{"id":33879,"date":"2018-10-01T12:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33879"},"modified":"2018-10-01T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:52:27","slug":"open-thread-10-1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/open-thread-10-1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/1\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A new month is upon us, and we have a few cool days here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m tired, because WWWendy, who sends greetings, and I were up late last Night doing chores.\u00a0 Tonight, my Broncos play the Chiefs in Denver on Monday Night Football.\u00a0 May the holy Ellipsoid Orb bless my Broncos.\u00a0 (They&#8217;ll need it!)\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 3:04 (average 5:23).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-01-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/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=zLAZWrulr_Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Trump mocks Dianne Feinstein over Ford&#8217;s letter<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zLAZWrulr_Y?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A pervert perverting justice to defend a pervert. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/index.ssf\/2018\/09\/police_shooting_ends_with_man.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oregonian<\/a>: <\/span>Portland police are investigating a police shooting early Sunday in downtown Portland that left a Portland man dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Bureau has released few details about the shooting, but social media from relatives and friends of the victim are filled with &#8220;R.I.P.&#8221; messages for the family of a 27-year-old man named Patrick Kimmons, known as &#8220;Pat Pat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Protesters chanting \u2018Say His Name &#8211; Patrick Kimmons\u2019 as they walk south on Sw 4th Ave after police back out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cKI141ZvIs\">pic.twitter.com\/cKI141ZvIs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maxine Bernstein (@maxoregonian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxoregonian\/status\/1046560094710771712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The building you see with the Starbucks is mine, and all this happened in full view of my window, which you can\u00a0see when it pans. By the time I was aware of it, they were already removing the body. Even at 5:00 PM, WWWendy had to park several blocks away. She explained that she is a caregiver, so she got a police escort to my building to be allowed into the area. Police say it was gang related. <\/span><strong style=\"color: #0000ff;\">RESIST<\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">!! <\/span><strong style=\"color: #0000ff;\">VOTE BLUE<\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/30\/us\/politics\/fbi-kavanaugh-investigation-scope-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>The F.B.I. moved on Sunday to quickly complete an abbreviated investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, even as Democrats demanded more information about the inquiry\u2019s scope, warning that its apparent constraints could make it a \u201cfarce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As agents conducted their review, which involves interviewing four potential witnesses, a college professor in North Carolina became the latest in a series of former Yale classmates of Judge Kavanaugh\u2019s to accuse him of giving untruthful testimony by minimizing his use of alcohol when he was a student.<\/p>\n<p>The professor, Chad Ludington, said he frequently saw Judge Kavanaugh \u201cstaggering from alcohol consumption\u201d during their student years. He said he planned to tell his story to the F.B.I. at its office in Raleigh, N.C., on Monday. A spokesman for the White House declined to comment on Mr. Ludington\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It may be that a limited investigation might be all that&#8217;s needed to, but if it&#8217;s a farce, we can only hope that Flake, Collins, and Murkowski refuse to goose-step without a real investigation. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Late Update:\u00a0 The restrictions on the investigation have been lifted, because Flake and Collins insisted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1001Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"1001Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1001Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"1001Cartoon\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I was in the stands.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new month is upon us, and we have a few cool days here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m tired, because WWWendy, who sends greetings, and I were up late last Night doing chores.\u00a0 Tonight, my Broncos play the Chiefs in Denver on Monday Night Football.\u00a0 May the holy Ellipsoid Orb bless my Broncos.\u00a0 (They&#8217;ll need <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/open-thread-10-1-2018\/' 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-33879","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\/33879","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=33879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}