{"id":25357,"date":"2016-12-11T15:12:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T23:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25357"},"modified":"2016-12-11T15:12:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T23:12:28","slug":"open-thread-12112016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/11\/open-thread-12112016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/11\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m starting very late today.&#160; It&#8217;s a Wendy day, and by the time she left, my beloved Broncos were already meditating in the Church of that stinking Ellipsoid Orb, so instead of writing, I crawled into bed and watched the disaster.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 7:24 (average 12:14).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-12-11-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1211Broncos10-Titans13\" 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=\"1211Broncos10-Titans13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1211Broncos10-Titans13.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>A Gift from Nameless<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1211IMG_0227 (002)\" 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=\"1211IMG_0227 (002)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1211IMG_0227-002.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The gift was the neat shirt.&#160; Thank you!!&#160; The beautiful woman is Wendy.&#160; I figured I&#8217;d put it on her instead of me to spare your eyesight.<\/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=6aR_rGcg-fI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>4 Things You Need To Know About Scott Pruitt <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6aR_rGcg-fI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Please make that call.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/09\/us\/politics\/trump-administration.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President-elect Donald J. Trump boasted throughout the presidential campaign of his loyalty as a singular quality. \u201cFolks, look, I\u2019m a loyal person,\u201d Mr. Trump said at a CNN town hall in April, explaining why he would not rid his campaign of a staff member who was under fire.<\/p>\n<p>Loyalty appears to be paramount for Mr. Trump, until it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Mr. Trump&#8217;s earliest supporters \u2014 among them Rudolph W. Giuliani, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee \u2014 have not fared well in the job sweepstakes\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>\u2026Mr. Trump put out a face-saving statement on Mr. Giuliani\u2019s behalf on Friday, saying that the former mayor of New York had withdrawn from contention for secretary of state \u2014 the only job he had wanted.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Call the WAAAmbulance!! These suckers won&#8217;t be the last. Trump has fascist billionaires to install who are far more extreme in their hate and greed than Rudi 911, Bloody Bullseye Barbie, Newtered Newt, Upchuckabee and PIGnocchio. Who could have dreamed that there would be worse?!!?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/cathy-mcmorris-interior-111c30319780#.91rig0ehh\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Another climate-denying nominee will be named Friday for a key environmental position in the Trump administration, multiple sources are reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) will likely be tapped to lead the Department of the Interior, which oversees all of the U.S. public lands, including forest management, the Parks Service, and fossil fuel extraction.<\/p>\n<p>McMorris Rodgers is strongly in favor of developing the United States\u2019 fossil fuel resources. She has also opposed federal ownership of public lands and voted to make it more difficult for the president to create national monuments. McMorris Rodgers is the author of a bill that would have directed the Department of the Interior to sell off federal lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>The selection is not surprising, in what is shaping up to be the most anti-environmental administration \u2014 Republican or Democrat \u2014 in modern times.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Criminal Clown Cabinet keeps getting worse and worse.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/12\/10\/calls-growing-presidential-election-held-russia-meddled-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">PoliticusUSA<\/a>: <\/font>It is finally being said out loud, in public, on national television. America may need to hold a new presidential election after Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Former CIA Operative Robert Baer brought up the idea of holding a new election during an appearance on CNN:<\/p>\n<p>Baer said, \u201cThe Russians, it looks like to me did interfere in our elections. We\u2019ll never be able to decide whether they changed the outcome, but I\u2019ll tell you having worked in the CIA if we had been caught interfering in European elections, or Asian elections, or anywhere in the world, those countries would call for new elections. Any democracy would. I mean, I don\u2019t see it any other way. The Electoral College before the nineteenth has got to know whether the Russians had an effect, Whether they went to Wikileaks, whether they hacked email, and whether they affected American opinion. They had a good reason to go after Hillary Clinton. Putin hates her for the Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/erRf6CONfco?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I fully agree.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1211Cartoon\" 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=\"1211Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1211Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting very late today.&#160; It&#8217;s a Wendy day, and by the time she left, my beloved Broncos were already meditating in the Church of that stinking Ellipsoid Orb, so instead of writing, I crawled into bed and watched the disaster. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 7:24 (average 12:14).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/11\/open-thread-12112016\/' 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-25357","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\/25357","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=25357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}