{"id":35074,"date":"2018-12-21T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T20:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35074"},"modified":"2018-12-22T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T21:26:18","slug":"open-thread-12-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/open-thread-12-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/21\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I got my blood test results last night.\u00a0 It&#8217;s A-1 prime.\u00a0 Tomorrow I will post Samantha Bee&#8217;s Christmas Special.\u00a0 After that, I expect things to slow down for Christmas, or if you are a Republican, for the Holidays.\u00a0 So, if I only have one article or do not send a links message, you will know why.\u00a0 If you are traveling, please take every precaution to keep yourself safe.\u00a0 You are too valuable to waste.<\/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 3:47 (average 5:11).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-12-21-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=vEPGZFtwCSc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>President Trump Infidelity To Allies Drives Jim Mattis To Resign In Protest (22 min.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vEPGZFtwCSc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fidelity is a word the Fuhrer does not know.\u00a0 &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; was the sanest person left in the White House. Nobody else the has the balls to challenge Putin&#8217;s Pervert. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/19\/politics\/kitten-testing-usda-bill\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>: <\/span>Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley is joining forces with a Republican congressman to stop Agriculture Department researchers from euthanizing kittens used in their work.<\/p>\n<p>Merkley told CNN he introduced on Wednesday a Senate version of the KITTEN Act &#8212; officially, the &#8220;Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act of 2018.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The USDA breeds up to 100 kittens a year, feeds them parasite-infected meat in order to have the parasite&#8217;s eggs harvested for use in other experiments, and then kills the kittens,&#8221; Merkley said. &#8220;This bill would essentially stop this process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m proud that my Senator is fighting the Republicans that hate kittens. Oregon leads the way! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-named-man-of-the-year-by-isis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>Capping an extraordinary 2018, Donald J. Trump announced on Thursday that he had been named Man of the Year by the terrorist organization known as isis.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the announcement after receiving the news from the leader of isis, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whom Trump called \u201ca terrific, fabulous guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got along great with him, and he said a lot of nice things about me,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe said isis didn\u2019t even consider anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Andy, that&#8217;s obvious. When ISIS has a traitor in the White House, they have no need to consider anyone else. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1221Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my blood test results last night.\u00a0 It&#8217;s A-1 prime.\u00a0 Tomorrow I will post Samantha Bee&#8217;s Christmas Special.\u00a0 After that, I expect things to slow down for Christmas, or if you are a Republican, for the Holidays.\u00a0 So, if I only have one article or do not send a links message, you will know <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/open-thread-12-21-2018\/' 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-35074","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\/35074","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=35074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}