{"id":30680,"date":"2017-12-13T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T20:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30680"},"modified":"2017-12-13T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T20:16:15","slug":"open-thread-12-13-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/open-thread-12-13-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/13\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m expecting Store to Door to deliver my groceries in the next ninety minutes, so unless I finish writing before they get here, I&#8217;ll break to put them away and have lunch, when they do.&#160; WWW is coming this evening to destink the TomCat.&#160; For those of you, who have not been to yesterday&#8217;s comment, Nameless&#8217; mother is in the hospital for congestive heart failure.&#160; She is doing well,and he is on his way there.&#160; Please keep her, him, and their family in your thoughts, prayers, or however you approach the infinite.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:14 (average 5:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-12-13-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=ZUC_r1EDKcQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Alex Jones: Trump&#8217;s Accusers Aren&#8217;t Attractive Enough To Be Believed<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZUC_r1EDKcQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What Alex Jones knows about women would fit on the head of a pin with room to spare. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/fox-news-is-worried-moores-loss-means-trump-might-be-held-accountable-for-sexual-assault-fe7e150a864a\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Moments after <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/back-vote-alabama-jones-8da18c1d8d7a\/\" target=\"_blank\">calling the Alabama U.S. Senate race for Democrat Doug Jones<\/a>, Fox News pondered what the defeat of Republican Roy Moore \u2014 a candidate who faced numerous credible sexual misconduct allegations \u2014 could mean for President Trump, who has himself been accused of assault by 14 women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaura, to your point, I think that this is going to embolden Democrats to use this issue, specifically against this president,\u201d host Bret Baier said, addressing Laura Ingraham\u2019s commentary earlier in the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah\u2026 if they\u2019re able to take out a Senate candidate in Alabama with these allegations, as lurid as they were, what does this mean for the umpteen number of Democrats who will inevitably come forward to urge the president to resign, the constant re-airing of the old allegations that were aired last October \u2014 October 2016 \u2014 and putting this pressure, Brit, all the way to 2018 midterm elections, the war on women redux,\u201d Ingraham said. \u201cI think we see this all the way through 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/BiaB3bfmC0k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What ugly propaganda! I think that after having to stay in hiding for decades, abused women are out of the closet and demanding to be heard. That will not stop. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/devastated-roy-moore-consoles-himself-by-heading-to-mall\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Moments after his stunning defeat in Alabama\u2019s special U.S. Senate election, the Republican candidate, Roy Moore, told reporters that he was planning to cheer himself up by \u201cheading to the mall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people think they\u2019ve seen the last of Roy Moore, they are sorely mistaken,\u201d a visibly devastated Moore said. \u201cI\u2019m going to get back up, dust myself off, and head on over to the good ol\u2019 Gadsden Mall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Moore\u2019s plans for a rejuvenating return to his former stomping grounds hit a snag upon his arrival at the mall, where he found an impromptu victory party for the Democrat, Doug Jones, in full swing.<\/p>\n<p>Adding insult to injury, security guards who recognized Moore from his mall-prowling days nabbed the disgraced Republican and hurled him from the premises.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy!! <strong>FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO<\/strong>! <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\/1213Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1213Cartoon\" 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=\"1213Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1213Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Before I could recycle this one, I had to edit it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m expecting Store to Door to deliver my groceries in the next ninety minutes, so unless I finish writing before they get here, I&#8217;ll break to put them away and have lunch, when they do.&#160; WWW is coming this evening to destink the TomCat.&#160; For those of you, who have not been to yesterday&#8217;s comment, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/open-thread-12-13-2017\/' 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-30680","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\/30680","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=30680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}