{"id":37549,"date":"2019-09-04T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37549"},"modified":"2019-09-04T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:16:15","slug":"open-thread-9-4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/04\/open-thread-9-4-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/4\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I think I&#8217;m finally starting to get organized, so it&#8217;s time to disorganize again.&nbsp; My Vela chair, shower rack, and bake ware arrive today.&nbsp; WWWendy comes this evening for a load of chores and to de-stink the TomCat.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a shame that tomorrow is the 90\u00b0 day, the last of the current heat wave.&nbsp; Hump Day Hugs to all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:35 (average 4:54).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-09-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0904Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now a sad memory!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Notice<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Squatch and Vivian.&nbsp; You need you set your lineups in time for the game tomorrow night.<\/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=87JbKBsgNC0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Congressional Hearing Will Take Another Look At \u2018Individual 1\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/87JbKBsgNC0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Resident Pervert Donald, aka &#8220;Tiny Hands&#8221;, Trump is in diddle-dick doo-doo. Spank his ass, just like Stormy did, but with impeachment hearings. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PZnTtOwwLIs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Only Thing That Can Stop Joe Biden: His Own Mouth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PZnTtOwwLIs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sadly, what makes this funny is the truth of it. His defense was that facts don&#8217;t matter in decision making. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/americans-envious-that-tiffany-trump-never-hears-from-dad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Millions of Americans envy Tiffany Trump for never hearing from her father, a new poll reveals.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota\u2019s Opinion Research Institute, Tiffany Trump\u2019s unique placement beyond the reach of her father\u2019s voice has made her the most envied woman in America.  <\/p>\n<p>Although Donald Trump took the extraordinary step of emitting the word \u201cTiffany\u201d in remarks to reporters last week, the rarity of that utterance only served to remind Americans of just how fortunate Tiffany was to be off her father\u2019s radar.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all our years of polling, it\u2019s highly unusual to find one person so universally envied,\u201d Davis Logsdon, who supervised the poll, said. \u201cPeople in virtually every demographic group \u2018strongly agreed\u2019 with the statement, \u2018God, I wish I were Tiffany Trump.\u2019 \u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! Do you think he dislikes her, because she looks like him. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I think I&#8217;m finally starting to get organized, so it&#8217;s time to disorganize again.&nbsp; My Vela chair, shower rack, and bake ware arrive today.&nbsp; WWWendy comes this evening for a load of chores and to de-stink the TomCat.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a shame that tomorrow is the 90\u00b0 day, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/04\/open-thread-9-4-2019\/' 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-37549","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\/37549","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=37549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}