{"id":24920,"date":"2016-11-24T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24920"},"modified":"2016-11-24T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:12:02","slug":"open-thread-11242016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/24\/open-thread-11242016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/24\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy&#8217;s niece couldn&#8217;t make it, but Wendy came.&#160; Last year, I lobbied my doctors for a week to talk them into allowing me to leave my unit and eat Thanksgiving dinner in the hospital cafeteria.&#160; For at least ten years before that, I cooked a holiday meal and shared it with people less fortunate than I.&#160; So it&#8217;s been a very long time since I had a holiday meal, home-cooked by someone else.&#160; Wendy brought turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, dinner rolls, creamed corn, cranberry sauce, and fruit salad.&#160;&#160; It was to die for.&#160; I contributed cherry pie, raspberry pudding ring, and truffles.&#160; Purrrr!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Julie called this morning.&#160; Her girlfriend is now her wife.&#160; She and <em>Killer Dawg<\/em> send greetings to you all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jig Zone Puzzle<\/font><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:14 (average 4:41).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-11-24-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=ODnk9weQO1c\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Journalism to be thankful for<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ODnk9weQO1c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">May we get the journalism we need help us to <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/11\/22\/1603094\/-Dan-Rather-sounds-the-alarm-Now-is-a-time-when-none-of-us-can-afford-to-remain-seated-or-silent\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Dan Rather is sounding the alarm and we would do well to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theDanRather\/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&amp;fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\">listen and then take action:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now is a time when none of us can afford to remain seated or silent. We must all stand up to be counted. <\/p>\n<p>HIstory will demand to know which side were you on. This is not a question of politics or party or even policy. This is a question about the very fundamentals of our beautiful experiment in a pluralistic democracy ruled by law. <\/p>\n<p>When I see neo-Nazis raise their hands in terrifying solute, in public, in our nation&#8217;s capital, I shudder in horror. When I see that action mildly rebuked by a boilerplate statement from the President-elect whom these bigots have praised, the anger in me grows. And when I see some in a pliant press turn that mild statement into what they call a denunciation I cannot hold back any longer. <\/p>\n<p>Our Declaration of Independence bequeaths us our cherished foundational principle: &quot;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>These truths may be self-evident but they are not self-replicating. Each generation has to renew these vows. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">E Pluribus Unum! E Pluribus Unum!! E Pluribus Unum!!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Long reach to find precedent for 2016 popular vote gap in US past<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Maddow looks back 140 years to Reconstruction era U.S. history to find a remotely comparable gap between the popular vote and the electoral vote winner, and warns against leaping to conclusions about the significance of the 2016 popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_acivilwar_161123\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fuhrer Drumphenfarten is NOT MY PRESIDENT! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Word<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Scientists call for swing state recounts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group of computer scientists are urging Hillary Clinton to ask for a recount, claiming voting irregularities surfaced in three swing states. Gabe Sherman joins MSNBC&#8217;s Ari Melber to share his reporting. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_melber_161122\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jill Stein is raising money for a recount. Although nothing she can do will ever make up for the way she helped get Trump elected by parroting and drawing attention to Putin&#8217;s disinformation on RT, Russia&#8217;s propaganda network, I am glad that she is is helping in this effort.&#160; Recount and <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1124Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1124Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1124Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1124Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy&#8217;s niece couldn&#8217;t make it, but Wendy came.&#160; Last year, I lobbied my doctors for a week to talk them into allowing me to leave my unit and eat Thanksgiving dinner in the hospital cafeteria.&#160; For at least ten years before that, I cooked a holiday meal and shared it with people less fortunate than <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/24\/open-thread-11242016\/' 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-24920","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\/24920","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=24920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}