{"id":46393,"date":"2021-12-31T06:54:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46393"},"modified":"2021-12-30T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T21:57:20","slug":"open-thread-for-december-31-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/31\/open-thread-for-december-31-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for December 31, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I heard back from BlueHost, and it appears I need some documenttion I don&#8217;t have. So I&#8217;ll be working without their help at this time. Oh well. We will get through. I&#8217;ll work on getting what I don&#8217;t have, or a reasonable substitute.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211231.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211231-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211231-150x81.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/mom-and-son-kept-plane-because-knives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; Mom And Son Kept Off Plane&#8211; Because Of Knives Hidden In Toy<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; TSA officers at the Philadelphia International Airport stopped a Cortland, NY woman and her young son from boarding a plane yesterday &#8212; because of two knives sewn into the middle of a stuffed Darth Vader Bear. Say what?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/mom-and-son-kept-plane-because-knives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details<\/a>. Although much is unanswered. This is just weird enough to make one wonder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2021\/12\/30\/boulder-county-grass-fires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CPR &#8211; Multiple grass fires burning in Boulder County, evacuations in effect<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; The entire population of Superior is being evacuated as grass fires sparked by high winds and downed power lines rapidly grow and threaten structures. Two fires, the Marshall fire and the Middle Fork fire, ignited in Boulder County on Thursday morning. The county is experiencing gusts of wind reaching up to 80 miles per hour. Boulder County&#8217;s emergency managers advise people to evacuate if they see fire.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2021\/12\/30\/boulder-county-grass-fires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through<\/a> &#8211; We expect this in the summer. Not so much in December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/doj-us-attorney-office-january-6-sec-chief-counsel-2021-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Insider &#8211; The Securities and Exchange Commission&#8217;s chief litigator is joining the US attorney&#8217;s office handling January 6 cases<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Bridget Fitzpatrick, the SEC&#8217;s chief litigation counsel, is poised to leave the commission to become the top deputy to US attorney Matt Graves, according to multiple people familiar with her plans. For Fitzpatrick, the move marks a return to the US attorney&#8217;s office where she once specialized in public corruption prosecutions.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/doj-us-attorney-office-january-6-sec-chief-counsel-2021-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story.<\/a> The DU member who tipped me to this story commented that &#8220;Now might be a good time to learn the lessons those of us hyper-focused on Voting Rights learned &#8211; when Garland got Ms. Clarke over the finish line at DOJ as head of the Civil Rights Division. He hires, takes his hands off the leash, and releases his pit bulls.&#8221; He could well be correct. I hope so.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.politicalcartoons.com\/258381\/600\/a-toast-to-2022.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I heard back from BlueHost, and it appears I need some documenttion I don&#8217;t have. So I&#8217;ll be working without their help at this time. Oh well. We will get through. I&#8217;ll work on getting what I don&#8217;t have, or a reasonable substitute. Cartoon &#8211; Short Takes Crooks and Liars &#8211; Mom And Son <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/31\/open-thread-for-december-31-2021\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,4115],"class_list":["post-46393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-justice","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\/46393","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}