{"id":26005,"date":"2017-01-24T10:32:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26005"},"modified":"2017-01-24T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:32:52","slug":"open-thread-1242017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/open-thread-1242017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/24\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Allison, my Ocular Oncology Surgeon,&#160; told me I&#8217;m in remission after several hours of torture.&#160; I really hate it when they do an ultrasound right on the eyeball.&#160; It&#8217;s like fingernails on a blackboard in your head.&#160; Now I need only five more surgeries to see right again.&#160; I will also have to submit to two more of Allison&#8217;s torture sessions a year and a f<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">ull contrast pleural and abdominal CAT scan once a year.&#160; I&#8217;m still blurry from the dilation, but nearly functional.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:50 (average 5:09).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-01-24-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=1qdRyMgaR2g\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>A Plea to Trump Fans: This Man is Dangerous | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1qdRyMgaR2g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Although his plea, if heard at all, will fall on deaf ears, everything Keith said about the Fuhrer is true. Every morning, I thank God that the world has survived another day of Putin&#8217;s Puppet&#8217;s Reich.<strong> RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Word<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Lawsuit: President Trump is violating the Constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President is being sued for allegedly violating the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution because his hotels may accept payments from foreign governments. Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit, joins Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_lawsuit_170123\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CREW<\/a>. Sue the bastard!!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/disturbed-man-gets-past-white-house-security-gives-press-conference\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A man who was described as \u201cvisibly deranged\u201d eluded the Secret Service on Saturday and gave a five-minute press conference at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who somehow obtained White House credentials in order to bypass security, unloaded a delusional and paranoid rant that left a room full of experienced reporters shaken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were all very, very scared,\u201d Tracy Klugian, a reporter who witnessed the incident, said. \u201cThe things he was shouting made absolutely no sense, and he seemed to just get angrier and angrier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a stream-of-consciousness tirade in which he accused the reporters of being part of a far-reaching conspiracy to distort reality, the man abruptly walked off \u201cbefore he could do any real harm,\u201d a Secret Service spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters who left the White House called the incident the scariest five minutes of their lives and said that they were grateful it did not escalate further.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Don&#8217;t ya think the Secret Service should have shot Sean Spicer, before he ever got near a microphone?&#160; <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" \/>&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0124Cartoon\" 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=\"0124Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0124Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison, my Ocular Oncology Surgeon,&#160; told me I&#8217;m in remission after several hours of torture.&#160; I really hate it when they do an ultrasound right on the eyeball.&#160; It&#8217;s like fingernails on a blackboard in your head.&#160; Now I need only five more surgeries to see right again.&#160; I will also have to submit to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/open-thread-1242017\/' 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-26005","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\/26005","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=26005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}