{"id":37801,"date":"2019-09-29T08:52:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37801"},"modified":"2019-09-29T08:53:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:53:17","slug":"open-thread-9-29-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/29\/open-thread-9-29-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/29\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a muggy, chilly day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 It&#8217;s 46\u00b0 and 97% humidity with only 52\u00b0 forecast.\u00a0 The rest of the week will be in the low 60\u00b0s.\u00a0 WWWendy will be here in about an hour.\u00a0 May the Holy Ellipsoid Orb bless your team, unless they are big Latino puddy tats!\u00a0 This is my only article today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 4:44).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-09-29-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0929Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Kudos to that <em>dawg<\/em>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xR25izGfrmQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Impeachment Cold Open &#8211; SNL<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xR25izGfrmQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Apologies to those whose countries are excluded, but I had to include it for the rest. FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4v8KEbQA8kw&amp;list=PLWQWw3_o_dci92EQ-4W0gMg96DrF-xt5w&amp;index=3&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/span>Take It Easy (2013 Remaster)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4v8KEbQA8kw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ah\u2026 the memories! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/9\/27\/1888373\/-Ambassador-Joe-Wilson-has-died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/span>The former ambassador who travel to Niger and shot down the lies put forward by the Bush administration over nuclear weapons being created in Iraq has died.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote a piece for the New York Times entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/06\/opinion\/what-i-didn-t-find-in-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cWhat I didn\u2019t find in Africa\u201d<\/a>. It was the beginning of what would become \u201cPlamegate\u201d, the attempt to destroy his reputation through his wife, former CIA agent and current New Mexico congressional candidate, Valerie Plame, by outing her work with the CIA and putting her and her (now) ex-husband in danger. The effect would cost her her job with the CIA and a conviction for White House staffer Scooter Libby, which would later be commuted by George W. Bush. The good news out of that was that the truth would come out about the ridiculous foray into Iraq that we are stuck with to this day and the lies that precipitated with it. The journey for the ambassador, however, would not be easy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">RIP Joe! You were as honest as you were abused by Crawford Caligula and the Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">Vote Blue!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a muggy, chilly day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 It&#8217;s 46\u00b0 and 97% humidity with only 52\u00b0 forecast.\u00a0 The rest of the week will be in the low 60\u00b0s.\u00a0 WWWendy will be here in about an hour.\u00a0 May the Holy Ellipsoid Orb bless your team, unless they are big Latino puddy tats!\u00a0 This is my <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/29\/open-thread-9-29-2019\/' 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-37801","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\/37801","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=37801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}