{"id":25250,"date":"2016-12-08T10:05:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T18:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25250"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T22:40:32","slug":"open-thread-1282016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/open-thread-1282016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/8\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#39;m starting to wonder if Portland&#39;s temperature will exceed 32&deg; today.&nbsp; We&#39;re under a Winter Storm Watch and a High Wind Warning.&nbsp; Several schools are closed, including the one where Wendy works, so she&#39;s enjoying a day off.&nbsp; I have my window shut all the way for the first time since March.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s took me 4:55 (average 5:40).&nbsp; That bird looked a little tough anyway.&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-12-08-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=u5hK6zfs11s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheYoungTurks\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">TYT Network<\/a>): <\/font>Trump Puts Fossil Fuel Shill In Charge Of EPA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/u5hK6zfs11s?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I disagree. Instead of &quot;Every Polluters Ally&quot;, Pruitt will choose the name, &quot;Environmental Pollution Agency.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/federal-judge-halts-recount-sealing-trump-s-michigan-win-n693416\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>: <\/font>A federal judge who ordered Michigan to begin its recount effectively ended it on Wednesday, tying his decision to a state court ruling that found Green Party candidate Jill Stein had no legal standing to request another look at ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling seals Republican Donald Trump&#39;s narrow victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton for Michigan&#39;s 16 electoral votes.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sorry America. Stein has failed.&nbsp; But she may have succeeded in her attempt to detract attention from her role in electing the Fuhrer, including both winning just enough votes to tip the scale to Trump, and her collusion with Russia to discredit Hillary Clinton by regularly appearing on and parroting disinformation from RT.&nbsp; She did succeed in taking advantage of our desperation to raise money to fund her future campaigns.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/poll-americans-favor-keeping-air-force-one-and-cancelling-trump\" target=\"_blank\">New Yorker<\/a>:&nbsp; <\/font>In a stunning rebuke of the President-elect, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans favor keeping Air Force One and cancelling Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, ninety-four per cent of Americans believe that Air Force One is qualified to be an airplane, while only twenty-one per cent feel that way about Trump as President.<\/p>\n<p>When told that Air Force One has a mobile command center capable of launching a nuclear attack, a broad majority said that they would feel safer with Air Force One flying around with no one in it for four years than with Trump on board.<\/p>\n<p>And, in perhaps the most troubling result for Trump, if a Presidential election were held today, Air Force One would defeat him by seventeen points.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">No Satire There, Andy!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/12\/6\/1606610\/-With-Biden-in-the-chair-on-Jan-3-the-Senate-can-confirm-a-renominated-Merrick-Garland-Here-s-how\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><strong>With Biden in the chair on Jan. 3, the Senate can confirm a renominated Merrick Garland. Here&#39;s how.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through and read the article. It might work. Do you think they have the cojones to do it?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1208Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1208Cartoon.jpg\" 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\" title=\"1208Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m starting to wonder if Portland&#39;s temperature will exceed 32&deg; today.&nbsp; We&#39;re under a Winter Storm Watch and a High Wind Warning.&nbsp; Several schools are closed, including the one where Wendy works, so she&#39;s enjoying a day off.&nbsp; I have my window shut all the way for the first time since March. Jig Zone Puzzle: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/open-thread-1282016\/' 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-25250","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\/25250","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=25250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}