{"id":31458,"date":"2018-02-16T13:27:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31458"},"modified":"2018-02-16T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:30:50","slug":"open-thread-2-16-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/16\/open-thread-2-16-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/16\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I overslept this morning, but I&#8217;m doing OK, because I planned to skip my morning nap, anyway.\u00a0 Tomorrow WWWendy is coming a day early, and I may have no more than an Open Thread or a Personal Update.\u00a0 We have lots of chores to do, including the dreaded task.\u00a0 In addition, we are celebrating Valentine&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll just have to see how the day progresses.\u00a0 TGIF!! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:10 (average 5:05).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-16-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r8u7ZoWbbOU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Right-wing media: It&#8217;s never the time to talk about gun violence<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Bullshit Bag Alert!!\u00a0??<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/r8u7ZoWbbOU?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Lets not just talk about it. Lets DO something! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W2_7qEaD4WM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul Ryan: No &#8216;Knee Jerk&#8217; Reactions On Guns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Bullshit Bag Alert!!\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">??<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/W2_7qEaD4WM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Lyin&#8217; Ryan is doing what he always does: lying and prioritizing blood money over dead children. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/pets\/dog-food-recall-euthanasia-drug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People<\/a>: <\/span>\u2026\u201cConsumers have no information,\u201d said Thixton. \u201cA consumer has to become a private detective to learn what\u2019s really in their [<em>pets&#8217;<\/em>] food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To save pet owners the aforementioned detective work, ABC7 partnered with Ellipse Analytics, a lab specializing in food testing, to test pet food.<\/p>\n<p>The station tested 62 samples of wet dog food from over 24 brands for pentobarbital multiple times over several months. Only one brand of food, Gravy Train, repeatedly tested positive for trace amounts of the euthanasia drug. Sixty percent of the Gravy Train samples came back positive.<\/p>\n<p>And while the amount of pentobarbital found was not a lethal level, any trace of the drug is not permitted in pet food.<\/p>\n<p>Gravy Train is made by the company Big Heart Pet Foods, which is owned by Smucker\u2019s. Big Heart Brands is also responsible for the production of Meow Mix, Milk Bone, Kibbles\u2019n Bits, 9 Lives, Natural Balance, Pup-Peroni, Nature\u2019s Recipe, Canine Carry Outs, Milo\u2019s Kitchen, Alley Cat, Jerky Treats, Meaty Bone, Pounce and Snausages.<\/p>\n<p>The question still remains how the drug made its way into the food, since it is often only found in the systems of cats, horses and dogs put down by the drug. Some worry this means these animals are being put into pet food, reports ABC 7, while others are more concerned that the drug is there at all and what its presence means about the quality of the food we are feeding our pets.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after ABC7 shared its findings, Smucker\u2019s announced Wednesday that it is voluntarily recalling shipments of Gravy Train, Kibbles \u2018N Bits, Ol\u2019 Roy, and Skippy dog food over concerns about the presence of pentobarbital, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/pets.webmd.com\/news\/20180215\/pet-alert-euthanasia-drug-found-wet-dog-food\">WebMD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Since so many of our friends are animal lovers, I found this too upsetting not to share it. Click through. Isn&#8217;t it ironic that, just a few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/13\/poor-or-middle-class-get-vaseline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Infidel commented that Republicans could be putting cat meat in food boxes for the poor<\/a>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/north-korea-olympics-propaganda-f29e55e4dd9e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/span>There were many memorable moments during the first full week of the 2018 Winter Olympics, but the most indelible image might not be from the ice or the slopes, but rather, from the stands; it\u2019s simply impossible to ignore the North Korean cheerleaders who have descended upon Pyeongchang.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0216North-Koreas-Army-of-Beauties\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0216North-Koreas-Army-of-Beauties.jpg\" alt=\"0216North-Koreas-Army-of-Beauties\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten is so jealous of Kim Jong Un! He wants his own nubile &#8220;Army of Beauties&#8221; wearing MAGA hats and waving Nazi flags. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0216Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0216Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"0216Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I overslept this morning, but I&#8217;m doing OK, because I planned to skip my morning nap, anyway.\u00a0 Tomorrow WWWendy is coming a day early, and I may have no more than an Open Thread or a Personal Update.\u00a0 We have lots of chores to do, including the dreaded task.\u00a0 In addition, we are celebrating Valentine&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/16\/open-thread-2-16-2017\/' 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-31458","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\/31458","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=31458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}