{"id":25820,"date":"2017-01-11T13:32:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25820"},"modified":"2017-01-11T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:32:50","slug":"open-thread-1112017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/open-thread-1112017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/11\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Portland is now under a full Winter Storm Warning, and it has been snowing all night and all day.&#160; Subfreezing temperatures are forecast until Sunday.&#160; As I feared it might, the weather has screwed up my day.&#160; On Wednesdays I take a morning nap, to be sure to be up when Store to Door arrives with my groceries.&#160; I was about to get up when the call came from Store to Door.&#160; All grocery deliveries are cancelled.&#160; Then Wendy called.&#160; Her school is closed for a snow day, and she was at the store.&#160; She&#8217;s picking up a few staples for me and wants to come in the next hour or so, instead of this evening.&#160; Dang!&#160; If I were ten years younger and hadn&#8217;t forgotten how, I&#8217;d marry her.&#160; So I&#8217;m not sure when this will be published or uploaded to Care2.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:54 (average 4:13).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-01-11-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 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow\/watch\/unverified-trump-russia-blackmail-allegations-roil-us-politics-852191299993\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Unverified Trump, Russia blackmail allegations roil US politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about a report that Donald Trump and President Obama were briefed on unverified claims that Russia has compromised Trump with a cache of incriminating or scandalous material. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_engel_170110\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html\" target=\"_blank\">read the document here<\/a>.&#160; I believe it, but I do so on the basis of instinct, not verifiable evidence. I&#8217;m waiting for that, and if proven, Trumps minority election must be invalidated.<strong>&#160; RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2017\/01\/10\/read-the-letter-coretta-scott-king-wrote-opposing-sessionss-1986-federal-nomination\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. urged Congress to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions for federal judge, saying that allowing him to join the federal bench would \u201cirreparably damage the work of my husband,\u201d according to the letter written by King that was previously publicly unavailable and obtained on Tuesday by The Post.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Senator Strom Thurmond (R-KKK) protected Beauregard in 1986 by burying the letter and not including it in the record. Please click through and read it in its entirety. Then call your Senator to demand that it be read into the record for this hearing.<strong>&#160; RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2017\/01\/10\/trumps-approval-rating-plunges-historic-days-inauguration.html\" target=\"_blank\">PoliticusUSA<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>America is not giving Donald Trump a warm welcome to the White House as a new poll found that Trump\u2019s job approval rating has dropped seven points to 37% over the past month.<\/p>\n<p>According to Quinnipiac University, Trump has an unfavorable rating of 51% and unfavorable rating of 37%. The president-elect\u2019s favorability ratings are down seven points over the last 30 days. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/national\/release-detail?ReleaseID=2415\">Respondents also had highly unfavorable views of Trump\u2019s personal traits<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>53 \u2013 39 percent that he is not honest, compared to 52 \u2013 42 percent November 22;      <br \/>49 \u2013 44 percent that he has good leadership skills, compared to 56 \u2013 38 percent;       <br \/>52 \u2013 44 percent that he does not care about average Americans, compared to 51 \u2013 45       <br \/>percent who said he did care;       <br \/>62 \u2013 33 percent that he is not level-headed, compared to 57 \u2013 38 percent;       <br \/>71 \u2013 25 percent that he is a strong person, compared to 74 \u2013 23 percent;       <br \/>68 \u2013 27 percent that he is intelligent, compared to 74 \u2013 21 percent.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Most losers of Presidential elections compare favorably to the Bullshit Banana.<strong>&#160; RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0111Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0111Cartoon\" 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=\"0111Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0111Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland is now under a full Winter Storm Warning, and it has been snowing all night and all day.&#160; Subfreezing temperatures are forecast until Sunday.&#160; As I feared it might, the weather has screwed up my day.&#160; On Wednesdays I take a morning nap, to be sure to be up when Store to Door arrives <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/open-thread-1112017\/' 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-25820","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\/25820","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=25820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}