{"id":31331,"date":"2018-02-03T13:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31331"},"modified":"2018-02-03T13:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T21:23:34","slug":"open-thread-2-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/03\/open-thread-2-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/3\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a comparatively lazy day here in the CatBox, but I do have three articles for you.&#160; Tomorrow will be a little crazy, because it&#8217;s a WWWendy day and the highest holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; As a rule, I root for the AFC, but Trump loves the Patriots, do go Eagles!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:55 (average 4:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-03-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=DHG7appJ6Io\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Trump&#8217;s 20 Worst Broken Promises<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DHG7appJ6Io?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left is right, but it would be far easier to list the promises that he has kept. That list has zero items. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/former-hippies-put-in-horrible-position-of-rooting-for-fbi\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Former hippies across the United States have been put in the unbearable position of rooting for the F.B.I., hippies have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>From Vermont to California, erstwhile hippies bemoaned a nightmare scenario that has forced them to side with a law-enforcement agency they have despised since the Summer of Love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always dreamed I\u2019d spend my retirement surrounded by my grandchildren, telling them that the F.B.I. were fascist pigs,\u201d Carol Foyler, a former hippie who lives in Santa Cruz, said. \u201cThat dream has been shot to hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, Mick, nodded his head in sad agreement. \u201cWe were so happy when pot was legalized in California,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the fact that we\u2019re now on the same side as the F.B.I. has ruined even that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! As a former hippie, I have to agree! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/02\/hospitalizations-highest-nearly-decade-us-flu-outbreak-worsens-cdc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>[T]he U.S. flu outbreak worsened over the past week as more people headed to doctors\u2019 offices and emergency rooms, with hospitalizations at the highest in nearly 10 years, U.S. health officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen children died of the flu in the week ended Jan. 27, bringing total pediatric deaths to 53 for the season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s weekly report.<\/p>\n<p>Out of every 100,000 people in the general population, an estimated 51.4 have been hospitalized for the flu, surpassing the rate in the last severe season of 2014-2015, when 710,000 were hospitalized and 148 children died. Adults aged 65 or older had the most hospitalizations, followed by those aged 50 to 64 and children below 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far this year the cumulative rate of hospitalization is the highest since we began tracking in this way,\u201d Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters on a conference call.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Do you feel safer, because Republicans have cut funding for the CDC? <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\/0203Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0203Cartoon\" 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=\"0203Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0203Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a comparatively lazy day here in the CatBox, but I do have three articles for you.&#160; Tomorrow will be a little crazy, because it&#8217;s a WWWendy day and the highest holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; As a rule, I root for the AFC, but Trump loves the Patriots, do go <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/03\/open-thread-2-3-2018\/' 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-31331","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\/31331","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=31331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}