{"id":34063,"date":"2018-10-20T13:33:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T20:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34063"},"modified":"2018-10-20T13:33:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T20:33:53","slug":"open-thread-10-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/20\/open-thread-10-20-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/20\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a muggy day here at the CatBox, and I&#8217;ll need to button up soon.&#160; Last night was so sticky that I slept poorly, and I feel very tired now.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jig Zone did not have a new puzzle today.&#160; I do not know why.<\/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=f4pzInADSGQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Senator: White House looking to frighten American people<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/f4pzInADSGQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jeff said, &quot;We need to focus on things that effect Americans&#8217; daily lives.&quot; I agree. Focus on the total elimination of the Republican Reich. As for the caravan, find the ones that legitimately need protection and keep them. Treat ALL the children like children, not like terrorists. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-45926754\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Turkey has vowed to reveal all details about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after Saudi Arabia admitted for the first time he had been killed in its consulate in Istanbul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Turkey will never allow a cover-up,&quot; a ruling party spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia suggested on Friday Mr Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi critic, had died in a &quot;fist fight&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish officials previously said he had been deliberately killed inside the consulate, and his body dismembered.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, unnamed Turkish officials told media outlets they had audio and visual evidence to prove this.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Turkey needs to release that audio-visual evidence to the world press. I have no desire to hear or see the grisly assassination, but the American people need it to be shocked out of their ho-hum complacency about Trump&#8217;s role in the Saudi cover-up. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/need-free-expression-here-are-5-highlights-jamal-khashoggis-final-column\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Here are five of the most important points that Jamal Khashoggi made in his final column for the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Democracy Is in Short Supply in the Arab World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Khashoggi\u2019s final column addresses human rights, which is bitterly ironic in light of Turkish government officials\u2019 allegation that he was murdered by Saudi agents on orders from the Saudi royal family. Khashoggi opens the column by discussing Freedom House\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/report\/freedom-world\/freedom-world-2018\">2018 Freedom in the World Report<\/a> and its assessment of political conditions in Arab countries; Tunisia, Khashoggi laments, is the only one classified as \u201cfree\u201d in the report, with Morocco, Jordan and Kuwait being classified as \u201cpartly free\u201d and all other countries in the Arab world being classified as \u201cnot free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared one. Click through for the other four. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1020Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a muggy day here at the CatBox, and I&#8217;ll need to button up soon.&#160; Last night was so sticky that I slept poorly, and I feel very tired now. Jig Zone Puzzle: Jig Zone did not have a new puzzle today.&#160; I do not know why. Short Takes: From YouTube (CNN Channel): Senator: White <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/20\/open-thread-10-20-2018\/' 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-34063","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\/34063","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=34063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}