{"id":31400,"date":"2018-02-11T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31400"},"modified":"2018-02-11T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:19:46","slug":"open-thread-2-11-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/11\/open-thread-2-11-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/11\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a weird Sunday, because WWWendy came yesterday instead of today.&#160; In fact, that makes it feel like Monday.&#160; I decided to give myself a treat and ordered a pizza.&#160; It should get here in about an hour so I&#8217;ll break for lunch before I&#8217;m done.&#160; Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.&#160; I have my semi-annual preventive eye cancer screening with Allison, my Ocular Oncological Surgeon.&#160; My eyes will be fully dilated, photographed and ultra sounded.&#160; The last is like fingernails on a blackboard inside my head.&#160; When the torture is over, my vision will be so blurry that I&#8217;ll be useless for the rest of the day.&#160; It&#8217;s an ARGH, but it is necessary.&#160; Update:&#160; <strong>BURP<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:52 (average 5:20).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-11-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=-wooDFxWnEc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Lying Their Way Into Heaven<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-wooDFxWnEc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They have a point. The US has committed more terrorist acts than any other nation or group since Nazi Germany. In the last 40 years, virtually all have been committed by a Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/02\/11\/devin-nunes-alternative-news-site-402097\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a relentless critic of the media, has found a way around the often unflattering coverage of his role in the Trump-Russia investigation \u2014 by operating his own partisan news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Resembling a local, conservative news site, \u201cThe California Republican\u201d is classified on Facebook as a \u201cmedia\/news company\u201d and claims to deliver \u201cthe best of US, California, and Central Valley news, sports, and analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the website is paid for by Nunes\u2019 campaign committee, according to small print at the bottom of the site. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hey Asshole! Don&#8217;t Californicate California!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/10\/us\/politics\/guantanamo-sept-11-rishikof.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Before his sudden firing last week, the Pentagon official who oversaw military commission trials at Guant\u00e1namo Bay was exploring potential plea deals to end the long-delayed prosecution of five suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks, a move that would foreclose the possibility of execution, according to several people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>No deal was imminent, the people said, but the talks were active and contemplated the defendants \u2014 including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described architect of the attacks \u2014 pleading guilty and probably receiving life sentences. Most of the people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">At the GOP Gitmo Gulag, nothing short of state sponsored murder will satisfy the Party of Death! <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\/0211Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0211Cartoon\" 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=\"0211Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0211Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a weird Sunday, because WWWendy came yesterday instead of today.&#160; In fact, that makes it feel like Monday.&#160; I decided to give myself a treat and ordered a pizza.&#160; It should get here in about an hour so I&#8217;ll break for lunch before I&#8217;m done.&#160; Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/11\/open-thread-2-11-2018\/' 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-31400","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\/31400","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=31400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}