{"id":38460,"date":"2019-12-16T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38460"},"modified":"2019-12-16T09:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:03:35","slug":"open-thread-12-16-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/16\/open-thread-12-16-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/16\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox, as I prepare for tomorrow&#8217;s needle biopsy.\u00a0 I will be leaving at 7:00, and I won&#8217;t be home until supper time, so I will be posting only a brief Personal Update, prepared the night before, except for my puzzle times.\u00a0 If you play Fantasy Football in our league, I will be at least a day late in posting the results, so please visit the League to see who you will be playing this weekend and prepare your lineup.\u00a0 Oh God, It&#8217;s Monday!<\/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 3:31 (average 5:05).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-12-16-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1216Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"1215Broncos3-Chiefs23\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1215Broncos3-Chiefs23.jpg\" alt=\"1215Broncos3-Chiefs23\" width=\"700\" height=\"80\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The better team won in the Snow Bowl.<\/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=lOK_SHjc0l0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Rep. Maxine Waters: Lindsey Graham Has Thumbed Nose At America<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lOK_SHjc0l0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Trump met with the Russian Foreign Minister to give him instructions to pass on to Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch. Lindsey Poo needs on Russian middle man. He gets his instruction directly from Trump&#8217;s asshole.\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lOK_SHjc0l0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/span>The reason Republicans are allowed to do things like obstruct Supreme Court justice appointments and ignore all of the evidence in an impeachment trial is pretty easy to see when you watch this interview on ABC&#8217;s This Week where George Stephanopoulis steps off the reality train into Obstruction Desert, where one side is solely responsible for the other side&#8217;s unconstitutional, unethical, fantasy-based, cult embrace of Dear Leader.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview it is the job of the Democrats to teach pigs to dance bring Republicans to a place where they can set aside their decision to put their party over their country and instead weigh the evidence and convict Trump of the high crimes and misdemeanors for which he is charged.<\/p>\n<p>As if there is some murky doubt about any of the evidence. As if confessions were not publicly uttered by Trump himself, defiant and just as criminal as if he had whispered them behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/culpEloN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Far too many so-called journalists of note, goose-step with the Fuhrer and the Republican Reich! Thank God for the good ones!\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wJVpihgwE18&amp;list=PLCGcelpRfnj6NvkwlP1SD15Dlu6N-MvIj&amp;index=55&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/span>The Animals &#8211; We Gotta Get Out Of This Place<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wJVpihgwE18\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ah\u2026 the memories!\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">Vote Blue!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox, as I prepare for tomorrow&#8217;s needle biopsy.\u00a0 I will be leaving at 7:00, and I won&#8217;t be home until supper time, so I will be posting only a brief Personal Update, prepared the night before, except for my puzzle times.\u00a0 If you play Fantasy Football in our <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/16\/open-thread-12-16-2019\/' 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":[3704,3722,3796,3718,3743,3705,3706,3795,3714],"class_list":["post-38460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-impeachment","tag-media-bias","tag-music","tag-republican-reich","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-treason","tag-video","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\/38460","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=38460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}