{"id":37743,"date":"2019-09-25T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37743"},"modified":"2019-09-25T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:17:31","slug":"open-thread-9-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/open-thread-9-25-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/25\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; My medical waste company will be here in about 45 minutes to exchange my sharps container.&nbsp; The security procedures here are tight.&nbsp; Anytime someone comes for me, they need to call me.&nbsp; Then I need to go down to the lobby and let them in, and have them sign in.&nbsp; To get them to the 3rd floor I need to activate the elevator with a fob card.&nbsp; When they leave, I have to escort them back to the lobby and sign them out.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fortunately, I got a medical exception for WWWendy.&nbsp; She has her own mailbox key and door fobs.&nbsp; Speaking of WWWendy, It&#8217;s her day to de-stink the TomCat!&nbsp; Happy Hump Day 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 3:30 (average 4:57).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-09-25-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\/0925Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How many have survived the Republican Reich?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/panicky-trump-orders-dozen-new-sharpies-before-releasing-ukraine-phone-transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A reportedly panic-stricken Donald J. Trump ordered a dozen new Sharpies before releasing a transcript of his phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was reportedly incensed after he discovered that aides had not replenished his supply of Sharpies after he used his last one diverting the path of Hurricane Dorian.  <\/p>\n<p>In New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Vice-President Mike Pence scoured stationery stores in midtown Manhattan to find the precious Sharpies, but came up empty.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I see Andy abandoned satire for straight news again. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gguoGtjtFPA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Bubblebustin: A Liberal Redneck Fox News Watch-Along &#8211; Ep. 1 &#8211; Area 51  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gguoGtjtFPA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On rare occasions, I&#8217;ve done the same thing to debunk the Republican Reichsministry Propaganda, Faux Noise.&nbsp; This time, I needed extra Alka-Seltzer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=obn9wh67HJM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: Trump&#8217;s Economy Revealed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/obn9wh67HJM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left. Robert Reich, is right. The only financial achievement attributable to the Fuhrer and the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich is stealing your modest wealth and giving it to greedy Republican billionaires and corporate criminals. <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 at the CatBox.&nbsp; My medical waste company will be here in about 45 minutes to exchange my sharps container.&nbsp; The security procedures here are tight.&nbsp; Anytime someone comes for me, they need to call me.&nbsp; Then I need to go down to the lobby and let them in, and have <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/open-thread-9-25-2019\/' 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-37743","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\/37743","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=37743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}