{"id":37982,"date":"2019-10-18T10:34:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37982"},"modified":"2019-10-18T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:34:47","slug":"open-thread-10-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/18\/open-thread-10-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/18\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another hectic day here in the CatBox, as I spent considerable time this morning sorting out my appointment schedule for next month&#8217;s medical mayhem&nbsp; It&#8217;s going to be a busy month.&nbsp; I&#8217;m pleased to report that I&#8217;m back to normal, as Republicosis waved the white flag.&nbsp; Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow.&nbsp; To ease our schedule back to normal without another long break,&nbsp; WWWendy is coming in the morning, instead of Sunday, to de-stink the mangy TomCat.&nbsp; We have lots of chores to do.&nbsp; TGIF 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 3:02 (average 5:05).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-10-18-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\/2016\/10\/1018Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1017Broncos6-Chiefs30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1017Broncos6-Chiefs30\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1017Broncos6-Chiefs30\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1017Broncos6-Chiefs30_thumb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\"><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t which is harder on my ass&#8230; Republicosis or that damn Orb?<\/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\/the-life-changing-magic-of-impeaching-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Life-Changing Magic of Impeaching Trump<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qLB2MrVZAfg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! That&#8217;s one (im)PEACH of a video! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zQxL6WE3Ob8\" 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>W.H. Chief Of Staff Admits \u2018We Held Up The Money\u2019 To Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zQxL6WE3Ob8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Have you ever noticed how arrogant Republican officials are. Mulvaney was &#8220;in your face&#8221; haughty.&nbsp; He might as well have said, &#8220;How dare you question our right to steal elections and govern to enrich ourselves?!&#8221; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g_sG7N7pJ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Mattis mocks Trump&#8217;s bone spurs during Al Smith dinner speech<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/g_sG7N7pJ6g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When the Fuhrer, Resident Donald Trump, aka Putin&#8217;s Pervert, first appointed Mattis, I stated that I thought Mad Dog might not be a bad dog. I disagree with many of his views, but I was right. He may be misguided, but he means well.&nbsp; Furthermore, his Trump humor could not be more appropriate. <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 another hectic day here in the CatBox, as I spent considerable time this morning sorting out my appointment schedule for next month&#8217;s medical mayhem&nbsp; It&#8217;s going to be a busy month.&nbsp; I&#8217;m pleased to report that I&#8217;m back to normal, as Republicosis waved the white flag.&nbsp; Please expect no more than a Personal Update <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/18\/open-thread-10-18-2019\/' 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-37982","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\/37982","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=37982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}