{"id":25389,"date":"2016-12-13T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25389"},"modified":"2016-12-13T12:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:32:16","slug":"open-thread-12132016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/open-thread-12132016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/13\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to call to take my grocery order.&#160; I put George on for the first time this week to force Stumpy back into shape in time for Physical Terrorism with Courtney on Thursday.&#160; The sun came out and has been hitting the brick facade for about an hour, so the room is getting hot, even though the temperature outside is 36\u00b0 and the window is cracked about three inches.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:34 (average 5:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-12-13-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the latest from our own Fantasy Football league, Lefty Blog Friends.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scores:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14Scores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"14Scores\" 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=\"14Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14Scores_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Prepare for the demise of the universe.&#160; I won twice in a row.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Standings:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"14Standings\" 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=\"14Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14Standings.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congrats to Rob for winning the Regular Season Championship.&#160; At least I wasn&#8217;t dead last.&#160; If Vivian had beaten Dusty, I would have moved up to 8th place and made the playoffs.&#160; This the first time in many many years that I have ever failed to do so, but my season is now over.&#160; Rest assured, I will continue to maintain the league and report the results of the next three weeks of playoffs for the rest of you.&#160; I have already notified the site that we will continue next year, if Trump doesn&#8217;t destroy us first.<\/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=IAFxPXGDH4E\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Is There a Russian Coup Underway in America? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IAFxPXGDH4E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree with everything he said. It&#8217;s exactly what I have been saying. <strong>RESIST!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-to-split-time-between-trump-tower-and-kremlin\" target=\"_blank\">New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump stirred controversy on Monday by revealing that he intends to spend only half his time as President at the Kremlin\u2014and the remainder at Trump Tower in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>His decision to limit his time at the Kremlin reportedly stemmed from his wife Melania\u2019s desire not to uproot the Trump family by relocating full-time to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was part of the deal when he ran for President that he would go to the Kremlin and she would stay behind in New York,\u201d a source close to the Trumps said.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Russian television, Trump surrogate Kellyanne Conway said that Trump\u2019s decision to split his time between Moscow and New York would have \u201cno impact whatsoever\u201d on his ability to function as an integral part of the Kremlin team.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy!! I think the Fuhrer thinks the Russian Protest group, Pussy Riot, is something Putin put there for the Fuhrer to grab.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/12\/11\/1609767\/-Citing-grave-threats-to-security-Republicans-join-effort-to-investigate-Russian-influence\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>This is what <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/bipartisan-senate-group-calls-probe-russian-hacking-us\/story?id=44121931\" target=\"_blank\">doing the right thing looks like:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Saying that cyberattacks by foreign governments pose &quot;grave threats&quot; to U.S. national security, the senators&#8217; statement said: &quot;This cannot become a partisan issue. The stakes are too high for our country.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Two Democratic senators &#8212; Chuck Schumer of New York and Jack Reed of Rhode Island joined two Republican senators &#8212; John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina &#8212; in issuing the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are committed to working in this bipartisan manner, and we will seek to unify our colleagues around the goal of investigating and stopping the grave threats that cyberattacks conducted by foreign governments pose to our national security,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is it real, or is it what Republicans normally mean by bipartisanship?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bipartisan_b2284\" 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=\"bipartisan_b2284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bipartisan_b2284.gif\" width=\"307\" height=\"315\" \/><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1213Cartoon\" 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=\"1213Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1213Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to call to take my grocery order.&#160; I put George on for the first time this week to force Stumpy back into shape in time for Physical Terrorism with Courtney on Thursday.&#160; The sun came out and has been hitting the brick facade for about an hour, so the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/open-thread-12132016\/' 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-25389","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\/25389","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=25389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}