{"id":38076,"date":"2019-10-30T09:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38076"},"modified":"2019-10-30T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:53:37","slug":"open-thread-10-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/30\/open-thread-10-30-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/30\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I spoke with Megan, my PCP, this morning and talked to WWWendy right after.&nbsp; Megan wants me to go to the emergency room to have my heart checked and to try to ascertain what&#8217;s wrong with me.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t go tonight, because I&#8217;ve already ordered groceries, and I have to be here to take delivery and put them away.&nbsp; I cant go tomorrow night, because it&#8217;s Halloween, and the ER will be a total zoo.&nbsp; So WWWendy is taking me late Friday afternoon.&nbsp; If I&#8217;m not here Saturday, they kept me.&nbsp; I sure hope I am.&nbsp; I&#8217;m busy getting ready, so this is my only article today.&nbsp; Hump Day 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 3:43 (average 6:08).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-10-30-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\/2017\/10\/1030Cartoon.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=i_gR1MSNc0Q\" 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>Vindman: Trump-Ukraine Call Record Omitted Biden-Related Mentions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/i_gR1MSNc0Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We should have figured that the Republican Reich would doctor the evidence. Even as it was, it was damning. This is even worse. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/10\/29\/us\/politics\/vindman-statement-impeachment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link to Vindman&#8217;s opening statement<\/a>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u4rQBL8eyOQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>6 Ways Trump Has Sold Out America with Robert Reich<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/u4rQBL8eyOQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For once, the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is wrong. The number of ways that Fuhrer Trump and the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, have sold out America approaches infinity. That&#8217;s a hell of a lot more than six.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w6iRNVwslM4&amp;list=PLGBuKfnErZlCkRRgt06em8nbXvcV5Sae7&amp;index=26&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Bad Moon Rising &#8211; Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/w6iRNVwslM4\" 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!&nbsp; <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>I spoke with Megan, my PCP, this morning and talked to WWWendy right after.&nbsp; Megan wants me to go to the emergency room to have my heart checked and to try to ascertain what&#8217;s wrong with me.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t go tonight, because I&#8217;ve already ordered groceries, and I have to be here to take delivery <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/30\/open-thread-10-30-2019\/' 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-38076","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\/38076","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=38076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}