{"id":26499,"date":"2017-02-26T12:24:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T20:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26499"},"modified":"2017-02-26T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T20:24:20","slug":"open-thread-2262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/26\/open-thread-2262017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy just left.&#160; She sprayed and polished the stinky TomCat, applied some bait to keep the building&#8217;s roach problem out of here, did some light housework, fed me the numbers for financial record keeping, and enjoyed French toast for lunch.&#160; Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update.&#160; I have an&#160; appointment with Christine, my Ophthalmologist, to plan the procedures needed to remove my cataracts and correct the droop in my eyelids.&#160; She will be dilating me fully, so I will be even blinder for the rest5 of the 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 3:46 (average 5:25).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-02-26-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=\"http:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/funny-or-die-bathroom-cop.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>Funny or Die: Bathroom Cop<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SYU6z0d_erY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Doesn&#8217;t that &quot;cop&quot; look like Sean Spicer, aka Shitty Spice?&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">FRom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/2\/23\/1637092\/-Law-professors-file-misconduct-complaint-against-Conway\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A group of law professors from around the country has filed a professional misconduct complaint against White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, a graduate of George Washington University Law School who was admitted to the D.C. Bar in1995.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, filed with the office that handles misconduct by members of the D.C. Bar, said <strong>Conway should be sanctioned for violating government ethics rules and \u201cconduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation<\/strong>,\u201d the letter says.<\/p>\n<p>The 15 professors, who specialize in legal ethics, cite several incidents,including a television interview in which Conway made the \u201cfalse statement that President Barack Obama had \u2018banned\u2019 Iraqi refugees from coming into the United States for six months following the \u2018Bowling Green Massacre,\u2019 \u201d and the use of her position to endorse Ivanka Trump products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not file this complaint lightly,\u201d the professors said in their filing. \u201cWe believe that, at one time, Ms. Conway, understood her ethical responsibilities as a lawyer and abided by them. But <strong>she is currently acting in a way that brings shame upon the legal profession<\/strong>. [<em>emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cool! Will that bring Kellyanne Consensual out of hiding?&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/25\/us\/politics\/dnc-perez-ellison-chairman-election.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Former Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, narrowly defeating Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota to take the helm of a still-divided party stunned by President Trump\u2019s victory but hopeful that it can ride the backlash against his presidency to revival.<\/p>\n<p>The balloting, which carried a measure of suspense not seen in the party in decades, revealed that Democrats have yet to heal the wounds from last year\u2019s presidential primary campaign. Mr. Perez, buoyed by activists most loyal to former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, won with 235 votes out of 435 cast on the second ballot.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t dislike Tom Perez, who is anything but a DINO. I just prefer Keith Ellison. Also, Perez immediately made Keith his Deputy Director, confirming that progressives will have an influential voice, and that the days of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, when progressives were ignored, are over. Therefore, I&#8217;ll take a wait and see attitude.&#160; He wants us to <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\/0226Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0226Cartoon\" 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=\"0226Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0226Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s the Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy just left.&#160; She sprayed and polished the stinky TomCat, applied some bait to keep the building&#8217;s roach problem out of here, did some light housework, fed me the numbers for financial record keeping, and enjoyed French toast for lunch.&#160; Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update.&#160; I have an&#160; appointment with Christine, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/26\/open-thread-2262017\/' 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-26499","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\/26499","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=26499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}