{"id":35426,"date":"2019-01-23T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35426"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T18:23:05","slug":"open-thread-1-23-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/open-thread-1-23-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/23\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day here at the CatBox.&#160; Anne from CCC is stopping by to pick up the paperwork for my application.&#160; Store to Door is delivering groceries.&#160; I&#8217;ll have to put them away.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening to de-stink the putrid TomCat and help with chores.&#160; Tomorrow I go back to the Heights for my formal application.&#160; Please expect no more than an Open Thread and no links messages on Care2.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:32 (average 6:16).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-23-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=Dd68BhYXEaA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Media blame &quot;both sides&quot; for Trump&#8217;s government shutdown<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Dd68BhYXEaA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Media-wide this is quite true, but to be fair, note that their only example for MSNBC was from a guest, not a host, on the network&#8217;<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">s only conservative show. They have reported accurately, describing it as a Republican shutdown. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7tfF4CkJyao\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WashingtonPost\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Unraveling President Trump&#8217;s top 5 claims | The Fact Checker<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7tfF4CkJyao\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! I must have the gift of prophecy. I predicted that all five claims would be lies! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/ann-coulter-demands-to-deliver-state-of-the-union-address\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In blistering remarks aimed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Ann Coulter demanded on Tuesday that she be allowed to deliver the 2019 State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNancy Pelosi should stop playing politics with the State of the Union,\u201d Coulter told reporters. \u201cTradition dictates that I deliver that speech next week, and I intend to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conservative pundit scoffed at congressional Democrats\u2019 condition that she reopen the government before being able to deliver the State of the Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, since becoming Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has let power go to her head,\u201d Coulter said.<\/p>\n<p>Coulter indicated that she would use the State of the Union to speak to the American people not only about the border wall but also about her plans for the economy, trade, and America\u2019s role in nato.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! If she makes Putin&#8217;s Pervert open the government, let the Coultergeist give the speech.&#160; <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\/2018\/01\/0123Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here at the CatBox.&#160; Anne from CCC is stopping by to pick up the paperwork for my application.&#160; Store to Door is delivering groceries.&#160; I&#8217;ll have to put them away.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening to de-stink the putrid TomCat and help with chores.&#160; Tomorrow I go back to the Heights for <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/open-thread-1-23-2019\/' 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-35426","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\/35426","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=35426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}