{"id":38014,"date":"2019-10-21T08:26:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38014"},"modified":"2019-10-21T08:26:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:26:51","slug":"open-thread-10-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/21\/open-thread-10-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/21\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a slow news day, here in the CatBox, and most of what is happening is just more of the SOS.&nbsp; In addition, I&#8217;m feeling tired and sluggish, so I&#8217;m taking a partial day off, and this is today&#8217;s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:27 (average 3:54).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-10-21-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\/2017\/10\/1021Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I was one of them.<\/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=6Ix2hRBf1V0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The problem with the endangered species list<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6Ix2hRBf1V0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With Republicans in charge, all species are endangered, including us. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ&amp;list=PLGBuKfnErZlBLNzS_JlDAeiH5aW26rvHc&amp;index=33&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>Arlo Guthrie &#8211; City of New Orleans<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/TvMS_ykiLiQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/20\/world\/middleeast\/erdogan-turkey-nuclear-weapons-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Turkey\u2019s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants more than control over a wide swath of Syria along his country\u2019s border. He says he wants the Bomb.<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks leading up to his order to launch the military across the border to clear Kurdish areas, Mr. Erdogan made no secret of his larger ambition. \u201cSome countries have missiles with nuclear warheads,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-turkey-nuclear-erdogan\/erdogan-says-its-unacceptable-that-turkey-cant-have-nuclear-weapons-idUSKCN1VP2QN\">told a meeting of his governing party in September<\/a>. But the West insists \u201cwe can\u2019t have them,\u201d he said. \u201cThis, I cannot accept.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>With Turkey now in open confrontation with its NATO allies, having gambled and won a bet that it could conduct a military incursion into Syria and get away with it, Mr. Erdogan\u2019s threat takes on new meaning. If the United States could not prevent the Turkish leader from routing its Kurdish allies, how can it stop him from building a nuclear weapon or following Iran in gathering the technology to do so?  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The US has 50 nuclear weapons in Turkey. The USAF should remove them from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey and not notify Trump of their intent to do so, Otherwise Erdogan [R-TU] might go to Putin [R-RU] and ask him to order Trump to hand them over. <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 slow news day, here in the CatBox, and most of what is happening is just more of the SOS.&nbsp; In addition, I&#8217;m feeling tired and sluggish, so I&#8217;m taking a partial day off, and this is today&#8217;s only article. 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