{"id":35430,"date":"2019-01-24T09:06:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35430"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:06:26","slug":"open-thread-1-24-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/24\/open-thread-1-24-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/24\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox, late this morning I&#8217;ll be going to the Heights for my &quot;interview&quot; and I won&#8217;t get back until late this afternoon.&#160; Therefore this will be my only article today, and I won&#8217;t be sending 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 3:16 (average 5:09).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-24-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=0oQI19GxFII\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>THAT&#8217;S AMORAL &#8211; Parody of That&#8217;s Amore<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0oQI19GxFII\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Great one Don! Amoral? That&#8217;s the Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fWPx0ZeHo44\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Women for President<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fWPx0ZeHo44\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m sorry my schedule prevents me from doing my normal Full Frontal article for Sam&#8217;s first show of the season. This is Act 2, the middle segment. To watch the other two, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/huge-coward-bans-courageous-people-from-military\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>One of the nation\u2019s most prominent cowards achieved his long-standing goal of banning courageous people from serving in the military, the coward confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The coward, who avoided serving in the military no fewer than five times, told reporters that he had specifically targeted courageous people \u201cbecause they make people like me look bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what they\u2019re up to\u2014enlisting in the military so that people like me look like spineless losers,\u201d the coward said. \u201cWell, if they think they\u2019re going to get away with bravely serving their country, they better think again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That sounds right, Andy. A post-op Male to Female woman still has more balls than Drumpfenfarten! <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\/0124Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox, late this morning I&#8217;ll be going to the Heights for my &quot;interview&quot; and I won&#8217;t get back until late this afternoon.&#160; Therefore this will be my only article today, and I won&#8217;t be sending links messages on Care2. 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