{"id":30698,"date":"2017-12-15T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30698"},"modified":"2017-12-15T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:14:47","slug":"open-thread-12-15-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/15\/open-thread-12-15-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/15\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s been a busy day with a lot of time spent sorting out what Amazon Prime Now does and does not have for next week&#8217;s grocery order.&#160; It&#8217;s also the coldest day of the year so far.&#160; I just learned that both Corker and Rubio have signed off on the Tax Scam.&#160; Grab your ankles!<\/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\/2017-12-15-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1214Broncos25-Colts13\" 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=\"1214Broncos25-Colts13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1214Broncos25-Colts13.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Osweiler the hero?!!?&#160; Who would guessed it?<\/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=9LYnB4LgqGs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Weak President Trump Political Clout Further Eroded By Election Losses <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9LYnB4LgqGs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" gesture=\"media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans are so devious that, to win a close race, they will get their Fuhrer to endorse the Democrat in that race. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/12\/13\/1724067\/-Ouch-A-polling-firm-asked-voters-for-the-first-word-that-comes-to-mind-when-they-hear-Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Quinnipiac University did a national poll with a few questions about Donald Trump. Among the highlights (or lowlights) was what happened when they asked voters for the first word that comes to mind when they hear the name \u201cDonald Trump.\u201d The results are not going to make the notoriously thin-skinned megalomaniac happy. Here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/images\/polling\/us\/us12122017_ukko63.pdf\/\" target=\"_blank\">top responses:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>#1 \u2014 IDIOT<\/p>\n<p>#2\u2014 LIAR<\/p>\n<p>#3\u2014 INCOMPETENT<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Given more than one word, the responses were not much better for the deeply unpopular Trump:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I would have picked a MUCH better word! RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/14\/climate\/climate-extreme-weather-attribution.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font><strong>1. Record temperatures around the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Earth reached its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/18\/science\/earth-highest-temperature-record.html\" target=\"_blank\">highest temperature on record<\/a>, beating marks set in 2015 and 2014. While that partly reflected the influence of El Ni\u00f1o, a cyclical event in the Pacific Ocean that can raise global surface temperatures, a new study led by Thomas R. Knutson of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concluded that the record warmth worldwide \u201cwas only possible due to substantial centennial-scale human-caused warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two separate studies also found that unusually high temperatures across Asia and the Arctic in 2016 \u201cwould not have been possible without human-caused climate change.\u201d Such forceful assertions are rare: Typically, scientists will only go so far as to say that global warming made an extreme weather event more likely to occur. In these cases, they went further, finding that such extreme warmth could not have happened in a world without rising emissions.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared one result of the Republican War on Mother Earth. Click through for the other four listed. <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\/1215Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1215Cartoon\" 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=\"1215Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1215Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy day with a lot of time spent sorting out what Amazon Prime Now does and does not have for next week&#8217;s grocery order.&#160; It&#8217;s also the coldest day of the year so far.&#160; I just learned that both Corker and Rubio have signed off on the Tax Scam.&#160; Grab your ankles! <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/15\/open-thread-12-15-2017\/' 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-30698","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\/30698","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=30698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}