{"id":25523,"date":"2016-12-20T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25523"},"modified":"2016-12-20T21:13:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T05:13:44","slug":"open-thread-12202016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/open-thread-12202016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/20\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Store to Door is closed for the holidays, so I have a Safeway.com grocery delivery coming this morning.&nbsp; It includes the food for Christmas (Holiday, if you&#39;re a Republican) dinner, so it&#39;s a big order,&nbsp; Unlike Store to Door, Safeway doesn&#39;t help.&nbsp; (I wouldn&#39;t &#39;t expect them to do so.)&nbsp; Therefore I expect to be quite pooped by the time everything is stowed.&nbsp; We are now Reich -1 month.&nbsp; Cry havoc and unleash the dawgs of war! Cats too!&nbsp; Later:&nbsp; They&#39;re all put away.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s took me 3:08 (average 5:12).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-12-20-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=FNEvLr7Cdu4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font>A Very Special Legislative Session<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FNEvLr7Cdu4?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She makes a good point.&nbsp; However, it&#39;s difficult for me, because I have already flushed all my Republicans, except for the one that snuck in as Oregon Secretary of State, because billionaires financed a fake scandal publicized by a late massive ad buy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/pressure-on-kuwait-to-move-event-to-trump-hotel-a-paradigm-impeachable-offense-af4a9d44f71e#.d7l5c7hns\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>On Monday, ThinkProgress reported that, after receiving pressure from the Trump organization, the Embassy of Kuwait moved a major event to the Trump International Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait&rsquo;s National Day celebration, scheduled to take place at the Four Seasons prior to the election, will now take place at the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, a source direct with knowledge of the arrangements told ThinkProgress.<\/p>\n<p>Several legal experts say that the allegations would constitute a violation of the Constitution. Larry Tribe, a Harvard Law Professor and one of the nation&rsquo;s foremost constitutional scholars, called the scenario a &ldquo;paradigm impeachable offense.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It is clearly impeachable, but we need the votes to impeach!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Win 2018!&nbsp; Impeach 2019!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/eric-donald-trump-behind-hunting-charity-opening-day-access-president\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are behind a newly-founded non-profit that is hosting a charity event over inauguration weekend offering top-tier donors access to the President-elect and themselves, the Center for Public Integrity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/2016\/12\/19\/20564\/donald-trumps-sons-behind-nonprofit-selling-access-president-elect\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>An invitation for the Opening Day Foundation&rsquo;s &ldquo;Opening Day 2017&rdquo; event, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2016\/12\/16\/donald-trump-inauguration-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> by TMZ, offered donors who spend $250,000 or more a &ldquo;private reception and photo opportunity with President Donald J. Trump,&rdquo; as well as other prizes. Those who fork over $500,000 or more would also receive a &ldquo;multi-day hunting and\/or fishing excursion&rdquo; with Trump&rsquo;s adult sons, according to the invitation.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Unlike many of my friends, I am a meat eater, and in my youth, I hunted for food, although never for trophies. I have always objected to trophy hunting, To celebrate Trump&#39;s Fascist coup by murdering a trophy animal is without merit and should be stopped, unless the trophy animal is the Fuhrer itself. After weeks of disinfecting, the tangerine pelt would make an excellent cat box liner. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Winking smile\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1220Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1220Cartoon.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"1220Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/>\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Store to Door is closed for the holidays, so I have a Safeway.com grocery delivery coming this morning.&nbsp; It includes the food for Christmas (Holiday, if you&#39;re a Republican) dinner, so it&#39;s a big order,&nbsp; Unlike Store to Door, Safeway doesn&#39;t help.&nbsp; (I wouldn&#39;t &#39;t expect them to do so.)&nbsp; Therefore I expect to be <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/open-thread-12202016\/' 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-25523","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\/25523","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=25523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}