{"id":41494,"date":"2020-10-13T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=41494"},"modified":"2020-10-13T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T18:03:48","slug":"open-thread-10-13-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/13\/open-thread-10-13-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/13\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another crazy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming a day early tomorrow to de-stink the TomCat and semi-goop, since she can&#8217;t come Thursday, her regular day.&nbsp; (Diana comes Thursday morning to change my patch.)&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know what time tomorrow WWWendy is coming, so I&#8217;m planning a Personal Update day, but that&#8217;s still uncertain.&nbsp; It&#8217;s Tuesday, so please remember to Flush Your Republicans.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:13 (average 5:04).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-10-13-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\/2018\/10\/1013Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1013TrumpVirusMap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1013TrumpVirusMap\" 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=\"1013TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1013TrumpVirusMap_thumb.jpg\" width=\"752\" height=\"523\"><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/coronavirus-us-cases.html#map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click for interactive maps and charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">US Cases: 8,038,543<br \/>US Deaths: 220,027<br \/>Plus all the Trump*\/GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us<\/font><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2020\/10\/these-internet-kitties-want-you-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Furball Fables calls on all of us to Purrsist and Vote!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/TO58iW9Ftyc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">CAT is where it&#8217;s AT, but all true authentic CATS are DemoCATS!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2020\/10\/12\/appalling-criminal-conduct-california-gop-accused-operating-fake-official-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common Dreams<\/a> (Hat-Tip Mitch [ours, not BBMM]): <\/font>California&#8217;s top election official is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/10\/11\/unofficial-ballot-drop-boxes-popping-up-throughout-the-state-worry-elections-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigating<\/a> reports that the state&#8217;s Republican Party has set up unauthorized ballot drop boxes posing as &#8220;official&#8221; in several major counties, an illegal practice that could deceive voters into depositing their ballots at unsecure locations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operating unofficial ballot drop boxes\u2014especially those misrepresented as official drop boxes\u2014is not just misleading to voters, it&#8217;s a violation of state law,&#8221; California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a statement responding to reports of unauthorized ballot drop boxes in Fresno, Los Angeles, and Orange counties  <\/p>\n<p>As the local Orange County Register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/10\/11\/unofficial-ballot-drop-boxes-popping-up-throughout-the-state-worry-elections-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> late Sunday, &#8220;In a photo posted to social media last week, a young man wearing a mask with Orange County congressional candidate Michelle Steel&#8217;s name on it is holding a mail ballot and giving a thumbs up next to a box about the size of a file cabinet labeled &#8216;Official ballot drop off box.'&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The post, from Jordan Tygh, a regional field director for the California Republican Party, encouraged people to message him for &#8216;convenient locations&#8217; to drop their own ballots,&#8221; the Register reported.  <\/p>\n<p>That was just one of several instances of potentially illegal election activity by Republican officials that has been reported in recent days. On Saturday night, the Register noted, reports emerged of &#8220;a metal box in front of Freedom&#8217;s Way Baptist Church in Castaic that had a sign matching the one on the Orange County box.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Although voter fraud is still extremely rare, Republicans are still working overtime to find a successful way to do so. Why have they not succeeded? Because Sheeple are stupid. And why have Democrats not succeeded? Because they aren&#8217;t trying! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QkF3oxziUI4&amp;list=PLGBuKfnErZlC0t5MPPXsGmKG6Z3-RgTbc&amp;index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Led Zeppelin &#8211; Stairway To Heaven (Official Audio)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QkF3oxziUI4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories! Protest like the 60s!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another crazy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming a day early tomorrow to de-stink the TomCat and semi-goop, since she can&#8217;t come Thursday, her regular day.&nbsp; (Diana comes Thursday morning to change my patch.)&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know what time tomorrow WWWendy is coming, so I&#8217;m planning a Personal Update day, but that&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/13\/open-thread-10-13-2020\/' 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":[3704,3913,3705,3706,3928],"class_list":["post-41494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-vote-blue","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\/41494","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=41494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}