{"id":30536,"date":"2017-12-02T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T21:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30536"},"modified":"2017-12-02T13:01:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T21:01:30","slug":"open-thread-12-2-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/02\/open-thread-12-2-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/2\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I got up early this morning to work on the Monthly Report, so I&#8217;m feeling tired.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; Weak as they are, it&#8217;s the Dolphins turn to clobber my Broncos.&#160; The game is not televised here.&#160; Tomorrow will be a bit crazy for me as WWW will be a couple hours late.&#160; She&#8217;s taking her niece to have breakfast with Santa.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:38 (average 5:08).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-12-02-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=bKZ-fGFIBxM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SenatorJeffMerkley\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Merkley Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Senators Merkley and Klobuchar Highlight Worst Provisions of GOP Tax Scam<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bKZ-fGFIBxM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans are desperate, because their $billionaire donors have put them on notice.&#160; Pass it or the GOP dies of starvation.&#160; Now it goes to conference to hammer out the differences between the House and Senate Bills, unless the House ratifies the Senate bill, as is. I doubt that will happen, because the InsaniTEA wing will object to all the pork Bought Bitch Mitch piled on to bribe the last few holdouts. In conference they are likely to fight. Then they have to approve the final bill in both the House and Senate.&#160; We may win yet. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/kim-jong-un-fears-that-gop-tax-bill-makes-his-plan-to-destroy-us-redundant\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Kim Jong Un is concerned that his long-standing plan to destroy the United States has been made totally irrelevant by the Republican tax bill moving through the Senate, a source close to the North Korean dictator said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Kim fears that his scheme to turn the United States into an uninhabitable hellhole has been to a large extent upstaged by a similar proposal from congressional Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to understand, destroying America is something that Kim and his family have been plotting for decades,\u201d the source said. \u201cTo see the Republicans swoop in at the last second and basically steal that idea\u2014it\u2019s got to hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, never have you been more accurate. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/alabama-race-is-neck-and-neck-with-voters-divided-over-roy-moore-allegations-poll-finds\/2017\/12\/01\/32e659ec-d6bd-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Alabama\u2019s closely watched U.S. Senate race is a neck-and-neck contest as voter concerns about personal moral conduct weigh on the candidacy of Republican Roy Moore, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/page\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/12\/02\/National-Politics\/Polling\/release_505.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post-Schar School poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With less than two weeks to go, support for Democrat Doug Jones stands at 50 percent vs. Moore\u2019s 47 percent support among likely voters \u2014 a margin of a scant three points that sets up a nail-biter for the oddly timed Dec. 12 special election.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If we take that seat, it could make a difference in the Tax Scam. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1202Cartoon\" 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=\"1202Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1202Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Compared to today&#8217;s Republicans, he&#8217;s a moderate.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up early this morning to work on the Monthly Report, so I&#8217;m feeling tired.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; Weak as they are, it&#8217;s the Dolphins turn to clobber my Broncos.&#160; The game is not televised here.&#160; Tomorrow will be a bit crazy for me as <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/02\/open-thread-12-2-2017\/' 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-30536","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\/30536","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=30536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}