{"id":37716,"date":"2019-09-22T08:48:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37716"},"modified":"2019-09-22T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T15:48:41","slug":"open-thread-9-22-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/22\/open-thread-9-22-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/22\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s an unusual day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy won&#8217;t be here to de-stink the rancid TomCat until midafternoon, so I&#8217;m posting today.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; My Broncos are meditating with the Packers in Green Bay.&nbsp; Time to get out the Vaseline.&nbsp; May the Holy Orb bless your team, unless their fans wear fake cheese.&nbsp; Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update, and that probably after lunch.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to the medical appointment for my hiatal hernia.&nbsp; Ellipsoid Orb Hugs!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:02 (average 4:21).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-09-22-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\/2017\/09\/0922Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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=8GS8SSiDaXU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/oregoniannews\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oregonian Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Police pin down 2 teens, crowd reacts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8GS8SSiDaXU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In spite of all the wonderful things about Portland, our police have been notorious for employing Gestapo tactics for years. I suspect that the officers in charge of harassing teens, who were peacefully demonstrating for the earth, were Republicans. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yi0CqIeLjkQ&amp;list=PLvCvQKDJNRNY8rTuYvAEnereF4AGQf9hs&amp;index=151&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (A blast from the past): <\/font>The Cowsils_ The Rain, The Park, &amp; Other Things<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Yi0CqIeLjkQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories! <strong>RESIST!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/in-major-shakeup-one-of-the-voices-in-rudy-giulianis-head-resigns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a shakeup that White House insiders said was a long time coming, one of the voices in Rudy Giuliani\u2019s head has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation, which was officially tendered on Saturday morning, seemed inevitable after the former New York mayor made an appearance on CNN Thursday evening in which two of the voices in his head appeared to be in open warfare with each other.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen that happened, it was clear that Rudy\u2019s head was not big enough for the both of them,\u201d a White House insider said. \u201cAnd Rudy has an extremely big head.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>In an official statement, Giuliani thanked the departing voice for its service, and said that he was confident that the four remaining voices in his head would work well together.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! I hope it&#8217;s the voice that keeps parroting 9\/11. <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 an unusual day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy won&#8217;t be here to de-stink the rancid TomCat until midafternoon, so I&#8217;m posting today.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; My Broncos are meditating with the Packers in Green Bay.&nbsp; Time to get out the Vaseline.&nbsp; May the Holy Orb <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/22\/open-thread-9-22-2019\/' 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-37716","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\/37716","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=37716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}