{"id":31485,"date":"2018-02-18T12:53:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31485"},"modified":"2018-02-18T12:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T20:53:13","slug":"open-thread-2-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/18\/open-thread-2-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/18\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m a naughty Puddy Tat. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-catface\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Cat face\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wlEmoticon-catface.png\" \/>&#160; Because a Sunday without Wendy coming is so weird, I decided to treat myself to another pizza! <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-pizza\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Pizza\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wlEmoticon-pizza.png\" \/>&#160; Yum!!&#160; The Squatch has slammed Portland with an arctic blast, and we are entering the coldest days so far this winter.&#160; The lows for the next four days will be in the 20\u00b0s.&#160; I may actually have to shut my window!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:08 (average 5:06).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-18-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=5t8in5n4cps\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Have We Lost the Common Good?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5t8in5n4cps?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s not available in Audible yet. I want it. I believe that the common good is worth fighting for, and will do so as long as one person will stand with me. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ed_QLtZRO6M\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>President&#8217;s Day Special &#8211; A New Verse for the National Anthem from Parody Project<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ed_QLtZRO6M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen! To achieve that, the Republican Reich MUST me obliterated! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-left-out-of-daca-20180218-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>Ever since Sam Paredes crossed into the U.S. illegally from Mexico nearly 30 years ago, he followed a simple philosophy of keeping his head down and trying to stay out of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old put in long hours for little pay as an office manager at a clothing wholesaler. He paid his taxes and hoped that after many years of waiting, there would come an immigration reform that would grant him a pathway to becoming an American citizen.<\/p>\n<p>But one glimmer of hope afforded many young immigrants escaped him: Because the New York resident came too long ago, he did not qualify for immigration relief under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA.<\/p>\n<p>Now he watches as the White House and Congress continue to grapple and negotiate and argue \u2014 but at least talk about \u2014 the future of the so-called Dreamers.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m very bitter. These DACA kids definitely have this sense of entitlement,&quot; Paredes said. &quot;People fought for them and they got DACA and they got their work permit and then they went to sleep, instead of working to fight for the rest of us.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think Sam&#8217;s anger is misplaced. DREAMers rejected the Trump plan that would have saved them. They were too decent to throw the undocumented workers like Sam under the bus, or should I say into the ICE bus? Since they wouldn&#8217;t, we shouldn&#8217;t either! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/paulfarrell\/after-the-florida-school-shooting-this-australian\" target=\"_blank\">Buzzfeed<\/a>: <\/font>An Australian politician joked about shooting &quot;greenie punks&quot; just days after one of the deadliest school shootings in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>George Christensen is a conservative Nationals MP in the Australian parliament with a reputation for controversial remarks about gay marriage, immigration and firearms.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in south Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/tanyachen\/students-who-lived-through-the-florida-shooting-want-you-to?utm_term=.po27Nm8g6#.umMwRnZPg\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly shot and killed 17 students<\/a>, in one of the deadliest school massacres in US history.<\/p>\n<p>Christensen has been a prominent defender of firearm ownership in Australia. The country introduced strict gun control laws in 1996 after the Port Arthur massacre, and has not had a mass shooting since.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Christensen posted a Facebook post from a shooting range of Australia&#8217;s peak shooting lobby, the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia, setting out his support for legitimate firearm owners.<\/p>\n<p>In the initial post he defended sporting shooters, writing that &quot;Gun owners aren&#8217;t criminals. They are olympians, Commonwealth games medallists, conservationists, farmers and many of them veterans.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But in a further comment below the photo, he posted an image of himself with a handgun, writing &quot;You gotta ask yourself, do you feel lucky, greenie punks?&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m so sorry this creep is in their parliament. Are most Australian Conservatives also Republican Ammosexuals?&#160; \u00a1\u00a1<strong>\ua4d5SIS\u018e\ua4e4<\/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\/0218Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0218Cartoon\" 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=\"0218Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0218Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a naughty Puddy Tat. &#160; Because a Sunday without Wendy coming is so weird, I decided to treat myself to another pizza! &#160; Yum!!&#160; The Squatch has slammed Portland with an arctic blast, and we are entering the coldest days so far this winter.&#160; The lows for the next four days will be in <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/18\/open-thread-2-18-2018\/' 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-31485","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\/31485","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=31485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}