{"id":30954,"date":"2018-01-04T12:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30954"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:58:23","slug":"open-thread-1-4-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/04\/open-thread-1-4-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/4\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m slightly better, but still feeling ill, so I shall be brief.&#160; I was tied up this morning scheduling future medical mayhem.&#160; I had to change to Firefox for Care2, because Care2 locks up Chrome every time a requester pops up.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:19 (average 5:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-04-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=A6DVjw3PK4Q\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Don&#8217;t Let &#8216;Button Dysfunction&#8217; Destroy Your World<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/A6DVjw3PK4Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We need a Russian hooker to distract Dickless Donnie from his Armageddon complex. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IHQhz4ncmRU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>What to expect from the &#8216;bomb cyclone&#8217; traveling up the East Coast<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IHQhz4ncmRU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you are in its path, bundle up, and please keep yourself safe. Survive first. Then <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/tillerson-caught-under-trumps-desk-disconnecting-nuclear-button\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was caught crouching under Donald J. Trump\u2019s Oval Office desk on Wednesday, in an attempt to disconnect Trump\u2019s newly installed nuclear button.<\/p>\n<p>The button, reportedly measuring a massive eight inches in diameter, has been a subject of considerable alarm for Trump\u2019s national-security team since he had it installed on his desk, earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>According to White House sources, Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and the national-security adviser H. R. McMaster drew straws late Tuesday night to determine who would carry out the high-stakes disconnection mission.<\/p>\n<p>After Tillerson drew the shortest straw, he decided to enter the Oval Office surreptitously [<em>sic<\/em>]Wednesday morning while Trump took a bathroom break.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! I don\u2019t think he disconnected it before Pseudo-pious Pence busted him. <strong>ARGH<\/strong>!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0104Cartoon\" 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=\"0104Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0104Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m slightly better, but still feeling ill, so I shall be brief.&#160; I was tied up this morning scheduling future medical mayhem.&#160; I had to change to Firefox for Care2, because Care2 locks up Chrome every time a requester pops up. 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