{"id":53355,"date":"2023-10-16T06:05:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T13:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53355"},"modified":"2023-10-15T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T00:54:05","slug":"open-thread-october-16-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/16\/open-thread-october-16-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 16, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was one of those days I just couldn&#8217;t seem to get ahead. Sometimes that happens &#8211; but it doesn&#8217;t give me a lot to talk about, nor time to talk in. Not being Seinfeld, or one of his writers, I can&#8217;t really get any content out of it. Maybe that&#8217;s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1016Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2023\/10\/gop-activist-who-couldnt-wait-rbg-die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks &amp; Liars &#8211; GOP Activist Who Couldn&#8217;t Wait For RBG To Die Shoots Wife, Kills Self<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Fun fact: Alembik first received national attention after he tweeted that &#8220;Ruth Bader Ginsburg can&#8217;t die soon enough,&#8221; and of course, now he&#8217;s dead&#8230;. I&#8217;m glad his wife was not killed. Btw, we need common sense gun laws. Everyone in his orbit seemed to know that he was struggling with mental health issues &#8212; and he had a gun. In fact, he had a concealed carry permit, or at least he did in 2007<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2023\/10\/gop-activist-who-couldnt-wait-rbg-die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story<\/a>. Personally, I&#8221;m wondering what&#8217;s wrong with people who said he was always smiling. That&#8217;s not a smile.\u00a0 (Not to be confused with &#8220;alembic,&#8221; which was a medieval Arabian still used in alchemy.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernslopenow.com\/colorado-news\/ourays-new-via-ferrata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Slope Now &#8211; Ouray\u2019s new via ferrata!<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; A via ferrata is a protected mountain pathway consisting of a series of rungs, rails, cables, and bridges embracing the rock face&#8230;. the via ferratas became a civilian attraction in Europe by the 1950\u2019s and have moved into the USA only within the last decade&#8230;. This course climbs 1200 feet across 12 pitches, with trails intermixed between.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernslopenow.com\/colorado-news\/ourays-new-via-ferrata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details.<\/a> Yes this article is lightweight. That&#8217;s fine with me. Ouray, named for a Ute chief, is an adorable little town, sadly in a very red part of Colorado. There&#8217;s a small hotel where Lillie Langtry once stayed. The website has a short video which includes some lovely scenery.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ideas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ideas.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ideas-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ideas-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ideas-768x559.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was one of those days I just couldn&#8217;t seem to get ahead. Sometimes that happens &#8211; but it doesn&#8217;t give me a lot to talk about, nor time to talk in. Not being Seinfeld, or one of his writers, I can&#8217;t really get any content out of it. Maybe that&#8217;s not a bad thing. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/16\/open-thread-october-16-2023\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,4344,3711,5213,4321,5641],"class_list":["post-53355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-colorado","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns","tag-mountain-sports","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\/53355","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}