{"id":31031,"date":"2018-01-12T13:21:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T21:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31031"},"modified":"2018-01-12T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T21:21:26","slug":"open-thread-1-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/open-thread-1-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/12\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another day with record high temperatures and 90%+ humidity.&#160; It looks like I&#8217;ll have to wait a week for seasonable weather to return and I slept poorly.&#160; Tomorrow and Sunday are High Holy days in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; May the Orb shine its holy light on your team, if they have survived.&#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 3:02 (average 5:38).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-12-CE2504A965A9\">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=exvydWdLc-8\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Fox News urges war with North Korea<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/exvydWdLc-8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is where Trump forms his policy. Take away his TV! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=49PfDy57-UQ\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Stephen Colbert&#8217;s Midnight Confessions, Vol. XXXVI<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/49PfDy57-UQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump tried that elevator trick, but his is too short to reach any buttons. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5100301\/nuclear-launch-officers-letter-donald-trump-danger\/\">Time<\/a>: <\/font>U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s readiness to threaten the use of America\u2019s nuclear arsenal has unnerved diplomats and academics and <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5085997\/north-korea-donald-trump-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">inflamed tensions with North Korea<\/a> over the first year of his presidency. Now former nuclear missile launch operators are adding themselves to the list of concerned observers.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/globalzero.org\/files\/missileer_statement_jan_2018_17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">open letter to Congress<\/a> on Thursday, a group of 17 former nuclear launch officers argued that President Trump \u201cposes a clear and present danger to the country and the world\u201d and warned that \u201cthere are no reliable safeguards\u201d to prevent Trump from deciding to launch a nuclear missile on his own.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was published by international nuclear disarmament advocacy group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalzero.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Zero<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4531271\/nuclear-launch-officers-open-letter-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">follows a similar letter<\/a> written at the close of the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I could not agree more! <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\/0112Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0112Cartoon\" 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=\"0112Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0112Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans refer to this as the good old days.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another day with record high temperatures and 90%+ humidity.&#160; It looks like I&#8217;ll have to wait a week for seasonable weather to return and I slept poorly.&#160; Tomorrow and Sunday are High Holy days in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; May the Orb shine its holy light on your team, if they have <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/open-thread-1-12-2018\/' 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-31031","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\/31031","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=31031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}