{"id":25744,"date":"2017-01-04T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T22:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25744"},"modified":"2017-01-04T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T22:09:42","slug":"open-thread-142017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/open-thread-142017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/4\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m writing later than normal today, because Store to Door is coming with my groceries for the week, and I have to be up and awake when they get here.&#160; Then Wendy is coming this evening to ungrungify the TomCat.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update from me.&#160; I&#8217;m venturing forth at a time when the temperature will be near 20\u00b0 for an appointment with Courtney, my Physical Terrorist.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:33 (average 5:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-01-04-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=Xwsq__gQPXw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheYoungTurks\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">TYT Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Megyn Kelly Leaving Fox News <\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Xwsq__gQPXw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What a terrible move by NBC! When she gets her daytime show, protest to and boycott the sponsors. This is what qualified her to get her job at the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0104Kelly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0104Kelly\" 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=\"0104Kelly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0104Kelly_thumb.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"609\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">All In<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Protesters arrested in Sen. Sessions&#8217; office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Larry Cohen, Chair of the Democracy Initiative, a coalition opposing Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions&#8217; nomination as Attorney General, joins Ari Melber to discuss the sit-in and subsequent arrests happening at Sessions&#8217; office today.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_flsessionsprotest_170103\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to the protestors!!&#160; <font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/johnpavlovitz.com\/2016\/07\/21\/25-reasons-why-this-christian-is-proudly-nevertrump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. John Pavlovitz<\/a>: <\/font>I\u2019m a Christian and a pastor and I stand fully against Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>Here are 25 reasons why, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>1. Because peace-loving Muslims should have as much religious freedom in America as peace-loving Christians.    <br \/>2. Because LGBTQ people are beautiful and they deserve every right and liberty this country has for its citizens.     <br \/>3. Because I have a wife and a mom and a sister and a daughter, all of whom I love and respect.     <br \/>4. Because Black Lives Matter.     <br \/>5. Because character still counts.     <br \/>6. Because declaring war isn\u2019t something responsible leaders do cavalierly or for cheap applause.     <br \/>7. Because a person\u2019s right to marriage shouldn\u2019t be the jurisdiction of someone currently on their third.     <br \/>8. Because to legitimately claim Christianity you need to at least slightly resemble Jesus.     <br \/>9. Because we\u2019re all immigrants here.     <br \/>10. Because I teach my son not to be a bully.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen!! Click through for the other fifteen!&#160; How different authentic Christians are from, Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0104Cartoon\" 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=\"0104Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0104Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing later than normal today, because Store to Door is coming with my groceries for the week, and I have to be up and awake when they get here.&#160; Then Wendy is coming this evening to ungrungify the TomCat.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update from me.&#160; I&#8217;m venturing forth at <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/open-thread-142017\/' 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-25744","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\/25744","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=25744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}