{"id":24961,"date":"2016-11-26T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24961"},"modified":"2016-11-26T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:00:57","slug":"open-thread-11262016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/26\/open-thread-11262016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/26\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My shoulder pain is still quite severe, so please pardon my brevity.&#160; Tomorrow is both a Wendy day, and a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos have the evening meditation with the Chiefs.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:11 (average 5:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-11-26-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Short Takes:<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XAdPn0WVnWc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> {<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheYoungTurks\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">TYT Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Should There Be a Recount?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XAdPn0WVnWc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cenk described my feelings exactly. All three states would have to flip to change the results, and I don&#8217;t think that will happen, but any chance is better than none.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/25\/opinion\/will-donald-trump-destroy-the-iran-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>There are not many issues on which Europe, Russia and China all agree, but there is one: ensuring that President-elect Donald J. Trump does not undermine the Iran nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<p>There are legitimate grounds for concern that the incoming administration or Congress will sabotage the deal, which Mr. Trump has referred to as a \u201cdisaster\u201d and vowed to \u201cdismantle.\u201d The president-elect has also surrounded himself with people like Rudolph W. Giuliani and John R. Bolton, both mentioned as potential secretary of state picks, who have said they want an immediate end to the deal and called for regime change in Iran. Mr. Trump\u2019s pick to lead the C.I.A., Mike Pompeo, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e2849b56-ada7-11e6-ba7d-76378e4fef24\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>, \u201cI look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world\u2019s largest state sponsor of terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the process the Fuhrer and Republican Reich will guarantee that we face a nuclear armed Iran that is even more hostile to the US five to ten years in the future, unless the Fuhrer plays ping pong with the nuclear football.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/fidel-castro-1926-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Nation<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Fidel Castro is dead at 90. He took power in 1959, at the head of the joyful, raucous, and brash Cuban Revolution, which was immediately placed under siege by Washington. Castro almost outlasted 11 US presidents\u2014Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and passing in the waning days of Obama\u2019s last term. Perhaps he just couldn\u2019t bear the thought of President Donald Trump. Having been sanctimoniously lectured by all 11 US presidents on what constitutes proper democratic procedure, he might have thought Trump, about to take office with a minority&#160; of the vote and with significant voter suppression, a vindication.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fidel was a President.&#160; Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten is just a resident.<\/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\/1126Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1126Cartoon\" 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=\"1126Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1126Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My shoulder pain is still quite severe, so please pardon my brevity.&#160; Tomorrow is both a Wendy day, and a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos have the evening meditation with the Chiefs. 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