{"id":30960,"date":"2018-01-05T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30960"},"modified":"2018-01-05T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:57:00","slug":"open-thread-1-5-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/05\/open-thread-1-5-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/5\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m still under the weather, but am gradually improving.&#160; This morning I spent some time collecting part of the data for December&#8217;s Monthly Report.&#160; I haven&#8217;t forgotten it, but am running behind.&#160; TGIF!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:48 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-05-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; I&#8217;d like three.&#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=sgk3S_m-628\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Jeff Sessions Says Legal Weed&#8230; Illegal?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sgk3S_m-628?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Colbert does a great KKK Beauregard imitation. I hope that twelve year old hammers the gnome. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-angrily-throws-steve-bannons-signed-copy-of-mein-kampf-in-trash\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Furious over a very public breakup with his former adviser Steve Bannon, Donald Trump on Wednesday angrily threw a copy of \u201cMein Kampf\u201d that Bannon had inscribed to him in the trash.<\/p>\n<p>The book, which Bannon had given to Trump as a token of his love and friendship during the 2016 campaign, had been among Trump\u2019s most prized possessions, aides said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump loved that book, but now he feels that having Bannon\u2019s name on it ruins it,\u201d an aide said.<\/p>\n<p>Another aide, however, cautioned not to make too much of the fact that Trump discarded the Bannon-signed Hitler book. \u201cHe\u2019s still got plenty of other copies,\u201d the aide said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, I think the Fuhrer wants all those &quot;Heil Fuhrer!&quot; chants directed to him. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/04\/world\/middleeast\/israel-africans.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Israel is offering a stark choice to tens of thousands of African migrants in the country: Agree to leave voluntarily by the end of March, with a plane ticket and a grant of $3,500, or face possible incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery country must guard its borders,\u201d Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, announcing the plan. \u201cThe infiltrators have a clear choice \u2014 cooperate with us and leave voluntarily, respectably, humanely and legally, or we will have to use other tools at our disposal, which are also according to the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, on Facebook, Mr. Netanyahu wrote [Nazi delinked], \u201cThe government approved a plan today that will give every infiltrator two options: a flight ticket out or jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Butcher Bibi is setting an example for Republicans on relations with what Bibi calls the schvartzes. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0105Cartoon\" 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=\"0105Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0105Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still under the weather, but am gradually improving.&#160; This morning I spent some time collecting part of the data for December&#8217;s Monthly Report.&#160; I haven&#8217;t forgotten it, but am running behind.&#160; TGIF!! 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