{"id":26300,"date":"2017-02-14T12:29:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26300"},"modified":"2017-02-14T12:29:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:29:16","slug":"open-thread-2142017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/14\/open-thread-2142017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/14\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Stumpy is being more cooperative today, and barely squeezed into George this morning, after spending most of yesterday elevated above chest height.&#160; I think he was retaining fluids, because I am mildly dehydrated from spending so much time at my desk and out and about that I paid too little attention hydrating myself.&#160; Some guzzle water naturally, but I have to force myself.&#160; I have my urologist appointment rescheduled for next month.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:22 (average 4:55).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-02-14-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9iH9kiiDpIQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Michael Flynn Must Now Be Arrested | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9iH9kiiDpIQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Last Night Michael Flynn resigned to downplay and try to evade prosecution for his treason and to protect his equally guilty Fuhrer. Both Flynn and Trump must be investigated, indicted, tried, convicted and incarcerated! <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>Spousal abuse testimony on Oprah a factor in Puzder confirmation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Maddow reports that video of a 1990 episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show in which the ex-wife of Donald Trump labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder talks about being the victim of his abuse has been submitted to Senators considering his confirmation. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Dems, with one exception, put up as good a fight as possible against Beauregard and Know Nothing. It would be nice to block Putzser.&#160; That exception is Joe Manchin [DINO-WV].&#160; He actually voted FOR both Sessions and DeVos!!&#160; Why don&#8217;t you give him a call? &#8211; WV 304-342-5855 or DC 202-224-3954.&#160; Tell him he&#8217;s a waste of skin and a good for nothing DINO turd!&#160; If you wish, be even less complimentary.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/devos-says-trumps-forty-per-cent-approval-rating-means-more-than-half-of-country-supports-him\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>An exuberant Betsy DeVos said on Monday that Donald J. Trump\u2019s forty-per-cent approval rating is a \u201cclear indication\u201d that more than half the country agrees with the job he is doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so excited to see the President\u2019s approval rating hit forty,\u201d DeVos, the Secretary of Education, told reporters. \u201cJust knowing that well more than half the country is with him gives us a great sense of confidence moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also criticized the media for failing to report \u201cour powerful forty-per-cent mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you believed news reports, you would think that the people supporting the President are in the minority, when in fact they\u2019re forty per cent,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Is it any wonder that I just labeled her Know Nothing? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0214Cartoon\" 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=\"0214Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0214Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumpy is being more cooperative today, and barely squeezed into George this morning, after spending most of yesterday elevated above chest height.&#160; I think he was retaining fluids, because I am mildly dehydrated from spending so much time at my desk and out and about that I paid too little attention hydrating myself.&#160; Some guzzle <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/14\/open-thread-2142017\/' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26300","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\/26300","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=26300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}