{"id":30412,"date":"2017-11-23T13:27:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T21:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30412"},"modified":"2017-11-23T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T21:27:48","slug":"open-thread-11-23-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/23\/open-thread-11-23-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/23\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It has been big time hectic around here.&#160; Yesterday, at 2:30 PM, the local Safeway.com manager informed me that my Thanksgiving grocery order had been cancelled.&#160; He was unsympathetic and rude.&#160; I called Wendy to ask her to pick up a few staples for me.&#160; She said no and insisted on doing my entire shop instead.&#160; Due to store congestion and holiday traffic, it took her three hours, and she refused extra pay for the help.&#160; Is she great, or what?&#160; As a result, I got to bed late last night.&#160; I slept poorly.&#160; The low last night was 61\u00b0, and even though my window was wide open, the way heat rises in this building it was 78\u00b0 inside and 100% humidity when I woke up.&#160; Today, I decided to have Chinese from Grub Hub for Thanksgiving dinner.&#160; After all the trouble of ordering, the restaurant said they were too busy and cancelled the order.&#160; So I nuked four frozen BBQ chicken wings, and that was my Thanksgiving&#160; Dinner.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:42 (average 5:01).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-23-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=q5fmusgaMEA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Liberal Redneck &#8211; Thanks for Nothin<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/q5fmusgaMEA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We can be thankful for Trae. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">All In<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Trump\u2019s busy day at Mar-A-Lago<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The White House adamantly claimed Trump had a full work schedule at Mar-a-Lago, Here&#8217;s what his day actually looked like.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_t1t2_171122\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump earned an A in Bullshitology for that one! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/22\/us\/politics\/joe-barton-explicit-photo-twitter.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The heightened scrutiny of sexual impropriety on Capitol Hill has swept up a senior House Republican who apologized Wednesday for a sexually explicit photograph that wound up on the internet and raised the possibility that he had been the victim of a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Joe Barton of Texas, who was once the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is now its vice chairman, said that he was reconsidering his political future after the photograph appeared on an anonymous Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Barton, who has hired a crisis communications firm, made clear he was ready for a fight. In a statement Wednesday night, he said that he had suffered \u201ca potential crime.\u201d A Texas law, the so-called revenge pornography law, makes it a misdemeanor to intentionally publicize images or videos of someone\u2019s genitals or sexual activity without consent.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after his initial apology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/congressman-told-woman-he-would-report-her-to-capitol-police-if-she-exposed-his-secret-sex-life\/2017\/11\/22\/e3345862-cf10-11e7-a1a3-0d1e45a6de3d_story.html?tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.3fe0aba1a26e\" target=\"_blank\">The<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/congressman-told-woman-he-would-report-her-to-capitol-police-if-she-exposed-his-secret-sex-life\/2017\/11\/22\/e3345862-cf10-11e7-a1a3-0d1e45a6de3d_story.html?tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.3fe0aba1a26e\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post reported<\/a> that Mr. Barton, 68, had threatened in 2015 to report to the Capitol Police a woman with whom he had shared explicit photographs, videos and messages if she exposed him.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ve written about Fartin&#8217; Joe Barton on several occasions, but this is the first I knew that he practices microscopic photography. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1123Cartoon\" 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=\"1123Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1123Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been big time hectic around here.&#160; Yesterday, at 2:30 PM, the local Safeway.com manager informed me that my Thanksgiving grocery order had been cancelled.&#160; He was unsympathetic and rude.&#160; I called Wendy to ask her to pick up a few staples for me.&#160; She said no and insisted on doing my entire shop <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/23\/open-thread-11-23-2017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30412","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\/30412","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=30412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}