{"id":31289,"date":"2018-02-02T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T20:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31289"},"modified":"2018-02-02T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T20:15:12","slug":"open-thread-2-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/open-thread-2-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/2\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another very busy day, here in the CatBox.&#160; I scheduled medical appointments and my ride to my labs appointment next week.&#160; I did all my research and some home tasks.&#160; I am about to write the January&#8217;s Monthly Report, a prodigious task in itself.&#160; I think that one of the reasons I&#8217;ve bees so tired is that I got in the habit of spending a lot of time in bed when I was sick, and too much rest has contributed to not getting enough sleep and a general sense of lethargy, so I&#8217;m forcing myself to give up my morning nap time and spend more time on George, to give myself more exercise.&#160; TGIF!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:10 (average 5:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-02-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=Zfbpr5ArY_g\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Gordon Klingenschmitt Says Trump&#8217;s Demon-Possessed Critics &#8216;Are Bringing About The End Of The World&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Zfbpr5ArY_g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The answer to &quot;where are the demonic spirits?&quot; is &quot;in the Oval Office&quot;. It is Republicans, who reject religious freedom, as they seek to disavow all but Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the exact opposite of real Christians.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JW2qicsxZVo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump Faith Misplaced In Memo Reportedly Focused On Carter Page<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JW2qicsxZVo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Often, when Rachel starts, we have no idea what she&#8217;s talking about, but when the lightbulb comes on, the clarity is blinding! I think I&#8217;ll start a secret international conspiracy to laugh at Trump with Squatch and Lona. Then Nunes can release a memo on us too.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/pity-party-hope-hicks-white-female-privilege-action\" target=\"_blank\">AlterNet<\/a>: <\/font>Whiteness is the complexion for the protection &#8212; and being white and female can comes with great privileges as well.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/31\/us\/politics\/trump-russia-hope-hicks-mueller.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday&#8217;s New York Times<\/a>, Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller will interview a former spokesman for Donald Trump&#8217;s legal team named Mark Corallo, who resigned last July. Corallo will reportedly tell Mueller that he took part in &quot;a previously undisclosed conference call&quot; with President Trump and White House communications director Hope Hicks:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the [June 2016] Trump Tower meeting \u2014 in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians \u2014 \u201cwill never get out.\u201d That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to this report, the sentiment has emerged on social media and elsewhere that Hicks &#8212; a presidential confidante and senior figure in the Trump administration &#8212; is somehow naive or too young or supposedly in over her head, and that she should be given the opportunity to make amends and to move on from the Russian scandal later in life.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Caucasian race and female gender are no defense against charges of criminal IOKIYAR. <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\/2018\/02\/0202Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0202Cartoon\" 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=\"0202Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0202Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">(6 weeks of winter)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another very busy day, here in the CatBox.&#160; I scheduled medical appointments and my ride to my labs appointment next week.&#160; I did all my research and some home tasks.&#160; I am about to write the January&#8217;s Monthly Report, a prodigious task in itself.&#160; I think that one of the reasons I&#8217;ve bees so <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/open-thread-2-2-2018\/' 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-31289","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\/31289","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=31289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}