{"id":25759,"date":"2017-01-06T10:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25759"},"modified":"2017-01-06T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:53:19","slug":"open-thread-162017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/06\/open-thread-162017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/6\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I fired the mail order pharmacy I&#8217;ve been using for over five years today.&#160; I had put them on notice after I went without insulin for four days because of one of their several major screw ups, that they were on notice.&#160; Ten days ago, I ordered 100 insulin syringes.&#160; This morning they gave me a &quot;courtesy call&quot; to inform me that they no longer fill prescriptions&#160; for syringes.&#160; If they wanted to be courteous, they could have informed me a LOT sooner. I have a less that week&#8217;s supply left, so I have to pay $12.95 for overnight shipping from another online pharmacy.&#160; Portland is under another winter storm warning.&#160; ARGH!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:23 (average 5:35).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-01-06-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=jv-vfhHrCgs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Stop Jeff Sessions<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jv-vfhHrCgs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Sessions is confirmed, rename DOJ to Department of Injustice. In addition, Alabama&#8217;s Fuhrer Bentley would fill Sessions&#8217; Senate seat, and Bentley likes Judge Roy Moore! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/01\/04\/1616997\/-Slow-the-Senate-to-a-standstill-let-NOTHING-through\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The will of the American people is not represented by the people taking power. Donald Trump lost the election, by nearly THREE million, and yet there he is ready to infest the Oval Office with his odious presence. In the Senate, Republicans may hold a Senate majority, but add up the votes of every senator, and the 48 senators in the Democratic caucus received 78.4 million votes, while the 52 GOP senators received just 54.9 million votes. Americans have picked Democrats to run the government, yet it\u2019s Republicans in charge. What we have here isn\u2019t a democracy, it\u2019s a mockery of one. <\/p>\n<p>So Democrats in Congress must act to represent that nullified American majority, and the best way it can do that is by halting all work. Just bring it in to a standstill. Pass continuing budget resolutions to keep the government running, but otherwise make sure that not a shred of Trump\u2019s agenda, or that of the undemocratic GOP majority makes it through.<\/p>\n<p>Filibuster everything, as long as the GOP majority allow it. Deny the use of unanimous consent to waive the rules for things like the post-cloture 30-hour period. And deny it for EVERYTHING, even the most routine of Senate business. Grind that f-er to a halt.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is exactly what I&#8217;ve been saying since Putin, Comey, and Stein joined forces to hand the White House to Resident Rectum. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/05\/us\/alabama-marching-band-isnt-sure-if-it-should-sit-out-the-trump-parade.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>For a band at a tiny, little-known, historically black college, it seems in some ways to be the gig of a lifetime: a chance to march and perform at the Jan. 20 presidential inaugural parade in Washington. Some of the musicians at Talladega College have been excited to see the capital for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>But because the president-elect is Donald J. Trump, the school has become the subject of an impassioned national outcry, with online petitions, threats to end donations and a flurry of how-could-yous from alumni who feel that performing in the parade would betray the values of an institution founded by newly freed slaves 150 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, after days of speculation that the college administration might bow to the pressure and remove the band from the parade roster, the president of Talladega College, Billy Hawkins, issued a statement confirming the participation of the band, the Marching Tornadoes, and argued, in essence, that the 58th presidential inauguration is about something bigger than Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>SHAME<\/strong>! They are betraying Black Americans everywhere, by allowing that rabid racist to use them as tokens! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0106Cartoon\" 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=\"0106Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0106Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fired the mail order pharmacy I&#8217;ve been using for over five years today.&#160; I had put them on notice after I went without insulin for four days because of one of their several major screw ups, that they were on notice.&#160; Ten days ago, I ordered 100 insulin syringes.&#160; This morning they gave me <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/06\/open-thread-162017\/' 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-25759","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\/25759","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=25759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}