{"id":26454,"date":"2017-02-22T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26454"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T21:46:08","slug":"open-thread-2222017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/open-thread-2222017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/22\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m feeling a bit better today.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive.&#160; Depending on which driver comes, they&#160; will either get here soon or in about 2 1\/2 hours.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening to fleece and degrease the sweaty TomCat and to dine on chili dogs&#8230; That was sooner than I thought.&#160; Store to Door has come and gone, and I have my groceries stowed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:49 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-02-22-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=W9Szb1HLp8M\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>):&#160; <\/font>The Mistake Trump Can\u2019t Ever Walk Back | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/W9Szb1HLp8M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump is already attacking all the other freedoms listed in the First Amendment. Keith&#8217;s questions must be thrown in Republican politicians&#8217; and pundits&#8217; faces at least hourly. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/2\/20\/1635849\/-Leaked-tapes-reveal-Trump-s-offer-to-his-real-group\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>All those everyday working stiffs who think they have a friend in Trump need to spend a minute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/02\/trump-leaked-audio-clubs-guests-235161\" target=\"_blank\">listening to him talk<\/a> to the $200k a seat members of his club.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo, this is my real group,\u201d Trump said at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, on November 18, according to the audiotape. \u201cThese are the people that came here in the beginning, when nobody knew what this monster was gonna turn out to be, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And for his \u201creal group\u201d Trump makes some special invitations that he wasn&#8217;t handing out to the small crowd he gathered at a Florida airport. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We\u2019re doing a lot of interviews tomorrow \u2014 generals, dictators, we have everything,\u201d Trump told the crowd, according to an audiotape of his closed-to-the-press remarks, obtained by POLITICO from a source in the room. \u201cYou may wanna come around. It\u2019ll be fun. We\u2019re really working tomorrow. We have meetings every 15, 20 minutes with different people that will form our government.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Come on down! Watch us play National Security Advisor Apprentice! It\u2019ll be fun!<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These billionaires and Alt-Right Nazis are who the Fuhrer represents. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/birmingham\/index.ssf\/2017\/02\/senate_to_prepare_rules_for_po.html\" target=\"_blank\">AL.com<\/a>: <\/font>The Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee will begin preparing for a possible impeachment trial of Gov. Robert Bentley in the Senate, Chairman Cam Ward said today.<\/p>\n<p>Ward said he planned to appoint two Democrats and two Republicans to a subcommittee on Wednesday to write a draft set of rules for how the Senate would conduct an impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<p>Ward said he does not expect the House to impeach Bentley.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We need to make sure we&#8217;re organized and prepared to deal with whatever happens,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The subcommittee&#8217;s draft would be subject to approval by the Judiciary Committee, and then would go to the full Senate for approval.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If they impeach the corrupt Love Gov., Luther Strange, the criminal AG that traded favoritism to Bentley for his Senate seat, will probably lose his post too. <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\/0222Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0222Cartoon\" 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=\"0222Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0222Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling a bit better today.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive.&#160; Depending on which driver comes, they&#160; will either get here soon or in about 2 1\/2 hours.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening to fleece and degrease the sweaty TomCat and to dine on chili dogs&#8230; That was sooner than I thought.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/open-thread-2222017\/' 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-26454","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\/26454","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=26454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}