{"id":31447,"date":"2018-02-15T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31447"},"modified":"2018-02-15T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:11:48","slug":"open-thread-2-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/15\/open-thread-2-15-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/15\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was yet another lonely Valentine&#8217;s day. Desperate for company, I even tried to attract Republicans.&#160; I put out rat traps, but none came.&#160; <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smilewithtongueout\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Smile with tongue out\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wlEmoticon-smilewithtongueout.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:54 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-15-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=XztduKy88I4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Dave Daubenmire Is Sick Of &quot;Phony Black Christians&quot; Who Voted For &quot;That Quasi-Muslim Freak&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XztduKy88I4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Real Authentic Christians just don&#8217;t have the hate required to become racist Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/2\/13\/1740971\/-Florida-woman-wins-Democrats-36th-red-to-blue-flip-Florida-man-continues-to-live-in-infamy\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Don\u2019t look now, but Democrats just flipped their 36th state legislative seat this cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s win in Florida House District 72 was not only yet another Democratic win in a seat Trump carried in 2016 (by a 51-46 margin), but it was also a stark reminder for Republicans of how much trouble they may be in at the ballot box in November.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Margaret Good, an attorney and community activist, defeated Republican James Buchanan 52-45 percent, improving on the 2016 Democratic presidential performance in this Sarasota County-area district by 12 points. This <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Florida_House_of_Representatives_District_72\" target=\"_blank\">historically Republican<\/a> seat, which has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbo.com\/florida-politics\/buzz\/2018\/02\/13\/margaret-good-vs-james-buchanan-what-you-need-to-know-about-tuesdays-house-district-72-special-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">a GOP voter registration advantage of around 13,000<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sunshinestatenews.com\/story\/alex-miller-resigns-florida-house-representatives\" target=\"_blank\">became vacant upon the abrupt resignation<\/a> of a freshman lawmaker in August 2017.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/02\/15\/pruitt-admits-he-flies-first-class-avoid-people-mad-him-destroying-planet\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>Under fire for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/first-class-travel-distinguishes-scott-pruitts-epa-tenure\/2018\/02\/11\/5bb89afc-0b7d-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html\">taking expensive first class flights and staying in luxury hotels<\/a> on the taxpayer&#8217;s dime, EPA chief Scott Pruitt informed the public of the real reason he stays away from coach: to avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2018\/02\/14\/us\/politics\/ap-us-epa-pruitt-travel.html\" target=\"_blank\">uncomfortable interactions<\/a> with people who are mad at him for trying to destroy the planet.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We live in a very toxic environment politically,&quot; Pruitt explained in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2018\/02\/14\/us\/politics\/ap-us-epa-pruitt-travel.html\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with <em>the New Hampshire Union Leader<\/em> this week\u2014an interesting choice of words, given that the EPA chief&#8217;s policy moves have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2017\/09\/14\/mind-bogglingly-dangerous-trump-epa-rolls-back-water-pollution-limits-coal-plants\" target=\"_blank\">greatly contributed to the toxicity<\/a> of the actual geophysical environment.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He wouldn&#8217;t have to worry about a toxic political environment, if he were not creating a toxic physical environment. Also, what Republicans do not live high on the hog at our expense, whenever they can? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoons<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0215Cartoon\" 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=\"0215Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0215Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0215Cartoon-2\" 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=\"0215Cartoon-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0215Cartoon-2.gif\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">After two years, is he cooked yet?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was yet another lonely Valentine&#8217;s day. Desperate for company, I even tried to attract Republicans.&#160; I put out rat traps, but none came.&#160; Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:54 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (RWW Channel): Dave Daubenmire Is Sick Of &quot;Phony Black <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/15\/open-thread-2-15-2018\/' 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-31447","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\/31447","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=31447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}