{"id":37959,"date":"2019-10-15T10:17:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T17:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37959"},"modified":"2019-10-15T10:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T17:26:24","slug":"open-thread-10-15-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/15\/open-thread-10-15-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/15\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a very busy day, here at the CatBox.\u00a0 First I overslept an hour.\u00a0 Then I had to prepare and send my grocery order to Store to Door.\u00a0 Then I had to prepare our Fantasy Football Report and set my lineup.\u00a0 Then I did my daily research.\u00a0 Now I&#8217;m writing.\u00a0 This evening\u00a0 WWWendy comes to de-stink the foul TomCat.\u00a0 After so many days, I&#8217;m&#8230; quite ripe.\u00a0 Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update.\u00a0 I have another appointment with Megan, my PCP, about my gut trouble.\u00a0 Hectic hugs to all.<\/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 2:37 (average 4:24).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-10-15-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\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1015Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) is worse!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here&#8217;s the news from <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our own fantasy football league<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Scores:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"6Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6Scores.jpg\" alt=\"6Scores\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Congrats to Patty Monster, Vivian and WWWendy for winning their games.\u00a0 Kudos to Patty Monster for the week&#8217;s high score.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Standings:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"6Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6Standings.jpg\" alt=\"6Standings\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Congrats to Vivian and WWWendy for leading the league.<\/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=-DIL95TsahI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>US Policy Collapses Into Catastrophe Following Trump&#8217;s Whims<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-DIL95TsahI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Erdogan gets Syrian Kurdistan. Putin [R-RU] gets control of Syria. Trump gets to bend over for Daddy Vladdy. The Kurds, our loyal allies, get betrayed, dispossessed and decimated. The US get to look like fools. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7PumMKz_3sg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FUN FUN FUN &#8211; A Parody<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7PumMKz_3sg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Love it, Don! But I would prefer it, if the paddy wagon took Trump away! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/14\/us\/politics\/trump-shooting-media-video.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_191015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>The creator of a gruesome video that showed a fake President Trump killing journalists and political opponents and that was played at a meeting of a pro-Trump group over the weekend is part of a loose network of right-wing provocateurs with a direct line to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified creator of the video operates under the name of \u201cThe GeekzTeam\u201d and has proclaimed on Twitter to be a \u201cred blooded American with ZERO tolerance for the liberal agenda.\u201d Like many in the online group, the person specializes in creating pro-Trump internet content, often by remixing the president\u2019s image into clips from popular movies and television shows.<\/p>\n<p>Another of the provocateurs, Logan Cook, who often has posted the videos on MemeWorld, his website, participated in a social media summit at the White House in July and took his children to meet the president in the Oval Office, accompanied by Dan Scavino, the White House social media director.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">No wonder the Fuhrer loves it so much! <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 very busy day, here at the CatBox.\u00a0 First I overslept an hour.\u00a0 Then I had to prepare and send my grocery order to Store to Door.\u00a0 Then I had to prepare our Fantasy Football Report and set my lineup.\u00a0 Then I did my daily research.\u00a0 Now I&#8217;m writing.\u00a0 This evening\u00a0 WWWendy comes to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/15\/open-thread-10-15-2019\/' 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-37959","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\/37959","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=37959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}