{"id":26491,"date":"2017-02-25T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T21:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26491"},"modified":"2017-02-25T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T21:26:15","slug":"open-thread-2252017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/25\/open-thread-2252017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread 2\/25\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Once again, I&#8217;m getting a late start, because other tasks tied up my morning, so I&#8217;ll be brief.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:33 (average 4:55).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-02-25-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=l6qqPGVPxFg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Trump Supporters Wave Russian Flags At CPAC<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/l6qqPGVPxFg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This was so embarrassing that Republicans are claiming that progressives handed out the flags as a dirty trick. I presume they are lying, as usual, but if true, they proved that hundreds of Putin&#8217;s Pervert&#8217;s supposedly most knowledgeable supporters, CPUKE attendees, are so stupid that they waved Russian flags during an investigation or the Reich without knowing it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/republicans-accuse-voters-of-using-town-halls-to-express-themselves\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Saying \u201cEnough is enough,\u201d Republican senators on Friday angrily accused their constituents of \u201cintentionally and opportunistically\u201d using recent town-hall meetings as vehicles to express themselves.<\/p>\n<p>One of the angriest Republicans, Senator Tom Cotton, of Arkansas, said he was \u201cdisgusted and offended\u201d by the \u201cflagrant exercise of freedom of speech\u201d he witnessed at his town hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spectacle of people standing up, asking their elected representatives questions, and expecting them to answer is the most disgraceful thing I\u2019ve ever experienced,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cThis will not stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton accused \u201coutside agitators\u201d of sending voters to the town halls \u201cto cynically exploit an obscure provision in the Constitution called the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Where is the satire, Andy?&#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>Trump admin spikes intel report that undercuts travel ban<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Maddow reports on a leaked DHS Intelligence report that finds that Donald Trump&#8217;s focus on countries in his Muslim ban is not a reliable way of targeting terrorists. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_a1dhsintel_170224\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Fuhrer tried to do what Crawford Caligula did, fix the intelligence around the policy. When it didn&#8217;t work, they tried to hide the real findings. Then came the wonderful leak of those findings. Now the Fuhrer likes folks to take a leak in him, but not that kind.&#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\/0225Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0225Cartoon\" 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=\"0225Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0225Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Fuhrer doesn&#8217;t!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I&#8217;m getting a late start, because other tasks tied up my morning, so I&#8217;ll be brief. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:33 (average 4:55).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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