{"id":34252,"date":"2018-11-07T13:01:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34252"},"modified":"2018-11-07T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:01:40","slug":"open-thread-11-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/open-thread-11-7-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/7\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Store to Door delivered my groceries earlier.&#160; They screwed them up so badly, that I&#8217;m trying to get ahold of WWWendy to make an emergency stop on the way here tonight.&#160; Keep your eyes on DOJ.&#160; Jeff Sessions (R-KKK) just resigned.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.&#160; I have a routine semi-annual appointment with my Pulmonologist.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:05 (average 5:27).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-11-07-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=Rj8-8GDDzZ0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/oregoniannews\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Oregonian Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Kate Brown talks to reporters after re-election<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Rj8-8GDDzZ0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here in Oregon, I got everything I wanted, except for 1 House Seat that is perennially red. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9vWdVZXkYvk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: It&#8217;s Time for Medicare for All<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9vWdVZXkYvk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right, and the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, wants to push Granny off a cliff. We can pass it in the House next year. The Republicans will vote it down in the Senate and be on record for doing so. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/theyre-going-make-his-life-living-hell-cnns-jake-tapper-dismisses-trumps\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump sent out a celebratory tweet Tuesday night after it became clear that his party would maintain control of the U.S. Senate \u2014 but completely ignoring the fact that Democrats have won control of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>As CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer was giving the president for the win, Jake Tapper cut in to throw cold water on the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Let&#8217;s just cut through that for a second,&quot; Tapper said. &quot;He just lost the House.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But he did manage to hold on to the Senate,&quot; said Blitzer.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know. And mavel tov,&quot; said Tapper. &quot;But the bottom line is: This is not a good night for President Trump. The Democrats have just retaken the House, and they&#8217;re going to have subpoena power, and they&#8217;re going to make his life a living hell.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can&#8217;t wait! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1107Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1107Cartoon\" 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=\"1107Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1107Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Store to Door delivered my groceries earlier.&#160; They screwed them up so badly, that I&#8217;m trying to get ahold of WWWendy to make an emergency stop on the way here tonight.&#160; Keep your eyes on DOJ.&#160; Jeff Sessions (R-KKK) just resigned.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.&#160; I have a routine semi-annual <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/open-thread-11-7-2018\/' 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-34252","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\/34252","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=34252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}