{"id":33965,"date":"2018-10-10T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33965"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:51:52","slug":"open-thread-10-10-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/open-thread-10-10-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/10\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a hectic day here in the CatBox.&#160; I had some paperwork I had to get done early, so I got started over an hour late.&#160; Then my Internet connection went down for about an hour.&#160; I caught up by skipping my morning nap.&#160; Store to Door should deliver groceries in a little over an hour, after which I&#8217;ll need to unpack and pout them away.&#160; Next I&#8217;ll prepare and eat lunch.&#160; And this evening, WWWendy will come to destink the TomCat.<\/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 7:09).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Activism<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1010PatBeto\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1010PatBeto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1010PatBeto.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"889\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to our resident beauty queen.<\/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=iITBcEX5uEQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Swift Results: Voter Registration Spikes After Star\u2019s Endorsement Of Democrats<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iITBcEX5uEQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Love it! Republicans thought they owned her! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/10\/us\/hurricane-michael-wxc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font>A terrifyingly powerful Category 4 Hurricane Michael was poised to become the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/09\/weather\/hurricane-michael-stats-superlatives-wxc-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">strongest hurricane to hit the Florida Panhandle in recorded history<\/a> Wednesday, its rapid strengthening catching some by surprise and leaving anxious officials telling those who didn&#8217;t evacuate: It&#8217;s time to hunker down.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is the worst storm that our Florida Panhandle has seen in a century,&quot; Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday morning. &quot;Hurricane Michael is upon us, and now is the time to seek refuge.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT4+shtml\/100251.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">extremely dangerous<\/a> Michael is expected to make landfall in the Panhandle, perhaps near Panama City and Laguna Beach, in the afternoon, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you are in range of it, please attend to your safety! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/kavanaugh-disappointed-to-discover-supreme-court-has-no-happy-hour\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a setback for the newest Associate Justice on his first day at work, Brett Kavanaugh said on Tuesday that he was \u201cvery disappointed\u201d to learn that the Supreme Court does not have a happy hour.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh told reporters that he made the horrifying discovery as the clock ticked down to 5 p.m. and \u201ceveryone was still in their offices working and stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d Kavanaugh said. \u201cI had been busting my tail for six hours, and I needed to blow off some steam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the member of the Court who delivered the bad news to Kavanaugh. \u201cWhen she told me, I guess I started crying a bit, which I now regret,\u201d he said. \u201cShe just kind of closed her office door and went back to work or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oh Andy! Poor Kava-Nazi! Now he&#8217;ll have to get an alcohol IV. <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\/10\/1010Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a hectic day here in the CatBox.&#160; I had some paperwork I had to get done early, so I got started over an hour late.&#160; Then my Internet connection went down for about an hour.&#160; I caught up by skipping my morning nap.&#160; Store to Door should deliver groceries in a little over an <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/open-thread-10-10-2018\/' 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":[35,3,141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-plus","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-141-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\/33965","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=33965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}