{"id":26218,"date":"2017-02-09T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26218"},"modified":"2017-02-09T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:25:21","slug":"open-thread-292017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/09\/open-thread-292017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/9\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I had a pretty good night&#39;s sleep last night, after Wendy left, but I&#39;m still quite tired.&nbsp; Sometime today the pest control people will be here to inspect my place, and do some baiting for roaches as needed.&nbsp; I have my own bait injector, so even though there are roaches in the bathrooms and some other people&#39;s rooms, I don&#39;t have a problem here.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s took me 3:19 (average 5:55).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-02-09-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tLnG5cYhc1Y\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Travesties Done in Your Name and Mine | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tLnG5cYhc1Y?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I trust that, if they heard this at all, some traditional Republicans, would be very upset at it. Others would make excuses and hide their heads in the sand, not wanting to know the truth. The Fuhrer, his associates, and the rabid base would rejoice at the opportunity to kill another potential Muslim for Republican Supply-side Jesus (The exact opposite of the real Jesus). <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Schumer: Democratic bulwark will hold on Trump SCOTUS pick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer assures Rachel Maddow that despite reports of defections, Democratic Senators will filibuster Donald Trump&#39;s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_schumerfilibuster_170208\" width=\"635\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope the only useless piece of crap to break ranks and vote to break the filibuster against Whoresuch is Joe Manchin (DINO-WV). RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/?p=3311693\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The Senate&rsquo;s confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary means that immigrants will be the nation&rsquo;s only reliable source of educated people going forward, education experts said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Under DeVos, according to Davis Logsdon, the dean of the University of Minnesota&rsquo;s School of Education, the U.S. will have to &ldquo;drastically increase its inflow of immigrants&rdquo; if it wants people capable of performing even the simplest tasks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Most of our industries require people who can read, write, and do arithmetic, even in a rudimentary way,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The Senate just shot that to hell.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With DeVos running the Department of Education, Logsdon said, millions of American students &ldquo;will graduate from high school each year without mastering any useful skills&mdash;in other words, much like DeVos herself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang!! I miss the days, when Andy did satire. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0209Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0209Cartoon.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"0209Cartoon\" width=\"654\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a pretty good night&#39;s sleep last night, after Wendy left, but I&#39;m still quite tired.&nbsp; Sometime today the pest control people will be here to inspect my place, and do some baiting for roaches as needed.&nbsp; I have my own bait injector, so even though there are roaches in the bathrooms and some <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/09\/open-thread-292017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218","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=26218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}