{"id":14766,"date":"2015-02-21T13:01:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14766"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T21:01:48","slug":"open-thread2212015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/21\/open-thread2212015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/21\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I get to take a comparatively lazy day, and I\u2019m feeling somewhat lethargic, so I must need it.&#160; I\u2019m having a fight with my mail order pharmacy.&#160; They sent me a different med than the prescription I told them to refill, and are questioning whether they should refund the charges, because they thought I had ordered it by mistake.&#160; I\u2019m waiting for them to review it, buy am ready to remind them that Portland has another mail order pharmacy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:45 (average 5:34).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-02-21-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.upworthy.com\/these-racist-idiots-spray-painted-a-swastika-on-the-dumbest-location-possible\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>These racist idiots spray-painted a swastika on the dumbest location possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/W0QBSyuJ4t4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course, the Hindu swastika and the Republican swastika have virtually opposite meanings.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/forgotten-man-seeks-attention\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A largely forgotten man sought attention on Wednesday night before returning to obscurity on Thursday, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The man, whom many Americans had difficulty placing, was making a desperate bid to remind people of his existence, experts believe.<\/p>\n<p>His efforts were somewhat successful, as his widely reported outburst caused people across the country to rack their brains to try to remember who he was.<\/p>\n<p>After briefly attempting to recall where they had seen the man before, many people gave up and moved on with their days, but for others, the desperate man\u2019s remarks left a bitter aftertaste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no excuse for making comments like those, no matter who you are,\u201d Tracy Klugian, forty-seven, of Springfield, Missouri, said. \u201cWho is he again?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy is saying the same thing I was saying yesterday. He&#8217;s desperate for attention.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/02\/20\/1365764\/-So-about-all-that-war-zone-reporting-Mr-O-Reilly\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>&#8230;Here&#8217;s a synopsis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/02\/questions-bill-oreilly-falklands-david-corn\" target=\"_blank\">questions<\/a> O&#8217;Reilly is refusing to answer: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does O&#8217;Reilly explain his claim that he was in a war zone in the Falklands war between the United Kingdom and Argentina in 1982 when it appears that no American reporters were allowed in the war zone? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>What specifically was the &quot;combat situation in Argentina during the Falklands War&quot; that he &quot;survived&quot; to write about in a 2004 column? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Can O&#8217;Reilly elaborate on the claim he made to Tucker Carlson in 2003 that &quot;I&#8217;ve covered wars, okay? I&#8217;ve been there. The Falklands, Northern Ireland, the Middle East. I&#8217;ve almost been killed three times, okay.&#8217;&quot; Like the circumstances in which he almost died? <\/li>\n<li>About that &quot;war zone&quot; in Argentina, where his photographer &quot;got run down and then hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete&quot; and O&#8217;Reilly heroically saved him: &quot;When and where did this happen?&quot; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for an extensive article on this story. May I suggest that O&#8217;Lielly&#8217;s most dangerous war experience was disrespecting a troop of Brownie Scouts on a school bus. They beat him up and took his lunch money. They also tried to kick him in the gonads, but couldn&#8217;t find any.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0221Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0221Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0221Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get to take a comparatively lazy day, and I\u2019m feeling somewhat lethargic, so I must need it.&#160; I\u2019m having a fight with my mail order pharmacy.&#160; They sent me a different med than the prescription I told them to refill, and are questioning whether they should refund the charges, because they thought I had <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/21\/open-thread2212015\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","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\/14766","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=14766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}