{"id":30468,"date":"2017-11-29T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30468"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:03:41","slug":"open-thread-11-29-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/29\/open-thread-11-29-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/29\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Store to Door was a little early, so all my groceries are unpacked and put away.&#160; I&#8217;ve had adequate sleep, but for some reason, I think I would sleep all day, if I let myself.&#160; The end of the month is upon us, so the next few days will be busy as hell.&#160; WWW is coming this evening to destink the TomCat and have dinner.&#160; I&#8217;m actually looking forward to hot dogs and sauerkraut, having turkey bird up the ying-yang.&#160; Has everyone recovered?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:49 (average 4:26).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-29-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=5NIQC-ny86s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SenatorJeffMerkley\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Merkley Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Senator Merkley Speaks Out Against GOP Tax Scam<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5NIQC-ny86s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t think I have to call Jeff to tell him how to vote, but I did call to thank him. Oregon leads the way. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rELK_bC0pxE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Full Frontal&#8217;s Undercover Sting<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rELK_bC0pxE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sam gives us a great parody of the O&#8217;Keefe scam to help Roy Moore discredit Moore&#8217;s victims. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/pocahontas-not-a-racial-slur-says-prominent-white-expert\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump\u2019s use of the name \u201cPocahontas\u201d at a White House event honoring Navajo veterans was not a racial slur, a prominent white expert said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf some Native Americans were offended by the use of this term, I\u2019m sorry that they\u2019re so wrong,\u201d the expert said. \u201cAs a white person, I think I\u2019m in a better position to know about this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also defended the decision to honor the Navajo veterans near a portrait of Andrew Jackson, who is widely reviled by Native Americans. \u201cBefore we held the ceremony, we consulted with a number of other white experts, and we all agreed that Andrew Jackson was great,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">But Andy, Sarah Upchuckabee Sanders [pictured in article] is an expert on only one thing: the dissemination of Republican Bullshitology! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1129Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1129Cartoon\" 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=\"1129Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1129Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I started watching Keith, when he started hosting Countdown on MSNBC in 2003, and I have followed him ever since.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Store to Door was a little early, so all my groceries are unpacked and put away.&#160; I&#8217;ve had adequate sleep, but for some reason, I think I would sleep all day, if I let myself.&#160; The end of the month is upon us, so the next few days will be busy as hell.&#160; WWW is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/29\/open-thread-11-29-2017\/' 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-30468","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\/30468","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=30468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}