{"id":24835,"date":"2016-11-19T10:09:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T18:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24835"},"modified":"2016-11-19T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T18:09:36","slug":"open-thread-11192016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/19\/open-thread-11192016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/19\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I did manage to get a little sleep yesterday, but I&#8217;m still behind the curve.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, but my Broncos are taking the day off.&#160; To honor the LGBT community, they have a bi week.&#160; May the Divine Orb shine it&#8217;<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">s blessed light on your team.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:13 (average 6:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-11-19-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:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Trump makes extreme choice in Flynn for NSA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congressman Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump naming Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as his national security advisor and why he thinks Flynn is not well-suited for the job.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_flynn_161118\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With want other politician does this extremist wing-nut share a love of Putin&#8217;s propaganda network, RT? Flynn reminds me of General Ripper in Doctor Strangelove.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/N1KvgtEnABY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WveSEL-BhKI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Trump\u2019s Election And The Power Of Fear <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WveSEL-BhKI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. (Hos. 8:7 KJV) That&#8217;s only half right. We have ALL reaped the Republican whirlwind.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/clinton-email-scandal-update-5-congressional-committees-poised-hold-more-hearings-2446677\" target=\"_blank\">International Business Times<\/a>: <\/font>The election may be over and president-elect Donald Trump may be wavering on whether he wants a special prosecutor to investigate former rival Hillary Clinton, but that hasn\u2019t cooled the ardor of congressional Republicans who want to investigate her private email server.<\/p>\n<p>Five House and Senate panels may be planning to continue probing Clinton\u2019s use of a private server during her tenure as secretary of state even though the FBI concluded her actions didn\u2019t rise to the level of criminal conduct.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why are Republicans so anxious to twist the knife, even though Hillary&#8217;s political career is effectively over? There are two reasons. 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