{"id":35147,"date":"2018-12-26T12:09:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T20:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35147"},"modified":"2018-12-26T12:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T20:09:58","slug":"open-thread-12-26-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/26\/open-thread-12-26-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/26\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was a lazy Christmas, but today is a busy one, here in the CatBox.&#160; A nurse from my health care company is stopping by.&#160; I need to prepare an order for Safeway.com as Store to Door is closed for two weeks for the holidays.&#160; And tonight is Christmas dinner with WWWendy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jig Zone Puzzle<\/font><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:36 (average 5:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-12-26-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:       <br \/>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pvr29JZ7kOs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Awful commentary on race and diversity: 2018 edition<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Pvr29JZ7kOs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I disagree with the Republican, who said there&#8217;s nothing worse than being called a racist. What&#8217;s worse is being one. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nV6bAJf2xIw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">(CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>CNN analyst: What to look for when Democrats take control of the House<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/nV6bAJf2xIw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Democrats in the House will have one major disadvantage. They will obey the law. The Republican Reich will not. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-santa-claus-believer.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Here\u2019s what President Trump said to a child about Santa Claus on Monday: \u201cAre you still a believer in Santa? Because at 7, it\u2019s marginal, right?\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u201cYes, sir,\u201d the child, Collman, responded twice. She had spoken with the president for at least 10 seconds before he suggested that her parents had been lying to her all her life.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Isn&#8217;t it enough that the Republican Reich steals everything else? Must they steal childhood too? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1226CartoonTCTurkey.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a lazy Christmas, but today is a busy one, here in the CatBox.&#160; A nurse from my health care company is stopping by.&#160; I need to prepare an order for Safeway.com as Store to Door is closed for two weeks for the holidays.&#160; And tonight is Christmas dinner with WWWendy. Jig Zone Puzzle: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/26\/open-thread-12-26-2018\/' 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-35147","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\/35147","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=35147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}