{"id":38509,"date":"2019-12-21T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T16:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38509"},"modified":"2019-12-21T08:56:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T16:56:47","slug":"open-thread-12-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/open-thread-12-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/21\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy time here in the CatBox.&nbsp; My heartburn was so severe last night that I threw up.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; My Broncos play the Lions, but it won&#8217;t be televised here.&nbsp; May the divine Orb shine its blessed light on your team, unless they are bearded puddy tats.&nbsp; Tomorrow is also a WWWendy day and we lave lots of chores to do.&nbsp; Monday is my gastroenterologist appointment, thank God.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be gone from around 7:00 AM until Noon.&nbsp; Therefore, please expect no more than a Personal Update from me.&nbsp; Please have a safe weekend!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:11 (average 5:20).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-12-21-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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1221Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Baggers, if you remember is short for Republican Tea Baggers.<\/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=azEDPKHBUIg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>FROSTY THE SNOWMAN (doesn&#8217;t have the Climate Blues)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/azEDPKHBUIg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thanks, Don. I almost missed this due to a hospital procedure. Glad I didn&#8217;t. The top ten Democratic Presidential candidates ALL support the Green New Deal! Give that damn snow Republican a furnace for Christmas!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DLbWNNAD_dY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Michael Moore: GOP \u2018Dying Dinosaurs,\u2019 Impeach Them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DLbWNNAD_dY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I love Michael Moore! I agree with him about who the Republican Party are, and I agree they are a dying dinosaur, with the caveat that, if they succeed in stealing and replacing our Republic with a National Socialist Reich, America, Not the Republican Party, will become extinct!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RtvlBS4PMF0&amp;list=PLtMJF5iI4w_RQvrU1_W07l1isq0Hf-rTQ&amp;index=34&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>John Lennon-Power To The People-Offical [<em>sic<\/em>] Video-HQ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RtvlBS4PMF0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah&#8230; the memories! <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 a busy time here in the CatBox.&nbsp; My heartburn was so severe last night that I threw up.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; My Broncos play the Lions, but it won&#8217;t be televised here.&nbsp; May the divine Orb shine its blessed light on your team, unless they <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/open-thread-12-21-2019\/' 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":[3704,3721,3802,3731,3739,3743,3705,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-38509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-gop-lies","tag-michael-moore","tag-parody","tag-protest","tag-republican-reich","tag-resist","tag-satire","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\/38509","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=38509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}