{"id":35411,"date":"2019-01-21T08:46:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35411"},"modified":"2019-01-21T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:59:29","slug":"open-thread-1-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/21\/open-thread-1-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/21\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Even though it&#8217;s a holiday, it&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox, as I have documentation to collect for the housing application.\u00a0 No rest for the weary!<\/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 3:53 (average 5:10).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-21-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=3yD3rFRZgy0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Kamala Harris announces 2020 presidential bid<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3yD3rFRZgy0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I would have no trouble supporting her for President, I still prefer Liz, but do so with no opposition to Kamala. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/01\/fox-news-apologizes-for-airing-pre-made-graphic-announcing-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/span>On Monday, viewers of \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d were startled by a graphic that flashed briefly on screen implying that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died.<\/p>\n<p>The image showed a picture of Justice Ginsburg\u2019s face, with the caption: \u201cSUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG 1933-2019\u201d:\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026The graphic, which presumably shocked a number of viewers, quickly led to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/fox-friends-apologizes-for-accidental-graphic-saying-ruth-bader-ginsburg-is-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on-air apology<\/a> from \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d hosts, who say it was a control room error. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to make it seem anything other than that was a mistake,\u201d said Steve Doocy. \u201cIt was an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0121RGBFaux\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/0121RGBFaux.jpg\" alt=\"0121RGBFaux\" width=\"700\" height=\"376\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Why should the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, even have prepared this graphic? The rabid, bloodthirsty bastards are having a Nazi wet dream in anticipation of that event. Health and long life to the incomparable RBG! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2019\/01\/5-movies-escape-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/span>Remember when America had a President that wasn&#8217;t a Russian asset? I&#8217;m old enough to remember when our President didn&#8217;t suck up to dictators or <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2019\/01\/senator-merkley-calls-perjury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put children in cages.<\/a> When the anxiety of life under Trump overwhelms you, here are 5 movies to help you escape reality for a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his crew make Watergate seem like a children&#8217;s story. But if you want to remember the &#8220;good old days&#8221; of Watergate, there&#8217;s no better movie than All the President&#8217;s Men.<\/p>\n<p>The story of how Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward uncovered the conspiracy to cover up the Watergate scandal has many parallels to the Trump era. Richard Nixon was an egomaniac who thought he was above the law, and he broke many laws to cover up his crimes. While Nixon <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2019\/01\/stop-collaborate-and-listen-trump-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">didn&#8217;t work with a hostile foreign power<\/a> to undermine America, the scandals of Trump administration have similar characters and crimes from that time period.<\/p>\n<p>All the President&#8217;s Men is currently on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemax.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cinemax<\/a>, or you can find it on Amazon Prime or on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I think I&#8217;ll watch at least three, I shared one. Click through for the other four. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/0121Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it&#8217;s a holiday, it&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox, as I have documentation to collect for the housing application.\u00a0 No rest for the weary! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:53 (average 5:10).\u00a0 To do it, click here.\u00a0 How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (CNN Channel): Kamala Harris announces <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/21\/open-thread-1-21-2019\/' 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":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-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\/35411","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=35411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}