{"id":20145,"date":"2016-02-23T10:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20145"},"modified":"2016-02-23T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:42:46","slug":"open-thread2232016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/23\/open-thread2232016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–2\/23\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still ill.  My PCP\u2019s office told me that, since I\u2019m not running a fever, I should call Monday, if not better.  I still feel crappy.  This today\u2019s only Article.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 3:39 (average 5:10).  To do it. click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a sign of voters\u2019 shifting perspectives about Presidential hopefuls, a new survey reveals that Americans are deeply nostalgic for a Republican candidate who only wanted to screw over forty-seven per cent of them.<\/p>\n

In interviews conducted across the country, voters expressed wistfulness and even a deep longing for a man who was indifferent to the fates of nearly half the nation\u2019s residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he was running, it seemed like a bad thing that he didn\u2019t care whether forty-seven per cent of the country lived or died,\u201d said Tracy Klugian, of Akron, Ohio. \u201cNow I realize we were being too picky.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe threw thousands of people out of their jobs and onto the streets, but he let them stay in the country,\u201d said Kent Bantwell, of Springfield, Missouri. \u201cI\u2019ve got to say, I miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n

I hate to admit it, Andy, but even Little Lord Willard looks better than the dregs that remain in the Clown Car.<\/font><\/p>\n

Daily Kos<\/a>:  The young girl had it coming. After all, she was on a gun range.  <\/p>\n

Well, let me rephrase that: she was inside her own home in a quiet neighborhood. <\/p>\n

But thanks to Rick Scott and the NRA-controlled legislature, the whole state is now an open gun range. The girl was reaching for her mom, who was foolishly looking out of her own sliding glass door at the gun nut, firing uncontrollably, on his makeshift gun range with houses all around.  <\/p>\n

A bullet sliced through the young girl\u2019s hand. She is now in tremendous pain<\/a>. <\/p>\n

"It’s in a lot of pain right now, the pain doesn’t go away".<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, go f— yourself, little girl. That is what you get for living in Florida. The shooter, Harold Lanham, has a lawyer that put it best:<\/p>\n

"This was a tragic result, this young lady (getting) hurt,\u201d said Mike Chionopolous, Lanham\u2019s attorney. \u201cBut he wasn\u2019t doing anything illegal.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

His lawyer made clear that his client was acting within Florida law.  He\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Rick Scott and a teabag legislature that literally takes orders from the Florida NRA, there are no restrictions whatsoever<\/a> on building makeshift gun ranges: any type of weapon or ammo that can be used, any time of day or night, without any regard to proximity of houses, schools, daycare centers, and playgrounds!<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n

Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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