{"id":31527,"date":"2018-02-21T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31527"},"modified":"2018-02-21T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T20:50:07","slug":"open-thread-2-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/21\/open-thread-2-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/21\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a rough day here in the CatBox.&#160; I was up early this morning with Republicosis.&#160; On the second trip, I asked myself just how much crap could fit into one Puddy Tat.&#160; A couple hours later, I broke the record I had just set.&#160; I hope the Imodium AD kicks in soon.&#160; At 8:00, I received a Robocall from Store to Door that, due to weather conditions, they have to cancel my grocery delivery this week.&#160; Wendy has chains on her pickup, so she will do my shopping on the way here for my shower this evening.&#160; Of course, I will pay her for the time she spends doing it.&#160;&#160; This, for obvious reasons, is my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:27 (average 5:49).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-21-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=yBpeaZdgpM4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Who Should Get Into the USA?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yBpeaZdgpM4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Democrats prefer admitting the needy. Republicans prefer admitting the greedy. The only restriction I would place is a criminal background check. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-people-billy-graham\/billy-graham-preacher-to-millions-adviser-to-presidents-dies-at-99-idUKKCN1G51M4\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters UK<\/a>: <\/font>U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, who counseled presidents and preached to millions across the world from his native North Carolina to communist North Korea during his 70 years on the pulpit, died on Wednesday at the age of 99, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He was an evangelical televangelism pioneer, who became a pioneer of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/21\/politics\/kentucky-linda-belcher-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font>Linda Belcher, a Democrat, won the special election for Kentucky&#8217;s House District 49 on Tuesday with 3,386 votes. Rebecca Johnson, a Republican, received 1,561 votes, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KySecofState\/status\/966110438973956096\" target=\"_blank\">according to official results<\/a> from Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is the widow of Republican state Rep. Dan Johnson, who narrowly defeated Belcher, then an incumbent, in 2016 and committed suicide late last year. The lawmaker had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/14\/us\/kentucky-state-lawmaker-death\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in 2013<\/a> in a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/longcon.kycir.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting<\/a>. He committed suicide a day after he denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Trump won the district with 72% of the vote in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That is a satisfying result. A Democrat has the seat, and the Republican that used to have it is talking politics with Scalia. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/pence-north-korea-meeting.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Vice President Mike Pence had planned to secretly meet with a high-level delegation of North Korean leaders while he was at the Winter Olympics in South Korea this month, but the North Koreans canceled at the last minute, according to the State Department.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you believe that, how about buying some Eau de Puddy Tat for $250,000\/kitty fart.&#160; It has magical healing properties.&#160; <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\/0221Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0221Cartoon\" 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=\"0221Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0221Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a rough day here in the CatBox.&#160; I was up early this morning with Republicosis.&#160; On the second trip, I asked myself just how much crap could fit into one Puddy Tat.&#160; A couple hours later, I broke the record I had just set.&#160; I hope the Imodium AD kicks in soon.&#160; At 8:00, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/21\/open-thread-2-21-2018\/' 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-31527","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\/31527","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=31527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}