{"id":30593,"date":"2017-12-06T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T19:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30593"},"modified":"2017-12-06T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T19:55:50","slug":"open-thread-12-6-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/06\/open-thread-12-6-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/6\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day.&#160; I&#8217;ve changed my schedule to accommodate&#160; grocery delivery from Store to Door, which I expect in about an hour.&#160; This evening, WWW is coming to de-stink the TomCat.&#160; I slept well, but feel much more tired than normal.&#160; I think it&#8217;s because of the temperature.&#160; It&#8217;d 44\u00b0 outside, 55\u00b0 on the open window side of the room, an d 78\u00b0 on the computer side of the room from the radiator effect of the sun hitting the wall.&#160; ARGH!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 4:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-12-06-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&#160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7EV0n3Wfj2A\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Jeff Sessions: No One is Above the Law<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Beauregard Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7EV0n3Wfj2A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You can be sure that KKK Beauregard will do a complete about face on this issue now that his Fuhrer is the subject. It will be interesting to see how he tries to sidestep this statement. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2017\/12\/06\/times-person-of-the-year-the-silence-breakers-for-speaking-out-against-sexual-harassment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Time magazine has named <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Silence Breakers\u201d<\/a> as its 2017 Person of the Year, recognizing the women (and some men) who came forward with stories of sexual harassment and assault and helped force a nationwide reckoning.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine calls them \u201cthe voices that launched a movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The woman who have reported Trump and others are a far better Person Of The Year than Putin&#8217;s pussy grabbing pervert could ever be. This is the last good year, because Time is about to start sucking Koch. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/nazis-feeling-neglected-after-republicans-embrace-of-child-molesters\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Several prominent Nazis said on Tuesday that they feel \u201cneglected and hurt\u201d by what they see as the Republican Party\u2019s decision to court child molesters instead.<\/p>\n<p>After the Republican National Committee agreed to fund the alleged child molester Roy Moore\u2019s campaign for the United States Senate, aggrieved Nazis called the move a blatant attempt to pander to the child-molester vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like just last summer President Trump was saying what \u2018fine people\u2019 we were,\u201d Heinz Dorrinson, an embittered Nazi from Mississippi, said. \u201cNow it seems like all he can think about is his precious child molesters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorrinson warned that, in their frenzy to woo the child-molester vote, Republicans were playing a dangerous game by taking the Nazi vote for granted.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, I think the Nazis are foolish. They have nothing to worry about. 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