential run at a town hall event in Holyoke, Mass., and she explicitly put her deliberations in the context of the searing drama playing out in Washington around the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week, I watched 11 men who were too chicken to ask a woman a single question. I watched as Brett Kavanaugh acted like he was entitled to that position and angry at anyone who would question him. I watched powerful men helping a powerful man make it to an even more powerful position. I watched that, and I thought: Time\u2019s up,\u201d she said, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9SY0DdzcTbo&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;app=desktop\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> posted by Warren\u2019s Senate campaign. \u201cIt\u2019s time for women to go to Washington and fix our broken government, and that includes a woman at the top. So here\u2019s what I promise: After Nov. 6, I will take a hard look at running for president.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9SY0DdzcTbo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That, I&#8217;d love to see.&#160; Go Liz!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0930Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">True in 2011 and still true!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my only article today, and I won&#8217;t be sending links messages on Care2.&#160; WWWendy went to the beach with a high school buddy, who is visiting family in Vancouver, WA, so she wont be coming until this evening.&#160; Also, it&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, even though my <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/open-thread-9-30-2018\/' 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-33874","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\/33874","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=33874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}