{"id":35278,"date":"2019-01-08T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35278"},"modified":"2019-01-08T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:48:24","slug":"open-thread-1-8-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/08\/open-thread-1-8-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/8\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; Anne from CCC and I are going to look at an apartment a week from Thursday.&#160; I had to update some paperwork for the application and get a HOP card (TriMet&#8217;s Replacement for bus passes) mailed to me.&#160; I&#8217;m not sure why, but I slept poorly last night, so I&#8217;m feeling quite tired.&#160; Only 6 suspected terrorists were stopped the Mexican border during the first half of 2018.&#160; 41 were stopped at the Canadian border.&#160; Build that northern wall! \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:42 (average 4:35).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-08-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=44rAVaXvCOI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>24 MONTHS OF TRUMP&#8217;S MESS &#8211; SEQUEL to 12 MONTHS of TRUMP&#8217;S MESS<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/44rAVaXvCOI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don, you&#8217;re still spot on in every way, but when are you going to sing about the LAST month of Trump&#8217;s mess? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D7i9uXWrgq4\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: The Big Economic Switcheroo<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/D7i9uXWrgq4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left is right. Why not tax the Republican Reich&#8217;s 0.1% at 95% on such rip-off money. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-offers-to-station-pence-at-border-with-binoculars-in-lieu-of-wall\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In an unexpected breakthrough that could end the government shutdown, President Donald Trump has backed down from his demand for a wall and offered instead to post Vice-President Mike Pence at the border with big binoculars.<\/p>\n<p>According to the White House, Pence\u2019s mission at the border will alternate between keeping an eye out for potential intruders and glaring menacingly into the distance.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference announcing the development, Pence appeared to embrace his new role as the nation\u2019s first line of defense against illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! If any Latinos try to get past Pence, he&#8217;ll preach at them that Republican Supply-side Jesus hates mud people! <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\/2017\/01\/0108Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; Anne from CCC and I are going to look at an apartment a week from Thursday.&#160; I had to update some paperwork for the application and get a HOP card (TriMet&#8217;s Replacement for bus passes) mailed to me.&#160; I&#8217;m not sure why, but I slept poorly last <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/08\/open-thread-1-8-2018-2\/' 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-35278","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\/35278","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=35278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}