{"id":31252,"date":"2018-01-30T13:12:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T21:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31252"},"modified":"2018-01-30T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T21:12:03","slug":"open-thread-1-30-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/30\/open-thread-1-30-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/30\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another muggy, sticky day, and it looks like unseasonably warm and wet weather will continue well into February.&#160; I slept intermittently, but am not as tired as I was yesterday.&#160; I should get some rest this evening, while I&#8217;m not watching the Piddle Pervert Prattle.<\/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 8:18).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-30-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=wtcBquWhjL0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The State Of Our Union Is&#8230; Misspelled<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wtcBquWhjL0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I won&#8217;t be watching the State of the Uniom address. The State of our Uniom is incompetent. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ti74bDmqvZs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Next Big Fight: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ti74bDmqvZs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Please spread this around. Here at PP, we have been preaching both the problem and Reich&#8217;s solutions for ages. The rest of America needs education on the subject. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/fox-and-friends-putting-finishing-touches-on-trumps-state-of-the-union-address\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>With just one day until Donald J. Trump\u2019s first State of the Union address, the cast of \u201cFox and Friends\u201d is working furiously on the final draft of the speech, members confirmed today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve really been burning the midnight oil,\u201d Steve Doocy, the host of the Fox program, said. \u201cWe have so much to say tomorrow night, and we want to get it all in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy said that when he read the first draft of the State of the Union address last week, he \u201ckind of flipped out\u201d when he realized that there was \u201cabsolutely no mention of Hillary Clinton\u2019s Hydra-like tentacles controlling the Deep State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State of the Union address is the President\u2019s chance to tell the American people where the country is and where it\u2019s going,\u201d Doocy said. \u201cYou can\u2019t do that without talking about how Crooked Hillary is funnelling her Russian-uranium riches directly into Bob Mueller\u2019s bank account in the Seychelles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! Did Rob Rosenstein help you wiretap the Oval Office? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoons<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0130Cartoon\" 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=\"0130Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0130Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"602\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0130Cartoon-2\" 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=\"0130Cartoon-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0130Cartoon-2.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is when America learned we were losing the war, and the whole damn thing was a lie.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another muggy, sticky day, and it looks like unseasonably warm and wet weather will continue well into February.&#160; I slept intermittently, but am not as tired as I was yesterday.&#160; I should get some rest this evening, while I&#8217;m not watching the Piddle Pervert Prattle. 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