{"id":38275,"date":"2019-11-25T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T17:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38275"},"modified":"2019-11-25T09:11:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T17:11:50","slug":"open-thread-11-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/25\/open-thread-11-25-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/25\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s an exhausted day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Needless to say, last week was a gruesome one for me, and I just didn&#8217;t get the rest I needed.&nbsp; On the plus side, I have no medical appointments this week.&nbsp; Store to Door is closed for Thanksgiving, so I&#8217;m getting my groceries delivered from Safeway.com tomorrow.&nbsp; Putting them away will be much more difficult, because Safeway does not help the way Store to Door does.&nbsp; They are scheduled between 8 and 10 AM, so depending on how long it takes, I may have only one article tomorrow.&nbsp; WWWendy and I are celebrating the holiday on Sunday with lamb chops, lamb gravy, stuffing, Brussels sprouts, raspberry pudding ring, B &amp; J Cherry Garcia and Alka-Seltzer.&nbsp; OGIM Hugs to all!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:31 (average 5:29).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-11-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1125Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1124Broncos3-Bills20\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1124Broncos3-Bills20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1124Broncos3-Bills20.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even the most omnipotent Orb couldn&#8217;t help those bozos!&nbsp; <strong>ARGH!!<\/strong><\/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=JmgXSYgLvic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Fox News questioned Lt. Col. Vindman&#8217;s patriotism but praised war criminals<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JmgXSYgLvic\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich, who <em>Faux Noise<\/em> represent, have no need for heroes like Vindman. They need war criminals, who are willing to perform violent acts against heroes.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mics0HktrrQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Adam Schiff: &#8216;The evidence is already overwhelming&#8217; in impeachment inquiry<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mics0HktrrQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">CNN is right about one thing. The evidence certainly is overwhelming against Trump and several of his goose stepping minions. Even though they appear to go ahead, the House needs to keep investigating the entire Republican Reich. In 2020, a Democratic President would appoint an AG honest enough to indict Trump, Pence, Barrf, Pompeo, Perry, Nunes and dozens more.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tdx6lLvvRyg&amp;list=PLdl7lj9IwWtGMAC-gAsxtuBdvfv4YZVei&amp;index=14&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>Peter and Gordon &#8211; A World Without Love (HD) 1964<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Tdx6lLvvRyg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an exhausted day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Needless to say, last week was a gruesome one for me, and I just didn&#8217;t get the rest I needed.&nbsp; On the plus side, I have no medical appointments this week.&nbsp; Store to Door is closed for Thanksgiving, so I&#8217;m getting my groceries delivered from Safeway.com tomorrow.&nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/25\/open-thread-11-25-2019\/' 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-38275","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\/38275","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=38275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}