{"id":25917,"date":"2017-01-18T14:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25917"},"modified":"2017-01-18T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:07:50","slug":"open-thread-1182017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/18\/open-thread-1182017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/18\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Portland is now a sweltering 43\u00b0, and the street below my windows has transformed to slush after over a week od snow and ice.&#160; I&#8217;m finally getting a grocery delivery this afternoon, and I&#8217;m writing late to be sure to be up when it gets here.&#160; Putting it away will be lots od extra work, because it&#8217;s two weeks worth.&#160; Later, Wendy is coming to give the stinky TomCat a fresh fragrance.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:06 (average 4:37).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-01-18-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=Zeh0crSkhVg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The One Crucial Question Trump Refuses to Answer<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Zeh0crSkhVg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">No traitor would answer that question. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/bush-counting-down-days-until-he-is-no-longer-worst-president-in-history\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Former President George W. Bush is eagerly counting down the days until he is no longer the worst President in U.S. history, Bush confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters at his home, Bush said that he \u201ccould hardly wait\u201d until Friday, when he will be officially bounced from the worst-President slot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to admit, I never thought I\u2019d see this day in my lifetime,\u201d the former President said. \u201cWhen you leave office with the nation in smoldering ruins, you sort of come to accept that you\u2019re gonna be worst for a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess you could say I set the bar kind of high, worst-wise,\u201d he chuckled.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! I never thought I would miss Crawford Caligula!!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/1\/17\/1621605\/-Austria-s-leader-of-the-Nazi-created-Freedom-Party-will-be-at-Trump-s-inauguration\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Heinz-Christian Strache is the head of Austria\u2019s Freedom Party. A few weeks ago it was reported that Trump\u2019s scary national security advisor, Mike Flynn, had met with Strache to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2016\/12\/mike-flynn-nazi-sympathizers\" target=\"_blank\">whatever it is people discuss inside of volcano underground lairs.<\/a>&#160; \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Flynn seems to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/12\/21\/1613313\/-Trump-team-boycotts-meeting-with-Israeli-official-to-stand-in-solidarity-with-Swedish-neo-Nazi\" target=\"_blank\">penchant for finding neo-Nazi types all throughout Europe<\/a> to have conversations with. Now, according to Strache\u2019s Facebook page [<em>Republican delinked<\/em>] and an English language Austrian news source, it looks like Mr. Strache got himself an invite to the Reich\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.at\/20170117\/strache-and-fpoe-delegation-will-attend-trumps-inauguration\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s big day.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The invitation allegedly came from the US-Congressman from Iowa, Steve King, who is known for his ultraconservative views and strong support for Trump. King made a trip to Vienna in October 2016 to visit with party members during the height of the election campaign. Following an inquiry by the APA, a speaker for the former presidential candidate and FP\u00d6 vice president, Norbert Hofer has said he will &quot;neither confirm nor deny&quot; if Hofer is part of the delegation. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While Americans boycott, Republicans invite foreign Nazis and they attend!&#160; <strong>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\/0118Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0118Cartoon\" 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=\"0118Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0118Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland is now a sweltering 43\u00b0, and the street below my windows has transformed to slush after over a week od snow and ice.&#160; I&#8217;m finally getting a grocery delivery this afternoon, and I&#8217;m writing late to be sure to be up when it gets here.&#160; Putting it away will be lots od extra work, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/18\/open-thread-1182017\/' 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-25917","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\/25917","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=25917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}