{"id":30549,"date":"2017-12-03T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30549"},"modified":"2017-12-03T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T20:06:24","slug":"open-thread-12-3-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/03\/open-thread-12-3-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/3\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WWW is coming a couple hours late, so I&#8217;m rushing to finish early.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:00 (average 6:02).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-12-03-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=H9wMNxbQM-4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>White House Christmas Cold Open<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/H9wMNxbQM-4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen pseudo-Hillary! Lock him up! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/pence-asks-jesus-to-rapture-him-up-before-mueller-can-indict-him\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Vice-President Mike Pence has requested that Jesus Christ rapture him up before the special counsel Robert Mueller can indict him, a source close to Pence confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the former national-security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I., Pence contacted Jesus to discuss the early rapture proposal, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The source characterized Pence\u2019s request to be raptured up as \u201curgent\u201d but did not indicate whether the Vice-President asked Jesus to rapture up any other senior Administration officials.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Gee, Andy. Republican Supply-side Jesus (the opposite of the real Jesus) is welcome to poof Pence down to where he is. Then Pence can sizzle with Scalia. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/02\/us\/politics\/tax-cuts-republicans-entitlements-medicare-social-security.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>As the tax cut legislation passed by the Senate early Saturday hurtles toward final approval, Republicans are preparing to use the swelling deficits made worse by the package as a rationale to pursue their long-held vision: undoing the entitlements of the New Deal and Great Society, leaving government leaner and the safety net skimpier for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Paul D. Ryan and other Republicans are beginning to express their big dreams publicly, vowing that next year they will move on to changes in Medicare and Social Security. President Trump told a Missouri rally last week, \u201cWe\u2019re going to go into welfare reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They have claimed this was not true from the beginning, but we have always known they were lying. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1203Cartoon\" 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=\"1203Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1203Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWW is coming a couple hours late, so I&#8217;m rushing to finish early. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:00 (average 6:02).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (SNL Channel): White House Christmas Cold Open &#160; Amen pseudo-Hillary! Lock him up! RESIST!! From The New Yorker: Vice-President Mike <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/03\/open-thread-12-3-2017\/' 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-30549","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\/30549","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=30549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}