{"id":35289,"date":"2019-01-09T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35289"},"modified":"2019-01-09T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T20:30:40","slug":"open-thread-1-9-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/open-thread-1-9-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/9\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;m feeling a bit queasy, because I watched the speech last night.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening.&#160; Before we destink the TomCat, we&#8217;re going to lower my ears.&#160; I woke up at Midnight and could not go back to sleep.&#160; Groceries are now put away.&#160; Happy Hump day to all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:10 (average 5:05).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-09-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=YzyOTAXgzr8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): A<\/font>lexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rips Trump For Systematic Attack On Immigrants<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YzyOTAXgzr8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In theory, this segment wasn&#8217;t about Trump&#8217;s speech, she rebutted it more effectively than Pelosi and Schumer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/1\/3\/1823417\/-First-openly-bisexual-senator-takes-oath-with-hand-on-law-book-as-Mike-Pence-looks-on-in-horror\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>How can you tell when Mike Pence looks ashen? Does his complexion change 10,000 shades of white, all the way from ecru to ivory to eggshell to scared-shitless-Mike-Pence*?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, he sure doesn\u2019t look comfortable here as he swears in a bisexual woman who\u2019s opted to take her oath with her hand on a law book. (I suppose the only way this could have been worse for him is if she\u2019d brought her own table and bowl of pasta and forced him to sit down to dinner.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0109PenceSinema\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0109PenceSinema\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/0109PenceSinema.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oh my! Does that hateful, pseudo-Christian homophobe look like he just ate a bad clam or what! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/msnbc-to-air-obamas-2004-convention-speech-during-trumps-address-to-nation\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>MSNBC will pre\u00ebmpt Donald Trump\u2019s national address on Tuesday night by airing Barack Obama\u2019s keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, network officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Harland Dorrinson, an MSNBC spokesperson, said that the network elected to air the Obama speech \u201cin order to best serve our audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the data gathered by our research department, the number of MSNBC viewers who were planning to watch the Trump speech was approximately zero,\u201d Dorrinson said. \u201cThis seemed like a better way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! I sure wish they had! <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\/2016\/01\/0109Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;m feeling a bit queasy, because I watched the speech last night.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening.&#160; Before we destink the TomCat, we&#8217;re going to lower my ears.&#160; I woke up at Midnight and could not go back <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/open-thread-1-9-2019\/' 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-35289","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\/35289","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=35289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}