{"id":31139,"date":"2018-01-21T11:49:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T19:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31139"},"modified":"2018-01-21T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T19:49:31","slug":"open-thread-1-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/21\/open-thread-1-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/21\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is my only article today.&#160; I have not slept well and am very tired.&#160; It&#8217;s a high holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb with Conference Final meditations to watch.&#160; I wonder if someone deflated Brady&#8217;s balls.&#160; WWWendy is going to a temporary bartending job today, so she&#8217;s coming an hour early to destink the smelly TomCat and help with chores.&#160; She will probably arrive before I finish this.&#160; I hope you are having a great second day of the Republican shutdown.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WWWendy just left.&#160; It feels so good to be clean again!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:37 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-21-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=gq5WTNmyDaY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Song for Donald &#8211; Parody of Song of Roland<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gq5WTNmyDaY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">AMEN!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1O1S0RGfJ2E\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Trump Doctor Press Conference Cold Open<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1O1S0RGfJ2E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That exam was almost as phony as the real one was. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-21\/key-day-could-yield-fast-deal-or-long-impasse-shutdown-update\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/P2WOB5AIBMDC\" target=\"_blank\">says on Twitter<\/a> that if the shutdown stalemate continues, Republicans should consider the so-called \u201cnuclear option\u201d in the Senate, which would allow them to vote on a long-term budget with a simple majority and no more continuing resolutions. \u201cThe Dems just want illegal immigrants to pour into our nation unchecked,\u201d Trump says to kick off a day seen as the final chance for a rapid end to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2018-01-21\/hard-lines-on-immigration-drove-u-s-to-a-shutdown-nobody-wanted\" target=\"_blank\">shutdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if they did it. I am surprised they haven&#8217;t done it sooner. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/sarah-huckabee-sanders-offers-to-lie-for-free-during-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Calling it \u201cthe least I can do for my country,\u201d the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said on Saturday morning that she would lie for free during the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow more than ever it\u2019s important that the stream of falsehoods and distortions from this White House continues to flow in a steady and uninterrupted fashion,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cTo achieve that, for the duration of the government shutdown I will be lying on a pro-bono basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders said that Donald Trump had asked that she keep a full accounting of the lies she told during the shutdown so that she could be reimbursed for them later, but she turned down that offer. \u201cI\u2019ve often said that I like to lie so much I would do it for free,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is a chance to put my money where my mouth is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! 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