{"id":38797,"date":"2020-01-27T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38797"},"modified":"2020-01-27T08:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:54:21","slug":"open-thread-1-27-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/27\/open-thread-1-27-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/27\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m not feeling too well this morning.&nbsp; I kept my breakfast and all yesterday&#8217;s meals down, but I\u2019m suffering from a pretty severe case of Republicosis that has sent me to the throne nine times in the past twenty four hours, including twice in the middle of the night.&nbsp; My poor butt is so raw, it feels like Trump\u2019s* must after a session with Putin [R-RU].&nbsp; On the plus side, I put my foot down to Medical Mayhem this week.&nbsp; My next appointment is my cardiac stress test next Monday.&nbsp; Oh God!&nbsp; It\u2019s Monday!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 5:01 (average 7:00).&nbsp; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-01-27-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: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; background-image: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/0127Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">SCROTUS = Republican anti-Constitutional VD<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/2020\/01\/21\/watchdog-group-files-complaint-against-attorney-general-william-barr-for-abuse-of-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nation of Change<\/a>: <span style=\"background-position: 0% 0%; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;\"><font color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size: 11.3pt;\">Democracy 21, a non-profit organization that aims to<br \/>\ncombat the influence of private money in politics, has filed a complaint against<br \/>\nAttorney General William Barr for failure to comply with the Department of<br \/>\nJustice norms, rules and standards of conduct\u2026<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 19pt;\"><span style=\"background-position: 0% 0%; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;\"><font style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">\u2026<\/font><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/democracy21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Democracy-21-complaint-against-AG-Barr-filed-with-DOJ-OPR-1-17-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democracy 21<\/a><span style=\"background-position: 0% 0%; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;\"><\/span><\/font><span style=\"background-position: 0% 0%; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;\"><font style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">\u2019s complaint gives a detailed list of actions Barr has<br \/>\ntaken since last year: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"line-height: normal; padding-left: 30pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;\"><font style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">  <\/font><\/p>\n<li style=\"line-height: 19pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"background-position: 0% 0%; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;\"><font style=\"font-size: 11.3pt;\">Barr testified before Congress, without any<br \/>\nsubstantiation, that FBI and Justice Department officials engaged in<br \/>\n\u201cspying\u201d on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential<br \/>\nelection.<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><\/font><\/p>\n<li style=\"line-height: 19pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"background-position: 0% 0%; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;\"><font style=\"font-size: 11.3pt;\">Barr sent a letter to Congress mischaracterizing the<br \/>\n   Mueller report ahead of its release, leaving it as the only information<br \/>\navailable to the public about the report for almost a month. Barr then<br \/>\nrefused Special Counsel Mueller\u2019s request to release the summaries     included<br \/>\nin the report and held a press conference hours before the     release of the<br \/>\nfull report where he continued to mischaracterize it.<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><\/font><\/p>\n<li style=\"line-height: 19pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"background-position: 0% 0%; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;\"><font style=\"font-size: 11.3pt;\">Barr failed to recuse himself from overseeing matters<br \/>\n    being consideration by DOJ and related to the whistleblower complaint<br \/>\nabout President Trump\u2019s call with the Ukrainian President, in which Trump<br \/>\nmentioned Barr by name five times.<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"background-position: 0% 0%; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Democracy 21. They picked a most worthy target in Barrf!&nbsp; I hope DOJ\u2019s Office of Professional Responsibility and Departmental Ethics Office act on it.&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WsAvdb7_elQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXKjhxsfFQUqlNVQzLVnpEA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">538 Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">&#8216;Sometimes going negative is a necessary evil&#8217;: Nate Silver<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WsAvdb7_elQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I tend to disagree. While it may be adventageous for a Democratic candidate to reveal facts about a Democratic rival, it must be done with dignity and respect, because we all need to unite behind our nominee. When attacking Republicans, no such restrictions apply, since for every decency and courtesy we have extended them in recent years, they have returned pure evil, and nothing but.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From YouTube (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">Stuck in the Middle with you &#8211; Stealers Wheel<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OMAIsqvTh7g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 Lona&#8217;s memories! Thanks, Lona!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not feeling too well this morning.&nbsp; I kept my breakfast and all yesterday&#8217;s meals down, but I\u2019m suffering from a pretty severe case of Republicosis that has sent me to the throne nine times in the past twenty four hours, including twice in the middle of the night.&nbsp; My poor butt is so raw, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/27\/open-thread-1-27-2019-2\/' 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":[3742,3704,3788,3778,3711,3809,3718,3743,3705,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-38797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-barrf","tag-cartoon","tag-democrats","tag-doj","tag-gop-crimes","tag-investigation","tag-music","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\/38797","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=38797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}