{"id":31474,"date":"2018-02-17T13:12:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T21:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31474"},"modified":"2018-02-17T13:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T21:14:25","slug":"open-thread-2-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/17\/open-thread-2-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/17\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I got up a little early, so I decided to publish today, but I am in a hurry, as WWWendy will be here shortly.\u00a0 She lest and I&#8217;m a scrubbed Puddy Tat!<\/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 3:44 (average 5:27).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-17-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=XoAf_I3ULwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CSPAN\/videos?disable_polymer=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CSPAN Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein: &#8220;The indictment charges 13 Russian nationals&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XoAf_I3ULwE?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Not definitive, but it I expect it to become so. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vEtYX9dmiIc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheNewYorkTimes\/videos?disable_polymer=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Survivors of the Florida School Shooting Speak Out<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vEtYX9dmiIc?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Put petty partisanship aside? One party favors gun control. The other, the Republican Party, favors allowing the NRA to keep killing children. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4jtVx4_QpKA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos?disable_polymer=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Lawrence: Donald Trump&#8217;s Fears About What Vladimir Putin Knows<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4jtVx4_QpKA?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The only other explanation is that Putin is blackmailing Trump over financial activities. My estimate is that Trump is Putin&#8217;s Pee Pervert, and Putin is threatening to release the pee-pee tapes.\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0217Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0217Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0217Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"0217Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Completely by accident, because it stopped!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up a little early, so I decided to publish today, but I am in a hurry, as WWWendy will be here shortly.\u00a0 She lest and I&#8217;m a scrubbed Puddy Tat! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:44 (average 5:27).\u00a0 To do it, click here.\u00a0 How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (CSPAN <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/17\/open-thread-2-17-2018\/' 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-31474","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\/31474","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=31474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}