{"id":14683,"date":"2015-02-10T06:55:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14683"},"modified":"2015-02-10T06:55:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:55:32","slug":"open-thread2102015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/open-thread2102015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/10\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Day 97.&#160; This is extreme hurry mode, as I\u2019m posting articles and distributing links, before leaving for volunteer work in prison.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:31 (average 5:56).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-02-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/02\/07\/1362941\/-Bill-Maher-asks-a-favor-of-Republicans-slamming-Sarah-Palin\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Bill Maher had a field day with both Sarah Palin and her Republican critics. \u201cNow that many Republicans have come forward in the last week to finally admit that, \u2018okay, you were right, Sarah Palin is a crazy person, they have to ask themselves, \u2018What else might I have been completely wrong about all these years?\u2019 In case you missed it, Palin made a speech in Iowa a couple of weeks ago that cryptologists are still working on,\u201d Maher explained on his show Real Time with Bill Maher.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x2gmjkb\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>     <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x2gmjkb_bill-to-republicans-slamming-sarah-palin-what-took-you-so-long-video_news\" target=\"_blank\">Bill to Republicans slamming Sarah Palin&#8230;<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/ewillies\" target=\"_blank\">ewillies<\/a><\/i> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think Bloody Bullseye Barbie went all the way to Baggerville. Bill was classic.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/alabama-loses-yet-another-fight-remain-eighteenth-century\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>On Monday, the state of Alabama lost yet another fight to remain in the eighteenth century, extending a losing streak that dates back to the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama, whose first attempt to remain in the eighteenth century took place between 1861 and 1865, has never shown signs of giving up the fight, even after being dealt a string of stunning defeats in the nineteen-fifties and nineteen-sixties.<\/p>\n<p>According to historians, Monday\u2019s loss brings the number of failed attempts by Alabama to more than four thousand.<\/p>\n<p>But even with this latest defeat, some of the state\u2019s residents, such as Chief Justice Roy Moore, of the Alabama Supreme Court, remained resolute in their fight to return to a time before electricity and indoor plumbing.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang!!&#160; Andy&#8217;s back to straight news, again!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D1X_cw2lJR8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>&#8216;Bears&#8217; have own plan for Jeb Bush campaign site \/ LGBT, Equality <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/D1X_cw2lJR8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We still don&#8217;t know what bears do or don&#8217;t do in the woods, but they certainly do on the Bush!!&#160; \ud83d\ude00<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0210Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0210Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0210Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 97.&#160; This is extreme hurry mode, as I\u2019m posting articles and distributing links, before leaving for volunteer work in prison. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:31 (average 5:56).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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