{"id":14307,"date":"2014-12-14T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T08:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14307"},"modified":"2014-12-14T00:18:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T08:18:59","slug":"open-thread12142014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/14\/open-thread12142014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/14\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 39, and I\u2019m still down.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, but I won\u2019t get to see my Broncos\u2019 service with the Chargers.&#160; The local CBS affiliate prefers to offer other programming, because the damn Seachickens are on the other network at the same time.&#160; ARGH!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:04 (average 5:46).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-12-14-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJpTxONxvoo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Remarks by Senator Warren on Citigroup and its bailout provision <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJpTxONxvoo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I say again that the worst thing Obama did in office was to appoint Hillary&#8217;s economic advisors instead of his own. For Liz? One word: Amen!&#160; The Senate has passed a short term bill to keep the government open until Wednesday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Also from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UCL6OiO28ms\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Chris Hayes: President Elizabeth WARREN? It\u2019s Getting REAL! <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UCL6OiO28ms?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Will she or won&#8217;t she??&#160; If she does, she gets the cat!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/226986-sanders-selected-to-be-top-dem-on-senate-budget\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>: <\/font>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will be the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee next year, Democrats announced Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The self-proclaimed socialist replaces Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who is moving over to become ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion for Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, gives him a prominent perch to push his priorities as he moves toward a long-shot run for the White House in 2016. He is a vocal advocate for increased spending on social programs and says the budget of the Pentagon should be slashed dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>As ranking member on the budget panel, Sanders could be tasked with creating an alternative fiscal blueprint to the budget that will be put forward by the new Republican Congress.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A perfect choice.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1214Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1214Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1214Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 39, and I\u2019m still down.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, but I won\u2019t get to see my Broncos\u2019 service with the Chargers.&#160; The local CBS affiliate prefers to offer other programming, because the damn Seachickens are on the other network at the same <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/14\/open-thread12142014\/' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14307","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\/14307","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=14307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}