{"id":37633,"date":"2019-09-12T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37633"},"modified":"2019-09-12T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:10:45","slug":"open-thread-9-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/12\/open-thread-9-12-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/12\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a crazy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; It may be the last day this year in the 80\u00b0s, and talk about muggy!&nbsp; The humidity is 97%.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries this afternoon.&nbsp; I want to eat lunch early, take an early cat nap, get up for the delivery, and take another cat nap, when done.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll see how that works.&nbsp; Today is a Holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; The Buccaneers play the Panthers on Thursday Night Football.&nbsp; Fantasy Football players, make sure you set your lineup before the game.&nbsp; Tonight I&#8217;ll be watching the debate instead of meditating on the Orb.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Democratic Debate<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/09\/11\/us\/politics\/third-democratic-debate-abc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for an extensive preview from the NY^ Times<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:04 (average 4:30).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-09-12-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\" 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\/2017\/09\/0912Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A blast from the past.<\/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=rz4kQTgpFYY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/propublica\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProPublica Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Here\u2019s How a Foreign Official Ended Up Writing Part of Trump\u2019s Campaign Speech<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rz4kQTgpFYY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is there no nation that has not bought the Republican Reich? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E5Izqw3glg0\" 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>Medically Fragile Immigrant Appeals To Congress In Fight For Life<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/E5Izqw3glg0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Damn all Republican murderers! They say this isn&#8217;t a real threat. If that&#8217;s true, then the Pope is not Catholic, and bears never, ever shit in the woods. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-49669811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>: <\/font><strong>The US Supreme Court has allowed the government to severely limit the ability of migrants to claim asylum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The policy bars people arriving at the US southern border from seeking protection if they failed to do so in a country they passed through en route.  <\/p>\n<p>Legal challenges continue but the ruling means for now it can be enforced nationwide.  <\/p>\n<p>The plan will affect tens of thousands of Central American migrants who travel north, often on foot, through Mexico.  <\/p>\n<p>Mexico said on Thursday that it disagreed with the ruling.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitution VD). Are out of control! <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 crazy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; It may be the last day this year in the 80\u00b0s, and talk about muggy!&nbsp; The humidity is 97%.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries this afternoon.&nbsp; I want to eat lunch early, take an early cat nap, get up for the delivery, and take another cat <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/12\/open-thread-9-12-2019\/' 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-37633","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\/37633","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=37633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}