{"id":25197,"date":"2016-12-04T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25197"},"modified":"2016-12-04T12:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T20:08:50","slug":"open-thread-1242016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/04\/open-thread-1242016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/4\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy just left.&#160; After she scoured the stinky TomCat, we did the dreaded task, cleaned floors and counters, and had French Toast for brunch.&#160; Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are meditating with the Jaguars as I write, but the game is not televised here.&#160; I&#8217;m following it online.&#160; May the Orb shine it&#8217;s blessed light on your team, unless they are spotted puddy tats.&#160; Portland is under a Winter Weather Advisory.&#160; It may snow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:18 (average 5:17).&#160; To do it,. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-12-04-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.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-warns-that-companies-shipping-jobs-overseas-will-be-slapped-with-enormous-bribes\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>President-elect Donald J. Trump drew a line in the sand on Friday as he warned that U.S. companies planning to ship jobs overseas will be slapped with enormous bribes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think you\u2019re going to get away with sending jobs out of the U.S., think again,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou are about to be bribed, big league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He raised the cautionary example of Carrier Corporation, which this week decided to keep a few hundred jobs in the U.S. in exchange for a seven-million-dollar government incentive. \u201cI warned those boys at Carrier: we can do this the easy way, or the hard way, where you get seven million dollars,\u201d he said. \u201cThey backed down so fast\u2014it was terrific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten was not even sufficiently competent to bribe Carrier. Vice Puke elect Pence had to do it for him.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OeWQm_q_Lqg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Hunt for Hil <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OeWQm_q_Lqg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s OK with me, if she stays lost.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/03\/us\/politics\/donald-trumps-cabinet-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Senate Democrats concede they have little leverage to stop Donald J. Trump\u2019s cabinet nominees. But that will not discourage them from trying to make life as uncomfortable as possible for many of his choices, with the hope of forcing their Republican colleagues and Mr. Trump to squirm along the way.<\/p>\n<p>With nominees like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/28\/us\/politics\/tom-price-secretary-health-and-human-services.html\" target=\"_blank\">Representative Tom Price<\/a>, a proponent of fundamental changes to Medicare, to be health secretary, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/steven-terner-mnuchin-trump-treasury-secretary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Mnuchin<\/a>, a Goldman Sachs trader turned hedge fund manager, as Treasury secretary, Democrats hope to use the confirmation hearings to highlight the wide river of incongruities between Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign promises and much of the team he is assembling. The goal: to fuel a narrative that the incoming president, and the Republicans who support him, cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident-elect Trump promised that he was going to clean up the swamp,\u201d said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the incoming Democratic leader, \u201cand a whole lot of his nominees have had their career in the swamp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Making them squirm is not enough! A smaller Republican minority blocked virtually all of Obama&#8217;s appointees for years. Democrats should only obstruct the evil ones\u2026 ALL of them!! RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1204Cartoon\" 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=\"1204Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1204Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy just left.&#160; After she scoured the stinky TomCat, we did the dreaded task, cleaned floors and counters, and had French Toast for brunch.&#160; Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are meditating with the Jaguars as I write, but the game is not televised here.&#160; I&#8217;m following <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/04\/open-thread-1242016\/' 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-25197","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\/25197","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=25197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}