{"id":26029,"date":"2017-01-26T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26029"},"modified":"2017-01-26T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:52:16","slug":"open-thread-1262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/26\/open-thread-1262017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t know why, but I slept poorly last night, so with your permission, I&#8217;ll dispense with my normal chattiness and get to the task at hand.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:15 (average 5:28).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-01-26-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=Jxd61lQJyPU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>How the Media Needs to Respond to Trump Now | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Jxd61lQJyPU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Keith! The Fourth Estate has two choices. They can do their duty or they can become an insignificant pawn of the Fifth Reich!<strong> RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font><strong>PPP poll: Trump base deluded by false facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Maddow gives an exclusive first look at the latest PPP poll showing Donald Trump with historically low approval ratings and that most Americans do not believe his lies about inauguration numbers, though his supporters do.    <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_appp_170125\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This reiterates what Keith said.&#160; Media might as well report truth.&#160; Only deplorables will believe the Fuhrer&#8217;s lies anyway!<strong>&#160; RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/25\/us\/politics\/executive-order-leaked-draft-national-security-trump-administration.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>It contained crossed-out phrases and typos. It said that the Sept. 11 attacks occurred in 2011, rather than a decade earlier. It was clearly not meant for public consumption.<\/p>\n<p>But the draft of a Trump administration executive order that spilled into public view early Wednesday \u2014 a document that raised the prospect of reviving C.I.A. \u201cblack site\u201d prisons like those where terrorism suspects were once detained and tortured \u2014 has the potential to further fracture a national security team already divided over one of the most controversial policies of the post-9\/11 era.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Time to dust off the Statue of Republican Liberty.<strong> RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0126torture\" 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=\"0126torture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0126torture.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"481\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0126Cartoon\" 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=\"0126Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0126Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I slept poorly last night, so with your permission, I&#8217;ll dispense with my normal chattiness and get to the task at hand. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:15 (average 5:28).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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