{"id":31216,"date":"2018-01-28T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T18:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31216"},"modified":"2018-01-28T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T18:58:03","slug":"open-thread-1-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/28\/open-thread-1-28-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/28\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It was a warm clear night, and the natives partied under my window all night, waking me several times.&#160; WWWendy is due momentarily, and we have lots of chores to complete, so this is my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:42 (average 5:41).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-28-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=lpkRFHSpvGI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">George W. Bush Returns Cold Open<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lpkRFHSpvGI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Crawford Caligula was the worst Resident in US history\u2026 until now! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7irBeXlL4Xg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>I REALLY HAD TO CUT YOU OFF &#8211; Parody of Somebody That I Used to Know<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7irBeXlL4Xg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The idea being married to a Republican goose-stepper is a cruel nightmare!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/1\/26\/1736245\/-Today-Trump-gets-roundly-booed-and-hissed-at-during-interview-in-front-of-Davos-conference\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>But Trump cannot talk about anything without attacking it, be it human, animal, plant, mineral, or noun.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until I became a politician that I realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious, and how fake the press can be\u2014as the cameras start going off in the background.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Self-fulfilling prophesy much?<\/p>\n<p>That statement brought uncomfortable laughs, that were very quickly overtaken by hissing and boos from the predominantly human audience.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It couldn&#8217;t happen to a more deserving asshole! <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\/0128Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0128Cartoon\" 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=\"0128Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0128Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a warm clear night, and the natives partied under my window all night, waking me several times.&#160; WWWendy is due momentarily, and we have lots of chores to complete, so this is my only article today. 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