{"id":34967,"date":"2018-12-16T14:28:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T22:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34967"},"modified":"2018-12-16T14:28:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T22:28:04","slug":"open-thread-12-16-1018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/16\/open-thread-12-16-1018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/16\/1018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Wendy to arrive so I can freeze my kitty dingles testing the shower again.&#160; ARGH!&#160; This is today&#8217;s only article from me.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:08 (average 5:05).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-12-16-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1215-Broncos16-Browns17\" 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=\"1215-Broncos16-Browns17\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1215-Broncos16-Browns17.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"70\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The freaking Browns?!!?&#160; I&#8217;m wearing a bag over my head!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/15\/us\/ryan-zinke-interior-secretary.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, a key figure in President Trump\u2019s sweeping plan to reshape the nation\u2019s environmental framework, resigned under pressure on Saturday as he faces numerous ethics investigations into his business dealings, travel and policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary of the Interior @RyanZinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year after having served for a period of almost two years,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter [<em>Fuhrer delinked<\/em>]. \u201cRyan has accomplished much during his tenure and I want to thank him for his service to our Nation.\u201d The president said he would name a replacement this coming week.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Zinke is the latest Trump official to exit an administration plagued by questions of ethical conflict. And his departure comes as Mr. Trump has begun a shake-up in his administration. In early November, the president fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and last weekend he announced that his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, was leaving.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Good riddance Stinky! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AdQl7SxOHek\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Trump Cold Open<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AdQl7SxOHek\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>I<font color=\"#0000ff\">f Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten had never been <strike>P<\/strike>resident\u2026 What a blessed Christmas gift that would be. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zb5LmFCPBE0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>White Congress Parody<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Zb5LmFCPBE0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">White Congress? The Republican Reich dreams of a white country! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1216Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Wendy to arrive so I can freeze my kitty dingles testing the shower again.&#160; ARGH!&#160; This is today&#8217;s only article from me. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:08 (average 5:05).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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