{"id":30811,"date":"2017-12-20T12:38:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30811"},"modified":"2017-12-20T12:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:38:48","slug":"open-thread-12-20-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/20\/open-thread-12-20-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 12\/20\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s another crazy day in the CatBox.  I had to split my grocery order into two deliveries, one from each of two locations, the Amazon warehouse and New Seasons Market.  The larger of the two from Amazon has already come, and it was so well packed and organized that putting everything away was relatively painless.  The New Seasons order is only three items, but one of them is a key ingredient for tonight’s supper.  That will come between 10:00 and Noon.  Tonight is a shower night, and I’m planning a special supper for WWW: bagels with lox, cream cream cheese, and onions!  Oy Purrrr!!!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:22 (average 5:12).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The Atlantic<\/a>: <\/font>Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma put it a bit more succinctly. \u201cGod made Republicans to cut taxes,\u201d he quipped to reporters.<\/p>\n

Trump hasn’t even signed it in OUR blood yet, and Republicans are already trying to blame their albatross on somebody else. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The White House has taken down a popular online tool created by President Barack Obama’s administration that allowed the public to create online petitions, some of which required an official response.<\/p>\n

All of the petitions, including one that called on President Trump to release his tax returns \u2014 the most popular, with more than a million signatures \u2014 disappeared from Petitions.WhiteHouse.Gov as part of what a statement https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/<\/a> said was part of a maintenance effort to improve its performance.<\/p>\n

The statement said that the site, as well as all of its existing petitions, would be restored by the end of January.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll existing petitions and associated signatures have been preserved and will be available when the site is relaunched,\u201d the note said. \u201cFollowing the site’s relaunch, petitions that have reached the required number of signatures will begin receiving responses.\u201d<\/p>\n

I’ll bet a buck that, when the end of January comes, there will be a problem that will cause a "slight" delay in getting it back up. That delay will continue until Drumpfenfarten is no longer Fuhrer. Any takers? RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Democratic wave that rose on Election Day in Virginia last month delivered a final crash on the sand Tuesday when a Democratic challenger defeated a Republican incumbent by a single vote, leaving the Virginia House of Delegates evenly split between the two parties.<\/p>\n

The victory by Shelly Simonds, a school board member in Newport News, was a civics lesson in every-vote-counts as she won 11,608<\/strong> to 11,607<\/strong> in a recount conducted by local election officials. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n

How many times have you heard lazy lefties or third party fools say their vote doesn’t matter, because it will make no difference anyway. Bullshit! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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