{"id":30689,"date":"2017-12-14T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T20:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30689"},"modified":"2017-12-14T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T20:54:35","slug":"open-thread-12-14-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/open-thread-12-14-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 12\/14\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m hurrying to finish, so that I can get some rest this afternoon, because this evening is a holy night in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos are playing the Colts on Thursday Night Football, and it is televised here.  Could it happen again?  Fantasy players,  there are Saturday games this week.  I received a call from the alternate food delivery guy I found for the two weeks Store to Door will be closed.  He has to go out of town.  So I’ll have to use Amazon Prime Now.  They are pricey.  Their offerings are incomplete.  Their user interface for groceries is a horrid disjointed maze.  But there is no waiting, and they are reliable.  I got my test results back from my stool sample.  My cat box is now a certified source of A-1 prime high octane kitty shit!  I just heard that Net Neutrality is dead.  The vote was 3-2.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 4:03 (average 5:26).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>An ethics watchdog group<\/a> is asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) violated federal conflict of interest laws by promoting a column he was paid for during a meeting with President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s commission on election integrity, a panel on which he is a top official.<\/p>\n

Kobach has written 14 columns<\/a> for Breitbart since June, and he told the Kansas City Star<\/a> he gets paid by the outlet for his work. On Tuesday, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington asked the Department of Justice to probe whether Kobach broke the law when he wrote a paid column alleging widespread voter fraud could have changed the outcome of the 2016 presidential election in New Hampshire and then introduced the piece for discussion at the September meeting.<\/p>\n

CREW alleges Kobach was using his official position on the commission to advance his financial interest, something prohibited by federal law. Kobach\u2019s columns all have a note at the bottom noting Kobach\u2019s position as vice chair of the commission, which is formally called the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.<\/p>\n

Kudos to CREW! Kobitch needs a Saguaro suppository! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Roy Moore\u2019s defeat in Alabama\u2019s special election means that the Texas senator Ted Cruz will easily retain his status as the most despised person in the United States Senate, congressional insiders confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

According to those insiders, Cruz had been secretly hoping that Moore\u2019s election would displace him from his unenviable position as the most vilified pariah in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n

\u201cCruz was praying that, if Moore got in, that might change the daily conversation around here from \u2018Who has to sit next to Ted?\u2019 \u201d one Republican colleague said.<\/p>\n

Cruz, whom colleagues deem even more insufferable than such other senatorial ass-clowns as Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton, was reportedly \u201cdistraught\u201d upon learning that Moore would not be joining him in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

What do you think poor Ted will do, Andy? I think he’ll seek comfort from his TRUS. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Robert Reich<\/a>: <\/font>Common sense and decency have prevailed in Alabama. It was a vote not just against sexual abuse but also against racism and against those who would ride roughshod over our democratic institutions.<\/p>\n

Yes, the margin was small, and Roy Moore was the worst candidate Republicans could possibly have dredged up. But remember, this is Alabama \u2013 where Democrats are hated, where minority votes are suppressed, where Trump won overwhelmingly last November.<\/p>\n

In the most Trumpian of all states, Trump has been delivered the most powerful repudiation to date. First it was Virginia; now, Alabama. I\u2019d like to think this is a precursor of what\u2019s to come next November \u2013 the beginning of the end of the nightmare.<\/p>\n

The Reich on the left is right. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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