{"id":26078,"date":"2017-01-29T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26078"},"modified":"2017-01-29T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T19:23:36","slug":"open-thread-1292017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/29\/open-thread-1292017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/29\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy is due in about twenty minutes to sanitize and deodorize the mangy old TomCat, help with housework and cooking, and tighten some nuts and bolts on my chair, si I want to write as much of this as I can, before she arrives.&#160; I&#8217;ll finish after she leaves.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fluffed, buffed and stuffed!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:11 (average 4:41).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-01-29-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=0BF4ykiM_MA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheYoungTurks\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">TYT Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Federal Court Stops Trump&#8217;s Muslim Ban! Gigantic Airport Protests Against Trump!<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0BF4ykiM_MA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Cenk! Kudos to all who are doing the right thing! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/01\/28\/charles-koch-donor-summit\/97185948\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>The leaders of the powerful network aligned with billionaires Charles and David Koch aim to raise and spend between $300 million and $400 million over the next two years to advance their free-market policy and political agenda, officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The target, announced at the opening of the network\u2019s annual winter gathering for donors, marks a substantial increase from the $250 million the network spent to influence political battles in the 2016 election and help Republicans retain their grip on the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Although Charles Koch refused to throw his political might behind President Trump\u2019s candidacy, his top political operatives on Saturday signaled support for some of Trump\u2019s actions during the first week of his presidency and a willingness to collaborate with his administration on other top Koch priorities, such as repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How many Koch suckers can they buy for $400 million? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/bannon-s-deathly-hand\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>The White House announced today that the <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/donald-trump-first-president-not-mention-jews-holocaust-remembrance-day-statement\" target=\"_blank\">decision not to mention Jews or anti-Semitism<\/a> in its announcement commemorating Holocaust remembrance day was intentional. According to White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks, the statement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/28\/politics\/white-house-holocaust-memorial-day\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">made no mentions of Jews out of respect for the non-Jews<\/a> who died in Nazi labor camps and death camps during World War II. Hicks told CNN: &quot;Despite what the media reports, we are an incredibly inclusive group and we took into account all of those who suffered.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think it far more likely that the failure to mention Jews is that the author of the Fuhrer&#8217;s statement, Unterfartenfuhrer Bannon, is a Nazi. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0129Cartoon\" 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=\"0129Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0129Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This cartoon is four years old today.&#160; There are universal constants.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy is due in about twenty minutes to sanitize and deodorize the mangy old TomCat, help with housework and cooking, and tighten some nuts and bolts on my chair, si I want to write as much of this as I can, before she arrives.&#160; I&#8217;ll finish after she leaves. Fluffed, buffed and stuffed!! 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