{"id":35080,"date":"2018-12-22T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T18:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35080"},"modified":"2018-12-22T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T18:52:11","slug":"open-thread-12-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/open-thread-12-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/22\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox, but a slow one for government workers.\u00a0 Today and tomorrow are Holy days in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 My Broncos play the Raiders on Monday night, but I can&#8217;t get ESPN here.\u00a0 May the Orb shine its blessed light on your team, unless they wear eye patches and say HAR.\u00a0 Tomorrow is also a Wendy day, and we have lots of work to do.\u00a0 Please expect no more than a Personal Update or Open Thread with no links messages on Care2.<\/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 4:08 (average 5:25).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-12-22-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=Hg9A4dKSEmw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Congressional GOP Saves Room For Cheese Amid Shutdown Crisis<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Hg9A4dKSEmw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">These chemically and biologically altered Republican Supply-side cheeses are as phony and useless as Republican Supply-side Jesus (not the REAL Jesus). If you wanted more proof, here it is. This shutdown is 100% Republican. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LrtHL04dWD0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WashingtonPost\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post Channel<\/a>): <\/span>The most bizarre political moments of 2018<\/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\/LrtHL04dWD0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Wouldn&#8217;t it be easier to feature the moments in 2018 that were not bizarre, if there were any at all? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e03B3FzzTVo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/span>The Least Terrible Season of the Year | Christmas on I.C.E. Part 1<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/e03B3FzzTVo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is the first of nine parts.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to watch the other eight.\u00a0 <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\/2014\/01\/1222Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I made this in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox, but a slow one for government workers.\u00a0 Today and tomorrow are Holy days in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 My Broncos play the Raiders on Monday night, but I can&#8217;t get ESPN here.\u00a0 May the Orb shine its blessed light on your team, unless they wear <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/open-thread-12-22-2018\/' 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-35080","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\/35080","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=35080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}