{"id":25029,"date":"2016-11-29T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T20:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25029"},"modified":"2016-11-29T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T20:37:22","slug":"open-thread-11292016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/open-thread-11292016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/29\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Due to taking it as easy as possible, ice packs, Icy Hot, and pain killers (non-narcotic), my shoulder is starting to improve.&#160; However, I want to keep resting as much as possible to avoid exacerbating the problem.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:32 (average 4:26).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-11-29-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy football Report<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the latest from our own fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"12Scores\" 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=\"12Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/12Scores.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The tear in the space-time continuum must have been repaired, because I lost.&#160; Had I won two in a row, it would have destroyed the universe.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"12Standings\" 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=\"12Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/12Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats to Rob for leading the league.&#160; I&#8217;m so deep in the cellar, I can&#8217;t even see the bottoms of Squatch&#8217;s&#160; feet from here.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Tales<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gxJ0mPyUKtc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Sen. Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s Call to Action<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gxJ0mPyUKtc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Spines would be a fantastic addition to the Democrats&#8217; playbook. I hope they grow a few.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UlCRCfXDHPE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Why Donald Trump is Not Fit to Be President | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UlCRCfXDHPE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While I see a Pence Reich as little improvement, if any, over Fuhrer Drumphenfarten, Keith does have a point about the Fuhrer&#8217;s mental instability. No sane person proclaims Republican positions and policies openly.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-picks-el-chapo-to-run-d-e-a\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Just days after picking Betsy DeVos to run the Department of Education, President-elect Donald Trump has tapped another wealthy outsider by naming Joaquin \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzm\u00e1n to head the Drug Enforcement Administration.<\/p>\n<p>In an official statement, Trump said that El Chapo\u2019s \u201ctremendous success in the private sector\u201d showed that he has what it takes to \u201cshake things up\u201d at the D.E.A.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy!! Do you think the Fuehrer is making a deal for a piece of the action from the Mexican drug cartel?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1129Cartoon\" 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=\"1129Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1129Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to taking it as easy as possible, ice packs, Icy Hot, and pain killers (non-narcotic), my shoulder is starting to improve.&#160; However, I want to keep resting as much as possible to avoid exacerbating the problem. 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