{"id":30950,"date":"2018-01-03T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30950"},"modified":"2018-01-03T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T21:01:38","slug":"open-thread-1-3-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/03\/open-thread-1-3-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/3\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my groceries.&#160; They are already late.&#160; After I put them away, I&#8217;ll gave lunch and go back to bed.&#160; This is my only one for today, and I won&#8217;t be sending links messages on Care2.&#160; I was up coughing most of the night.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:03 (average 4:36).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-03-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. 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=s4bK_tTfhxw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>New Footage From Disney World&#8217;s Hall Of Presidents<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/s4bK_tTfhxw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Trump robot stopped working. A Hooker-bot peed on it and shorted it out. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/paul-ryan-says-he-will-retire-once-he-has-wrecked-country\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Starting 2018 with a political bombshell, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Tuesday that he will retire once he is satisfied that he has completely wrecked the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came to Washington with the goal of destroying life in the United States as we know it,\u201d Ryan said in an emotional press conference. \u201cOnce I look around me and see nothing but smoldering ruins, I\u2019ll call it a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked by a reporter whether, by passing the Republican tax bill, he had not in fact already wrecked the country, the House Speaker responded, \u201cThat was an important step in the right direction, but, make no mistake, there is much havoc left to wreak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy!! That could be the most honest thing he says all year. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/02\/us\/politics\/senate-democrats-government-shutdown-immigration.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Senate returns on Wednesday with its Republican majority down to one seat and buoyed Democrats issuing a full list of demands \u2014 such as funding children\u2019s health care and protecting young undocumented immigrants \u2014 just weeks before another possible government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate will meet on Wednesday with White House officials to try to come to terms on a deal to raise strict limits on military and domestic spending before Jan. 19, when the current stopgap spending bill expires.<\/p>\n<p>If negotiations break down, the government could run out of money \u2014 just as President Trump marks his first year in office.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Stand firm! <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\/2018\/01\/0103Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0103Cartoon\" 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=\"0103Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0103Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Will the Reich bring back Palin?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my groceries.&#160; They are already late.&#160; After I put them away, I&#8217;ll gave lunch and go back to bed.&#160; This is my only one for today, and I won&#8217;t be sending links messages on Care2.&#160; I was up coughing most of the night.&#160; Wendy is coming <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/03\/open-thread-1-3-2017\/' 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-30950","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\/30950","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=30950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}