{"id":33990,"date":"2018-10-13T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33990"},"modified":"2018-10-13T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:33:16","slug":"open-thread-10-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/13\/open-thread-10-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/13\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox with lots of chores to finish.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My 2-3 Broncos are hosting the undefeated Rams.&#160; The game will not be televised here, because the damn Seachickens are playing at the same time.&#160; May the Holy Orb shine its light on your team, unless they say baa-a-a-a-a-a-a.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:04 (average 5:50).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-13-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=Tc3rQWXEAVI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Seator [<em>sic<\/em>] Elizabeth Warren Hits Back At John F. Kelly Insult<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Tc3rQWXEAVI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Impolite and arrogant is the only feasible way for a woman (or man) to react to the Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/10\/10\/1803421\/-Susan-Collins-Gets-6-Figure-Dark-Money-Payback-For-Kavanaugh-Yes-Vote\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Republicans like Collins always accuse their opponents of their own crimes and misdeeds. So when Collins called the crowdraising fund dedicated to ousting her for voting \u201cyes\u201d on Kavanaugh an attempt to bribe her sorry ass, we can only suppose it\u2019s because the amount was simply too small to take seriously. She\u2019d apparently already accepted a bribe from some dark money group that was much more lucrative\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>\u2026<strong>Susan Collins Gets \u2018Six Figure\u2019 Payback From Dark Money Group After Voting \u2018Yes\u2019 On Kavanaugh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u201cdark money\u201d group that spent millions promoting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation effort announced on Tuesday that it\u2019s rewarding Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) with a new \u201csix-figure TV and digital ad campaign\u201d in support of her re-election after she voted for Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The group, Judicial Crisis Network, issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/judicialnetwork.com\/in-the-news\/jcn-launches-6-figure-ad-buy-in-maine-thanking-sen-susan-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> expressing its gratitude to Collins for her \u201cyes\u201d vote.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now we know the rest of the story. Collins sold her vote for $100,000 or more. Vote her out in 2020. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/sympathetic-voters-hope-to-end-melanias-suffering-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>One day after Melania Trump pronounced herself \u201cthe most bullied person in the world,\u201d millions of American voters vowed to put an end to her suffering in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews across the country, sympathetic voters promised to do everything in their power to insure that, as of November, 2020, Melania would no longer be the target of the vicious bullying that has made her the most persecuted human on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never realized just how much she was suffering as First Lady,\u201d Carol Foyler, a voter in Lansing, Michigan, said. \u201cIt\u2019s up to us as voters to rescue her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! When Trump loses in 2020, I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll give her a job producing urine and speaking with a Russian accent, since Putin [R-RU] will cut-off his entertainment benefits.&#160; <\/font><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST<\/font><\/strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1013Cartoon\" 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=\"1013Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1013Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox with lots of chores to finish.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My 2-3 Broncos are hosting the undefeated Rams.&#160; The game will not be televised here, because the damn Seachickens are playing at the same time.&#160; May the Holy Orb <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/13\/open-thread-10-13-2018\/' 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-33990","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\/33990","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=33990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}