{"id":25575,"date":"2016-12-22T14:52:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25575"},"modified":"2016-12-22T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:52:33","slug":"open-thread-12222016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/22\/open-thread-12222016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/22\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m getting a late start today.&#160; Wendy&#8217;s plane from Lost Wages was delayed, and when she arrived, traffic was so bad that she waited an extra hour for her son to pick her up, and then it took her 2 1\/2 hours to get home with her sons and niece, drop them off, and return here.&#160; As a result, I got to bed quite late.&#160; She also lost my whole $2. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-cryingface\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Crying face\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wlEmoticon-cryingface.png\" \/>&#160; I slept poorly, so I needed to take a nap after doing my morning research.&#160; After lunch, I started to work on Christmas dinner.&#160; This my first major meal since I lost my leg.&#160; Being half blind doesn&#8217;t help.&#160; Today I cooled 2 lb of fresh Brussels sprouts.&#160; They were quite dirty, so I had to wash them.&#160; Then I had to trim the ends and remove the outside leaves of each sprout, before cooking them.&#160; I&#8217;ll make the stuffing tomorrow, roast the ham on Saturday, and make the stuffed potatoes and Hollandaise sauce for the sprouts on Christmas day.&#160; Yes, I&#8217;m pooped, but what else is new?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:34 (average 5:25).&#160; To do it, click here.&#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=fi_2GcNpMOs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>How Our New Corporate Overlords Plan to Thrive<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fi_2GcNpMOs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s a special note to third party voters and stay-home non-voters who made this tyranny possible. Bend over, grab your ankles, and while you&#8217;re screaming ask yourselves why you made the rest of us suffer this with you. Then <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/egbertowillies.com\/2016\/12\/21\/bill-oreilly-white-nationalist-rant\/\" target=\"_blank\">EgbertoWillies.com<\/a>: <\/font>Bill O\u2019Reilly became the chief Trump white nationalist mainstream propaganda mouthpiece with this deceiving rant meant to create political dissension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbolishing the electoral college,\u201d O\u2019Reilly said. \u201cThat is the subject of this evening\u2019s\u2019 Talking Points Memo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bill O\u2019Reilly then proceeded with his provocative if not downright racist rant.<\/p>\n<h2><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#ff0000\">BIG Barf Bag Alert!<\/font><\/h2>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_0PFOgLHSVw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What Republican Racist O&#8217;Lielly isn&#8217;t telling you is that when he says marginalizing white rural voters, he means making their votes count the same as those of black urban voters.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/12\/20\/1613000\/-The-reasonable-Republican-candidate-just-blocked-a-democratic-vote-on-15-minimum-wage\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>While Republicans in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/12\/16\/1611736\/-All-hell-breaks-loose-in-North-Carolina-Part-II-As-outrage-mounts-so-do-arrests\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina thwart the democratic process<\/a> of our Constitution by stripping the elected incoming governor of his powers, the Republican governor of Ohio\u2014John \u201cI love war\u201d Kasich\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/open\/index.ssf\/2016\/12\/gov_john_kasich_signs_bill_blo.html\" target=\"_blank\">is abusing his powers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Monday signed legislation blocking next year&#8217;s special election vote on whether to raise Cleveland&#8217;s minimum wage to $15 per hour, according to his office.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 331 prohibits communities in the state from raising the minimum wage beyond the state&#8217;s minimum wage rate, currently set at $8.10 per hour. State lawmakers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/open\/index.ssf\/2016\/12\/ohio_house_passes_bill_to_bloc.html\" target=\"_blank\">passed the bill<\/a> earlier this month <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/metro\/index.ssf\/2016\/12\/cleveland_officials_ask_state.html\" target=\"_blank\">at the request of Cleveland city officials and others<\/a>, who sought to forestall a special election on the wage hike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/metro\/index.ssf\/2016\/09\/special_election_for_phased-in_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">next May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Despite claims to the contrary, KKKasich is NOT a reasonable Republican. Combined with Republican, reasonable is an oxymoron. With or without reasonable, a Republican is just a moron.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1222Cartoon\" 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=\"1222Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1222Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting a late start today.&#160; Wendy&#8217;s plane from Lost Wages was delayed, and when she arrived, traffic was so bad that she waited an extra hour for her son to pick her up, and then it took her 2 1\/2 hours to get home with her sons and niece, drop them off, and return <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/22\/open-thread-12222016\/' 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-25575","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\/25575","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=25575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}