{"id":25036,"date":"2016-11-30T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25036"},"modified":"2016-11-30T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:05:22","slug":"open-thread-11302016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/open-thread-11302016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/30\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for my grocery delivery from Store to Door to arrive.&#160; My shoulder, which is still quite painful, will make putting them away more difficult and unpleasant.&#160; Later Wendy is coming to sanitize the stinky TomCat.&#160; I think I&#8217;ll feed her cheese <em>dawgs<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:40 (average 5:13).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-11-30-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:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/11\/donald-trump-sings-white-christmas.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump sings &quot;White Christmas&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/embed\/e9e3855bd5\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 640px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left\"><a title=\"from Funny Or Die, Funny Or Die Politics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/e9e3855bd5\/donald-trump-sings-white-christmas\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump Sings &quot;White Christmas&quot;<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/funnyordie\" target=\"_blank\">Funny Or Die<\/a><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That has long been the favorite song of the racist Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/11\/28\/1604870\/-The-Associated-Press-defined-alt-right-and-the-white-supremacists-are-not-going-to-like-it\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The AP\u2019s standards blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ap.org\/behind-the-news\/writing-about-the-alt-right\" target=\"_blank\">just posted a piece about how to use the term \u2018alt-right\u2019 when writing articles.<\/a> Considering the Associated Press provides the style guidelines for newspapers and magazines nationwide, this clarification is a big deal. Here\u2019s the sweet and succinct \u201cusage\u201d section.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAlt-right\u201d (quotation marks, hyphen and lower case) may be used in quotes or modified as in the \u201cself-described\u201d or \u201cso-called alt-right\u201d in stories discussing what the movement says about itself.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters\u2019 actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience. In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I would edit Nazi or white supremacist to read, Nazi, white supremacist or Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xd0ryuZyUTI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Can Donald Trump Possibly Believe What He&#8217;s Saying? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Xd0ryuZyUTI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Everything Keith said was true. I wish I were wrong about that.<\/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\/1130Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1130Cartoon\" 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=\"1130Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1130Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It failed that time, but it can be done.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for my grocery delivery from Store to Door to arrive.&#160; My shoulder, which is still quite painful, will make putting them away more difficult and unpleasant.&#160; Later Wendy is coming to sanitize the stinky TomCat.&#160; I think I&#8217;ll feed her cheese dawgs. 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