{"id":35367,"date":"2019-01-16T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35367"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:41:19","slug":"open-thread-1-16-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/open-thread-1-16-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/16\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday the computer tech did a great job.&#160; He cleaned up the horrible bird&#8217;s nest of wires behind my computer that I cannot reach.&#160; He got my screen working on the original DIV cable, and used the HDMI output on the video card to send computer images to my TV.&#160; He scanner on my laser printer configured so that it works with the laser printers control center software. And he set my notebook computer up on the network, and installed a utility that allows me to control my home computer from a remote location over a secure encrypted connection.&#160; I&#8217;m very pleased with him.&#160; Portlanders, he&#8217;s Peter from Bolt Computers.&#160; Store to door is delivering a grocery order today and I&#8217;ll need to unpack and stow them.&#160; Later, WWWendy is coming to destink the vile TomCat and help with cores.&#160; In short, it&#8217;s a busy day here at the CatBox.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:24 (average 5:43).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-16-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=73yMi-jR5E4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Bill Maher: If We Don\u2019t Impeach President Donald Trump, Where Is The Bar?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/73yMi-jR5E4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Bill!! I almost always agree with him, except for when he proselytizes for his religious faith in atheism. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IslkHiMcK0E\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheNewYorkTimes\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Who Is Kirsten Gillibrand? | 2020 Presidential Candidate <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IslkHiMcK0E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I like her, and I&#8217;d love to see a bevy of qualified women and men competing for the nomination in an atmosphere of mutual respect and integrity . This time, if your candidate is not chosen, PLEASE don&#8217;t help elect Putin&#8217;s candidate again. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/16\/world\/europe\/brexit-theresa-may-no-confidence-vote.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>After suffering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/15\/world\/europe\/brexit-vote-theresa-may.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\">the worst parliamentary defeat in modern times<\/a> over her plans for leaving the European Union, Britain\u2019s prime minister, Theresa May, endured another day of turmoil on Wednesday, when she is to face a vote of no confidence in her battered government.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday Mrs. May lost by a crushing margin, 432 to 202, when Parliament voted on her plan for European Union withdrawal, or Brexit, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/15\/world\/europe\/brexit-deal-vote-takeaways.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\">the clock ticks toward March 29<\/a> when Britain is scheduled to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers spent much of Wednesday debating whether Mrs. May\u2019s government should continue in power before voting at around 7 p.m. on a motion that could, in theory, lead to a general election.<\/p>\n<p>That is an unlikely outcome, analysts say, because many of those who voted against Mrs. May\u2019s withdrawal plan, including hard-line pro-Brexit rebels in her Conservative Party, and a group of 10 lawmakers from Northern Ireland\u2019s Democratic Unionist Party, have said they will support the government on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We should remember that British Republicans, aka Tories, were suckers for Russian propaganda (Brexit) before US Republicans. I&#8217;d love to see Labour kick their Bridiot butts! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0116Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the computer tech did a great job.&#160; He cleaned up the horrible bird&#8217;s nest of wires behind my computer that I cannot reach.&#160; He got my screen working on the original DIV cable, and used the HDMI output on the video card to send computer images to my TV.&#160; He scanner on my laser <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/open-thread-1-16-2019\/' 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-35367","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\/35367","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=35367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}