{"id":34101,"date":"2018-10-24T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34101"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T22:29:42","slug":"open-thread-10-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/24\/open-thread-10-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/24\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my groceries.\u00a0 They are due now.\u00a0 When they arrive, I&#8217;ll need to unpack and put them away.\u00a0 Then I&#8217;ll eat lunch.\u00a0 This evening WWWendy comes to destink the TomCat, and it&#8217;s been so humid here that I&#8217;m ready.\u00a0 Pray for the recipients of Republican bombs.\u00a0 Hump Day Hugs to all, but humping Republicans may be hazardous to your brain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:35 (average 5:47).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YWz3uqfapHU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SenatorJeffMerkley\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Merkley Channel<\/a>): <\/span>We MUST Act<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YWz3uqfapHU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is why we need Senators like Jeff, and not like Bought Bitch Mitch [R-KY] or any of his vile Republican ilk. Oregon leads the way! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oyjLWyhk1Mo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Right-wing media&#8217;s history of smearing coverage for pre-existing conditions as &#8220;a luxury,&#8221; &#8220;welfare&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oyjLWyhk1Mo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This has been the Republican position on pre-existing conditions for as long as I can remember. Now, two weeks away from the midterms, Trump and the Republicans that are still fighting to take away that coverage that Democrats gave people, are claiming they will cover preexisting conditions and Democrats won&#8217;t. How do you spell B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/saudi-crown-prince-freaks-out-after-giuliani-offers-to-go-on-tv-and-explain-what-happened\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, \u201ctotally freaked out\u201d after Rudolph Giuliani offered to appear on television and explain \u201cwhat really happened\u201d inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Giuliani has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani told reporters on Tuesday that he phoned the crown prince to make \u201can extremely attractive offer of my services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him, \u2018I can get this whole thing wrapped up in two weeks\u2014three, tops,\u2019 \u201d Giuliani said. \u201c \u2018Just say the word and Rudy Giuliani can be your official TV spokesman.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Andy, do you think Rudy 911 would survive? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1024Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It also replaces yesterday&#8217;s rat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my groceries.\u00a0 They are due now.\u00a0 When they arrive, I&#8217;ll need to unpack and put them away.\u00a0 Then I&#8217;ll eat lunch.\u00a0 This evening WWWendy comes to destink the TomCat, and it&#8217;s been so humid here that I&#8217;m ready.\u00a0 Pray for the recipients of Republican bombs.\u00a0 Hump <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/24\/open-thread-10-24-2018\/' 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-34101","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\/34101","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=34101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}