{"id":31049,"date":"2018-01-13T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31049"},"modified":"2018-01-13T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T20:30:10","slug":"open-thread-1-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/open-thread-1-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/13\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is my only article today, because I got almost no sleep last night.&#160; The low was over 50\u00b0, and the rain stopped, so the street people, who would normally be huddled under tarps and blankets to stay warm and dry came out to play.&#160; They partied all night in the street below me, yelling and making sleep impossible.&#160; Tomorrow may also be a one-article day, as Wendy needs to come an hour early.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 6:04 (average 6:36).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-13-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=hHAj1UEcHZ0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">How The World Covered President Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Shithole Countries&#8217; Slur<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hHAj1UEcHZ0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump has made the US an international pariah. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/porn-star-was-paid-130000-to-keep-quiet-about-a-relationship-with-trump-wall-street-journal-reports\/2018\/01\/12\/fde75e72-f7ef-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>An adult-film star was paid $130,000 by a lawyer for Donald Trump in the weeks before the 2016 election to not talk publicly about a sexual relationship with the then-Republican candidate, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer, Michael Cohen, allegedly paid Stephanie Clifford [<em>aka Stormy Daniels<\/em>] to remain silent about an encounter at Lake Tahoe in 2006, a year after Trump married his third wife, Melania, according to the Journal. The Journal said the payment was made to a client-trust account at City National Bank in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I understand the Stormy is offering the Republican Reich $260,000 to deny the story out of fear that it will make her the laughingstock of the porn industry. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-demands-poem-on-statue-of-liberty-be-revised-to-exclude-shithole-countries\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump demanded on Thursday that the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty be revised immediately to exclude nations he considered \u201cshithole countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, Trump said that the poem as it currently stands \u201cis basically an open invitation that says, like, if you come from a shithole country, welcome aboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know the entire poem, but it\u2019s something like \u2018Give us your tired, your poor, your yadda yadda yadda,\u2019 \u201d he said. \u201cWe could keep all that but then put in, right at the end, in big letters, maybe, \u2018except if you\u2019re from a shithole country.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if a boat from a shithole country came and saw that poem with those words at the end, they would turn around and go right back to wherever they came from,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Would Republicans love that or what? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0113Cartoon\" 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=\"0113Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0113Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my only article today, because I got almost no sleep last night.&#160; The low was over 50\u00b0, and the rain stopped, so the street people, who would normally be huddled under tarps and blankets to stay warm and dry came out to play.&#160; They partied all night in the street below me, yelling <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/open-thread-1-13-2018\/' 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-31049","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\/31049","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=31049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}