{"id":19597,"date":"2016-02-02T11:33:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19597"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:33:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:33:20","slug":"open-thread222016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/open-thread222016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/2\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have another very busy day today.&#160; Jeannie (shower-aide) will arrive momentarily.&#160; Arvilla (PT) is coming at 10 AM.&#160; I have the Monthly Report to compose.&#160; I need to set up a schedule for PT and OT after home health ends.&#160; And I need to make a run to my bank.&#160; Now Jeannie just left, and I\u2019m the kind of kitty that\u2019s fun to pet.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:21 (average 5:50).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-02-02-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\/stories\/2016\/1\/29\/1476997\/-Republicans-accuse-Democrats-of-wasting-2-million-on-Benghazi-Hearings-for-partisan-reasons\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>In an apparent attempt to set a new world\u2019s record for projection, House Republicans are now accusing Democrats of wasting millions of dollars of the House Select Committee on Benghazi\u2019s money on partisan nonsense. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Talk about partisan nonsense!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6jIJ0g8EPs0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Forming the committee just to beat Hillary is partisan nonsense!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/cruz-victory-gives-hope-to-despised-people-everywhere\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Senator Ted Cruz\u2019s stunning victory in the Iowa caucuses is serving as a beacon of hope to despised people across the nation, a number of disliked Americans confirmed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews from coast to coast, dozens of pariahs said that the Cruz triumph meant that \u201cthe sky\u2019s the limit\u201d for widely hated people like them.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy is reporting news again.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/02\/us\/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democratic-iowa-caucus.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont were locked in an intensely tight race in the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday as Mrs. Clinton\u2019s strong support among women and older voters was matched by the passionate liberal foot soldiers whom Mr. Sanders has been calling to political revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The close results were deeply unnerving to Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, as well as her advisers, some of whom had expressed growing confidence in recent days that they had recaptured political momentum after weeks when Mr. Sanders was drawing huge crowds and rising in the polls. The Clintons had appeared optimistic at rallies over the weekend, thanking Iowans for their support as much as urging them to turn out to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The close vote means that Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders are likely to split Iowa\u2019s share of delegates to the Democratic convention, and Mr. Sanders will be able to argue that the Iowa result was a virtual tie.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I did not like watching a Hillary supported lying to uncommitted voters that Bernie favors a flat tax, and I thought Hillary&#8217;s victory announcement was disingenuous.&#160; Since then Hillary has subsequently been declared the winner, and she gets 23 delegates to Bernie\u2019s 21.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0202Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0202Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/0202Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have another very busy day today.&#160; Jeannie (shower-aide) will arrive momentarily.&#160; Arvilla (PT) is coming at 10 AM.&#160; I have the Monthly Report to compose.&#160; I need to set up a schedule for PT and OT after home health ends.&#160; And I need to make a run to my bank.&#160; Now Jeannie just left, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/open-thread222016\/' 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-19597","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\/19597","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=19597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}