{"id":30448,"date":"2017-11-27T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30448"},"modified":"2017-11-27T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:36:20","slug":"open-thread-11-27-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/27\/open-thread-11-27-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 11\/27\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving Dinner with WWW was magnificent.  I have never had an organically raised bird before, but I recognized the taste as the same as the wild turkey I shot in Colorado about forty year ago.  We also had stuffing gravy, and dinner rolls.  WWW made cream puffs for dessert.  That was TC heaven!  Purrrr!!  After carving all the meat we could get, we boiled the bones, and cleaned off the rest of the meat to make soup later.  We also fed dinner to the desk clerk here at the building.  I’ve had a very busy morning.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 2:47 (average 4:52).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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It was their turn this week.  It isn’t really agony anymore.  At this point, each loss increases the value of our draft choices, while I wonder who the head coach and three new QBs will be next year.<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>U.S. media company Meredith Corp said on Sunday it will buy Time Inc, the publisher of People, Sports Illustrated and Fortune magazines, in a $1.84 billion all-cash deal backed by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.<\/p>\n

The deal is a coup for Meredith, which held unsuccessful talks to buy Time earlier this year and in 2013.<\/p>\n

I predict that Times People of the year will be goose-stepping Republican Koch suckers. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Alex M. Azar II, President Trump\u2019s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has expressed concern about the soaring cost of prescription drugs for many consumers. This week, Mr. Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive, is expected to face tough questions at a Senate confirmation hearing over why his own company raised prices.<\/p>\n

Democratic senators say that, as a top manager at Eli Lilly and Company, he was responsible for steep increases on insulin and other drugs. How he would now tackle that problem as secretary, along with the future of the Affordable Care Act, promises to dominate the hearings.<\/p>\n

Republican greed mongers in the Senate will confirm Azar, knowing that he will cause many Americans to die and not caring. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>As Congressional Republicans return from the Thanksgiving break, they face a crammed agenda and the daunting task of passing an already wildly unpopular<\/a> tax plan by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

According to Politico<\/a>, many are worried that the White House has already doomed the tax overhaul with a tone-deaf rollout that featured multimillionaires Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn as spokesmen.<\/p>\n

The GOP hopes to convince voters that their tax plan isn\u2019t a giant handout to millionaires and billionaires \u2014 which it is<\/a> \u2014 and that it will lower the tax burden of middle class families \u2014 which it will not<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From Alternet’s keys to God’s eyes! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thanksgiving Dinner with WWW was magnificent.  I have never had an organically raised bird before, but I recognized the taste as the same as the wild turkey I shot in Colorado about forty year ago.  We also had stuffing gravy, and dinner rolls.  WWW made cream puffs for dessert.  That was TC heaven!  Purrrr!!  After […]<\/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-30448","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\/30448","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=30448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}