{"id":38623,"date":"2020-01-05T07:35:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T15:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38623"},"modified":"2020-01-05T07:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T15:35:54","slug":"open-thread-1-5-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/05\/open-thread-1-5-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/5\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day, here in the CatBox, as WWWendy will be here in less than two hours.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t keep my supper down last night, but I did manage a small bowl of Cheerios this morning.&nbsp; Yesterday I meditated on the Holy Orb.&nbsp; Congrats Pat.&nbsp; Was that a comeback, or what?&nbsp; Kudos to Tennessee, for eliminating the team that licks Trump&#8217;s* sphincter!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:02 (average 4:53). To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-01-05-CE2504A965A9\">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\/2018\/01\/0105Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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=kfpNB_yuVJE\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>CNN legal analyst: We&#8217;re just now seeing how big the Ukraine cover up is<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kfpNB_yuVJE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Doesn&#8217;t this make it plain to see why Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch is so anxious to prevent witness testimony at the sham trial he plans to protect his Fuhrer, Trump*?&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-50996602\">BBC<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump has warned the US is &#8220;targeting&#8221; 52 Iranian sites and will strike &#8220;very fast and very hard&#8221; if Tehran attacks Americans or US assets.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s remarks followed the US assassination of Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian general, in a drone strike.  <\/p>\n<p>Soleimani&#8217;s killing was a major escalation between the two nations, and Iran vowed to take &#8220;severe revenge&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>Writing on Twitter, Mr Trump accused Iran of &#8220;talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>He said the US had identified 52 Iranian sites, some &#8220;at a very high level &amp; important to Iran &amp; the Iranian culture&#8221;, and warned they would be &#8220;HIT VERY FAST AND HARD&#8221; if Tehran struck at the US.  <\/p>\n<p>The president said the targets represented 52 Americans who were held hostage in Iran for more than a year from late 1979 after they were taken from the US embassy in Tehran.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I understand Fuhrer Trump also said some were cultural sites, indicating his intent to attack civilians, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/05\/middleeast\/iran-soleimani-khamenei-adviser-intl\/index.html\">Iran stated that their retaliation would be against military targets<\/a>. Trump and the Republican Reich are now threatening the war crime of military terrorism against women and children.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RdoLcgxvf98&amp;list=RDR3ChToIvLRM&amp;index=6\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>Jefferson Starship &#8211; White Rabbit &#8211; 11\/8\/1975 &#8211; Winterland (Official)  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RdoLcgxvf98\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is this long instrumental cool, or what? 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 a busy day, here in the CatBox, as WWWendy will be here in less than two hours.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t keep my supper down last night, but I did manage a small bowl of Cheerios this morning.&nbsp; Yesterday I meditated on the Holy Orb.&nbsp; Congrats Pat.&nbsp; Was that a comeback, or what?&nbsp; Kudos to Tennessee, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/05\/open-thread-1-5-2020\/' 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":[3704,3712,3711,3718,3833,3705,3706,3803,3805,3714,3812],"class_list":["post-38623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-crimes","tag-music","tag-obstruction-of-justice","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-terrorism","tag-ukraine","tag-video","tag-war-crimes","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\/38623","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=38623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}