{"id":26427,"date":"2017-02-20T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26427"},"modified":"2017-02-20T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T21:24:09","slug":"open-thread-2202017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/20\/open-thread-2202017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/20\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s cartoon is in honor of Residents Day.&nbsp; Banks and state government offices may be closed for Presidents Day, but the US does not have a President.&nbsp; Staff the analytics is fixed.&nbsp; What do you think?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#39;s took me 4:32 (average 5:34).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-02-20-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=GLHkMFQNCOI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheYoungTurks\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">TYT Channel<\/a>): <\/font>State Offers &#39;Do It Yourself&#39; Death Row<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/GLHkMFQNCOI?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is insane! I also agree that execution is state-sponsored murder and could not support the death penalty even for the traitors that are selling-out our nation to Russia. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/amid-protests-uk-lawmakers-to-debate-trump-visit-invitation\/2017\/02\/20\/bf748f32-f75c-11e6-aa1e-5f735ee31334_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>British lawmakers are set to debate a call for U.S. President Donald Trump to be denied a state visit to the U.K. &mdash; but the Conservative government insists the invitation remains firmly in place.<\/p>\n<p>Trump opponents plan to demonstrate outside Parliament in London as legislators hold a non-binding debate Monday. It comes in response to an online petition with more than 1.8 million signatures saying a formal state visit &ldquo;would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On state visits, foreign leaders are welcomed with royal pomp and military ceremony, and usually stay at Buckingham Palace as guests of Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Labour! It would certainly not do for Her Majesty to be groped by Putin&#39;s Pervert. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/2\/17\/1634980\/-McCain-s-Munich-speech-pits-Trump-against-the-rest-of-the-U-S-government\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Republican Sen. John McCain delivered a pretty stunning speech Friday at an international security conference in Germany in which the senator made clear that he views Donald Trump&#39;s presidency as a threat to the West&#39;s well-being and world order as a whole. Aaron Blake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/02\/17\/john-mccain-just-systematically-dismantled-donald-trumps-entire-worldview\/?utm_term=.56344e827a02\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>McCain suggested the Western world is uniquely imperiled this year &mdash; even more so than when Barack Obama was president &mdash; and proceeded to question whether the Western world will survive.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism. Not this year,&rdquo; McCain said. &ldquo;If ever there were a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McCain reportedly never attached his critique of the changing world order directly to Trump, but his prose were laced with references to the blurring of fact and fiction and a &quot;hardening resentment&quot; toward immigrants, refugees, and &quot;especially Muslims.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps most notably, McCain painted a picture of a U.S. government at odds, and perhaps even at war, with its leader.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think McCain,aka McConJov, is well intended but is conning himself that Trump is at odds with rest of the government, Both Lyin&#39; Ryan and Bought Bitch Mitch, along with almost all in the Republican Reich, bend over, grab their ankles and cry Baa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a, whenever their Fuhrer calls, no matter how extreme the demand.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0220Cartoon\" border=\"0\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0220Cartoon.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"0220Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#39;s cartoon is in honor of Residents Day.&nbsp; Banks and state government offices may be closed for Presidents Day, but the US does not have a President.&nbsp; Staff the analytics is fixed.&nbsp; What do you think? Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#39;s took me 4:32 (average 5:34).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/20\/open-thread-2202017\/' 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-26427","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\/26427","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=26427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}