{"id":55773,"date":"2024-12-18T05:59:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55773"},"modified":"2024-12-17T21:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T05:07:04","slug":"open-thread-december-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/18\/open-thread-december-18-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 18 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I managed to bake a batch of cookies and also a batch of muffins. I used half and half spelt and potato flour for both. I also used more liquid than I use with spelt flour alone, and it really still wasn&#8217;t enough. But I&#8217;ll do better next time. At least the cookies taste fine (I haven&#8217;t tasted the muffins yet.) I added &#8220;Craisins&#8221; (dried cranberries) to both, and at least in the cookies, those worked out well. Speaking of food, the star animal in today&#8217;s video is a porcupine. Years ago there was a a rescue porcupine which the family named &#8220;Teddy Bear&#8221; who went viral. There was even &#8211; may still be &#8211; a short mp3 file available to download as a ringtone of the sound he made enjoying a pumpkin. I would never have expected a porcupine to sound cute, but Teddy Bear did. I use the sound on my desktop 3rd party software for pop-up reminders &#8211; I&#8217;ve assigned it to grocery delivery reminders, since it&#8217;s food-related.<\/p>\n<p>From Steve Schmidt, a new &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/the-schmidt-storm-payoffs-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schmidt Storm<\/a>.&#8221; This link is from the subscribers&#8217; email, but it also contains its own link to he transcript (one of three buttons just below the audio-only and just above the title.)<\/p>\n<p>This is from the New England Journal of Medicine, translated into lay language by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219821258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Underground<\/a> member &#8220;Doctoris Extincti.&#8221; Every one of us who went through the CoViD-19 pandemic &#8211; and that is every one of us &#8211; will immediately recognize the protocol and will remember that viruses can travel with humans into every corner of the world. Don&#8217;t panic &#8211; but maybe have a plan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5J15VYE_y4Q?si=ZqJyZVYV3N7BelL5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TPwP4-MuCrk?si=NRpul3gOdHf3VD_i\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to do this all the time, but I just found a new Randy Rainbow and am using it as today&#8217;s cartoon. I cut all but a second of the ad off the front for us.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmrNhbn8KI8?si=9C9mcNaO-2Sd3mFq&amp;start=122\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I managed to bake a batch of cookies and also a batch of muffins. I used half and half spelt and potato flour for both. I also used more liquid than I use with spelt flour alone, and it really still wasn&#8217;t enough. But I&#8217;ll do better next time. At least the cookies taste <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/18\/open-thread-december-18-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[6102,4355,3711,3751,3811,3910,4926,6103],"class_list":["post-55773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-airborne-diseases","tag-animals","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-insanity","tag-personal","tag-public-health","tag-randy-rainbow","tag-steve-schmidt","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\/55773","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=55773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}