{"id":34360,"date":"2018-11-16T13:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34360"},"modified":"2018-11-16T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:05:35","slug":"open-thread-11-16-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/open-thread-11-16-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/16\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m back in the saddle, but just barely.&#160; I seem to be coming down with a cold, but it may be the air quality warning.&#160; Apparently we&#8217;re getting smoke from the CA fires.&#160; My eyes are burning, and I&#8217;m congested.&#160; Store to Door is closed for Thanksgiving, so I had to give Safeway.com my grocery order for next week.&#160; I&#8217;m getting them delivered Monday, so there is a fall back period, in case they screw it up again.&#160; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:03 (average 4:56).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-11-16-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=a3mw97XODbA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Fmr. Amb: Reported Trump Devil\u2019s Bargain After Khashoggi Killing Horrendous<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/a3mw97XODbA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Only Republicans would trade an opportunity to murder an innocent, who has resided in the US for 20 years, to a dictator for silence on the murder of another innocent by another dictator. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TPuLrxF79ns\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Georgia resident discusses voter suppression as a form of voter intimidation (Turn volume way up.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/TPuLrxF79ns\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lynching certainly isn&#8217;t a joke. The Republican Senator from MS openly supported it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/heil-hitler-heil-trump-audience-member-reportedly-throws-fiddler-roof-performance\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>With the memory of the recent anti-Semitic attack at a PIttsburgh synagogue still fresh in the public&#8217;s mind, audience members were terrified when a man stood up and screamed &quot;Heil Hitler! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/arts-entertainment\/2018\/11\/15\/man-shouted-heil-hitler-heil-trump-during-fiddler-roof-people-ran\/?__twitter_impression=true&amp;__twitter_impression=true&amp;utm_term=.88fd63d69085\" target=\"_blank\">Heil Trump<\/a>!&quot; during a play on Wednesday night in Baltimore, according to a new report in the Washignton Post.<\/p>\n<p>The outburst came at the intermission of a performance of &quot;Fiddler on the Roof,&quot; a musical about Jewish traditions. One person told the Post that people began running when the man started shouting. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The next thing I expected to hear was gunshots, frankly,\u201d Richard Kerr said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was standing and giving a Nazi salute.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m sure his idol, the Fuhrer of the Republican Reich, is proud of him. <strong>RESIST<\/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\/11\/1116Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in the saddle, but just barely.&#160; I seem to be coming down with a cold, but it may be the air quality warning.&#160; Apparently we&#8217;re getting smoke from the CA fires.&#160; My eyes are burning, and I&#8217;m congested.&#160; Store to Door is closed for Thanksgiving, so I had to give Safeway.com my grocery <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/open-thread-11-16-2016\/' 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-34360","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\/34360","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=34360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}