{"id":30883,"date":"2017-12-27T09:47:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30883"},"modified":"2017-12-27T09:47:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:47:43","slug":"open-thread-12-27-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/27\/open-thread-12-27-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/27\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m writing early, because my grocery order from Amazon Prime Now is due anytime within the next two hours.&#160; That disrupts my morning nap, a shame, because I slept poorly last night.&#160; Tonight Wendy is coming to fumigate the TomCat and feast on lox and bagels.&#160; I&#8217;m publishing early, because my groceries came, and while I was putting them away, I had a sudden attack of Republicosis and have to wait for the Immodium AD to kick in.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:13 (average 5:34).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-12-27-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=eMPm9pDKu_U\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Trump Attacks 2017<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/eMPm9pDKu_U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" gesture=\"media\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Isn&#8217;t it pathetic that the list is incomplete? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2017\/12\/27\/israels-transport-minister-wants-to-name-a-new-jerusalem-train-station-after-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Israel\u2019s minister of transportation wants to name a new train station set to be built in the next few years in Jerusalem after President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just any station.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, the station will sit close to the Western Wall and ferry the faithful \u2014 and about 11 million tourists a year \u2014 to one of Judaism\u2019s holiest sites in the disputed Old City.<\/p>\n<p>The transportation minister, Israel Katz, said Wednesday that the naming of the station was a gesture to a U.S. president who had made a \u201ccourageous and historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oy Gevalt! Askoul Central Station? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-targets-blowout-prevention-rules-8508eb334087\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>During the Obama administration, the federal government took action to prevent another Deepwater Horizon-sized oil spill, widely viewed as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. After taking office, the Trump administration immediately began making plans to relax certain offshore drilling rules implemented after the 2010 disaster.<\/p>\n<p>As part of those regulatory rollback efforts, the Department of the Interior\u2019s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which regulates offshore drilling, has developed a proposal that it estimates will save the industry more than $900 million over the next 10 years. The proposed changes would reverse safety measures that offshore oil and gas companies consider burdensome, The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/regulators-propose-rollbacks-to-offshore-drilling-safety-measures-1514206800\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A Republican recipe for another disaster. <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\/1227Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1227Cartoon\" 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=\"1227Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1227Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing early, because my grocery order from Amazon Prime Now is due anytime within the next two hours.&#160; That disrupts my morning nap, a shame, because I slept poorly last night.&#160; Tonight Wendy is coming to fumigate the TomCat and feast on lox and bagels.&#160; I&#8217;m publishing early, because my groceries came, and while <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/27\/open-thread-12-27-2017\/' 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-30883","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\/30883","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=30883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}