{"id":38580,"date":"2020-01-01T07:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T15:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38580"},"modified":"2020-01-01T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T15:22:23","slug":"open-thread-1-1-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/01\/open-thread-1-1-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/1\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a nauseous day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also a WWWendy day, so I&#8217;ll just get my work done as quickly as I can.&nbsp; May 2020 be a better year for us 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 5:27 (average 5:38).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-01-01-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\/2019\/01\/0101Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Poll<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I apologize for leaving the old poll up so long.&nbsp; I conceived it poorly and became tied up in medical mayhem, so I never got around to replacing it, as I should have long ago.&nbsp; I have replaced it now, and if anyone wishes to view the results and comments from the old poll, <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.pollcode.com\/38531919_result?v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/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=pR3vMTQTti8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why I&#8217;m Still Hopeful About America with Robert Reich<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pR3vMTQTti8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I know I always say the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. However, I&#8217;m not confident this time. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, has done more damage to the US and the world than it ever has, is more evil that it has ever been, and has more power to rig elections than ever before. Nevertheless\u2026&nbsp; never give up! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UpsbkRnQ8_s\" 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><font color=\"#000000\">Protests continue at US embassy in Baghdad<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UpsbkRnQ8_s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It appears that Trump* and the Republican Reich are trying to start a war to distract attention from the many crimes that surround them at home.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R3ChToIvLRM&amp;list=RDR3ChToIvLRM&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>You Keep Me Hangin&#8217; On<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/R3ChToIvLRM\" 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!&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 a nauseous day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also a WWWendy day, so I&#8217;ll just get my work done as quickly as I can.&nbsp; May 2020 be a better year for us all. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:27 (average 5:38).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Cartoon: Poll: I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/01\/open-thread-1-1-2020\/' 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":[3704,3818,3817,3743,3705,3792,3706,3714,3819],"class_list":["post-38580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-iraq","tag-poll","tag-republican-reich","tag-resist","tag-robert-reich","tag-satire","tag-video","tag-war-mongers","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\/38580","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=38580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}