{"id":34047,"date":"2018-10-19T13:35:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T20:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34047"},"modified":"2018-10-19T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T20:35:30","slug":"open-thread-10-19-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/open-thread-10-19-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/19\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It a muggy day, here in the CatBox, and I&#8217;m still pretty busy with tasks to perform.&#160; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:12 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-19-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1018-Broncos45-Cardinals10\" 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=\"1018-Broncos45-Cardinals10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1018-Broncos45-Cardinals10.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I became an honorary mascot, so I could join the game in puddy tat mode.&#160; The experience was so tasty, that I was still spitting out <font color=\"#ff0000\">red feathers<\/font> this morning.<\/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=5fEMusH-vq4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The message from Fox: Vote Republican or immigrants will invade and ruin your country<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5fEMusH-vq4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, is demonstrating that the Republican Reich is racist, xenophobic, and antichristian. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RS0uKE3sRVY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: 3 Easy Fixes for Social Security &amp; Medicare<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RS0uKE3sRVY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the greedy Republican Reich represents only the 1%! They do not represent YOU! Institute the 3 Fixes ASAP! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-dispatches-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-saudi-arabia-to-provide-lying-advice\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump has dispatched the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to Saudi Arabia to provide what the White House on Thursday called \u201cessential lying advice and assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the counsellor to the President Kellyanne Conway, \u201cThe President was not happy with the quality of lies coming out of the Saudi royal family, and who better to fix that than Sarah Sanders?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to Sanders said that the press secretary was \u201chorrified\u201d during her first meeting in Riyadh to discover that the crown prince\u2019s lying skills were \u201crudimentary at best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! The Fuhrer is really serious. Upchuckabee-Sanders is his biggest BS gun! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1019Cartoon\" 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=\"1019Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1019Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">November 6!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It a muggy day, here in the CatBox, and I&#8217;m still pretty busy with tasks to perform.&#160; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:12 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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