{"id":33957,"date":"2018-10-09T13:21:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T20:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33957"},"modified":"2018-10-09T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T20:21:41","slug":"open-thread-10-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/09\/open-thread-10-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/9\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think I&#8217;m done moping.&#160; Last night, I was eating supper when I first heard Putin&#8217;s Pervert apologizing to Pervert Kava-Nazi and claiming his innocence had been proven.&#160; I won&#8217;t repeat my string of expletives.&#160; I also threw a bowl of chili at Trump.&#160; Fortunately it was almost empty.&#160; Even so, cleaning the TV, TV hutch, and floor from my wheelchair took over an hour.&#160; We have 28 days.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:46 (average 5:04).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-09-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here are the results from our own <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\">fantasy football league<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"5Scores\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"5Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats to Vivian, Wendy and Pam for winning their games.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"5Standings\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"5Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Pam for leading the league.<\/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=Lhkz8P5eyVw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Appalachian Great-Grandma Calls out the GOP<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Lhkz8P5eyVw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You tell them Portia! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4bsKCHuAa4c\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: Are You Suffering from Presidential Dysfunction?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4bsKCHuAa4c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is almost right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is the reason we suffer from Residential (Trump is NOT a President.) Dysfunction. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trump-absurdly-claimed-its-scary-time-men-and-woman-shut-him-down-epic-musical-fact-check\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>In the midst of the controversial Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh ($%^&amp;#@!), Donald Trump stood on the lawn of the White House and said, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/02\/politics\/trump-scary-time-for-young-men-metoo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s a scary time for young men in America<\/a>.\u201d For the millions of women who\u2019ve been sexually assaulted, it was rage-inducing to hear Donald Trump complain that men are the ones truly in danger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mercedeslynz\" target=\"_blank\">Lynzy Lab<\/a> decided to channel her anger into a song called It\u2019s A Scary Time, and its is fan-freaking-tastic.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/N34hehRgw9g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for transcript. Kudos to Lynzy! <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\/2016\/10\/1009Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m done moping.&#160; Last night, I was eating supper when I first heard Putin&#8217;s Pervert apologizing to Pervert Kava-Nazi and claiming his innocence had been proven.&#160; I won&#8217;t repeat my string of expletives.&#160; I also threw a bowl of chili at Trump.&#160; Fortunately it was almost empty.&#160; Even so, cleaning the TV, TV <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/09\/open-thread-10-9-2018\/' 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-33957","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\/33957","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=33957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}