{"id":25436,"date":"2016-12-15T09:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25436"},"modified":"2016-12-15T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:47:55","slug":"open-thread-12152016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/open-thread-12152016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/15\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Our winter storm turned out to be a doozy.&#160; I did get my grocery delivery.&#160; It arrived just as the snow was starting to stick.&#160; Phew!!&#160; Wendy&#8217;s main day job is as a secretary for a middle school.&#160; She had to work late yesterday afternoon to babysit kids, whose parents had not picked them up because of the weather.&#160; When she finished, conditions were so severe, that she could not make it downtown, so I&#8217;m even more stinky than normal. She will come today in her 4 WD truck.&#160; Late in afternoon, my Physical Terrorist called to cancel my appointment, and TriMet Lift cancelled my ride.&#160; The snow is deep, and the high temperature is not forecast above 32\u00b0 until Sunday.&#160; BRRR!!&#160; It&#8217;s so cold that my poor kitty dingles are acting like castanets!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:02 (average 4:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-12-15-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=f2ragMBCzPA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Hamilton\u2019s Plan to Keep Trump From Becoming President | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/f2ragMBCzPA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The idea has merit, but I would prefer Colin Powell, He&#8217;s more qualified and it would make alt-right Nazis and the KKK baggers shit their pants.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Michael Moore to Electoral College: Resist!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Michael Moore gives an impassioned plea to the Electors who will choose the American President on December 19th to think hard about the security of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_dblock_161213\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Electors, don&#8217;t make us miss Crawford Caligula. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/14\/us\/politics\/obama-administration-planned-parenthood.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Mindful of the clock ticking down to a Trump presidency, the Obama administration issued a final rule on Wednesday to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates and other health clinics that provide abortions. The measure takes effect two days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The rule was proposed three months ago, when many Democrats assumed the next president would be Hillary Clinton; she presumably would have promoted the rule\u2019s completion if it were still pending. It requires that state and local governments distribute federal funds for services related to contraception, sexually transmitted infections, fertility, pregnancy care, and breast and cervical cancer screening to qualified health providers, regardless of whether they also perform abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump has sent mixed messages on Planned Parenthood\u2019s work, supporting its health-related services other than abortion. Yet with backing from Republican leaders in Congress, he has indicated he will undo many Obama administration rules and regulations, especially last-minute additions. In this case, however, unraveling the new rule would first require a time-consuming process, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Obama. That time consuming process had better take over four years!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1215Cartoon\" 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=\"1215Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1215Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our winter storm turned out to be a doozy.&#160; I did get my grocery delivery.&#160; It arrived just as the snow was starting to stick.&#160; Phew!!&#160; Wendy&#8217;s main day job is as a secretary for a middle school.&#160; She had to work late yesterday afternoon to babysit kids, whose parents had not picked them up <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/open-thread-12152016\/' 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-25436","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\/25436","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=25436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}