{"id":30899,"date":"2017-12-29T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30899"},"modified":"2017-12-29T13:11:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:11:35","slug":"open-thread-12-29-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/29\/open-thread-12-29-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/29\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very uncomfortable day.&#160; The current temperature is 54\u00b0, about 10\u00b0 above normal, but the humidity is 98%.&#160; I&#8217;m not hot, but I&#8217;m sweating anyway, and I slept very poorly.&#160; UGH!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:05 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-12-29-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=sgdyGKi--sk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Some of the best moments of 2017<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sgdyGKi--sk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And in 2018, we&#8217;re not going to shut up either. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2017\/12\/29\/trump-demands-democrats-cave-border-wall-before-daca-fix\/989644001\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump demanded Friday that Democrats approve a wall along the border with Mexico and other programs to tighten immigration before he supports a program designed to protect young people brought into the country illegally as children \u2013 all while promoting his agenda and attacking political critics on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration &amp; ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our Country at all cost!&quot; Trump said during a wide-ranging tweet storm.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have a one word reply!! <strong>NO<\/strong>!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/28\/us\/politics\/roy-moore-block-election.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Alabama officials on Thursday unhesitatingly pushed aside a legal challenge from Roy S. Moore and certified Doug Jones as the winner of this month\u2019s Senate election.<\/p>\n<p>The action, during a brief meeting at the State Capitol, was essentially the state\u2019s final step before the seating of the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Alabama in a quarter century. It was also a swift rejection, by some of the state\u2019s most powerful Republicans, of Mr. Moore\u2019s complaint that he was the victim of \u201csystematic voter fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jones\u2019s margin of victory was 21,924 votes, with more than 1.3 million ballots cast.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Swear him in IMMEDIATELY! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1229Cartoon\" 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=\"1229Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1229Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Although I normally post my Wounded Knee graphic on the 29th, this year I thought it appropriate to resurrect my cartoon from 12\/29\/2011 in light of Republican stance on Jerusalem.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very uncomfortable day.&#160; The current temperature is 54\u00b0, about 10\u00b0 above normal, but the humidity is 98%.&#160; I&#8217;m not hot, but I&#8217;m sweating anyway, and I slept very poorly.&#160; UGH! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:05 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Media <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/29\/open-thread-12-29-2017\/' 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-30899","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\/30899","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=30899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}