{"id":26021,"date":"2017-01-25T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26021"},"modified":"2017-01-25T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:07:35","slug":"open-thread-1252017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/open-thread-1252017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/25\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#39;m following my normal Wednesday routine of resting in the morning and writing in the afternoon to be sure to be up when my grocery delivery from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storetodooroforegon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Store to Door<\/a> arrives.&nbsp; This evening Wendy will be here to scrub and buff the stinky TomCat, do some light housework, and have supper.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day to all, but, if you must hump Trump, please use a cattle prod!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s took me 3:30 (average 5:34).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-01-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">All In<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Trump lie latest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After President Trump repeated a lie about illegal voting costing him the popular vote, Senator Jeff Merkley <em>[D-OR]<\/em> discusses how to grapple with such a president.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_BTrumpLieLatest_170124\" width=\"635\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jeff: &quot;When the sanest member of the cabinet is nicknamed &#39;Mad Dog&#39;, you know you have a problem.&quot; Amen Jeff!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-creates-ten-million-jobs-for-fact-checkers\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In less than a week as President, Donald J. Trump has created ten million jobs for fact checkers, the Department of Labor has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of HonestyWatch, a Minnesota-based fact-checking organization, called the pace of hiring in the fact-checking industry since Trump&rsquo;s Inauguration &ldquo;blistering.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The nation&rsquo;s supply of fact checkers is being stretched to the breaking point,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There are not enough fact checkers to keep up with the exponential growth in alternative facts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">OK, Andy!! It&#39;s time to start doing satire again! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UEAyHRQErbg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Dan Rather: Alternate Facts Are A &lsquo;Propaganda Tool&rsquo; &ndash; Facts Are &lsquo;Foundation of Our Democracy&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UEAyHRQErbg?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are no Alt-Facts. Facts are just true. There is no Alt-Right. Alt-Right Nazis are just Republicans!!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/1\/24\/1624449\/-Democrats-put-hold-on-Sessions-for-Attorney-General\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>With Republicans holding a numeric advantage on every committee, Democrats can&rsquo;t kill any nomination on their own. But they can act <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/senate\/315828-democrats-delay-vote-on-sessions-nomination\" target=\"_blank\">to delay the vote.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Senate Democrats are delaying a key vote on Sen. Jeff Sessions&#39;s nomination to be President Trump&#39;s attorney general, arguing they want more time to review the pick.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The vote was expected on Tuesday morning, but may be held off for a week, giving Democrats more time to bring in evidence and point out Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III&rsquo;s history of racism.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Keep rubbing their deplorable racist noses in Beauregard!&nbsp; There are several more to delay too!!&nbsp; <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\/0125Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0125Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0125Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"0125Cartoon\" width=\"654\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m following my normal Wednesday routine of resting in the morning and writing in the afternoon to be sure to be up when my grocery delivery from Store to Door arrives.&nbsp; This evening Wendy will be here to scrub and buff the stinky TomCat, do some light housework, and have supper.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/open-thread-1252017\/' 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-26021","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\/26021","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=26021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}