{"id":25310,"date":"2016-12-09T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25310"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T22:45:16","slug":"open-thread-1292016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/09\/open-thread-1292016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/9\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s been a day for surprises.&#160; Late this morning, Store to Door called to tell me that my grocery order was cancelled, because my regular driver is snowed-in.&#160; I asked them, if there was any way they could put my order, which had already been shopped, onto another route, because confined to a wheelchair, I have no way to get out for emergency supplies.&#160; They checked and said they could, but my food would probably not come until between 4:00 and 5:00 PM.&#160; So I got an intentionally late start writing to be finished later.&#160; Just as I started writing, Store to Door came several hours early.&#160; I&#8217;m not complaining.&#160; I&#8217;m just grateful to have my food.&#160; One year ago today, I came home from three months in the hospital.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:55 (average 6:07).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-12-09-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TxPO8dSJu74\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Let\u2019s Take a Look at Trump\u2019s Cabinet of Villains | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/TxPO8dSJu74?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">After the November disaster, I had nightmares about the Fuhrer&#8217;s Reich. I&#8217;m sorry to share that the coming reality is far worse.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font>Poll shows Trump voter gap with facts, rest of Americans&#8217; views<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_appp_161208\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten is watching you!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/08\/opinion\/john-glenn-the-last-american-hero.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>World War II and Korean War hero. First American to orbit the Earth. Kennedy family friend and confidant. The only four-term senator in Ohio history. An astronaut again at the age of 77.<\/p>\n<p>Newspaper writers and evening news broadcasters will detail John Glenn\u2019s one-of-a-kind biography \u2014 and most of them will surely observe that his passing on Thursday at the age of 95 marks \u201cthe end of an era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rest in Peace, Hero!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1209Cartoon\" 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=\"1209Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1209Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a day for surprises.&#160; Late this morning, Store to Door called to tell me that my grocery order was cancelled, because my regular driver is snowed-in.&#160; I asked them, if there was any way they could put my order, which had already been shopped, onto another route, because confined to a wheelchair, I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/09\/open-thread-1292016\/' 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-25310","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\/25310","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=25310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}