{"id":34028,"date":"2018-10-18T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34028"},"modified":"2018-10-18T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:38:52","slug":"open-thread-10-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/open-thread-10-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/18\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a muggy day here at the CatBox, and I&#8217;ll have to button up soon.I&#8217;ve has many tasks to complete, so I&#8217;m in a rush.&#160; It&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are visiting the Arizona Cardinals, and it is televised on Thursday Night Football.&#160; You know what I&#8217;ll be doing.<\/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 5:05).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-18-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=g7wLw3iYQl4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">HEY DUDE! &#8211; Parody<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/g7wLw3iYQl4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Damn! Amen times infinity!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/10\/17\/beto-orourke-dominates-ted-cruz-in-texas-senate-debate_partner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salon.com<\/a>: <\/font>Beto O\u2019Rourke dominates Ted Cruz in Texas Senate debate<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for the article. I knew he would. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/putin-furious-at-saudis-for-using-his-puppet-without-permission\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is \u201cabsolutely furious\u201d at the Saudi royal family for using his puppet without first obtaining his permission, an aide to Putin confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Russian President has been \u201cseething with anger\u201d in recent days as he has observed the Saudis using his favorite puppet as if it were their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one point, Putin was watching the news and saw his puppet behaving in the kind of scraping, subservient manner toward the Saudis that he had previously reserved for him,\u201d the aide said. \u201cHe pulled the TV out of the wall and hurled it across the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to diplomatic sources, the Saudis have reached out to Russia in the hopes of striking some sort of puppet-sharing agreement, but the enraged Russian President has refused to entertain such overtures.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Well, Andy, one can hardly blame Putin [R-RU]. To the best of my knowledge, MBS has not contributed even one urine saturated hooker to maintain Putin&#8217;s piddle puppet. <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\/1018Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a muggy day here at the CatBox, and I&#8217;ll have to button up soon.I&#8217;ve has many tasks to complete, so I&#8217;m in a rush.&#160; It&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are visiting the Arizona Cardinals, and it is televised on Thursday Night Football.&#160; You know what I&#8217;ll <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/open-thread-10-18-2018\/' 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-34028","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\/34028","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=34028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}