{"id":12062,"date":"2014-01-22T00:02:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T08:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12062"},"modified":"2014-01-22T00:02:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T08:02:49","slug":"open-thread1222013-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/open-thread1222013-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/22\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow very early in the morning, because I have more work to do, and because I want to rest as much as I can before tomorrow\u2019s trip for volunteer work.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 4:54).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-01-22-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/act.weareultraviolet.org\/sign\/christie_women\/\" target=\"_blank\">We Are Ultraviolet<\/a>: <\/font><strong>If this isn&#8217;t bullying, I don&#8217;t know what is<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s impossible to ignore&#8211;Chris Christie is dominating our news feeds, Facebook posts, and political conversations. But what people aren&#8217;t talking about is the fact that he&#8217;s been a bully to women for a long time. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0122ChristieWomen\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0122ChristieWomen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0122ChristieWomen.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">PIGnocchio is a misogynist, in addition to being a misanthrope!! <a href=\"http:\/\/act.weareultraviolet.org\/sign\/christie_women\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click through<\/a>, please.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/01\/wingnut-pastor-claims-obama-laying\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>At least they&#8217;ve taken a break from bloviating about <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2013\/12\/wingnut-pastor-tells-oreilly-satan-behind\" target=\"_blank\">their phony &quot;war on Christmas&quot;<\/a> for a while. Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s favorite wingnut pastor, Robert Jeffress was back, attacking President Obama and I think someone forgot to tell him to take his meds this Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"376\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/Mjg3MDBdLQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the norm for what we can expect from O&#8217;Lielly, The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda (<em>Faux Noise<\/em>), and the Republican Party. The <em>Antichrist<\/em> for for Republican Supply-side pseudo Christians is the REAL Jesus!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/trump-says-eyeing-us-presidency-again\/article16425720\/\" target=\"_blank\">Globe and Mail<\/a>: <\/font>Outspoken real estate billionaire Donald Trump said on Tuesday he may seek the Republican presidential nomination for 2016, claiming he wants to undo President Barack Obama\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If he goes through with it, the 2016 primary season could become a real hair ball.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0122Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0122Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0122Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow very early in the morning, because I have more work to do, and because I want to rest as much as I can before tomorrow\u2019s trip for volunteer work. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 4:54).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From We <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/open-thread1222013-3\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062","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=12062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}