{"id":34108,"date":"2018-10-25T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34108"},"modified":"2018-10-25T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:03:09","slug":"open-thread-10-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/open-thread-10-25-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/25\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;m getting prepared for tomorrow.&#160; I have my preliminary eye-exam for the surgery to correct my double double vision vision, scheduled for 12\/12.&#160; I leave at 8:00 AM, and will return after 1:00 PM.&#160; I will be fully dilated, so I&#8217;ll be blind and useless for the rest of the day.&#160; Therefore, please expect no more than a Personal Update, and I will not be sending links messages on Care2.&#160; I should be back in the saddle on Saturday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:42 (averaged 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-25-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=Ab2ENG4vp_U\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>President Donald Trump Talks Bombs Then Slams Media<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ab2ENG4vp_U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When he&#8217;s building bombs, I suspect that the RepubliBomber chants MAGA-MAGA-Blow Job! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tmkjosTCqOQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Video<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Andrew Gillum smashes DeSantis during debate<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tmkjosTCqOQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Go Andrew! You don&#8217;t have to call DeSantis a racist. It&#8217;s already obvious. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/megyn-kellys-departure-nbc-imminent-network-deals-fallout-her-blackface-defense\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>NBC has decided it\u2019s had enough of Megyn Kelly for one week.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times\u2019 John Koblin reports that NBC will air reruns of Kelly\u2019s show over the next two days while the network continues to deal with the blowback caused by Kelly questioning why it\u2019s considered racist for white people to dress in blackface during Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the circumstances, Megyn Kelly Today will be on tape the rest of the week,\u201d NBC said in a statement to Koblin.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Temporary good riddance. When MSNBC hired this <em>Faux Noise<\/em> bikini model, I said it was a mistake. They need to fire her permanently.&#160; <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\/1025Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang!&#160; God IS on our side!<\/font> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile-1.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;m getting prepared for tomorrow.&#160; I have my preliminary eye-exam for the surgery to correct my double double vision vision, scheduled for 12\/12.&#160; I leave at 8:00 AM, and will return after 1:00 PM.&#160; I will be fully dilated, so I&#8217;ll be blind and useless for <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/open-thread-10-25-2018\/' 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-34108","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\/34108","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=34108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}