{"id":30558,"date":"2017-12-04T13:31:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T21:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30558"},"modified":"2017-12-04T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T21:31:56","slug":"open-thread-12-4-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/open-thread-12-4-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread -12\/4\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was a crazy day.&#160; WWW had a great time with her niece at Santa&#8217;s pancake breakfast and got here at about 10 AM.&#160; After we de-stunk the TomCat, I worked getting the blog published and messages out.&#160; By the time we got done, I was completely pooped, so I fell asleep during meditation upon the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; I had thawed a package of turkey bird leftovers, do I feasted on bird and stuffing.&#160; I still have a 2 lb. pkg. of frozen turkey in addition to the frozen soup base.&#160; Store to door will be off two weeks at the end of December, so I&#8217;m trying to arrange alternative delivery to avoid Safeway.com.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:17 (average 5:17).&#160; Top do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-12-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1203Broncos9-Dolphins35\" 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=\"1203Broncos9-Dolphins35\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1203Broncos9-Dolphins35.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They are now effectively out of the playoffs, so that leaves only next season.&#160; Each loss increases the draft value.<\/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=2aE7l32knL8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Dreamers send Paul Ryan a Billboard Pushing for a Clean Dream Act<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2aE7l32knL8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I support them, but expect to see the Stanley Cup played in Hell before Republicans pass it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-warns-that-dumping-roy-moore-could-start-a-dangerous-trend-of-believing-women\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Breaking his silence on Alabama\u2019s embattled Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that dumping Roy Moore could start a \u201cdangerous trend\u201d of believing women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we need to be very, very careful here,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cThis is not just about Roy Moore. This is about our country deciding that we are going to start believing women, something that we have never done before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very dangerous road we\u2019re heading down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump cautioned that, if instituted, a new practice of believing women would \u201ctotally destroy\u201d the system that the country already has in place. \u201cFor years we\u2019ve had a system of believing men,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s worked very well. It\u2019s done a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, are you planning a return to satire? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/trump-lawyer-john-dowd-offers-astounding-defense-presidents-incriminating-tweet\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump\u2019s lawyer claims his client cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice because he is the president.<\/p>\n<p>John Dowd, the president\u2019s outside lawyer, insisted he drafted Trump\u2019s tweet over the weekend that seemingly confessed to obstruction but argued the social media posting did no such thing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/exclusive-trump-lawyer-claims-the-president-cannot-obstruct-justice-2514742663.html?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=organic\" target=\"_blank\">reported Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tweet did not admit obstruction,\u201d Dowd told the website. \u201cThat is an ignorant and arrogant assertion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attorney insisted Trump could not possibly be guilty of obstruction because he was the chief executive.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That sounds like Crawford Caligula&#8217;s Unitary Executive hypothesis. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1204Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1204Cartoon\" 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=\"1204Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1204Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a crazy day.&#160; WWW had a great time with her niece at Santa&#8217;s pancake breakfast and got here at about 10 AM.&#160; After we de-stunk the TomCat, I worked getting the blog published and messages out.&#160; By the time we got done, I was completely pooped, so I fell asleep during meditation upon <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/open-thread-12-4-2017\/' 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-30558","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\/30558","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=30558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}