{"id":14586,"date":"2015-01-25T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T21:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14586"},"modified":"2015-01-25T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T21:24:21","slug":"open-thread-2-1252015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/25\/open-thread-2-1252015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread 2-1\/25\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">5It\u2019s still day 81.&#160; I\u2019m changing my schedule.&#160; I plan to upload articles whenever I finish writing them for the day.&#160; It will keep me more current, and I won\u2019t have to wait until midnight to upload.&#160; I\u2019ll be a little less regular, but I think I\u2019ll get more rest this way.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s is on the first Open Thread.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/01\/22\/1359587\/-Richard-Dawkins-Says-Some-Very-Hateful-Things-video\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>That he can say such vile things with a smile on his face speaks volumes of his character. (Warning:NSFW or around children, or decent folk)<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gW7607YiBso?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Behold the love of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians! These are NOT authentic Christians. Authentic Christians honor the beliefs of others. Republicans prove the existence of DEVOLUTION.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2015\/01\/25\/obama-administration-to-propose-new-wilderness-protections-in-arctic-refuge-alaska-republicans-declare-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The Obama administration will propose setting aside the 1.4 million-acre coastal plain of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/12\/21\/AR2005122102128.html\" target=\"_blank\">Arctic National Wildlife Refuge<\/a> (ANWR) as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/obamas-wilderness-legacy-remains-uncertain\/2012\/06\/10\/gJQAOlCLTV_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">wilderness<\/a>, the White House announced Sunday, a move that will spark a fierce battle with the new Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chairman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/interior-secretary-nomination-becomes-embroiled-in-fight-over-alaska-refuge\/2013\/02\/24\/05ce7fc0-7d67-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Murkowski<\/a>, and other Alaska Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I fully support this move and wish he would do more.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2015\/01\/23\/trump-says-wouldve-defeated-obama\/22250121\/\" target=\"_blank\">Desmoines Register<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump is aggressively pushing himself back onto the Iowa stage as presidential material.<\/p>\n<p>In a sit-down interview with The Des Moines Register, he said the two presumed GOP frontrunners, Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, are doomed to lose \u2014 and he expressed regret that he hadn&#8217;t run himself in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he should be in the White House right now.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Trump joins the clown car, every day is a bad hair day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0125Cartoon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0125Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0125Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0125Cartoon_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5It\u2019s still day 81.&#160; I\u2019m changing my schedule.&#160; I plan to upload articles whenever I finish writing them for the day.&#160; It will keep me more current, and I won\u2019t have to wait until midnight to upload.&#160; I\u2019ll be a little less regular, but I think I\u2019ll get more rest this way. 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