{"id":37968,"date":"2019-10-17T08:53:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37968"},"modified":"2019-10-17T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T19:14:01","slug":"open-thread-10-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/17\/open-thread-10-17-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/17\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m very tired, here in the CatBox.\u00a0 Yesterday wore me out.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hurrying to get a partial nap in, before Store to Door delivers my groceries this afternoon.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 My Broncos meditate with Chiefs, and it will be televised here.\u00a0 May the holy Orb shine it&#8217;s blessed light on your team, unless Native Americans object to their name.\u00a0 Broncos hugs for 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 3:17 (average 4:56).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-10-17-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\/2017\/10\/1017Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/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=KpamjJtXqFI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/span>The man who rigged America\u2019s election maps<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/KpamjJtXqFI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Hoffer is already sizzling with Scalia in the infernal realm. Now, we need to send all his work to join him. In state elections, vote blue, no matter who. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=emsTRiS72BE\" 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>John Brennan On \u2018All Roads With Trump Lead To Putin<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/emsTRiS72BE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With Trump, all roads lead to Putin [R-RU]. Why? Whatever Putin has on him, his nose is buried in Putin&#8217;s pooter. RESIST!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LVaj0TLODPI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WashingtonPost\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Democratic leadership speaks after White House meeting on Syria<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LVaj0TLODPI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From everything I&#8217;ve heard, Trump was a crass act, and Pelosi was a class act throughout!! <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>I&#8217;m very tired, here in the CatBox.\u00a0 Yesterday wore me out.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hurrying to get a partial nap in, before Store to Door delivers my groceries this afternoon.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 My Broncos meditate with Chiefs, and it will be televised here.\u00a0 May the holy Orb shine <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/17\/open-thread-10-17-2019\/' 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-37968","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\/37968","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=37968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}