{"id":34233,"date":"2018-11-05T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34233"},"modified":"2018-11-05T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:06:52","slug":"open-thread-11-5-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/05\/open-thread-11-5-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/5\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One day to go.&#160; It&#8217;s hard to imagine anything else I can say or do, except to harass people to vote, and I just got a text from my last friend, who hadn&#8217;t, that he has.&#160; Wendy and I had a hard day yesterday, and I&#8217;m feeling extremely tired.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:51 (average 5:32).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-11-05-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1104-Broncos17-Texans19\" 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=\"1104-Broncos17-Texans19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1104-Broncos17-Texans19.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"80\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m afraid I have to report Pat for Puddy Tat abuse.&#160; Her team beat me up.&#160; We missed the winning field goal, that was easily within range, on the last play of the game!&#160; ARGH!<\/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=cgp2f1SOzdE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Georgia Democrats Respond To Brian Kemp&#8217;s Claim Of Attempted Voter Hack<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cgp2f1SOzdE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With the Republican propensity for projection, you can be confident that Kemp, not Democrats, attempted the hack. Why else would he have intentionally left the system in GA vulnerable? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oyiWkCVmReU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Democrats hold advantage in final CNN midterm poll<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oyiWkCVmReU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Projections like this help stimulate enthusiasm, but only one person can make the projection real. <strong>YOU<\/strong>! <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-now-says-if-migrants-throw-rocks-military-will-respond-with-paper-or-scissors\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Backtracking from his earlier suggestion that the military should fire upon migrants if they throw rocks, Donald J. Trump said on Saturday that he was ordering the military to respond to rocks with either paper or scissors.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a rally in Pensacola, Florida, Trump said that the decision about whether to use paper or scissors to retaliate against rocks would ultimately be left up to military commanders at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf rocks come flying at them, they should go \u2018paper, scissors\u2019 until they have an answer,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>He issued a stern warning to the migrants approaching the border, telling them, \u201cThe United States military sees your rocks and is raising you paper or scissors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Only Republicans are dumb enough to think scissors can beat rocks. <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\/2016\/11\/1105Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day to go.&#160; It&#8217;s hard to imagine anything else I can say or do, except to harass people to vote, and I just got a text from my last friend, who hadn&#8217;t, that he has.&#160; Wendy and I had a hard day yesterday, and I&#8217;m feeling extremely tired. 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