{"id":37888,"date":"2019-10-10T09:21:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T16:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37888"},"modified":"2019-10-10T09:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T16:21:13","slug":"open-thread-10-10-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/10\/open-thread-10-10-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/10\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy, crappy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I&#8217;m hurrying to get a partial nap, before Store to Door delivers my groceries this afternoon.&nbsp; Then WWWendy comes this evening.&nbsp; I spoke too soon about my Republicosis, because it&#8217;s back with a vengeance.&nbsp; I&#8217;d better take extra Immodium for WWWendy&#8217;s sake.&nbsp; Double stinky 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 4:30 (average 7:09).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-10-10-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\/2016\/10\/1010Cartoon.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=gy4V3HXxlVM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>US Department of Agriculture launches pro-Trump propaganda podcast<\/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\/gy4V3HXxlVM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I counted all the honest statements mixed into the bullshit. There were zero. YOU are paying for this! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x1JVVC55g8Y\" 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><font color=\"#000000\">Watch: Pence Evades Repeated Questions On Trump&#8217;s Ukraine Plot<\/font><\/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\/x1JVVC55g8Y\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s Pence&#8217;s Ukraine plot too.&nbsp; This is still the problem with removal. Would we be better off or worse off if Pence became Fuhrer? Is there any doubt that her would help Trump get away with it by pardoning him? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/2019\/10\/09\/blumenuer-urges-boycott-of-provenance-hotels-the-chain-founded-by-gordon-sondland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willamette Week<\/a>: <\/font>U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) today urged travelers to boycott Provenance Hotels, the Portland-based chain founded by the Hon. Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who cares about America should not do any business or stay at any of Gordon Sondland&#8217;s hotels. Not until he fulfills his duty as a citizen to testify and turn over all relevant documents to the House of Representatives,&#8221; Blumenauer said in a statement today. &#8220;Nobody is above the law. Mr. Sondland and the entire Trump administration need to be reminded of that.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Provenance owns or operates <a href=\"https:\/\/provenancehotels.com\/portfolio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14 hotels, including six in Portland:<\/a> the Heathman, the Sentinel, the deLuxe, the Lucia, the Dossier and the Woodlark.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Earl is my Rep and I fully support this boycott. Unfortunately, I doubt they&#8217;ll lose from us. Rooms at the Sentinel go from $199 to $299 per night. <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, crappy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I&#8217;m hurrying to get a partial nap, before Store to Door delivers my groceries this afternoon.&nbsp; Then WWWendy comes this evening.&nbsp; I spoke too soon about my Republicosis, because it&#8217;s back with a vengeance.&nbsp; I&#8217;d better take extra Immodium for WWWendy&#8217;s sake.&nbsp; Double stinky hugs to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/10\/open-thread-10-10-2019\/' 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-37888","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\/37888","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=37888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}