{"id":26325,"date":"2017-02-15T14:16:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26325"},"modified":"2017-02-15T14:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:16:06","slug":"open-thread-2152017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/15\/open-thread-2152017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/15\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Stumpy is behaving much better today, and mounted George without difficulty.&#160; It&#8217;s a very busy day for me.&#160; I took a brief nap this morning to be sure to be upright when Store to Door arrives with a large grocery order.&#160; This evening, Wendy will be here to de-stink and polish the TomCat, to help with some light housework, and to have chili dogs for supper.&#160; I didn&#8217;t tell her, because I did the last time we had chili.&#160; She mentioned it at work, and her school cancelled classes the next day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:31 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-02-15-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=JX1-w1MSfYM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Trump is Beyond Reckless With Our National Security<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JX1-w1MSfYM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Reckless is indeed an understatement!&#160; <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>DCCC weak contesting Georgia district Trump barely won<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Maddow points out the opportunity for Democrats to take over Tom Price&#8217;s Georgia congressional as he moves to become Donald Trump&#8217;s HHS secretary and yet the DCCC seems half-hearted about taking advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_georgia_170214\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Contact the DCCC (202) 863-1500 and tell them to get off their asses!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/putin-starting-to-wonder-if-his-puppets-are-smart-enough-to-pull-this-off\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Russian President Vladimir Putin is \u201cstarting to get concerned\u201d that the puppets he installed in the executive branch of the U.S. government \u201cmight not be up to the task at hand,\u201d sources confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, the flameout of the national-security adviser Michael Flynn was only the most recent event that has caused Putin to wonder if the figureheads he propelled into office are \u201cjust too dim-witted\u201d to serve the goals of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you choose a puppet, you\u2019re looking for a sweet spot,\u201d one source close to Putin said. \u201cYou want to choose someone who\u2019s dumb enough to be manipulated, but not so dumb that he can\u2019t find the light switches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasingly, it looks like we missed that sweet spot,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Spot on, Andy! Fortunately for Putin (R-RU), his puppet has a horde of other equally treacherous Republicans goose-stepping behind their Fuhrer to help him.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0215Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0215Cartoon\" 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=\"0215Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0215Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumpy is behaving much better today, and mounted George without difficulty.&#160; It&#8217;s a very busy day for me.&#160; I took a brief nap this morning to be sure to be upright when Store to Door arrives with a large grocery order.&#160; This evening, Wendy will be here to de-stink and polish the TomCat, to help <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/15\/open-thread-2152017\/' 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-26325","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\/26325","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=26325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}