{"id":38244,"date":"2019-11-21T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38244"},"modified":"2019-11-21T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:52:18","slug":"open-thread-11-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/21\/open-thread-11-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 11\/21\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  I like the new keyboard, but the size and layout are unfamiliar, so it will take a few days to get used to it.  Providence Home Medical Equipment just changed their policy.   They say I need to take their huge oxygen backup tank in case of system failure, or they’ll take my oxygen concentrator.  The problem is that there is no place in the CatBox to put it.  So I think I’ll have to buy an oxygen concentrator for around $700 or more.  ARGH!  I want to finish as early as I can to get a partial nap in before Store to Door delivers groceries this afternoon.  Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow.  I have an preventive appointment with my cardiologist.  Hectic Hugs!<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:52 (average 5:20).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Moments after the decorated veteran testified to Congress on Tuesday, Donald Trump accused Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman of becoming a war hero \u201cjust to make me look bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a vicious broadside on Twitter, Trump claimed that Vindman carried out an \u201cevil plan, years in the making\u201d to \u201cload himself up with medals\u201d that would give his future testimony against Trump greater credibility. <\/p>\n

\u201cFifteen years ago, he went to fight in Iraq, thinking to himself, \u2018Boy, this is going to help me when I try to attack Trump someday,\u2019 \u201d Trump tweeted. \u201cThis is how the Never Trumpers roll.\u201d <\/p>\n

Dang Andy! How about that! Poor widdle Bone Spurs! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>A U.S. ambassador on Wednesday explicitly linked President Trump, Vice President Pence and other senior officials to what he came to believe was a campaign to pressure a foreign government to investigate Trump\u2019s political rival in exchange for a coveted White House meeting and hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid. <\/p>\n

The potentially historic, if hotly disputed, testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland is the most damaging yet for Trump in Congress\u2019s intensifying inquiry into whether the president should be impeached. <\/p>\n

More forcefully than he has before, Sondland declared that the Trump administration would not give Ukraine\u2019s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a chance to visit the White House \u2014 unless Zelensky agreed to announce investigations that could help the president politically. <\/p>\n

Drip\u2026 drip\u2026 drip\u2026 RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past):<\/font>We Five- You Were On My Mind 1965 <\/p>\n