{"id":31025,"date":"2018-01-11T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31025"},"modified":"2018-01-11T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T20:43:37","slug":"open-thread-1-11-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/open-thread-1-11-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/11\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another sticky, muggy day here:&#160; 54\u00b0 and 92%.&#160; Yuck!&#160; Tonight&#8217;s low is 8\u00b0 warmer than the average high for this date.&#160; I hope it doesn&#8217;t keep me awake.&#160; Aside from the weather, I continue to improve and am more mended than not.<\/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 4:13).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-11-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?&#160; If I win, who wants a bird Bankster?<\/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=MNuJpn8xNgU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Nuclear War is not Inevitable<\/p>\n<p>North Korea is &quot;the most dangerous crisis since the Cuban missile crisis.&quot; But it hasn&#8217;t always been that way. Physicist and nuclear policy expert Zia Mian explains:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MNuJpn8xNgU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The problem here is that, even worse than the Republican Bush Reich that caused the problem, the Republican Fuhrer today makes Kim Jong Un appear relatively sane. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/01\/11\/democrats-daca-dreamers-immigration-mutiny-334454\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Democratic leaders are facing a potential revolt within their ranks as they edge toward a deal with Republicans that would protect Dreamers from deportation but also include concessions to conservatives that many Democratic lawmakers say are unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Senate negotiators say they\u2019re inching toward a bipartisan deal that broadly mirrors the parameters laid out during a meeting this week between lawmakers and President Donald Trump at the White House. They include ensuring legal status for Dreamers, strengthening border security and making changes to both family-based migration and the diversity lottery.<\/p>\n<p>But many Democrats, particularly in the House, are horrified that their leaders would even agree to discuss issues beyond legal status for Dreamers and limited measures to curb illegal immigration. The concerns span multiple factions of the Democratic conference, and, combined with opposition from Republican immigration hard-liners, they could put passage of a DACA deal at risk.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ll reserve judgment, until I can count the beans in the can, but I&#8217;m inclined to say that it&#8217;s no time to cave-in to negotiation in bad-faith, when we have the Republicans by the short hairs. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/10\/us\/politics\/darrell-issa-retirement.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Representative Darrell Issa, whose hard-edge partisan attacks on President Barack Obama began softening as his district trended toward the Democrats, said on Wednesday that he would not seek re-election \u2014 the latest and one of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/09\/us\/politics\/republicans-retirements-house-democrats-wave-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\">prominent Republican retirements<\/a> in the face of a potential Democratic wave.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Issa, 64, who has represented an idyllic stretch of Southern California coast since 2001, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/elections\/results\/california-house-district-49-issa-applegate\" target=\"_blank\">won re-election in 2016 by just 1,600 votes<\/a> out or more than 300,000 cast, while Hillary Clinton carried it by more than seven percentage points.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Good riddance to Darrell, who Issa asshole, because he Issa Republican. Woooo Hoooo!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0111Cartoon\" 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=\"0111Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0111Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another sticky, muggy day here:&#160; 54\u00b0 and 92%.&#160; Yuck!&#160; Tonight&#8217;s low is 8\u00b0 warmer than the average high for this date.&#160; I hope it doesn&#8217;t keep me awake.&#160; Aside from the weather, I continue to improve and am more mended than not. 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