{"id":31532,"date":"2018-02-22T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31532"},"modified":"2018-02-22T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:17:15","slug":"open-thread-2-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/open-thread-2-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/22\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WWWendy brought my groceries last night.&#160; She knew I was going to put a few extra dollars in her pay, but that&#8217;s now what she&#8217;s about.&#160; The store was out of one of my items, boneless fried chicken wings.&#160; A normal person would have called and asked, if I wanted to skip it, or have her get bone-in wings instead, but not Wendy.&#160; During a Winter Storm Alert that has schools and many businesses shut down, Wendy drove several miles to a different store, just to get my wings.&#160; All I can say is that God has made her wings invisible, because I can&#8217;t see them, but I know they&#8217;re there.&#160; I finally had to turn on the heat.&#160; I awoke to a record low.&#160; Tonight, we should set a new record low, by a full 7\u00b0 F.&#160; I watched the women&#8217;s hockey gold medal game last night.&#160; Woooo Hoooo!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:05 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-22-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; Hoe 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=NSAzCsSZX6o\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>THE COUNTRY&#8217;S HEART (The Parkland Eulogy) &#8211; Based on &quot;Illegal&quot; by Shakira<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NSAzCsSZX6o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&quot;It should be illegal to deceive a country&#8217;s heart.&quot; <strong>Amen<\/strong>! Silence the Republican bubble machine by sending the Republican Party the way of the Whigs. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g44Rwj2pfoA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why is &#8216;life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness&#8217; less important than the Second Amendment?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/g44Rwj2pfoA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The NRA and the Republican Reich want to keep us so paralyzed with fear that we want &quot;good guys with guns&quot; to protect us. That fear drives up both profit for gun manufacturers and power for the Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/02\/cpac-is-going-to-be-a-trump-fest.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Magazine<\/a>: <\/font>If there remains any doubt that Donald J. Trump is the undisputed master not only of the Republican Party but of the conservative movement that is supposed to be the GOP\u2019s conscience, this week\u2019s annual CPAC conference \u2014 the preeminent right-wing political gathering of this and every year \u2014should remove it. As Dave Weigel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/conservatives-annual-conference-to-toast-trump-with-critics-out-of-sight\/2018\/02\/21\/ae25e3d0-171c-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html?utm_term=.5b5ae404cffb\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>, the event is shaping up as a long celebration of the 45th president and of MAGA in all its dimensions.<\/p>\n<p>Both President Trump and Vice President Pence will deliver speeches at the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference, on Friday morning and Thursday morning respectively. A half-dozen members of the administration will give remarks or sit for interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Trump critics will be nowhere in sight. And he and his entourage will not have to share the limelight with mere congressional leaders, either; Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan won\u2019t be there. Indeed, aside from conservative warhorse Senator Ted Cruz (who has conspicuously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/cruz-admits-hes-a-big-fan-of-trumps-bold-brash-talk-484741187532\" target=\"_blank\">reconciled with Trump<\/a> since the unpleasantness in 2016), perhaps the most prominent speaker from the Hill is Representative Devin Nunes, that great Trumpian warrior against Robert Mueller and the FBI, who will give the conference\u2019s closing address.<\/p>\n<p>CPAC has even found space on its agenda for representatives of what its organizers seem to consider international Trumpism:<\/p>\n<p>[There\u2019s] a prominent Thursday morning speaking slot \u2014 less than an hour after Pence \u2014 for Marion Mar\u00e9chal-Le Pen, the youngest member of France\u2019s far-right political dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>Former leader of UKIP and Trump adviser Nigel Farage will also be in the house.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I would have never believed that CPUKE could be any more vile than it has been, but I sure it will be. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0222Cartoon\" 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=\"0222Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0222Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWWendy brought my groceries last night.&#160; She knew I was going to put a few extra dollars in her pay, but that&#8217;s now what she&#8217;s about.&#160; The store was out of one of my items, boneless fried chicken wings.&#160; A normal person would have called and asked, if I wanted to skip it, or have <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/open-thread-2-22-2018\/' 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-31532","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\/31532","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=31532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}