{"id":25905,"date":"2017-01-17T10:54:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T18:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25905"},"modified":"2017-01-17T10:54:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T18:54:40","slug":"open-thread-1172017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/open-thread-1172017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/17\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The temperature in Portland is forecast to climb to the mid 30\u00b0s today, topping the freezing mark for the first time in a week.&#160; Tomorrow the high is forecast near 50\u00b0 and that should melt the street in front of my building.&#160; I could not have gone anywhere anyway, as the TriMet Lift Busses have been on emergency service only for a week.&#160; This is the worst freeze we&#8217;ve had here in many years, and since it sets off both my COPD and my arthritis, I&#8217;m damn ready to be rid of it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:24 (average 4:49).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-01-17-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=GCTtp9S39AU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump Has Some Colorful Friends | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/GCTtp9S39AU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With any other politician, this might be a big deal. This is only thing that makes it news is that with Putin&#8217;s Perverted Puppet, it&#8217;s small change.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/paul-ryans-diary-dabbing-at-repeal-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>Paul Ryan&#8217;s Diary- Dabbing at the Repeal of Obamacare<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8VJHP1aLnLA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It seems more factual than funny.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/growing-list-democratic-congress-members-planning-skip-inauguration\/story?id=44783997\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Below is the full running list of Congress members who are planning not to attend the inauguration: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-AZ <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-CA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Ted Lieu, D-CA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Judy Chu, D-CA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Mark Takano, D-CA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Jared Huffman, D-CA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Barbara Lee, D-CA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-CA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-CA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Karen Bass, D-CA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-FL <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Darren Soto, D-FL <\/li>\n<li>Rep. John Lewis, D-GA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-IL <\/li>\n<li>Rep. John Yarmuth, D-KY <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Katherine Clark, D-MA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Anthony Brown, D-MD <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-ME <\/li>\n<li>Rep. John Conyers, D-MI <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Keith Ellison, D-MN <\/li>\n<li>Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-MO <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-NJ <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-NY <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-NY <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Jose Serrano, D-NY <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-NY <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-NY <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-OH <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-OR <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-OR <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-OR <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Dwight Evans, D-PA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-PA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Steve Cohen, D-TN <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Al Green, D-TX <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Don Beyer, D-VA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-WA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Adam Smith, D-WA <\/li>\n<li>Rep. Mark Pocan, D-WI <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to all of them.&#160; I tried to find a list of Senators boycotting the Fuhrer&#8217;s insertion, and several said there are none, but I know that isn&#8217;t true.&#160; Neither of Oregon&#8217;s senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, plan to attend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0117Cartoon\" 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=\"0117Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0117Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temperature in Portland is forecast to climb to the mid 30\u00b0s today, topping the freezing mark for the first time in a week.&#160; Tomorrow the high is forecast near 50\u00b0 and that should melt the street in front of my building.&#160; I could not have gone anywhere anyway, as the TriMet Lift Busses have <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/open-thread-1172017\/' 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-25905","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\/25905","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=25905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}