{"id":31190,"date":"2018-01-26T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31190"},"modified":"2018-01-27T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T19:03:28","slug":"open-thread-1-26-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/open-thread-1-26-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/26\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m, feeling very tired, because I slept poorly last night.\u00a0 It was a combination of the extreme muggy weather and having a lot on my mind.\u00a0 Please pardon my brevity.\u00a0 On the plus side, Carrie emailed me to tell me she has Barry home from the hospital with a catheter and a special diet.\u00a0 The the cause of the problem, was not his kidneys.\u00a0 It was a prostate problem, and they are waiting for analysis by a Urologist.\u00a0 They appreciate your\u00a0 prayer and support and say thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:39 (average 5:28).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-26-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zOA_YdZoTcw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/span>The Trump \/ Fox echo chamber<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zOA_YdZoTcw?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Faux Noise is the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda. The White House is the Republican Reichsministry of Perversion. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CtwSHflNktE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/span>How We Can Lower Drug Prices (When Big Pharma Pulls the Strings)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CtwSHflNktE?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Democrats have tried repeatedly to pass all three of Reich&#8217;s suggestions. Republicans have obstructed every attempt. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/video-emerges-of-trump-lying-under-oath\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>One day after Donald J. Trump offered to testify under oath for the special counsel, Robert Mueller, a newly discovered video of Trump lying under oath has sent shock waves through Washington.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, which experts believe was recorded approximately one year ago, Trump places his left hand on a Bible and raises his right hand before uttering a stream of falsehoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe video shows him lying in front of what appears to be a substantial number of witnesses, including his wife and a Supreme Court Justice,\u201d Davis Logsdon, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, said. \u201cIt does raise questions about what, exactly, testifying under oath means to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Too true, Andy. Afterward he lied about inauguration crowd sizes. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0126Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0126Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"0126Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m, feeling very tired, because I slept poorly last night.\u00a0 It was a combination of the extreme muggy weather and having a lot on my mind.\u00a0 Please pardon my brevity.\u00a0 On the plus side, Carrie emailed me to tell me she has Barry home from the hospital with a catheter and a special diet.\u00a0 The <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/open-thread-1-26-2018\/' 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-31190","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\/31190","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=31190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}